Painstakingly illustrated in a photo-realistic style the first Strangehaven trade paperback Arcadia collects issues 1 through 6 of the critically acclaimed & award winning comic book series Alex Hunter awakes from a car crash only to find himself trapped in a deceptively idyllic village deep in the English countryside He soon encounters some of the village&s bizarre inhabitants including an Amazonian shaman a man who claims to be from the planet Nimoi a woman with talking pets & the mysterious clandestine brotherhood The Knights of the Golden Light But who is the woman in the fish tank?
Includes:: an introduction by Cerebus creator Dave Sim The second Strangehaven trade paperback Brotherhoood collects issues 7 through 12 of the critically acclaimed & award winning series Alex Hunter tries to make sense of being trapped in England&s weirdest village the ghost of the beautiful woman who haunts his dreams & why the villagers celebrate Christmas in mid-summer The Amazonian Shaman Megaron reveals his tribe&s deadly cycle of vengeance & the village&s resident extraterrestrial Adam explains away the UFO phenomenon while behind the scenes a clandestine brotherhood pulls the strings Beautifully illustrated with pencil pen & ink painted watercolor & manipulated photographs With an introduction by Heart of Empire creator Bryan Talbot Strangehaven won the 1997 National Comic Award for Best Independent Comic & has also been nominated for an Eagle Award two Eisner Awards two Ignatz Awards & two CCG Awards over the past four years Strangehaven has also recently been optioned for TV & film by Hollywood production house Laninco