The Department of Truth #8

Issue eight of James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' unsettling conspiracy series presents a cover as deeply disturbing as the series itself — a pale, contorted face marked with a blood-red inverted pentagram looms large, hands pressed over the lower half in a gesture somewhere between silence and suffocation, while wispy tendrils of smoke curl upward into the dark. Simmonds' painterly cover art wraps dread and paranoia into a single haunting image that perfectly captures the series' atmosphere of hidden truths and creeping menace. "Chapter Six: The Man in the Black Helicopter" promises that The Department of Truth continues to dig into the darkest corners of what people choose — or are forced — to believe.