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Real-Life Experiencer Daniel Noah Guides Christopher Cantwell, Cecil Castellucci, Chris Condon, Zac Thomspon, Christian Ward & More Through Five Chapters Documenting Paranormal Encounters at the Liminal Edges of Human Experience
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE – 1967 Begins Prestige-Format Odyssey with Chris Condon, Daniel Noah & Dave Chisholm in October with Covers by Jock, Malachi Ward & More
From The Press Release:
PORTLAND, OR (July 14, 2025) – In advance of Comic Con International 2025 in San Diego, CA, multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book publisher Oni Press and SpectreVision – the genre-distorting production company run by partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Lawrence Inglee – are proud to reveal HIGH STRANGENESS – a startling new, 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, the acclaimed production company known for films like Panos Cosmatos‘ Mandy, Ana Lily Amirpour‘s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and many more – 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.
Now, SpectreVision is teaming with Oni Press and a mind-bending cast of premier comics storytellers – including superstar writer 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) – to reveal the hidden dimensions at the center of HIGH STRANGESS across five ad-free, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale informed by Noah’s own real-life glimpses of nonhuman intelligence.
“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?”
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.
“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.”
Each ad-free installment of HIGH STRANGESS 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.
HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE – 1967 arrives in comic shops everywhere on October 8th with a stunning collection of covers by Jock (Wytches, Detective Comics), Dave Chisholm (Spectrum), Becca Carey (Benjamin, Radiant Black), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer).
“Bizarre and disturbing stories of the phenomena collectively known as ‘high strangeness’ have been puzzling humanity for at least a century – and, in all likelihood, quite a bit longer than that,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. “But tale by tale, retelling after retelling, these kinds of reality-shattering experiences often seem to be reduced down to ‘spooky story’ cliches when they become novels, movies, games, or comics – because so often their horrific facade overwhelms the all-too-human implications such encounters have on the people that live them. With HIGH STRANGENESS, we’ve set out to pursue a new kind of paranormal epic: one that honors the harrowing, but revelatory experiences of those who have come face-to-face with the extraordinary, while exploring the fascinating superstructure that unites these diverse and terrifying apparitions that can appear to be alien, supernatural, and illusory all in equal measure. From 1967 to 2025, each chapter of HIGH STRANGENESS bears the same unquenchable obsession with one subject alone: the unknown.”
Find out more when HIGH STRANGENESS transmitting 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 (Out of Alcatraz) and Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, and Senior Editor Bess Pallares.
About Oni Press
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.
About SpectreVision
SpectreVision is a multifaceted, genre-bending production company led by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee (SWISS ARMY MAN, THE MESSENGER) dedicated to creator-driven works that defy convention. Among their credits are the groundbreaking titles, A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, MANDY and COLOR OUT OF SPACE, to name a few. The company has expanded into other areas of arts and entertainment, including TRANSFERENCE, their award winning videogame for Ubisoft; SpectreVision Radio, their bespoke podcast network; Mutant, the arts and collectibles company and record label from some of the former creative behind Mondo; SpectreVision Artists, their management arm; and High Strangeness, a comic book imprint with Oni Press. The 2025 film slate includes RABBIT TRAP, EBONY & IVORY, WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS and DAWNING..