From the imagination of blink-182's award-winning author Tom DeLonge,
the Strange Times crew first debuted in the graphic novel Strange
Times: The Curse of Superstition Mountain**. Now teamed-up with Geoff
Herbach, also an award-winning author of the Felton Reinstein Trilogy,
DeLonge tells the hilarious and haunting adventure that originally
forced five outcast jerks to band together or give up the ghost.**
Charlie Wilkins has it all. Pitcher on the baseball team, point guard on
the basketball team, good jock friends and girls who just love him. Then
his U.S. Air Force dad goes M.I.A. during a secret mission and Charlie
falls into darkness. He quits basketball, pushes away his old friends
who all seem so stupid. He stops talking. Nobody knows what he's going
through, because the government has forbidden the family from disclosing
Dad's predicament. Charlie turns into a loner, until an Earth Science
assignment forces him to join a new, messed-up team.
Wiz has a brain for science, a love for steampunk, and a total disgust
for most human beings. Heavy-set, picked-on Riley has a home life Harry
Potter wouldn't trade for. Mouse and Mattheson are skateboard slackers
with a keen interest in tacos and in building a model volcano that looks
like a butt. With zero chemistry between them, Charlie can't see how
he's going to pass this class. Will he be stuck, suffering, in eighth
grade forever?
The earth shifts. It seems impossible. A ghost girl reaches out to
Charlie through the terrified skater boys. She's being stalked by a
vengeful spirit that shares a past with Charlie's family. It soon
becomes clear that the spirit is coming for him. He has to save the
ghost girl and save himself. His only hope? The nerd Wiz, the loser
Riley, the skaters Mouse and Mattheson who want to hook-up with the
girl. But, seriously, she's a ghost.
Strange Times indeed...
