Matt Kindt’s return to Mind MGMT is shaping up to be one of the most carefully constructed comic book launches in recent memory, as Oni Press continues to march toward the June debut of Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1.
Today, they’ve released a trailer for the series, which will mark Kindt’s return to the world of Mind MGMT after the original series concluded in 2015. The new series, published under Kindt’s Flux House imprint, begins with an entirely self-contained entry point, following two investigators, Detective Delphi and Detective Swon, who find themselves at the center of a string of seemingly impossible murders: former Mind Management agents being killed in arcane and untraceable ways by a faceless killer capable of evading digital surveillance.
“I’ve been working on this book for 10 years — without even realizing it,” Kindt said. “Mind MGMT: New & Improved was a subliminal message I sent myself. And for the last decade it’s grown in my head, like a virus, with every passing day. I can’t imagine a better, more truthful time in the world to release it than 2026. Mind MGMT: New & Improved will shatter all the lies from my previous series and the truth shall set us free.”
Check out the trailer below:
The trailer follows earlier news that Mind MGMT: New & Improved and the upcoming Fort Psycho, which is the 12-issue maxi-series from Kindt and Brian Hurtt debuting in August, will be print-only releases. For an extended window, both titles will only be available exclusively at comic book shops with no digital release until 30 days after each series’ fourth issue. Both series are designed to take full advantage of the physical format: Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 features things like a specialty die-cut cover and a blind bag containing one of 15 exclusive variant covers by artists like Jeff Lemire, Fábio Moon, J.H. Williams III, Jesse Lonergan, David Rubín and Jenna Cha. (The press release notes, with characteristic Kindt mischief, that one of those covers “is a hallucination and will never actually exist. Sorry, and thank you for playing.”) Fort Psycho will feature pantone-keyed covers on 10-point cardstock in an ad-free format Kindt and Hurtt are calling PSYCHO-VISION.
“Matt Kindt and Oni Press are committed to delivering a one-of-a-kind experience, and we truly believe that starts with local comic book shops,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. ”Whether blasting open a brand-new frontier for one of this century’s most acclaimed and rightfully influential independent comics series in Mind MGMT: New & Improved or creating one of the New Year’s most white-kuckle entertainment experiences in the pages of Fort Psycho, this is a line of books that is bold, experimental, and fearlessly creative in the service of telling the most gripping story possible.”
Kindt has also launched a “100% Human-Made” certification for the Flux House line, which is an open-source emblem, designed by Kindt himself, designating creative works as fully derived from human imagination and free of generative AI. The emblem debuts on Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 and is available to any creator worldwide under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, free to download on the Oni Press website.
Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 comes out June 24. Readers can get a first taste of both Flux House series on Free Comic Book Day, May 2, with the Mind MGMT / Fort Psycho FCBD 2026 Special, which features two new stories. You can read my interview with Kindt here.