It's fun to see the characters and the concepts filtered through their sensibilities. It honestly felt more like asking your favorite artist for a commission. But Farel, David, Matt, and Jill are just so amazing. Has it been difficult to hand over the art reigns after drawing the series for so long? And if you haven't read any Mind MGMT before this, I'm pretty sure you'll come out the other side thinking differently about comics as a storytelling medium. You should be a little paranoid going into it. That's really the Mind MGMT brand at this point. They get the project and the idea and the motivation to do something unique and different. But to everyone's credit, they were all game. But I don't want to turn in a script for a 50-panel page to someone else without talking about it first. When I'm drawing it, I don't mind punishing myself, you know? If it's hard, it makes me want to do it more. There are a lot of strange things that I wanted to make sure everyone was comfortable with. I definitely consulted with each artist before giving them a script. What kind of influence have you had on the visual design of Mind MGMT: Bootleg? Related: Revealer's Michael Moreci Breaks Down Acceptance During Armageddon But in this case, I sincerely promise you. I promise it is unlike anything you've ever seen in a comic book ever. Issue #1 has a page with almost fifty panels on it, and it took 4 very dense pages of type-written script to create. I'm trying something new - trying to push comics and the expectations and perceived limitations of what you can do with them past the breaking point. Like every Mind MGMT project I've done, it's an experiment. Each issue introduces us to a new one as they get recruited, so the split in styles really gives us a unique POV through each character's eyes.

My hope is that each style pairs with each new character, so the style of art is actually forming the personality of these new kids. Are you hoping that each of the artists you're working with for Mind MGMT: Bootleg's different styles will influence each other, or do their distinct styles impact the story?

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