Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3 - by Kris Bertin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Return to Hobtown, the charming rural village in Nova Scotia at the heart of surreal and haunting mysteries, and home to the after-school Teen Detective Club dedicated to solving them. The third must-read volume of the page-turning series that the New York Times calls "forceful and haunting" starts here for the first time ever in a fully colored edition from creators Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes!

The lines between conspiracy and reality tangle during election season in Hobtown as a new-old member of the Teen Detective Club surfaces to challenge Dana's leadership and redirect the group's attention back to the discounted but pressing concern that "ALIENS!" are among us. On a grander scale, amid the town's hotly contested mayoral race, the arrival of a flying saucer and a chaotic "Ape Lord" being pursued by the local Knitting Circle have the teen sleuths of Hobtown unsure if they're coming or going, as literal backward thinking tears at the threads of their friendships and their grasp on their latest case . . .

Review Quotes

"Another perfectly unsettling slice of small-town high weirdness.... Uncanny and delightful....Forbes' art and Jason Fischer-Kouhi's colors are gorgeous here: muted, grainy, almost overly intimate. Think Twin Peaks school yearbook photos mixed with the bureaucratic matter-of-factness of a government UFO dossier... If you haven't paid a visit to Hobtown yet, it's a great (and eerie) place to start."-- "Boing Boing"

"Strange towns with strange occurrences are the bedrock of great genre stories. From Twin Peaks to Nilbog, it takes all kinds of places to conjure up the strange and unusual, and Oni Press knows a thing or two in those areas.... Captivating."-- "Macabre Daily"

"This is Nancy Drew meets Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet meets the Hardy Boys... Beautiful detailed artwork.. These are hidden gems that I think people are sleeping on... I couldn't put them down."-- "Near Mint Condition"

About the Author

Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes are childhood friends who studied separate disciplines in order to reunite and make comics as adults. They grew up in Lincoln, New Brunswick, and live in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes are childhood friends who studied separate disciplines in order to reunite and make comics as adults. They grew up in Lincoln, New Brunswick, and live in Halifax, Nova Scotia.