Are you ready for some High Strangeness? Well, get ready, because Oni Press and SpectreVision are launching the mind-bending anthology comic book series exploring unexplained phenomena from an array of comic book superstars.
Overseen by Daniel Noah, the project got its start when the writer/producer/director saw something impossible at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, aka the haunted hotel that inspired The Shining. Now a believer, Noah has teamed up with Chris Condon, Zac Thompson, Noah Bailey, Christopher Cantwell, Valeria Burzo, Cecil Castellucci, Chloe Stawski, and Christian Ward to bring the impossible to life.
“There are people from all walks of life bound quietly together by anomalous experience: ghost encounters, cryptids sightings, UFOs, extrasensory perception, and all manner of high strangeness,” said Noah via press release. “The questions raised by these incidents are profound, probing the mystery of existence and suggesting the possibility of a single unifying theory that ties it all together. The stories in this series seek to go further than genre has gone before, not by offering definitive answers, but by asking the right questions. Not just who we are, but what are we? And what is the true nature of this theater in which we live?”
The first, double-sized 40-page issue debuts this October from Noah, Condon, and artist Dave Chisholm, and explores an encounter with the Men in Black (not Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, the real ones*), as a magazine writer investigates the disappearance of a teen.
(*Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson)
“When Oni Press President and Publisher Hunter Gorinson first approached me about writing for the company, he said something that hit me like a ton of bricks; not because it was shocking, but because it rang true. ‘Keep comics weird.’ That was his phrase,” said Condon. “Weird to me means many things. It means different, uncanny, the strange and supernatural. So, when Hunter asked me if I was interested in talking with Spectrevision’s Daniel Noah about his new High Strangeness series, I just had to say yes. Here is a series exploring the dark corners of our world where the very laws of physics bend in eerie fashion, where creatures wild and unnatural lurk, where what you see isn’t necessarily what you get. This series is a mind trip of a mind trip, one that travels at the speed of light into the vast unknowable reaches of the weird. Buckle up, stay tuned, and step out into the beyond with series creator and co-writer Daniel Noah, artist Dave Chisholm, and editor Bess Pallares for High Strangeness issue one.”
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE – 1967 arrives in comic shops everywhere on October 8, with covers by Jock, Chisholm, Becca Carey, and Malachi Ward. Check out a preview below, and click for larger versions.
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