Russia, 1989. Four children in the city of Voronezh witness a red egg-shaped UFO descend as they play soccer. A group of seemingly extraterrestrial beings disembark and become one of the strangest unexplained phenomena ever recounted.
The New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning co-creators of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth, and Powers follow up their acclaimed work on Blue Book with an all-new volume of “true” tales capturing the strange world of alien encounters—this time focusing on the uncanny extraterrestrial stories of Russia and China.
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This comic includes two stories: the first is the main story and the second is a single-issue short story called True Weird, which chronicles government rumors and conspiracy theories that cover up supposed supernatural events:
RED BOOK written by JAMES TYNION IV with art by MICHAEL AVON OEMING and lettered by Tom Napolitano: this story recounts various UFO sightings in Russia between 1980 and 1990. It raises questions about whether these sightings actually occurred or were part of a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the Soviet Iron Curtain, or even the radical censorship that silenced any dissenting voice.
Most of these documents were translated by the CIA, making their veracity difficult to as more
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