Dark Horse Comics will publish a new series for young readers called Buffy: The High School Years. The announcement was made at the company’s New York Comic Con panel. The first issue, entitled Freaks & Geeks, will come out on June 15, 2016.
Faith Erin Hicks has been hired as the writer. Yishan Li has been brought on as the artist. Joss Whedon will serve as the executive producer.
Here’s more from the press release: “Set during Season 1 of the television series, Buffy: The High School Years—Freaks & Geeks delivers classic Slayer action! Moving to a new school and making new friends will create enough anxiety for any teenage girl. But when you’re Buffy Summers, a vampire slayer—the Chosen One (with all that entails)—building a new life can be overwhelming. A group of nerdy vampires, shunned by their cooler brethren, decide to climb the vampire social ladder by taking out the Slayer. They play on Buffy’s insecurities, wearing her down until she is full-on distracted by the mental warfare. But in addition to her Watcher, Giles, this Slayer has a couple of new friends, Willow and Xander, to cheer her on…except, of course, when they’re not getting along.”