The original STRANGE KISS storyline collected, featuring the introduction of William Gravel! Strange Kiss is best described by Ellis himself: "A horrific murder/suicide in the middle of a busy city street at midday; an old man rotting and bloating in a hospital bed, something sick gestating inside him; in a darkened place close by, people screaming, impregnated, doomed. Something beautiful and awful is trying to reproduce, and its strange kiss is only to be feared..."