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| Feb 18, 2022 | » | The Department of Truth
2 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
The Department of Truth | Image Comics.
James Tynion IV; Martin Simmonds.
Expecting a modern take on 1984, which I didn’t finish because I lost interest. Plot Points[Lee Harvey Oswald] The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief. What happened in Antartica was that a group of men managed to make enough people believe in the truth of a flat earth for it to manifest in reality… Retroactively, the earth would always have been flat. And the people would rightly rise up in fury having been lied to by everyone for decades. #tulpa ... |
| Aug 6, 2023 | » | Nightmare Country (The Sandman Universe)
5 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country.
James Tynion IV; Lisandro Estherren; Yanick Paquette; Andrea Sorrentino.
SnapshotsMR. ECSTASY. Dreams are a trap. They comfort and they coddle. They comfort
and they coddle. They give false hope, and false understanding. They are
little fictions that satisfy a man’s hunger for meaning, without providing
anything he can hold in his hands. What matters is chasing the real.
It’s what you can touch. What you can feel. Allow me to demonstrate. |
| Oct 30, 2022 | » | Batman Vol. 1: Their Dark Designs
6 min; updated Jul 29, 2023
Batman: Vol. 1: Their Dark Designs.
James Tynion IV; Guillem March; Tomeu Morey.
Tynion IV’s Department of Truth is entertaining in its treatment of truth. Coming in with a bit of bias for Tynion IV’s writing. Snapshots[Batman] It happened in the little moments. I’d sketch on the edge of a napkin, or at the corner of a page in an old casebook. A familiar building, but with an unfamiliar number of floors. The city skyline with a few added skyscrapers. There was always some minor detail altered. Alfred called them my little Gothams. He said that they were designs for the city that lived in my head. A better city, without all the pain and horror. A city that didn’t need a Batman. He would say, “What if you didn’t put on that suit tonight? What if you gathered all those sketches and started building something that could last? You have a design for Gotham City, Master Bruce. Isn’t it time the world saw it?” ... |
Tynion IV won Eisner’s “Best Writer” award for 2023.