In advance of Comic Con International 2025 in San Diego, CA, Oni Press and SpectreVision – the production company run by partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee – have revealed more details about High Strangeness. The projected announced in 2023 is a five-part experiment in comic book storytelling inspired by first-hand accounts of real paranormal encounters within the dimly lit borderlands of human experience where overlapping phenomena like UFOs, hauntings, cryptid sightings, and inexplicable synchronicities seem to indicate a higher, unseen order of reality…

A decade ago, Daniel Noah – writer, producer, director, and co-founder of SpectreVision, was a typical skeptic … until an awe-inspiring and unexplainable encounter at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado (the haunted hotel that inspired The Shining) left him questioning the verifiable existence of paranormal phenomenon. In the ensuing years, Noah has documented and logged hundreds of otherworldly encounters spanning the superspectrum of “high strangeness” that connects sightings of objects in the sky to haunted places and other perplexing manifestations that seem to extend like fingers from a hidden hand. 

SpectreVision is teaming with Oni Press and a mind-bending cast of premier comics storytellers – including superstars Chris Condon, Dave Chisholm, Zac Thompson, Noah Bailey, Christopher Cantwell, Valeria Burzo, Cecil Castellucci, Chloe Stawski, and Christian Ward. The five ad-free, prestige-format issues will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale informed by Noah’s own real-life glimpses of nonhuman intelligence.

In the first double-sized, 40-page chapter debuting this October: Noah joins co-writer Chris Condon and artist Dave Chisholm for an unexpected encounter with the enigmatic Men in Black in 1967 as 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. 

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 on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue. 

High Strangeness: Book One – 1967 arrives in comic shops everywhere on October 8th with a stunning collection of covers by Jock, Dave Chisholm, Becca Carey, and Malachi Ward. 

Find out more when High Strangeness transmits directly from San Diego Comic Con on Saturday, July 26th at the Neil Morgan Auditorium in the San Diego Central Library with a live podcast taping of SpectreVision Radio Live. Exclusively at SDCC, on SpectreVision co-founders Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah and Euphomet creator and host Jim Perry for a live podcast taping exploring SpectreVision’s first comics collaboration for a wide-ranging, investigative conversation a will surveil the liminal spaces where reality, hallucination, science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror with writers Christopher Cantwell and Chris Condon, Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, and Senior Editor Bess Pallares.