SDCC ’25: Top talent assembles for Oni Press’ High Strangeness

Oni Press and SpectreVision are teaming up for High Strangeness, a brand-new five-issue series, a five-part comic book series inspired by “first-hand accounts of real paranormal encounters within the dimly lit borderlands of human experience.”

Daniel Noah is the co-founder of SpectreVision, the production company behind films such as Mandy, and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. High Strangeness follows Noah’s own transformation from skeptic to curious mind about paranormal phenomena. Noah is working with major comic creators for High Strangeness informed by his own real-life glimpses of non-human intelligence. Check out the creative team below:

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) Pulp); to reveal the hidden dimensions at the center of HIGH STRANGENESS 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.

High Strangeness #1 by Condon, Noah, and Chisholm features cover art by Jock, Chisholm, Becca Carrey, and Malachi Ward. Jock will have a 1:10 incentive foil variant, while Ward’s teaser variant is a 1:20 cover. The issue arrives in comic book stores on October 8th, 2025.

“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.”