I met Lowell Cunningham at a local science fiction convention over a dozen years ago. He spoke about his career in comics, and especially about creating the Men In Black franchise. I've read some of those early stories initially published by Aircel Comics. It's amazing how much the MIB franchise has evolved to become a household term! Now, Oni Press is publishing a tale involving the folks who protect us from extraterrestrial menaces. Here's all the info:
Explore The Unknown With SpectreVision and Oni In HIGH STRANGENESS!
SpectreVision—the genre-distorting production company run by partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee—and Oni Press 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…
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.
Thanks to Oni Press for sharing this announcement with us.
For more on the creation of Men In Black, see my post on Lowell Cunningham.
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