High Strangeness Deluxe Edition Available July 14

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Oni Press and SpectreVision—the genre-distorting production company run by partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee—present HIGH STRANGENESS, a startling new experiment in comic book storytelling inspired by firsthand accounts of real paranormal encounters . . . 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’s 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 super-spectrum of “high strangeness” that connects sightings of objects in the sky to haunted places and other perplexing manifestations that extend like fingers from a hidden hand.

Now, in the pages of HIGH STRANGENESS, Noah leads an otherworldly cast of premier comics talents—including acclaimed writers Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Cecil Castellucci (EC’s Cruel Universe), and Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness), and dazzling artists Dave Chisholm (Plague House), Noah Bailey (Station Grand), Valeria Burzo (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Chloé Stawski (Sapphic Pulp), and Christian Ward (The Ultimates)—across five decades of uncanny encounters at the dimly lit borderlands of human experience . . . that interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale informed by Noah’s own real-life glimpses of nonhuman intelligence.

Collecting High Strangeness #1–5, this oversized deluxe hardcover volume also includes a series of feature-length essays by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry (Euphomet) on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each chapter.

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Cemetery Kids Don’t Die Vol. 2 Run Rabid Available May 12

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Log in and lose your mind!

One year ago, four friends escaped the unrelenting terror of the video game called Nightmare Cemetery. After spending endless hours locked into the innovative Dreamwave—the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep—in order to save one of their own from the game’s all-too-real consequences, they survived . . . barely.

But after their harrowing rescue, they’ve decided they’ve had enough of Nightmare Cemetery and its enigmatic final boss, the King of Sleep. That is, until the newest DLC, The Blighted Sprawl, suddenly appears online with a promise to reveal the truth of what actually lurks at the heart of Nightmare Cemetery’s digital darkness . . . and why its effects are now bleeding out into the real world in an array of bizarre and disturbing new ways.

From writer Zac Thompson (Into the Unbeing) and illustrator Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dread, XINO) comes the next chilling chapter of cybernetic horror with Cemetery Kids Run Rabid.

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Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #1 Available August 13

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YOU CAN’T ESCAPE THIS GAME, EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS. Acclaimed creators Zac Thompson (Into the Unbeing—Parts 1 & 2) and Daniel Irrizari (Judge Dredd, XINO) enter an synapse-shredding new level of the groundbreaking science-horror hybrid that began with CEMETERY KIDS DON’T DIE!

One year ago, four friends barely escaped the unrelenting terror of the video game called Nightmare Cemetery. After spending endless hours locked into the innovative Dreamwave—the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep—in order to save one of their own from the game’s all-too-real consequences, they survived . . . barely. But after their harrowing rescue, they’ve decided they’ve had enough of Nightmare Cemetery and its enigmatic final boss, the King of Sleep. That is, until the newest DLC, The Blighted Sprawl, suddenly appears online with a promise to reveal the truth of what actually lurks at the heart of Nightmare Cemetery’s digital darkness . . . and why its effects are now bleeding out into the real world in an array of bizarre and disturbing new ways.

The sold-out series that AiPT! Called “compelling sci-fi horror . . . That feels closer to home than it should” returns with a perfect new jumping-on point for the series that challenges Stephen King, Clive Barker, and David Cronenberg to a three-way PVP deathmatch in a cyberpunk haunted house!

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Into the Unbeing Vol. 2 Available October 7

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Find yourself in its innards.

From critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson and visionary artist Hayden Sherman comes part two of the S.I.N.E.W expedition’s ill-fated journey into a Lovecraftian labyrinth.

For centuries, The UnBeing, a seemingly malevolent corpse, has swallowed all who dare tread near its sprawling mass. Now, the last survivors of a climate science team are trapped inside with only a mysterious humanoid known as The Stranger to guide them out. This incomprehensible Stranger claims to be a 19th Century British explorer. It claims to know the way back to the surface. It claims a new world is on its way. Perhaps if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. But what is the cost of this new world? And who will be left to live in it?

Picking up directly after the events of Part One, the remaining survivors form a distrustful and desperate team. Together they must journey across impossible landscapes and contend with their own changing biology in order to find their way back home. As their journey into the Unbeing deepens, the series’ most disturbing questions are answered…but the answers offer little comfort.

Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and visionary artist Hayden Sherman (Batman: Dark Patterns, Absolute Wonder Woman).

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Into the Unbeing : Part Two #4 Available May 21

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Hayden Sherman (Cover Art-Artist-Colorist), Jim Campbell (Letterer)

The last survivors of the expedition team trek into the heart of corruption. They are offered a way out. The Stranger claims a new world is on its way. It claims if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. It claims there is no cost to this new world.

Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and visionary artist Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces: Dungeon, Absolute Wonder Woman).

• Four issue series.

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Into the Unbeing : Part Two #3 Available April 23

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Hayden Sherman (Cover Art-Artist- Colorist)

The last survivors of the expedition team head deeper into a decayed swamp. The Stranger spews poison into one of the research team’s ears. While the others start to wonder how going deeper could possibly be the way out. And their dog witnesses something it shouldn’t. Can the simple creature relay what it saw before it’s too late?

Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and visionary artist Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces: Dungeon, Absolute Wonder Woman).

• Four issue series.

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The Body Trade Available April 22

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Jok (Illustrator), Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (Letterer)

The Body Trade is an unrelenting revenge story set against the backdrop of America’s aftermarket for dead bodies. Critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Blow Away, Into The Unbeing) and star artist Jok (In Hell We Fight) team up for this neo-noir crime thriller rife with bloodshed and brutality, in the tradition of Blue Ruin and Hell or High Water!

Kim Krilic is a divorced ex-con who’s trying to atone. However, his short temper tends to get the best of him. When he returns to Florida to bury his estranged son. He’s sickened to find an empty grave. His son’s remains were sold into “The Body Trade”. Armed with righteous fury, Kim sets out to reclaim his child’s corpse. But one act of vengeance causes everything to spiral out of control.

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Into the Unbeing : Part Two #2 Available March 26

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Hayden Sherman (Cover Art-Artist-Colorist)

The remaining survivors of the S.I.N.E.W. expedition ally themselves with an incomprehensible Stranger. This fleshy Stranger claims the way back to the surface is across an impossible ocean. But what lies waiting for them on the distant shore?

And why is the sun watching them?

• Four issue series.

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The Body Trade #5 Available February 12

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Jok (Illustrator)

After losing everything, Kim finally finds what he’s searching for. It all leads to a showdown on the fourth of July. Who will survive? Will anything be left of them if they do? And will it be salvageable for the aftermarket?

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The Body Trade #4 Available January 8

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Jok (Illustrator)

Kim wakes handcuffed to a hospital bed. His reckless quest for vengeance has finally caught up with him. An old friend arrives to deliver some devastating news… he’s dying. But if Kim so chooses… he can donate his body to “science”.

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Into the Unbeing : Part Two #1 Available February 12

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Hayden Sherman (Cover Art, Artist, Colorist), Jim Campbell (Letterer)

A group of explorers wander the sweltering jungles of Brazil in search of a fabled leviathan. Led by surveyor Edwin Hall, the group is quickly laid to waste by the harsh environment. With few other options, Edwin and his son Aldous take refuge within a steaming maw. Now they are lost within an eldritch landscape. And every moment that passes is another where their flesh is remade. Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Alien: Romulus) and visionary artist Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces: Dungeon, Absolute Wonder Woman). • Picking up right where Into the Unbeing Part One left off. • Four issue series.

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Into the Unbeing Vol. 1 Available January 28

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Hayden Sherman (Illustrator), Jim Campbell (Illustrator)

Lose yourself inside its innards.

A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform. Led by botanist Hildur Johansson, the team sets out to conduct a routine exploratory mission to map the terrain, record their observations, and try to understand this anomalous landscape.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and the Unbeing delivers. The expedition discovers a massive, entirely novel, giant holobiont that threatens to upend everything they understand about the natural world. Propelled by hubris and the intoxicating charm of forbidden knowledge, the research team descends into a hostile alien environment allowed to thrive without human interference. The beautiful yet unforgiving landscape hosts strange flora, gorgeous fauna and dangerous predators lurking in the darkness. As the team pushes deeper, can they survive long enough to find what they’re looking for?

Into the Unbeing is an adventure into the sublime from the critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Blow Away) and visionary artist Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces: Dungeon, Wasted Space).

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The Body Trade #5 Available November 20

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Jok (Illustrator)

Backed into a corner, Kim is forced to reconnect with his sordid past in order to move forward in his search for vengeance. With little evidence, he assembles a paper trail that he hopes will offer more answers. But it only leads to armed guards and a razor-wire fence. With little else to lose, Kim decides the only way out is through.

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Alien : Romulus #1 Available October 23

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By: Zac Thompson (Author), Leinil Francis Yu (Cover Art), Daniel Picciotto (Artist)

Following the theatrical release of the highly anticipated blockbuster Alien: Romulus, Marvel Comics presents an all-new story revealing secrets of the film’s legendary antagonists! How did Xenomorphs find Rain, Andy and their scavenger crew? Familiar faces lurk in the shadows – and this issue shines light on them all! Horror master Zac Thompson (ABSOLUTE CARNAGE, X-MEN) and rising star Daniel Picciotto (GHOST RIDER, X-FORCE) collaborate directly with filmmakers for this must-have collector’s item! See Alien: Romulus in theaters August 16th.

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