Comic review: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution #1- Holmes as a Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist

Adapted by: David & Scott Tipton
Art: Ron Joseph
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Released: 26th August 2015



I purchased this book because I am a long time consumer of everything and anything to do with the character of Sherlock Holmes. I thought that it was something new. I was mistaken. It’s not new at all.

The original book from 1974.

‘The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was made into a film of the same name in 1976.’ 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven-Per-Cent_Solution

I blame myself. I should have checked the previews before I purchased the book. I remember watching the movie over twenty years ago. I didn’t like it. The plot takes two original Conan Doyle stories and has Doctor Watson admitting that he made them up in order to save the reputation of Holmes.

The Sherlock Holmes in this tale is a paranoid, cocaine addicted, conspiracy theorist. The general gist of the plot is that his main nemesis, Professor Moriarty, is not a criminal mastermind, but an old mathematics teacher who Holmes mistakenly thinks (due to his cocaine addiction) is the, ‘Napoleon of Crime.’

The message of the book is that conspiracies do not exist, that life is random, and that crime is committed by ‘crazy’ individuals, and not organised by intelligent, well-connected groups of people who help each other out.

I guess that organisations such as the Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Grove, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations and the Bank for International Settlements don’t exist after all? They must all be a figment of our collective imaginations, I guess?

This message in ‘The Seven-Per-Cent Solution’ goes completely against the original stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and reinforces the mainstream idea that is pushed by Rockefeller funded educational institutions. You know the idea, right? Watch television, you’ll see it.

Here’s how it goes: Life is random, chaotic and cruel. There are no elite groups, just individuals. It’s a survival of the fittest zoo out there. Kill or be killed, be more ruthless than everybody else, there is no God, there is no morality, all is psychology, we are animals, Darwinian monkeys in a meaningless game. There is no such thing as ‘conspiracies.’ You’re all alone kid, and you need to get climbing up that greasy corporate pole, because that’s all that there is.

It’s a message of idiocy. A message that ignores reality itself, and promotes the kind of world that we have today in collapsing western countries, a world with easily manipulated masses and competing groups of ‘elite’ world controllers that play us off against each other with disdainful ease.

Sherlock Holmes was not a stupid man, but in this book, that is exactly what he is. That is why I disliked the 1976 movie. I disliked it because it portrayed Holmes as somebody who was not Sherlock Holmes. It portrayed a drug addict slipping into paranoia, not the best mind in England, not the man that I read in Conan Doyles’s original books.

I can understand why this comic book exists today. I understand why a 1974 novel has been rehashed into comic book form and here’s my own ‘conspiracy’ mind going into crazy land, and no, I’m not a bloody cocaine addict. I’m a boring, teetotal vegetarian who exercises twice a day.

Here’s my take on why this book exists: So called ‘conspiracies’ are becoming all too real now, thanks to the Internet. People are ignoring the mainstream indoctrination centres (television and the education system) and are looking at things for themselves.

What they have discovered is groups, large, wealthy groups, connected to international banking institutions, that make money out of nothing, loan it to supposedly ‘sovereign’ governments, at interest, and act like a vampiric spider in a world-wide web of evil, manipulation and human enslavement.

That’s what people see, not because it’s a ‘conspiracy,’ but because that’s how the world actually works. Conan Doyle knew how the world worked, and that’s why he created the character of Professor Moriarty, to encapsulate that conspiracy, and to put a face on the globalist spider in the centre of the world that feeds on us all.

‘The Seven-Per-Cent- Solution then is the mainstream’s attempt at discrediting the idea of a ‘conspiracy.’ Why IDW is putting this in comic book form in 2015 says a lot about where that comic book company stands. I’m not saying that they are part of the ‘conspiracy,’ itself. What I am saying is that there is some serious cognitive dissonance going on here, and that rather than deal with the revealed world as it is today, they are going back into the past in an attempt to validate their entrenched, indoctrinated beliefs about how the world works.

IDW sees no evil, hears no evil, and speaks no evil. They are a little comic book publisher that wants to be a big comic book publisher, and their mindset, rather than coming from the point of view of the underdog, is coming from the point of view of a servant that just wants to eat at the masters table.

I can understand that mindset, but I don’t have to admire it. We have the Internet now, and truth is available, if you want it.

We don’t have to accept the lies of the mainstream anymore. The lies taught to us by our televisions, teachers and newspapers are now naked before us, and we can finally see them for what they actually are.

Truth is now available. It’s on our telephones. It’s up to us, as individuals, to do the work, we can find reality, we can find truth itself, if we want it.

This comic book is pushing the mainstream lies of the discredited past. It’s a 1974 book that mocks the idea of a criminal conspiracy, and in 1974 it could have worked, but not now, not in 2015. The game is up, truth is getting out, and if all they can do is go back to the 1970’s to discredit it, then that says more than anything that I can put together here.


Rating: 5/10 (Faithful, solidly written comic book adaptation of 1970’s book that portrays Holmes as a paranoid conspiracy theorist)

The BIS, the real world Professor Moriarty.