What the story establishes
Events depicted in the fictional continuity, including encounters, operations, and physical manifestations.
Case 0001Eyes only
An ongoing comic by James Tynion IV & Martin Simmonds
The Department
of Truth
Belief shapes reality, and someone has to decide which version survives.
ARCHIVE // DOT-0001
ANOMALYSUBJECT: CONSENSUS EVENT
SOURCE STATUS: CONFLICTING
CLEARANCE: BLACK
REALITY IS A■■■■■■■■■■
Series statusOngoing
Latest issueNo. 38 · Jul 2026
Primary conflictDepartment / Black Hat
Core mechanismConsensus reality
Current file
The conflict at the center
Cole Turner’s recruitment exposes a covert struggle over which stories remain stories—and which become the world.
Three-layer record
Reality depends on attribution.
The comic distinguishes events that occur, claims made by its institutions, and the documented history those claims appropriate.
What an interested party asserts
The Department, Black Hat, and individual witnesses explain reality from positions that may be partial or strategic.
What the record supports
Documented events and real conspiracy folklore remain separate from the series’ supernatural secret history.
Case files
Belief leaves evidence.
A manifestation can confirm that belief changed reality without proving the history believers used to summon it.
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Concept
Consensus Reality
The principle that collective belief can alter physical existence, historical memory, and the boundaries of the possible.Open record ↗02PER–009
Character / entity
The Woman in Red
An enigmatic figure associated with Black Hat, unstable memory, and Cole Turner’s contested understanding of his past.Open record ↗03MAN–003
Manifestation
The Star-Faced Man
A recurring image and presence tied to childhood terror, conspiracy belief, and the instability of remembered experience.Open record ↗04CASE–006
Case file
Bigfoot
A cryptid case demonstrating how folklore, organized belief, and apparent evidence can produce a physical manifestation.Open record ↗1963Documented history
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The historical event later surrounded by the comic’s fictional institutional account.
Cold WarIn-universe claim
Early Department operations
Accounts of reality-management activity whose details depend on institutional testimony.
PresentFictional canon
Cole Turner is recruited
An FBI investigation leads Cole into the conflict between the Department and Black Hat.
OngoingUncertain chronology
Consensus destabilization
Later revelations continue to revise the meaning and sequence of earlier events.
Current release38July 15, 2026
Publication file
The Department of Truth #38
Image Comics lists issue #38 as the latest released chapter. Issue #39 is solicited for October 28, 2026; release dates remain subject to publisher change.
Publication order
Start with issue #1.
The numbered sequence preserves the intended disclosure of the Department’s history. Flashbacks and issue #0 are best read where they were published.
Open issue #1 record →RECORD REMAINS OPEN