My Cultural Diet

Given everything that’s going on with the U.S. right now — masked thugs disappearing and killing people in broad daylight, brazen foreign attacks, increased economic hardship for all but the most elite among us — I expected to be a bit more shaken up by North Bend’s story of a secret government project to cow the populace into submission. When DEA agent Brendan Kruge is recruited by the CIA to test a new mind control drug, he’s torn between the ethics of his mission and his patriotic duty. But Kruge’s story gets sidetracked by other stories and details that don’t dovetail very well. Furthermore, the comic’s attempts to stay grounded as opposed to embracing Department of Truth-style surrealism results in a surprisingly milquetoast story that never achieves the darkness or urgency that it’s so obviously striving towards.

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