Oni Press and the production company SpectreVision are taking their advertising campaign for their first collaborative series, High Strangeness, to a new audience: They will promote the series on SpectreVision Radio, a podcast network with over 1 million listeners across 50 podcasts.
SpectreVision is a production company run by actor Elijah Wood, director Daniel Noah, and producer Lawrence Inglee, which focuses on horror and psychological thrillers. Oni announced its collaboration with SpectreVision in 2023 (see “Oni Takes a Walk on the Weird Side”) and the first series from the collaboration, High Strangeness, will launch in October 2025.
The advertising campaign, which may be a first for comics, will take the message directly to listeners who are already interested in the arts and outside-the-mainstream realities. SpectreVision Radio, which launched in 2024, is a network of audio and video podcasts that covers a range of subjects from film history to encounters with the paranormal. Shows include Visitations, hosted by Noah and Wood, Directors Commentary, hosted by director Mike Flanagan, and Euphomet, a documentary podcast featuring first-hand accounts of encounters with the paranormal, hosted by Jim Perry.
“Quite literally, this new advertising partnership is one of the farthest reaching and most powerful marketing campaigns committed to driving readers to comic shops thus far attempted in the 21st Century,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson in a statement accompanying the announcement. “There is a huge conceptual overlap between the broad, passionate, and comics-curious audience that SpectreVision is cultivating for tales of the supernatural in the podcast arena, and the exact type of adjacent, otherworldly comics that we are bringing to the page with High Strangeness.”
High Strangeness will consist of five 40-page, prestige-format, ad-free issues, each set in a different decade. Each issue is co-written by Noah with a different creative team and includes an essay with Perry outlining the documentary evidence for the events in the story. The lineup is:
- Book One: 1967, co-written by Chris Condon with Ringo-Award-winning artist Dave Chisholm, recounts a Men in Black incident set during the turbulent 1960s;
- Book Two: 1975, co-written by Zac Thompson with artist Noah Bailey, pits a convict with the Sasquatch in Arctic climes;
- Book Three: 1983, co-written by Christopher Cantwell with artist Valeria Burzo, depicts a man whose paranoia may reveal a deeper truths;
- Book Four: 2001, co-written by Cecil Castellucci with art by Chloe Stawski, looks at a secret project to develop psychic soldiers in a hidden military base;
- Book Five: Infinity, co-written by Christian Ward with art by Chisholm, ties it all together with a broader look at the underlying truths behind these stories.
Book Five is “set outside of space and time,” Noah said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “It’s an extremely strange Kubrickian feel. I wanted the fifth book to really leave our reality. It’ll be a cosmic experience unlike anything else on the stands.”
The first issue of the monthly series will be released on October 8, 2025, with Cover A by Jock, Cover B by Chisholm, Cover C by Becca Carey, plus foil and 1:10 incentive covers by Jock and a 1:20 teaser variant by Malachi Ward. MSRP of the comic, which will have a card stock cover and upgraded paper quality, is $7.99 for standard issues and $9.99 for foil.
In addition to the SpectreVision Radio podcasts, which are available on all podcast platforms, the SpectreVision Radio Live podcast feed includes a recording of the SpectreVision x Oni Press: High Strangeness panel from San Diego Comic-Con, featuring Perry, Noah, Wood, Cantwell, Condon, cover artist Jock, Senior Editor Bess Palleres, and Gorinson.
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Source: ICv2
