With MIND MGMT, I became really interested in Matt Kindts' work. What made me, at a certain point, get tired of the series was the thickening paranoid plot. The same thing happened, even faster, with Jonathan Hickman's The Manhattan Projects. The exploitation of conspiracy theories, that now seems to be a strong trend usually makes me disconnect with the narrative. And Hickman too, is a great writer, his Transhuman, with art by J. M. Ringuet is brilliant.With Dept. H, Kindt seems to focus more i...

I thought it would be impossible for Kindt to top his Mind MGMT series, but Dept. H is on target to do just that.

Love Matt Kindt, but this one's just not quite up to his usual excellence.

This is like reading "The Thing"if it had happened under the sea.No, not this,but this:without the all-male, predominately white cast.In this story, there's an ethnically diverse, predominately male cast.It takes place at some point in the future, I assume, after a deadly illness has swept through Mia's world, maybe the entire world. Her father, creator of a super spiffy space station that went out looking for life (she and her brother, Raj, had been on board for that trip but she was the junior...

Matt Kindt does it again. Not even on my radar a few years ago, he seems to have come out of nowhere writing all these incredible series. At its heart, Dept. H is a murder mystery. The director of an undersea research facility is killed, and his daughter, Mia, is sent to investigate. Miles beneath the ocean's surface, the suspects are few, but the dangers are enormous. This being only volume 1, it's mostly about character introductions and setting the mood. As always with Kindt books, the pacing...

This murder mystery has vibes of John Carpenter's "The Thing" and James Cameron's "The Abyss". A murder takes place in an isolated underwater lab and one person has to figure out who did it.More and more things start to go wrong and there's definitely some weird supernatural elements going on here.There's an interesting parallel to space travel in this story. The main character tasked with solving the murder, Mia wants to get back out into space. She prefers the vast empty lonliness to the crush...

Excellent. This was easier to follow than MGMT, there are 8 characters, but they are all introduced at the same time and they are all confined under the sea. Lots of action, adventure and mysterious goings on. Kindt at his best.

I wanted to like this but I just couldn't get in to it or the characters. So basically it's a murder mystery with atmosphere similar to say like "The Thing" or "Alien" and that should work perfect for me. I love both those. The cast is super diverse which is a plus and it has a main lead who isn't just on the straight and narrow and has some internal problems. When her father is found dead she goes deep undersea to the base to find out what happened. Then her brother goes missing and well...the

The basic plot of this story is that a woman is investigating the murder of her father. The location of the murder is a deep sea based founded by her father. On arriving at the base, communication is cut off and things start to go wrong. The story and the art create a sense of panic and claustrophobia. The art is drawn in a kind of sketchy freehand style and it is colored with watercolors, which creates a beautiful effect. The story itself, though, doesn't make much progress. By the end of the f...

Reading this graphic novel reminds me of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea because of the setting of the story. Some readers who were able to read this may not have like this, but for me, I really enjoyed reading this sci-fi/mystery novel because of the storyline. However, the illustrations may not be that spectacular, but as for those who are art enthusiasts just like me, I really appreciate it. While reading, I also checked out the drawings and what techniques were use by the...

Finished the first six issues that comprise this volume, and a great set up for Volume 2. Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station, and the death of her father there. Disaster after disaster takes place, sea monsters abound, everyone's a suspect. . . The drawing by Kindt and coloring by Sharlene Kindt, his wife, are great and fitting the mood/tone. Has an Abyss feel to it, in places. Great storytelling. I think the first volume

Mia's father heads up a research facility at the bottom of the ocean. Now he's dead and Mia is sent to find out what happened. Once down there she's repeatedly distracted by a bunch of side quests. I felt like this really meandered around quite a bit, it's just introduction to subplot after subplot without resolving anything. Plus all these scenes in outer space didn't make much sense for a long while, especially when the book starts out with a job offer for Mia to head up a space exploration ve...

The main focus of this seems to be on being under the ocean instead of the murder mystery which the cover proclaims. Also, I'm a bit disappointed in Kindt's artwork for this one....it seems really sloppy in comparison to his Mind Mgmt series.

The main character heads undersea to try to solve the mystery of her father's death at an undersea research station. Why/was he murdered? And with only a handful of people at the station, who if the people that have been working with him for years would do such a thing? Kept my interest and I would read more.

Matt Kindt’s Dept. H is a mystery-thriller with oodles of style and savviness that blends elements of Alien, The Abyss, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. His work-for-hire stints as a writer or artist with a full creative team (e.g., Ether, X-O Manowar, etc.) simply don’t compare to magnificent, idiosyncratic solo outings like this book.

Another great series from Matt Kindt, the kind I'd expect him to do in follow up to Mind MGMT. This has a similar feel, although the mystery appears to be more straightforward and not near as convoluted. Then again, we're just beginning the journey, right? Still plenty of time to throw in the twists.

3 1/2 *s Mia, the daughter of a well known astro/nautical scientist, goes to the depths of the ocean to find out the truth behind her father Hari's presumed murder. Below at the underwater base awaits the research team of seven possible guilty personnel, one her own brother. Amidst the horrifying and unsettling creatures that lurk in the dark depths, Mia stakes her claim that one of them is guilty, even as each of them deny it.The story by Kindt moves along fairly slowly here in V1, but sets up

A daughter travels underwater for an organisation to invetsigate her fathers death. Other small issues develop as well as her brother going missing, and its really her trying to figure out what happened. The world buidling is ok but I prefer Remenders Low series for an underwater world. The plotting is pretty average and slow, especially the ending. The cast is too broad with way too many people who all look the same. I think the art is definitely not my style. It seemed too rushed and messy at

A decent start to a sci-fi murder mystery. I have to admit that if the art was better i would have given this 4 stars. The story is fine, it centers around Mia who travels to an underground sea lab to solve a murder. There is some nice layering in the story with flashbacks and personal ties however it isn't incredibly inventive or captivating, it feels middle of the road. back to the art, I don't mind when art is different or abstract but this just feels like not a lot of effort was put into it....

Matt Kindt can write some good comic stories. As an artist? Uhmmm no..just no. Comics are a visual medium and this art is borderline atrocious. Christ. The story? It's ok. It's a weird murder-mystery set in an unknown time (I say this because the technology seems a few decades advanced) and the state of the world is strange-since why have a scientist investigate a murder?Anyways this is set deep underwater and as such the panels showing the underwater scenes are not only underwhelming but downri...