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Click here to read Strange Attractors #1-11
Strange Attractors is our postmodern take on adventure and romance comics, an attempt to meld genres, to fold, spindle, and warp the semiotics and sensibilites of Silver Age comics to our own idiosyncratic purposes.

Strange Attractors pays tribute to the comics of the Fifties and Sixties and reflects the ways our consciousnesses, our sensibilities have been shaped by one too many viewings of Forbidden Planet, by lengthy exposure to the artistry of Jack Kirby and Steranko, and having been dipped in the ambiance of the Sixties, Timothy Leary, Equal Rights Feminism, Norman Spinrad, Robert Heinlein, Camille Paglia, Robert Anton Wilson, Samuel R. Delany, H.P. Lovecraft, Dave Sim, Alan Moore, and the media-scape of the early '90s.
Since the mid '70's Michael Cohen and Mark Sherman have collaborated on numerous projects: bands (The Mighty Chameleons, Buffalo Bop), computer games (ThiefQuest). In 1993 they decided to have a go at self-publishing a comic, encouraged by the success of Dave Sim's Cerebus. As a starting point, they turned to an unfinished project that Michael had begun a few years earlier, his goofy SF story Strange Attractors.

Expanding from the original premise (Michael's version was mostly a loving tribute to the early issues of Love and Rockets), they came up with an expansive plot that would encompass many of the themes they found running through their favorite movies, comics and novels.

Strange Attractors #1 appeared in May 1993 and began building a very loyal audience. There are currently 15 issues in print, a trade paperback which collects issues #1-7, and the first 2 parts of a 4 part Caliber mini-series called Moon Fever.