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Christian Ward Leads a Mind-Expanding Search into High Strangeness #5 – Coming in March!

Posted on January 31, 2026 by Graphic Policy Team

WELCOME, TRAVELER. YOU ARE ABOUT TO PASS THROUGH THE FINAL GATEWAY … AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED! Oni Press and SpectreVision, the genre-distorting production company founded by Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah are proud to present your first look inside High Strangeness: Book Five! Everything we have witnessed thus far – from sightings of Men in Black in 1967 through to psychic test subjects tasked with unlocking alien secrets in 2001 and more perplexing phenomena – has led to this point … and now series creator Daniel Noah is joined by multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward to finally reveal the unspoken truth that connects each episode of High Strangeness across time, space and a hierarchy of confounding new dimension beyond all human understanding.

Co-written by Noah and Ward and illustrated by Ward – along special “glimpses” into the past, present, and future by the series’ past collaborators including Ringo Award winner Dave Chisholm, Noah Bailey, and Chloé Stawski – High Strangeness: Book Five is an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale that you will forever shatter your notion of reality.

Welcome to the ultimate terminus of the unknown, where our four chapters, our four tragic fates, and the innumerable threads of our perplexing cosmic existence have all found themselves gathered together. Do fate or free will bind the eerie ultra-terrestrial phenomena that our brains recognize as UFOs, ghosts, cryptids, and other nonhuman intelligences? Are they distinct entities unto themselves, or are they all expressions of some higher order? More pressing still: Where do they come from? And where are we going?

From Oni Press and SpectreVision, the year’s most ambitious experiment in comics storytelling culminates on March 11th in our unmissable final chapter . . . Enter: High Strangeness: Book Five as series architect Daniel Noah unites with multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward, to deliver an unforgettable, unpredictable comic spectacle – also featuring special appearances by Ringo Award winner Dave Chisholm, Noah Bailey, and Chloé Stawski, alongside covers by Christian Ward, Jesse Lonergan, and Becca Carey.

Exclusive: SpectreVision and Oni Press’ Smash-Hit High Strangeness: Book One Sells Out Again, Returns with Third Printing!

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

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, have announced that High Strangeness: Book One has sold out at the distributor level a second time and will return with a brand-new Third Printing on December 17th! In this all-new printing on Final Order Cut-Off November 24th, SpectreVision co-founder and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah joins acclaimed writer Chris Condon and Ringo Award-winning artist Dave Chisholm for an unexpected encounter with the mysterious entities known as the Men in Black. . .

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, High Strangeness is told across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale. Each chapter of High Strangeness also includes a feature-length essay by a different researcher – beginning with podcaster Jim Perry in the first issue – revealing the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed within each issue.

With future issues featuring High Strangeness architect Daniel Noah joining writers Zac Thompson, Christopher Cantwell, Cecil Castellucci, and Christian Ward alongside dazzling artists Noah Bailey, Valeria Burzo, Chloe Stawski, and Christian Ward, High Strangeness will open your minds to worlds beyond our own. . . Discover it for yourself on December 17th when High Strangeness: Book One returns to comic shops everywhere with a brand-new Third Printing. . . on shelves alongside High Strangeness: Book Three from creators Christopher Cantwell, Daniel Noah, Zac Thompson, and Valeria Burzo!

Exclusive: High Strangeness: Book Two brings Big Foot comes to 1975! Get a First Look Before it Comes to Shelves this Wednesday!

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

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, have revealed a first look inside High Strangeness: Book Two and we have an exclusive first look! High Strangeness: Book Two is the next enthralling chapter of a five-part experiment in comic book storytelling inspired by firsthand accounts of encounters with the paranormal. Led by SpectreVision co-founder and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah alongside acclaimed writer Zac Thompson, and fast-rising star Noah Bailey, the decades-spanning saga enters the year 1975 on November 19th as a fugitive convict evades the terrifying creature known as Sasquatch!

A prison-transfer bus has just crashed on an isolated forest road in Washington state in the deep winter, sending the lone survivor, inmate Elwood Krieger, running into the woods. When he encounters and fights off a mysterious creature, he finds he’s accidentally killed a juvenile Sasquatch. Barely escaping the wrath of its grieving mother, Krieger starts a new, secret life in a nearby community, hoping to stay under the radar of the law. But when the mother, with whom he shares a mysterious telepathic connection, discovers him and the woman loves, Krieger is faced with much harder decisions than fight or flight . . .

Plus: The next extra-sized, ad-free, prestige-format installment of High Strangeness also includes an all-new nonfiction essay charting the ever-evolving history of the Sasquatch phenomenon by Timothy Renner!

Enter the dimly lit borderlands of human experience – where overlapping phenomena like UFOs, hauntings, and inexplicable synchronicities – indicate a higher, unseen order of reality when High Strangeness: Book Two materializes in comic shops everywhere on November 19th with covers by interior artist Noah Bailey, Timothy Renner, and Becca Carey!

Plus: In stores now, follow the footsteps back to the beginning with the High Strangeness: Book One Second Printing – an all-new edition of the saga’s stunning first chapter from SpectreVision co-founder Daniel Noah alongside acclaimed writer Chris Condon and Ringo Award winner Dave Chisholm!

SDCC 2025: Oni Press and SpectreVision invoke High Strangeness

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

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.

L.A. Comic Con 2023: SpectreVision and Oni Press inhabit High Strangeness

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

In advance of L.A. Comic Con 2023, Oni Press has revealed a collaboration with SpectreVision – devoted to exploring the uncanny and unusual realms of High Strangeness with a new “pop-up” publishing imprint debuting in 2025.

Influenced by real, documented cases of paranormal phenomena dating back to the mid-20th century, High Strangeness will surveil the liminal spaces where reality, hallucination, science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror, bending perception far beyond the bounds of traditional science fiction and horror.

Joining the project as a Creative Consultant is podcaster, Jim Perry, who will advise the team based on his extensive knowledge of anomalous phenomena. Producer and host of the critically acclaimed audio documentary podcast, Euphomet, Perry’s thoughtful, humanistic approach to paranormal experience has earned him high status as a journalist and broadcaster.

SpectreVision founders Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah will join Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson and Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn to share more details on High Strangeness at this weekend’s L.A. Comic Con with an exclusive panel presentation on Sunday, December 3rd at 12 Noon PT in Room 304.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency S1E1 Horizons Review

Posted on October 23, 2016 by SHAY REVOLVER

I hadn’t heard of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency until New York Comic Con. While waiting in line for something else, I looked into it on my phone and was instantly intrigued. I marked my calendar and looked forward to checking it out, especially after I talked to some of my friends who were fans of the book.

The opening scenes of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency sets the tone for the show perfectly. If you’ve come for a serious, moody, dark show then you’ve come to the wrong place. The first five minutes of the show gives anyone who was curious a chance to get out or get sucked in as it lays out what you can expect ahead. If you’re like me and settled in for the full ride, you were in for a treat.

Although the title implies that this is going to be an adaptation of the Dirk Gently books, you realize pretty early on that while some of the elements of the original story remain intact mostly the show is its own thing. The books center more on Dirk but, this new series seems to add an extra person into the mix. Todd, a new character amazingly portrayed by Elijah Wood, is a nice transitional character who often acts as an observer and unwilling accomplice/assistant to Dirk.

The first episode of this hilarious series focuses mostly on Todd and his horrible, very bad day. In a matter of 24 hours he’s had his car destroyed by his landlord over stolen rent money, gets fired from his job after finding a gruesome crime scene, had Dirk break into his apartment and get into a slap boxing fight with him, travel to his sick sister’s to cheer her up and jam with her before she has a pain attack, be attacked by a gang of thugs, almost gets shot on multiple occasions and almost gets arrested, TWICE. Things do turn around in the very end of the episode when he starts to believe some of Dirks mumbo jumbo thanks to a found dog and a winning lottery ticket

The rest of the characters in this aren’t exactly living a normal life either. We get introduced to Ken, who is dragged along on what can only be considered a murderous rampage with Bart, a Holistic Assassin, two cops who seem to turn up whenever Todd is in the vicinity of a murder scene and, a couple of supernatural hunting FBI agents.

The writing in the show is clever and hilarious. As someone who hasn’t made it through an entire book in this series, I found it easy to follow and hella interesting. Even the supporting characters were complex enough to warrant notice, which is helped by the amazing acting. The visuals also impress from the darkness to the red overtones in the murder room.

Overall, I found the premiere episode pretty darn interesting, they managed to mix murder, mayhem, and humor in a way that I haven’t seen since Dexter and I’m looking forward to not only finally finishing the books but seeing more episodes and finding out where the show will take us. I’m fully prepared to strap in for the ride because wherever this show goes, it’s going to be fun. Things are pretty heavy and dark all over but, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency might just be the light, fun diversion we’ve been waiting for

SDCC 2015: Conan recap 7/8/15

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Mr. H

“Let’s go to Comic Con!”

Ahhh the words we all long to utter. The pinnacle of any geek’s existence, we dream to one day gaze upon the holy grail of all things comic and entertainment related. Make no mistake, to do so is quite an honor. Those who wield this responsibility (cough cough Brett) must do so wisely.

We open up the show with an homage to the Mad Max films with Conan playing a flaming guitar and Andy riding a hellacious rig towards San Diego creating some hijinks along the way. Solid opener and shows that the writing staff know their stuff well. It’s flashy, funny, corny and just a bit of everything.

We get to Comic Con for the show and the set is just EPIC. I can’t say enough about it. This guy gets it.

After a booming ovation, he dives right into the typical Conan opening monologue with some pretty funny observations and jokes. The one that definitely stuck out to me was a jab at George Lucas selling out to Disney. (Ouch) I’m sure George is wiping his eyes with a couple of billions. Tragic I know.

Conan proceeds to thank the audience for being amazing (Who doesn’t like praise?) and asks if he can take a selfie with them but he is having a slight problem fitting them all into frame with him. So he wisely enlists the help of a Cosplay Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) in which I thought was a really cool bit. (Better than having Michael B. Jordan set off the sprinklers, face it the blogs burned intensely enough this season. Flame off please.)

Next he provides us with a little bit of slapstick by announcing that a whale has escaped his near by Sea World enclosure and all of a sudden a very suspicious looking Yoda arrives that is well over 15 feet tall. (Hey we are not Airboy, we have no room for discrimination here, not even giant creepy costumed mammals.) Following the tail end (swear I didn’t mean to) of this bit we are announced the guests for this evening: Elijah Wood (Frodo! Frodo!) and Chris Hardwick (Nerdist and Talking Dead). Also we are told in the days to follow we indeed will see the stars of franchise super giants: The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead as well as the cast of an unrevealed movie. Since I am a betting man I’m going to go with either the cast of Marvel’s Ant-Man or Warner Bros: Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Either or I’m sure my big screen LED TV screen will go Boom.

After the previous announcement, we dive right in with confirmation that after the next installment of the Wolverine movie franchise Hugh Jackman will be stepping down (Not a sharp decision per my point of view) so we are shown auditionees that attempt to fill Hugh’s mutant mutton chops. Among the celebrity cast of caring citizens are Patton Oswalt, Larry King, Michael Sheen and Betty White. My opinion? Take Larry. Out of all the rest at least you know you will get like ten movies for the franchise out of him.

After a quick product shill for the Conan 360 cam, the curtain calls upon its first guest hailing from the Shire himself: Frodo (Elijah Wood) Elijah gives us some insight on how hard it is to be a pop icon at Comic Con, even telling us that he needs to don a mask to avoid notoriety. A celeb being one of us. How Cool. He even goes so far to say that other members of the cast including Peter Jackson must resort to this same tactic sometimes to get to enjoy the festivities properly. (I wonder if GP press staff have the same issue?) Then in a very cool moment, Elijah whips out one of the replica prop rings from The Lord of the Rings movies to a frenzy of crowd approval. I couldn’t help but be recalled to the episode of The Big Bang Theory when they are all fighting over who gets custody of one of Peter Jackson’s fabled pieces of memorabilia. As we are drooling over the tiny golden circle, an unlikely tall Sméagol snatches the ring from our hero Hobbit and exits stage left.

A quick commercial break and we are back with Elijah explaining what it was like to revisit the character of Frodo Baggins for the Hobbit Trilogy. He states it was “A combination of going back in time, and no time passing at all.” (A perfectly good convoluted answer for a comic book crowd) Before he leaves the set he informs us that his show Wilfred on FXX has come to a close and Conan shows a clip of the new movie Cooties. It’s a movie about a zombie like plague spreading via tainted chicken nuggets (for those who thought Super Size Me, was a deterrent) through children. It also stars Rainn Wilson. Might be worth a look when it hits on Demand on September 18th.

We take another quick break, and return with a promotion for Funko POP Conan SDCC 2015 figurines. One version of the figurine will be given away over the course of all four shows at San Diego. We have Regular Conan, Batman Conan, Zombie Conan and Conan Monster. These are all pretty cool and you can enter to win at teamcoco.com/pop (I’ve already entered mine. Fingers crossed for the Batman one)

Finally we are greated by a familiar face, Chris Hardwick in a very traditional Spider-Man costume. He informs us of some little known fopauxs when cosplaying, such as room temperature and “dong placement.” (I’m certainly choosing my spandex wisely now)

Chris then proceeds to give Conan the “Comic Con Citizens Test” which contains a speed round of questions to prove his geek mettle. I found this entertaining besides the obvious questions like “What metal is Wolverine’s bones made out of?” (Adamantium) There was some funny ones like “If Caitlyn Jenner was on a Superhero team, what would it be called?” (The X-Men) “Who shot first? Han or Greedo?” (He said neither, it was a Jawa on the Grassy Knoll) and word association “Cosplay is not..” (Drinks with Bill Cosby, never too soon I guess) Finally he asks “What would you do if Seth Green was on the show and he attacked you with a toy lightsaber?” So of course, ask and you shall receive…

This should happen more on talk shows, (imho) it would truly make for “Must See TV”.

We close out the final moments of the show with Chris and Conan pontificating about how there is such hatred these days when it comes to spoilers. I couldn’t agree more with their points. We are all nerds, we will see it either way. So true. So true.

Overall: This was a whole hour of network tv that whisked by quicker than a coffee travelling in Barry Allen’s digestive system. I thoroughly enjoyed it. You can tell that Conan doesn’t just pay lip service and he respects the source material. In a world where it’s cool to like anything that’s Pop Culture or trendy, it’s refreshing to see someone not afraid to wear their underwear outside their clothes to support the cause.

Till tomorrow night. Same Conan time, can’t wait to see what’s on the channel.

KaBOOM! Joins Cartoon Network for a Peek Over the Garden Wall in Comic Special

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Brett

KaBOOM! and Cartoon Network Enterprises have announced the November 5th release of Over the Garden Wall, an oversized comic book special based on Cartoon Network’s first original animated mini-series that will air over the course of five nights beginning Monday, November 3rd.

The Over the Garden Wall comic is an oversized, 26-page story written and directly supervised by the mini-series’ creator, Patrick McHale. Acclaimed cartoonist, illustrator, and colorist Jim Campbell, who was personally hand-picked by McHale, is drawing and hand-lettering the entire story himself. Designed to seamlessly tie in with the animated mini-series, the comic story is one of the adventures that brothers Wirt and Greg and their ill-tempered bluebird friend Beatrice go on while trying to find their way home from the Unknown, a strange forest adrift in time. In their attempt to get to Adelaide of the Pasture, a mysterious figure who might have the key to getting them home, they team up with a group of wayward soldiers in search of adventure and risk getting thrown even further into the Unknown.

Headlined by an all-star voice-cast that includes Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, and Melanie Lynskey, Over the Garden Wall is Cartoon Network’s first ever mini-series, an animated comedy/fantasy story about two brothers, Wirt and Greg, who are trapped in a mysterious world. In this 10-part production, music plays an important role with a soundtrack full of Americana-influenced original songs. Over the Garden Wall is created by Patrick McHale and produced by Cartoon Network Studios.

The Over the Garden Wall one-shot arrives from KaBOOM! in comic shops on November 5th with a cover price of $4.99, under Diamond order code SEP141163. The main cover is illustrated by Jim Campbell, while the retailer incentive cover (1 in 15) is drawn by Patrick McHale.

Peter Panzerfaust Motion Comics Starring Elijah Wood, Ron Perlman, Summer Glau + more

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Brett

A heartfelt story of friendship and heart-pounding adventure, the Image Comics/Shadowline comic book series, Peter Panzerfaust, has become a hit with multiple sell-outs of issues. The World War II based story is inspired by the classic J.M. Barrie creation Peter Pan. Now the fantastic independent series by writer Kurtis J. Wiebe and artist Tyler Jenkins is set to engross an even larger audience, with Adjacent Productions‘ and Quality Transmedia’s fully animated motion comic adaptation, featuring the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Summer Glau, Ron Perlman, and Dante Basco.

Wood and Glau will voice the characters of Peter and Wendy, while Perlman brings to life Peter’s arch-nemesis, the Nazi officer Kapitan Haken, the series’ incarnation of Captain Hook. Basco, who played Rufio in the 1991 movie Hook, will return to the Neverland universe as the voice of Alain. The world premiere of a trailer for the motion comic will be shown at a panel at the Chicago entertainment convention C2E2. The session will feature Peter Panzerfaust creators Wiebe and Jenkins and Jeff Krelitz of Quality Transmedia, and takes place on Saturday, April 27 at 3:15 PM CDT.

The motion comic isn’t all Peter Panzerfaust fans have to look forward to. Adjacent Productions and Quality Transmedia have announced that a live-action series based on the comic is also in development, and in May, Image Comics/Shadowline will release the second trade paperback volume of the series. Peter Panzerfaust: Hooked collects issues #6–10 of the series and features the introduction of Kapitan Haken, as well as the continued adventures of Peter, the Lost Boys, Wendy, and Tiger Lily in their fight against the Nazis as part of the French Resistance. It will be in stores on May 15 and is available to pre-order now. Peter’s adventures will continue in Peter Panzerfaust #11 in July.