By Zack Quaintance — Vault Comics has announced a new sci-fi psychedelic thriller called Mindset, which is due out in June from the creative team of writer Zack Kaplan, artist John J. Pearson, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. The book is trippy and futurist and intriguing as all get out. Just check out the three interior pages the publisher released with the announcement, which you can find below, following the official synopsis from the press release…

The synopsis…

When an introverted tech geek from Stanford, with dreams of changing the world, accidentally discovers a form of mind control, he and his friends do something unexpected – they put the science into a meditation app to help users break their addiction to other manipulative technologies and platforms. But after their rags-to-riches rise, a wake of murders and a series of mind games, their Mindset app replaces all rival social media and achieves a cult following of a billion users, and they must ask the question – are they helping people or controlling them?

And now the pages, along with a variant cover by artist Martin Simmonds…

As long-time readers of this site may be aware, we’ve always liked Vault Comics. In fact, Wasted Space — still the longest running comic from Vault to date — was the first series we reviewed on the site. The point here is that we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Vault recently got some major funding, which Heidi MacDonald of Comics Beat writes about far more knowledgably than I ever could (which, no surprise there).

Anyway, congrats to our pals at Vault!

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.