"This is not my tale. But it is a tale for me to tell."
September 29, 2024 3:22 AM   Subscribe

Eight years ago, I posted about a new supernatural webcomic called The Strange Cases of Oscar Zahn. The name changed slightly, but the comic continued to 2019. Oscar is the world's greatest paranormal researcher, and an inventor of devices that can detect and affect the spirit world. Oscar is also a talking skull floating above a body. All of them can still be read on the Webtoons website! And now, in print is Volume One of The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn.

During its run, creator Tri Vuong told four of Oscar's tales:
Lost and Found: Oscar tries to help a spirit that never had a chance at life.
The Last Soldier of the Somme: A Canadian fighter in World War I encounters darker forces.
Stardust and Soliloquies: A steampunk-ish story involving undead explorers of the Astral sea, a ghostly old acquaintance of Oscar's, and an old sea captain weighed down by regret.
The Ghost of Witch Lake: Oscar receives a letter leading him to the story of a mysterious island in a lake in the US Northwest, a dead girl that haunts it, and a father willing to do anything to see her again.

It is rumored that we haven't seen the end of Oscar's adventures. Tri Vuong also made Everyday Hero Machine Boy and Anchovie Akiyama. You can keep up with Tri's work on his Instagram page.
posted by JHarris (3 comments total) 17 users marked this as a favorite
 
I enjoyed the first two stories, although I dropped off when his posting slowed way down. (This seems a hazard of web comics… since the creators need to eat and all….
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:30 AM on September 29 [1 favorite]


I used to read that back in the day! And then I forgot about it, so thank you for reminding me it exists!
posted by sotonohito at 4:13 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]


Glad to remind you of it sotonohito! I bought the print version, it carries everything up to The Ghost of Witch Lake. An interesting thing about The Strange Tale of Oscar Zahn is how each story is so different from the others. It covers a wide range of settings. The most recent one (the one that's still webcomic-only right now) is set solidly in the modern day; Oscar Zahn even uses an internet search engine called Goggle.

I think it's interesting: back in the day, when Metafilter was probably more popular, my Oscar Zahn post got 19 favorites. But this one still has 15 so far!
posted by JHarris at 8:04 PM on September 30 [1 favorite]


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