He arrives in Strangehaven after a car accident in which swerved to avoid hitting a young woman on the road ahead of him.
Albert Bonneti, or "Bertie", is the town's mechanic and is seemingly able to turn even the most ruined wreck into a fully functional car in just a few days.
His extraordinary skills are commented on but never explained, and he is skeptical about the supernatural, making good-natured fun out of his wife's wiccan beliefs, so it is unlikely that he has any unusual powers.
Vicki Bonneti runs the Arcadia tea rooms and is part of a practicing coven that aims to neutralise the power of the Knights of the Golden Light.
He is shown to be professional and courteous towards his patients but cold with his wife, Maureen, and outright abusive towards his twin brother, George.
John is the patriarch of the family, the headteacher at the local primary school, and the head of the Knights of the Golden Light.
He is often shown intimidating members of the brotherhood, something which puts fellow knights Charles and Sergeant Clarke on edge.
It always seems to be present when Alex is having a vision of the Woman on the Road, and has been shown entering the house in which her body is stored.
Michael McCreadie was an RAF pilot who was shot down over Strangehaven and made a crash-landing in the woods on its outskirts.
Somehow, he finds himself in the present-day Strangehaven and is reunited with his wife, who is subsequently restored to youth as they walk off into the sunset.
Alex and Vicki subsequently find his body, long since rotted away to a skeleton, in the wreckage of his plane in Strangehaven #18.
At the start of the series, he is in an ongoing illicit relationship with Suzie, which hits rocky ground when he refuses to tell Beverly about them.
Charles (see above) John Jones (see above) Kent Clarke is the village's only police officer (he holds the rank of Sergeant).
However, after a gruesome murder in issue 12 he then becomes the comic's protagonist for a while, as it follows his investigation, and he is shown here to be torn between serving justice and protecting the Knights.
A bespectacled, nervous fellow, he often uses secret Knight code openly in public, earning him the annoyance of John Jones.
Alex meets her when she is using his house as a subject for her painting, and she later helps him after he is drugged by the Knights for refusing the offer of their initiation.
Emmanuel Megaron is a tribesman from the Amazon whose mother came from England; he is a practicing shaman and is teaching Jeremy Jones some of his skills.
Vicki Bonneti (see above) Adam Douglas claims to be an alien from the planet Nimoi (possibly a reference to Leonard Nimoy), but looks perfectly human and speaks with a Dutch accent.
It may be that she can use the animals' eyes and ears to replace her own senses, much in the same way as Megaron can inhabit the bodies of birds, but whether she has powers, or is mentally ill, or both is never made clear.
"Surfer" Steve is a Strangehaven local who seems to have some knowledge of the village's true nature, and believes that it is not only alive but sentient.
Alex finds him out on Strangehaven's shoreline, surfing, and Steve gives him a lift back into the town.
The Woman on the Road is the nameless, ghostly figure seen by Alex just prior to his crash, and later in his dreams and other visions, including one in which she walked into the sea off Strangehaven's coastline.
The woman's physical body appears to be kept in a giant fish tank the house of an unnamed and unseen Strangehaven resident who refers to her as his "darling".