Oni Press announced it will release an all-new edition of Hobtown Mystery Stories, and it will be in color, too!
The first volume, Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1: The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, is one-part horror and one-part teenage coming-of-age adventure set against the backdrop of rural Canada.
Welcome to Hobtown, a charmingly bleak village (Population: 2,006) and an easy place to get bored if you don’t make your own fun. Hobtown Regional High’s top girl, Dana Nance, runs the Teen Detective Club—a registered after-school program that makes it their business to investigate each and every one of their town’s bizarre occurrences including pagan secret societies, psychic assaults, and possible “wee man” sightings. Their small world of missing pets and shed fires is turned upside down when real-life kid adventurer and globetrotter Sam Finch comes to town and enlists them in their first real case: the search for his missing father. Something strange is going on, and no one in Hobtown will talk about it. It turns out Sam’s dad is the sixth man to go missing this year. The rot runs deep in Hobtown, and it’s up to the teen detectives and associates to stay alive long enough to crack the Case of the Missing Men!
“Hobtown Mystery Stories is about the beauty and horror of the small town, and the lengths its young will go to unearth, understand, and escape its history,” said writer and co-creator Kris Bertin in a press release from Oni Press. “It’s also a labour of love between two best friends, a place we’ve visited for over a decade to explore and imagine together.”
Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1: The Case of the Missing Men will be colored by Jason Fischer and will arrive on April 24, 2024.
