Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/27/review-department-of-truth-a-conspiracy-thriller-about-conspiracy-theories-that-literally-change-reality.html
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I’ve been down that wormhole. It is WEIRD. Definitely reality-warping.
My favorite W.K. tune—the payoff at the end is pure bliss.
I really like the art for this comic—I’ll have to check it out.
Of course, no literary discussion of conspiracy theories and reality-warping is complete with mention of Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum—so good, I can’t recommend it enough!
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It’s a re-hash of the OG ‘Paul McCartney is a ringer’ conspiracy tho. Which my mother firmly believes and is writing a book about, so I believe. She was gonna go round interviewing various famous & semi famous boomers about it, but the plague intervened (probably for the best, or Maccas would have perforce had her whacked, presumably 
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I second that recommendation, having come here to say the same thing. In its place I will also recommend his book Numero Zero, which plays with similar themes and is a lighter read.
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Paul is dead.
Also, the Beatles reformed as a Canadian prog band in 1973.
The clues are all there, and it makes more sense when you’re really really high.
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500 pages of novel about it sounds adequate! (Yipes!) Good luck to that venture (and you know, screenplays.)
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