The True Bizarre backup options from James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming’s Blue Ebook month-to-month will obtain a collected version in January 2025. Revealed by Darkish Horse, True Bizarre Vol. 1 gathers twelve tales of the unusual from an all-star lineup of creators. The 120-page commerce paperback anthology will launch January 28, 2025 in bookstores and January 29 from comedian outlets, retailing for $24.99.

The Darkish Horse press launch mentioned:

“Darkish Horse Books and Tiny Onion current True Bizarre Quantity 1, a group of black-and-white quick comics initially featured as bonus tales all through Blue Ebook collection 1 and 2. Primarily based on true accounts, these tales describe encounters with cryptids, ghosts, paranormal phenomena, medical oddities, and all method of the unusual.

“This new quantity options twelve of the strangest “true” tales from the world round us, that includes an all-star lineup of creators together with James Tynion IV, Klaus Janson, Chris Condon, Michael Avon Oeming, Ming Doyle, John McCrea, Genevieve Valentine, Aditya Bidikar, Anand RK, Gavin Fullerton, and plenty of extra.”

True Bizarre was initially printed digitally by way of James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion Substack, as a month-to-month anthology collection for paid subscribers. It developed a a complement to his self-described “true bizarre” alien abduction collection Blue Ebook, and have been reprinted – then continued – as backup options inside the Darkish Horse print version of Blue Ebook’s first two collection.

Speaking about True Bizarre when it was first introduced on his Tiny Onion Substack in Might 2022, Tynion IV mentioned:

“These anthology tales are going to observe the identical tough construction that we’re utilizing in Blue Ebook. Each story we inform goes to be primarily based on an actual account of an encounter with the inexplicable, with minimal fictionalization and exaggeration. The important thing factor we’re attempting to seize is the real weirdness on the coronary heart of every story, irrespective of how unsettling or logic-defying it may be. The anthology tales are going to be one-and-done, with a unique inventive crew on every chapter. To assist seize the texture of old-school “STRANGE BUT TRUE” comics, and to assist mark this because the religious cousin of BLUE BOOK, we’re going to be doing these tales in black and white. Our hope is that every of those tales makes you have a look at the world a bit in a different way, that they make you surprise, and that they make you anticipating every new chapter.”