A second visit to this none-more-unattractive world, where conspiracies, lies and 'keep out' signs at the end of the world can all become true, if enough people decide to believe in them. As an extended scene shows, that also includes Bigfoot – and so there are some staffers in the Dept of Truth who have to put down the humans making the concept so commonly thought of that the Bigfoot and Sasquatch could get too fond a taste for human flesh. But the whole bunch of issues with that mini-arc are f...

Still an interesting story, I always love Tynion’s writing, but the art was hard to follow at times.

Who doesn't like a good conspiracy theory? Well they can be entertaining, and even comical to wonder why people could believe some of this stuff. Well Tynion is very well versed in all the best ones. There is a lot of Americana in here, and back door American political history thrown in. As a Canadian I don't find it as interesting in all honesty. Another criticism is how long winded the explanations are at times. The writings quality, but I felt a little burned out at times. Now the groundwork

The first volume was strong, but this one just ramps things up even further. If you're not a fan of exposition-heavy writing, you may struggle with this, but I found it fascinating. Even the lengthy, hand-written notes written by two generations of fathers to their sons, explaining their fascination with tracking and locating Bigfoot, were gripping. Simmonds' art continues to be controversial. I think it works great for the story, but know it won't be to everyone's taste. Here, we get a lot more...

This series is creepy and unsettling and unnerving and I am loving it. The stuff with bigfoot guy got a little melodramatic, but damned if I'm not chomping at the bit for the next volume.

Department Of Truth skips a few fill-in issues (which I assume will be collected later) before heading into its second big arc that drags poor Cole even deeper into its conspiracies. DoT's ideas are huge, and I love watching them play out. But it does sometimes get bogged down in explaining all its big brain ideas - the few issues here that focus on Bigfoot with the prose stuff midway through are a bit of a slog, and sometimes it feels like the issues are just one big monologue. It's compelling,...

This series makes my brain explode in the very best way! Sometimes the art and colouring are beautiful, more often they are ugly but it is the story that keeps me coming back.

The Department of Truth continues to be an engaging read that never quite makes sense while I'm reading it, even though it goes to great lengths to make it seem like it's explaining itself to me. I'm pretty sure every single issue in this volume revolved around one character explaining "the nature of things" to another character. And yet I couldn't put it down?I gave the first volume three stars and was tempted to do so here, but I really did enjoy my time with The City Upon a Hill even if 90% o...

A much weaker arc than the first volume, I can barely call it a self-contained arc. It's basically a lot of exposition, with parts of it feeling redundant. It comes across as an assortment of ideas, bits and pieces stuck together. Cole has little agency, is just shoved around to different places, barely interacting with the story, until the last issue.We do find out that Cole has a large penis. Or maybe that's a tulpa too.

While I did feel it got a bit long winded at points, and never a huge fan of written letters in books like comics since the font makes it hard to read, I really did enjoy a lot of this. This is basically our "hero" getting deeper into the organization. Understanding how the powers to be use their influences to control and even CREATE things. Monsters. Sometimes they are real...sometimes...they are manifested. A more supernatural feel and themes but still just as powerful. Some great stuff.

"Okay, now that I've scared you, here's how we do it." This second volume feels a little bit less dangerous than the first one, if only because it spends so much time showing the mechanics of the department. This book actually feels more like a treatise of what truth means in politics and culture, and how it can be manipulated. That means plot moves a bit more slowly (although there is a fair bit that takes place on the larger stage of the story), but it still manages to build up to a powerful m...

This books is interesting. The premise is pretty originalish and super interesting. I do feel like I'm two volumes in and there hasn't been too much story because they are constantly explaining stuff. I like the artwork well enough but the paneling and sequencing can be a bit confusing at time to me. I'm not sure if that's just me or not. Anyway I'm definitely gonna keep reading this one probably until it finishes or is cancelled. 4 stars.

The art, the writing, the tragedy of the Bigfoot hunter… just a fabulous volume.

Individual issue reviews: #8 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #12 | #13Total review score: 3.5Side note: if you're wondering where issues #6-7 are, they're included in Volume 3 apparently.

The Department of Truth Vol. 2 The City Upon A Hill collects issues 8-13 of the Image Comics series written by Janes Tynion IV with art by Martin Simmonds. After Cole Turner is revealed how conspiracy theories can manifest into reality and reshape the world, he is taken under the wing of Hawk Harrison, a grizzled veteran of the Department of the Truth. Cole begins to wonder if the DoT are the good guys or the bad guys in this new world. Wow! This series has really impressed me with it's weaving

3.25 stars Not quite as captivating as volume 1. That volume moved through multiple story beats that were all interesting and creapy. Here, Tynion sits on like 2 main story beats for long periods of time which takes the story away from being intriguing and creepy to being a bit mundane. For instance when The Hawk character first meets up with Cole, he rambled on for ever. I felt like I was reading him talking for multiple issues. Then we get more of the same when the lady shows up to go on the h...

Second volume continues with exploring the world, bringing new characters in play and evolve the plot. There are still many unanswered question, and main story line moves quite slowly, thanks to the few side ones. What really piss*d me off off, was letter, that was too long, unnecessary and cheap. You don't want to draw to much? Put there 15 pages of letter, that explains motivation of side character and bore reader to death...

Well, I'm glad I kept reading this one, because it gets better, at least for my taste. Less edgy, maybe, but also less wonky, even if still crazy bananas.We get a much better understanding on what's happening and why, and I enjoyed the developments in the satanic panic bit and background, as well as the bigfoot segment.The art is still all dark and messy at times, but that sure fits the story, and the beginning of chapter 9 was a fun change of pace for a few pages.Will keep reading for sure.

James Tynion IV creates a world where the rantings of right-wing political pundits, the screeds of in-the-woods radical libertarians, and the platitudes of limp-dicked liberals are all correct, are all lies, and are all coming true right now. The pages of this book are are non-stop adrenochrome-drenched conspiracy theorizing, their text the in-the-margins scribbling of madmen driven by nightmares of black helicopters, Bigfoot, and Satan running the Deep State. The too-real world depicted here ha...

Very text heavy in this volume but still intrigued as to what will happen next.