http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4202/Big-Lie-One-Shot-
The Big Lie by writer Rick Veitch and artist Gary Erskine is published by Image Comics. It tells the story of a scientist who uses her work on the Large Hadron Collider to travel back in time to September 2001 to warn officials about the attacks. She miscalculates and finds she only has an hour before the first collision, so she attempts to convince her husband who works in the Towers to leave. The rest of the book is a discussion between the scientist, her husband (who isn’t convinced this is his wife due to her being ten years older than when he saw her that morning), and his employers, a movie special effects group located in the Towers who just happened to be discussing building demolitions when she bursts in. They don’t buy her story of being from the future, and the rest of the tale is a rundown of the well-known conspiracy theories of the day that still persist in certain circles.
After the story concludes, the book ends with a full page ad for a DVD called 911: Press for Truth and a page of text and pictures documenting the alleged evidence to support the conspiracy theory, all of which has been debunked time and again.
It’s not a badly written comic. There’s a couple of clever parts in the book. I particularly like the idea that the CEO of the FX company was incredulous about the scientist’s IPad, claiming that no one would ever believe Apple (which was in dire financial shape in 2001) could produce such a product. But the total lack of regard for ALL the evidence that destroys the credence of the theories will make your teeth grind. I'm not a fan of the Bush Administration (I know I hide it well), but I'm first and foremost concerned with the truth, and this most certainly doesn't come close.
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I enjoyed this comic. It was very well done, and I thought the presentation of the conspiracy "evidence" was expressed a lot more theoretically than I expected it to be. The time-traveler aspect was a nice angle.
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No, the evidence they've presented has be tested scientifically and been shown to be in correct. They have indeed been proven wrong.
Science is not a "his word against mine" proposition.
Mark S. Ogilvie said:
I read this issue today. While I don't agree with this version of the story, I don't think we know the full truth by any stretch.
The point of the event itself is that a lot of people died needlessly. Whoever is to blame (some we've caught, some we haven't), may they rot in hell.
Good links, Clark.
Edward Current is a video satirist, but here he steps out of character to explain that he used to be a truther. He also elaborates on what made him realize the delusional thinking behind the conspiracy theories.
I saw this on the shelf last week and didn’t know quite what to make of it. I gave it a pass based on the title because I wasn’t in the mood to read what looked like a half-baked conspiracy theory. The first paragraph of your initial post makes it sound interesting, Rich. Then I read the rest of your review.
Who here remembers the comic book mini-series Badlands about the Kennedy assassination? I remember being really intrigued by that when it first came out. I knew it was pure fiction, but thought it could fit within the framework of the known sequence of events. I knew something about the assassination at the time, but not as much as I thought I did. After moving to Dallas and delving a little deeper into the facts, I read Badlands again. Uh-uh, no way, not in a million years. I’ll never read it again, not even for fun.
The Big Lie sounds like that. Thanks for the warning, Rich.
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