In 2026, struggling journalist Sonny Weathers begins investigating the near-forgotten town of Dabney Meadows for a commemorative history book.

But when mysterious boxes of old CWA newsletters, government faxes, motel advertisements, recipes, photographs, and police memos begin arriving at his door, Sonny uncovers a decades-old murder, strange crop circles, queer secrets, missing residents, and a government conspiracy buried beneath the town’s cheerful country facade.

Told entirely through archival material, newsletters, and correspondence, Welcome to Dabney Meadows is a darkly funny Australian gothic mystery where every document is a clue.

Set across two timelines — the strange final days of the town in 2000 and journalist Sonny Weathers’s investigation in 2026 — the series follows the unraveling of a rural Australian community haunted by murder, repression, UFO sightings, cult behaviour, and buried secrets.

What begins as a quirky collection of small-town ephemera slowly transforms into a sprawling conspiracy. Part camp satire, part queer soap opera, part cosmic mystery, Welcome to Dabney Meadows invites readers to piece together the truth one artifact at a time.

Told across 12 months, each new issue reveals fresh evidence, hidden connections, and another piece of the mystery buried within Dabney Meadows.

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