Issues 1029-1031 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist. Issue 1030 is about AI, which is an important topic I have not talked about enough. Issues 1029 and 1031 are about 9/11. I do most of the work in creating my comics a week in advance. (Although, this week, Issues 1030 and 1031 were completed a few hours before being uploaded.) I spent a lot of last weekend reflecting on 9/11. Part of my thoughts on the day were rather vain. It boggles my mind that so much of the population cannot remember that day. It makes me feel old. I also reflected on how that day changed my life. My politics developed in opposition to the Bush administration in my teens, but the reaction people had to 9/11 also solidified my distaste for performative patriotism. It solidified my distrust of authority and of organized religion. The Islamophobia the day unleashed bothered me and still bothers me. As I kept reading about 9/11, I learned more about the collapse of the towers. The 8th issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist was about 9/11 conspiracy theories. It was the first special issue. Looking back on it, and having learned so much more about why the towers collapsed, I decided that perhaps I should revisit 9/11 conspiracy theories in a comic. That first comic was so early in the run of Rick, the Cryptozoologist I wondered if perhaps I could not do better now with all the experience I have gained over the years. I know many people think it is fruitless to debate conspiracy theorists because it gives them credibility. My opinion is, whether you like it or not, they already have credibility. Therefore they should be debated or else it ends up that conspiracy theorists are the only ones talking. People take silence against the arguments of conspiracy theorists as meaning there is nothing one can say to refute their theories. Stay tuned, more to come.