"The servants confined to the virtual mind palaces of despotic dreamers have found their furies in the form of the Mindhunters: masked vigilantes who burgle brainpower."
— Book Description, Koyama Press[1]
Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters is a Sci-Fi comic book by Alex Degen, released by Koyama Press in May 2018. [2]
Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters features a lush, Sword Art Online inspired art-style, with no spoken dialogue and very little explanatory text.
Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters provides examples of:
- Big Bad: Houseman.
- Cast of Snowflakes: Despite the sheer number of characters that appear on-panel, the majority are drawn to appear vastly differently from one another, except when they aren't.
- Cyberspace: Played with in "REFUGE OF THE BLEST".
- Dramatis Personae: Each part begins with one of these.
- Power Trio: The Trivia Brothers.
- Silence Is Golden
- The Blank: Houseman, The Trivia Brothers, and many more.
- Title Drop: Throughout.
- To Be Continued: The final part is simply titled "CLIFFHANGER".
- Transformation Sequence: Officer D-128 gets one of these.
- "Wanted!" Poster: For Lalo and Cherikola, among others.
- You Are Number 6: In "EVERYDAY IS MADAM'S BIRTHDAY".
- Your Mind Makes It Real
