The Department of Truth #8

Cole Turner is about to be shown how the Department of Truth turns back the insanity of the Black Hats. But before that, he is taken on a tour of one of the landmark sites of conspiracy theories. Department of Truth #8 is an entertaining venture into some very dark areas indeed. Read Full Review

The Department of Truth #8 takes us even further the rabbit hole, which is miles deep at this point. This title is quite unlike anything else on the shelves at the moment, but I'm loving every bit of it. Read Full Review

The new arc begins with more questions and the introduction of a compelling new character as Tynion IV continues to twist reality with the help of brilliantly psychologically jarring and impactful art from Simmonds. Read Full Review

Its worth mentioning that this is an improvement over earlier attempts at this sort of serial. TVs The X-Files wasted little time in losing a hell of a lot of coherence in the government conspiracy end of the show. The usual pitfalls of this sort of ongoing serial seem to be solidly avoided in Department of Truth. Tynions challenge is to dive into the mystery in a way that reveals just enough without weaving hopeless convolutions into the story. Tynion seems to have carefully constructed the backstory of Cole, Oswold and the DOT. Its satisfying following a series knowing that the creative team has the mystery well under control. Read Full Review

Simmonds delivers some beautiful art throughout the issue. There are some brilliantly engaging visuals and I love the style of the art. Read Full Review

Writer James Tynion IV has found a nice groove here, pulling in additional conspiracy theories and tweaking them just enough to show the dangers they can play should they take root in reality, while also tying everything back to Cole. Read Full Review

Still the story works well enough, and this series is one hell of a ride. Read Full Review

The Department of Truth #8 delivers lots of world-building and setup infused with a generous portion of character to keep the story from growing stale. Read Full Review

The Department of Truth #8 returns us to ourregularscheduled programmingwith yet more conspiracies to be over-explain and thereby side-stepping anyreal action. Again. Is this series becoming too formulaic for its own good? Read Full Review

Department of Truth has hit a bit of a wall plot wise, but Simmonds' art makes the issue as haunting as it's always been. Hopefully kicking off a new arc slowed Tynion down somewhat from significantly advancing the story and it's gets smoother from here. Read Full Review

Of course, this comic still seems to feel that the best way of presenting its ongoing mysteries is through extended bits of exposition, which frankly doesn't always work with the more abstract art style and even more abstract premise of the comic. Read Full Review

It is easy to forget that Department of Truth is supposed to be a Sci-fi horror. It feels more like a psychological documentary at this point. Read Full Review

Miracleman92

May 04, 2021

After his conversation with the other side from issue #5, Cole continues questioning whether he's really joined up with the good guys as he meets yet another mysterious member of the DoT. One who encourages him to question everything. Including all he has learned of the Department up to this point. Perhaps this is the kind of guidance Cole truly needs. Plus: as a resident of Denver, I love how DIA has factored into this series!

OldManComics

Dec 09, 2021

Good start for this second story arc, Cole's story seems to be increasingly more connected to it all but it's all questions at the moment. Great to see Martin Simmonds back at the helm, loved the nuances of the flashback scene's art, as well as the framing of the pages, great editorial work here too. The new DoT employee here presented seems very well thought and I really liked him. Tynion sets the present mistery back on and I am in for the ride, let's see where this goes.

DDJamesB

May 03, 2021

Back to the main story it once again keeps you thinking and wanting more of the mystery.

Psycamorean

May 03, 2021

This was an exposition-heavy issue, yet I wish there was more to it. I like the new character Hank Harrison at least. Even if his hobby is cap brimming.

Spacey Medicine

Sep 16, 2021

Still very interesting!