Oni Press' Hobtown Mystery Stories Returns With The Secret of the Saucer

Oni Press' Hobtown Mystery Stories bid of graphic novels has developed a cult pursuing successful caller years, arsenic these books fundamentally inquire the question "What if Stranger Things were produced by A24?". These supernatural enigma tales each halfway astir the tiny metropolis of Hobtown, a spot wherever cults, conspiracies, and curses are conscionable a regular portion of life.

With the 3rd measurement successful the series, The Secret of the Saicer, retired successful bookstores and comic shops now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

The Secret of the Saucer is written by Kris Bertin and drawn by Alexander Forbes, with colors by Jason Fischer-Kouhi. Here's Oni's authoritative statement of the book:

In Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer, the lines betwixt conspiracy and world go intertwined similar ne'er earlier during the town’s highly contested mayoral election. There’s the accomplishment of an unexplained, unidentified flying object, a chaotic and unhinged Ape Lord, and an outbreak of literal backward thinking. The precocious schoolhouse Teen Detective Club should beryllium astatine the forefront of the lawsuit but is rife with struggle and its ain situation of enactment arsenic the sleuths go progressively paranoid. Is determination anyone they tin trust?

“Imagine if A24 re-made Stranger Things and you statesman to recognize the ambition of the unusual and surreal communicative that Kris Bertin and creator Alexander Forbes person undertaken,” said Oni Press Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn successful a statement. “There’s a multi-generational mystery, a supernatural mini-man, and a ragtag radical of teen detectives. I genuinely emotion this series. Hobtown Mystery Stories conscionable mightiness beryllium the best-kept concealed successful comics. These graphic novels are a idiosyncratic obsession for maine and soon they volition beryllium for you, too.”

Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer is disposable successful stores now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

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