Stranger Issues Formally Confirms Nancy Wheeler Spinoff After Season 5 Vol. 1

The world of Stranger Issues is about to additional develop with a brand new Nancy Wheeler spinoff. The announcement follows the discharge of season 5, quantity 1, on November 26, with 4 of the season’s eight episodes now out there to stream.

Per Netflix, the brand new Nancy spinoff will take the type of a thriller novel referred to as Stranger Issues: One Method or One other, which releases on December 2. The retro cowl design for the e-book, which calls it “A Nancy Wheeler Thriller,” is included beneath:

Written by Caitlyn Schneiderhan, One Method or One other takes place between the occasions of seasons 4 and 5, following Nancy and Robin as they examine mysterious happenings involving a fellow pupil in Hawkins, Indiana. The official synopsis, included beneath, teases Vecna’s involvement within the case and doubtlessly some reveals concerning the Upside Down:

“Hawkins, Indiana, is in restoration. It’s been two months since Vecna’s earthquake tore by way of the city, and its residents are nonetheless reeling from the devastation. Nancy Wheeler has spent each waking minute on the hunt for Vecna, however he’s continued to elude her. How can she head to Emerson for school within the fall if Hawkins remains to be below the affect of the Upside Down?

“When fellow classmate Joey Taft begins performing shifty at commencement, Nancy is satisfied Vecna’s discovered his latest sufferer. Joined by fellow novice sleuth Robin Buckley, Nancy doesn’t waste any time questioning Joey. What the ladies uncover leads them down the trail of an even bigger story than The Hawkins Submit may ever have assigned Nancy. Why are individuals round city instantly getting sick? Why is there an odd man tailing Nancy as she investigates? And, most necessary, does this even have something to do with the Upside Down?

“Along with Robin, Nancy embarks on a harmful quest for the reality. The deeper the 2 dig, the additional Nancy finds herself drawn into an online of intrigue that threatens to entice her in Hawkins … perpetually.”

Stranger Issues season 4 ends with a victory for Vecna. Although he was injured in his battle towards Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), his plan to show Hawkins into floor zero for an Upside Down incursion into the true world succeeded.

Stranger Issues season 5, quantity 1, picks up the story a couple of year-and-a-half later, with Natalia Dyer’s Nancy and Maya Hawke’s Robin taking part in key roles because the combat towards Vecna continues. Understanding of the native WSQK radio station, the place Robin is now a DJ, Nancy, Steve (Joe Keery), and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) assist to coordinate Hopper’s (David Harbour) “crawls” into the Upside Down to search out Vecna.

One Method or One other will seemingly assist to bridge the hole between the occasions of season 4 and 5, not less than for Nancy and Robin. Season 4 launched the 2 characters as an efficient pairing, with Nancy coming into her personal as a journalist on the Hawkins Excessive paper, The Weakly Streak. The pair investigated Chrissy’s (Grace Van Dien) loss of life, making an attempt to show Eddie Munson’s (Joseph Quinn) innocence.

Not revealed within the synopsis for the brand new spinoff e-book is whether or not readers can anticipate finding every other acquainted characters. Nancy’s love triangle with Jonathan and Steve, for instance, has been an ongoing subplot all through the present, that means these characters might not less than be talked about.

Equally, Robin’s relationship with Vickie (Amybeth McNulty) is in full swing when season 5 begins. As a narrative that takes place between seasons 4 and 5, it is attainable that the beginning of this love story will likely be explored to some extent in One Method or One other.

By way of franchise growth, the upcoming e-book is along with the Stranger Issues: Tales from ’85 animated spinoff present. Sequence creators the Duffer Brothers have confirmed {that a} live-action spinoff can be within the works, although particulars about that stay below wraps.

With One Method or One other hitting cabinets on December 2, followers of the present can have a number of weeks to learn the e-book earlier than the rest of Stranger Issues season 5 releases. The three-episode quantity 2 releases on Christmas Day, with the finale arriving on New Yr’s Eve.