![]() ![]() Though Tynion’s The Department of Truth, Vol. So, the existence of the Loch Ness Monster is not a conspiracy theory believing the government is breeding and training Nessie to create a super-soldier race is. ![]() Tynion opened the panel by outlining his working definition of a conspiracy theory: Not just as a wild and crazy belief in something that may or may not be real, but one certain nefarious motives are behind it. All of them are experts on the wild theories and stories his new graphic novel and its Substack spinoff, Wild Fictions, covers. That long legacy mixed with the new conspiracies of today inspired James Tynion IV‘s latest series, The Department of Truth, from Image Comics.Īt the NYCC 2021 panel, aptly called The Conspiracy Theories of The Department of Truth, Tynion was joined by a panel of lettered academics, including Dr. It’s hardwired into our brain to see patterns and find connections, even where none exist. But humans have been fascinated by conspiracies since the dawn of time. ![]() The advent of the internet, the information feedback loops, and the echo chambers created by selective social media use have given rise to an ability to live in alternate realities that never existed in previous eras. ![]() To say that we live in a golden age of conspiracy theories would be an understatement. ![]()
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