Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs have signed a three-book deal with Scholastic. The two comics creators plan to create an illustrated fiction series called DC Comics: Secret Hero Society.
The story stars Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as middle school students. Book one, entitled Study Hall of Justice, will be released in February 2016. It will feature comics, journal entries, newspaper articles, and doodles.
Here’s more from the press release: “In Study Hall of Justice, young Bruce Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy, a prep school for gifted middle school students. Bruce finds out pretty quickly that he doesn’t fit in: the faculty seems to not just encourage villainous behavior from its students, but reward it. Bruce makes friends with two other outsiders, farm boy Clark Kent and the regal Diana Prince. They soon discover that not only are the kids here special, they all seem super. The three band together to form a detective squad to find out why all of these extraordinary kids have been brought together at Ducard Academy, and to see just what the faculty is plotting. They’ll try their best to solve the case, but just because you’re heroic, it doesn’t mean you get to stay up past eleven.”