Documenting Paranormal Encounters with HIGH STRANGENESS
- keepingitgeekly
- Jul 31
- 3 min read
Oni Press and SpectreVision are teaming up this October 8th to drop the start of a five-part experiment in comic book storytelling called High Strangeness. Inspired by first-hand accounts of real paranormal encounters, these issues will interlock with a finale informed by SpectreVision's co-founder Daniel Noah's own glimpse of nonhuman intelligence.
A cast of writers and artists were announced to be involved with this series including Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, The Goddamn Tragedy) and Ringo Award-winning artist Dave Chisholm (Plague House); acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Run Rabid) and stunning artist Noah Bailey (Station Grand, Double Walker); Eisner Award nominee Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz, Thanos) and gripping artist Valeria Burzo (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss); New York Times best-selling writer Cecil Castellucci (Shade the Changing Girl) and rising star Chloe Stawski (Sapphic Pulp); and multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness). Each ad-free installment of HIGH STRANGENESS will be packaged in Oni’s deluxe prestige format with cardstock covers, upgraded paper quality, and 40 pages of content – including 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.
Writers: Chris Condon & Daniel Noah
Artist: Dave Chisholm
Chicago, 1967. Magazine writer Harry Kean is 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.
“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 Daniel Noah. “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?”
"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 Chris 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."
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