The Department of Truth #19

A bald eagle fills the cover of this 2022 Image series, wings spread wide against a battered, paint-splattered American flag — a striking image that captures the series' ongoing tension between patriotism and the darker machinery of belief. Martin Simmonds brings the same painterly intensity to the cover that he brings to the interiors, giving the whole thing an unsettling, almost propagandistic energy. With James Tynion IV's writing and Aditya Bidikar's lettering carrying the story through "Chapter XII: The Man with a Movie Camera," The Department of Truth continues to be one of the more thoughtful conspiracy thrillers on shelves.