THE HOBTOWN JUNIOR DETECTIVE CLUB RETURNS FOR THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER! With the acclaimed Hobtown Mystery Stories, childhood friends writer Kris Bertin and artist Alexander Forbes have created a graphic novel series that is equal parts captivating, creepy, charming, and compulsively readable. Teaming with colorist Jason Fischer-Kouhi, Bertin and Forbes create an electric story about an eccentric small town (Hobtown, population: 2,006) that has been plagued for centuries by a litany of unexplained phenomena: missing men, pagan secret societies, strange rituals, conspiracies, curses, and crimes. At the heart of it all is a group of teenagers who come together to save their town and uncover the truths their parents kept from them.

In Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer, the lines between conspiracy and reality become intertwined like never before during the town’s highly contested mayoral election. The arrival of an unexplained, unidentified flying object, a chaotic and unhinged Ape Lord, and an outbreak of literal backward thinking–the high school Teen Detective Club should be at the forefront of the case, but is rife with conflict and its own crisis of leadership as the sleuths become increasingly paranoid. Is there anyone they can trust?

Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer will be available on November 25, 2025.