High School Is Hell

The subject of this article is of alternative canonicity.
While created as part of licensed material, it is not part of the original Buffyverse, but its own developed story.

High School Is Hell

Publication

May 22, 2019

Length

128 pages

Format

Trade paperback

Series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2019) vol. 1

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Creative team

High School Is Hell is the first volume of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2019) trade paperbacks, collecting issues one to four of the comic book series. It was originally published on May 22, 2019, by Boom! Studios.

Synopsis[]

Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy the Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon!

This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil. But her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and Russ Manning Award-winner Dan Mora (Saban's Go Go Power Rangers) bring Buffy into a new era with new challenges, new friends… and a few enemies you might already recognize. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the Gang faces brand new Big Bads, and the threat lurking beneath the perfectly manicured exterior of Sunnydale High confirms what every teenager has always known: high school truly is hell.^[1]

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Production[]

The cover artwork is the same as in the issue Welcome Back to the Hellmouth, Part One.

Distribution[]

High School Is Hell was the 30th best selling graphic novel in its publishing month, with 2,051 sales in May 2019 at comic specialty stores.^[2]
It was also the 193rd best selling graphic novel of 2019, with 3,656 sales at comic specialty stores.^[3]