comic books<\/a> companies into the sun so if anything, what we\u2019re trying to do with Flux House is make it bigger, bolder, weirder than it\u2019s been reflected in its current incarnation on comic book stands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe deal not only promises new comics but, according to Kindt and Gorinson, the two parties have brokered a large-scale acquisition of media rights for more than 20 properties in the Flux House library.<\/p>\n
\n\tAmong those titles are 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, BANG! (co-created with Wilfredo Torres), Hairball (co-created with Tyler Jenkins), If You Find This, I\u2019m Already Dead (co-created with Dan McDaid), Spy Superb (co-created with Sharlene Kindt), and over a dozen or two more.<\/p>\n
\n\tDevelopment of the Flux House library, which will span film, television, animation, video games, podcast audio, and more, will be led internally by Oni with Kindt serving as a producer alongside Gorinson, Jeremy Colfer, and David Steward II, the chairman of the Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group and CEO of Polarity, Oni\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI wanted to put all of our books where they would be safe and wanted someone who would be a good steward of the books,\u201d Kindt said of the media rights deal. \u201cEvery artist I work with, we love making comics. And this provides us the freedom to keep doing what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSpanning comics publishing, film and television, gaming, licensing, and more, this newly minted partnership is unprecedented in scope and scale across Oni\u2019s nearly 30-year history,\u201d said Steward in a statement.<\/p>\n
\n\tFlux House was previously ensconced at Dark Horse. Kindt worked with Gorinson through several companies, including Boom! and upstart Bad Idea, admiring the executive\u2019s passion for the tumultuous comic industry. Gorinson recruited Kindt for Oni\u2019s 2024 relaunch of the iconic EC Comics horror brand, which saw the writer-illustrator contribute to titles including Epitaphs from the Abyss, Catacomb of Torment, and Cruel Universe. The relaunch became a best-seller and garnered an Eisner and a Ringo Award nomination.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor Oni, Kindt will have two books out the gate, beginning in mid-2026. First up will me Mind MGMT: New and Improved, a new ongoing title he is writing and illustrating and which launches in June.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe original series ran from 2012 to 2015 via Dark Horse and was a heady and experimental mix of spies, rogue agents, and psychic powers. Kindt had no intention no returning to that world but noted, \u201cSometimes the idea comes, and you have no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThen, come August, will debut a 12-issue mini-series titled Fort Psycho, described as a Mission: Impossible meets Lost in which a disgraced strike team finds itself on a tropical island paradise stocked with trained killers, secret betrayals, and the long-buried truth about the mission that brought them there. Brian Hurtt, the co-creator and artist behind Western fantasy The Sixth Gun, and with whom Kindt shares his St. Louis area studio space, is drawing that book.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI know it sounds hyperbolic, but it is kind of like a Watchmen-level book where you\u2019re taking the archetypes of a G.I Joe or Mission: Impossible and deconstructing them in a new and inventive way that is built like a Swiss watch building towards a giant finale,\u201d enthused Gorinson.<\/p>\n
\n\tSaid Kindt, \u201cEvery book I\u2019m working on I think is the best book I\u2019ve ever done, but that one may, for real, be the best book.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tA third book, Flux House Presents, is also being planned for late 2026.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor Kindt, this new chapter is an attempt to keep his artistic side engaged and to find new ways to get his books to readers in an industry that is going through changes.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor Oni, it\u2019s a chance to make a mark with unique comics in a media landscape fraught with sameness.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe at Oni want to put comics in the center of what we\u2019re doing,\u201d says Gorinson. \u201cDespite the dimensions of Flux House and our broader deal with Matt and his creators, we are not some sort of transmedia operation. If we can\u2019t make great comics and make the comics stand on their own, why are we running a comic book company?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOni and Kindt are repped by WME. Kindt is additionally repped by Matt Sugarman and Bunnie Poullard of Weintraub Tobin and Charlie Olsen of InkWell Management.<\/p>\n
\n\tCheck out the covers for the two books below. <\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tMind MGMT New and Improved by Matt Kindt<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Oni Press<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tFort Psycho Comic Book<\/p>\n
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