The Department of Truth: The Complete Conspiracy Deluxe Hardcover Book 2

by James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Martin Simmonds (Artist), Letizia Cadonici (Artist), Alison Sampson (Artist)

Overview

"A wonderfully dizzy mixture of Men in Black, John Carpenter, Stephen King, The Matrix, and 1970s conspiracy thrillers." —FORBES

Lee Harvey Oswald has held onto power within the Department of Truth for decades—and by any means necessary. But the choices he’ll make to survive America’s troubled new era test even his resolve. To understand the man behind the myth, we have to return to where it all started: Dallas, 1963, as President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed the grassy knoll...and a woman in red with X's for eyes picked up a rifle in the window of the Texas Book Depository.

Also in this Volume: Marilyn Monroe's life was stranger than fiction. So strange that she may have slipped out of reality herself. And who--or what--was Elvis Presley?

A major turning point for the celebrated series is collected here in deluxe hardcover format from Eisner Award-winning writer JAMES TYNION IV (EXQUISITE CORPSES, W0RLDTR33) and Eisner Award-nominated artist MARTIN SIMMONDS (UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: DRACULA), featuring acclaimed guest creators including SCOTT SNYDER (Absolute Batman), JOSHUA HIXSON (THE DEVIANT), Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), and more. Experience…THE COMPLETE CONSPIRACY.

Collects The Department of Truth #18-33 and "Suspicious Minds"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534332560
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	07/14/2026
Series:	The Department of Truth
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.25(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

JAMES TYNION IV is the writer of Batman, and many other titles for DC Comics, including Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, and the New York Times best selling Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy. He is the co-creator of Wynd, Something is Killing the Children, Memetic, and the GLAAD award winning series, The Woods. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with his partner and their nice old dog.

Scott Snyder has written WYTCHES, American Vampire, The Wake, SEVERED, Batman, Superman Unchained, and Swamp Thing, among many other projects. He's also the writer of the short story collection Voodoo Heart. He is an avid and non-ironic fan of Elvis Presley.

Martin Simmonds is a comic artist, and co-creator of Dying is Easy (with Joe Hill) for IDW, Punks Not Dead (with David Barnett) for Black Crown, and Friendo (with Alex Paknadel) for Vault Comics.He is also a contributing artist to Marvel’s The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, and series cover artist for Marvel’s Quicksilver: No Surrender, and Jessica Jones.Martin currently lives in Surrey, UK with his partner and their two year old son.

Letizia is best known as the regular artist on House of Slaughter as well as her work on Neighbors, Children of the Black Sun and more.

Joshua Hixson graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and has been working in comics ever since. He’s the artist and co-creator of Shanghai Red from Image Comics, and The Black Woods. He also works as an illustrator for Kannibalen Records. He resides on Long Island with his wife and their lazy pup Luna.

Elsa Charretier is a writer and comic book artist. After debuting on C.O.W.L. at Image Comics, Elsa co-created The Infinite Loop with writer Pierrick Colinet at IDW. She has since worked at DC Comics (Starfire, Bombshells, Harley Quinn...), Marvel Comics (The Unstoppable Wasp) and Random House (Windhaven, written by George R.R. Martin). 

She has also written The Infinite Loop Volume 2  as well as Superfreaks, and is a regular artist on Star Wars comi cbooks. Recently, she has started working on a new series of graphic novels for Image Comics, Love Everlasting.

Tyler Boss is an Eisner-nominated, award winning cartoonist and designer. His titles included Dead Dog's Bite, as well as 4 Kids Walk into a Bank and What's the Furthest Place from Here? with his frequent collaborator Matthew Rosenberg. Go Bills.