A new five issue comic book “experiment” called High Strangeness is coming in time for spooky season. The first issue will drop Oct. 8.
It’s said to be “influenced by real, documented cases of paranormal phenomena, revealing the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror.” That’s from the publishers, Multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book publisher, Oni Press, and SpectreVision, the genre-distorting production company run by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee.
Issue No. 1 will be a double-sized, prestige format story of the unknown. It’s officially titled High Strangeness: Book One.
Writer, producer, and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah joins writer Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine) and Ringo Award–winning artist Dave Chisholm (Plague House) for an account of an encounter with the strange beings known as the Men in Black .
Set in Chicago, 1967, the storyline follows magazine writer Harry Kean who, according to the official synopsis, has been “dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine.”
The story will unfold across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale.
Each chapter of High Strangeness also includes a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry (Euphomet) on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.
Future issues will see Daniel Noah joining writers Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Cecil Castellucci (EC’s Cruel Universe), and Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness) alongside artists Noah Bailey (Station Grand), Valeria Burzo (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Chloe Stawski (Sapphic Pulp), and Christian Ward (The Ultimates).
High Strangeness, the publisher promises, “will reveal the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror…
Covers will feature work by Jock (Wytches), Dave Chisholm (Spectrum), Becca Carey (Radiant Black), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer).
Wicked Horror is pleased to present this special preview of what’s ahead:
Here’s the pull list for High Strangeness:
