Today, the panelists discuss The Department of Truth Vol. 1: The End of the World. Join us for a discussion on suggestibility in art, what even makes art "comic book art" at all, and depicting conspiracy in 2025
Content Warnings: General horror, violence, conspiracies, the satanic panic, far-right white nationalism, child peril, and gun violence.
- (00:00) - “The Department of Truth” by James Tyrion and Martin Simmonds
- (02:24) - Front matter
- (02:46) - Content Warnings
- (03:08) - Synopsis
- (04:06) - What we thought about the book
- (08:46) - Suggestibility in the art
- (10:17) - The first issue
- (11:01) - Scout has critiques on Simmonds’ vomit art
- (11:46) - The art we love
- (13:53) - Scout loves pathetic men
- (18:45) - There’s a television adaptation coming
- (21:17) - The color work
- (22:11) - X-Files
- (25:46) - The other puking scene
- (26:13) - This art doesn’t feel like a comic book
- (29:37) - J. C. Leyendecker
- (31:48) - Using space just to set mood
- (34:47) - Some layout gripes
- (39:34) - Angela: Asgard’s Assassin
- (41:09) - Fashion corner
- (42:22) - Bad faith caricatures
- (46:26) - James Tynion, the queer edgelord
- (50:55) - This book is still ongoing!
- (51:37) - Further Reading
- (55:38) - “I know what a fucking tulpa is, Cole.”
- (56:07) - Back matter
Further Reading:- Universal Monsters: Dracula by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds
- Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, and Miquel Muerto
- Talon by James Tynion IV, Christy Marx, Scott Snyder, Guillem March, Miguel Sepulveda, Juan Jose Ryp, and Romano Molenaar
- Exquisite Corpses by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, Pornsak Pichetshote, Marianna Ignazzi, and Valentine De Landro
- “You’re Wrong About” episode on “Michelle Remembers”
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Editing by Matt Horton and AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.
