China, 1994. Meng Zhaoguo, a logger with the Red Flag Logging Commune, witnesses a glowing white object crash into the Phoenix Mountain near the Russian border. The mysterious events and natural phenomenon surrounding the sighting have confounded for decades, defying scientific logic.
The New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning co-creators of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth, and Powers follow up their acclaimed work on Blue Book with an all-new volume of “true” tales capturing the strange world of alien encounters—this time focusing on the uncanny extraterre more
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Plot and Art
This comic includes two stories: the first is the main story and the second is a single-issue short story called True Weird, which chronicles government rumors and conspiracy theories that cover up supposed supernatural events:
RED BOOK written by JAMES TYNION IV with art by MICHAEL AVON OEMING and lettered by Tom Napolitano: this story recounts several UFO sightings in China during the 1980s and 1990s.
Meng was one of the victims of these sightings, after being struck by an extraterrestrial weapon that affected his speech.
Here, the government cover-up is emphasized, made even more rigid by the iron fist of these governments, where censorship is ironclad.
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