The Department of Truth Vol. 3: Free Country
James Tynion IV, writer; Martin Simmonds, artist; Aditya Bidikar, letterer; Elsa Charretier, Tyler Boss,John J. Pearson, David Romero, Alison Sampson, Jorge Fornes: artists; Matt Hollingsworth, Boman Titov, Jordie Bellaire: colorists
Image Comics, 2022
Six guest artists contribute six "Deviations" which tell the story of the founding of the Department of Truth and Lee Harvey Oswald's rise to the top position. Lee and new young recruit "Doc" Dalton Hynes (who publishes a magazine about the Men in Black and wears a tinfoil hat) go off in search of one of the Men to capture, and along the way they uncover the event that set the mysterious Scarlet Woman free, as well as inadvertently bring about the creation of the legendary Mothman. In the end Doc becomes convinced that Lee is himself a fantasy made real, not a real person. But he's real enough to convince President Nixon to support him: and his fake moon landing is so convincing that the huge audience watching it on TV make it real.
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