Class is Back in Session in SCHOOL FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL GIRLS VOL 2, available now!

Creators Jeremy Whitley (Writer) and Jamie Noguchi(Artist) are thrilled to return to these characters and had this to say about the launch:

School for Extraterrestrial Girls, for us, was an opportunity to play in this fun space of BIG sci-fi (aliens, different worlds, different species) and at the same time ground it in very real feelings of coming of age. Tara is a kid who’s had her whole life set out for her by her parents and has done what they said without question. She’s bookish, studious, and ambitious. However, when she spontaneously combusts in the middle of class one day, her whole world is turned upside down as she learns that her parents aren’t really her parents and they’ve been hiding from her the fact that she’s actually an alien her whole life. She’s given the choice of being sent back to her people’s homeworld or learning how to be “a good earthling” at the School for Extraterrestrial Girls. For Tara, that isn’t even really a choice. She’s lived her whole life on Earth and has no idea what would await her on her home planet, so she has to join the school. 

Obviously, in a lot of ways this is not so different from choices that real kids face about their lives all the time, it’s just on a way way bigger scale. She also begins developing these relationships with her classmates that are strained by who they are and where they come from, but all the more intense because of where and how they’re forming them. Not unlike normal high school, they’re incredibly different people pushed into this high pressure situation and trying to make relationships with others while they’re still figuring out who they are. Added with Jamie’s fun, colorful, Tokusatsu (“Tokusastu” is a Japanese term for a live action show or film that uses practical special effects. Godzilla, Power Rangers, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider are all examples of tokusatsu that influenced Book 2) influenced art, I think it’s a fun and light read that will really stick with the people who need it.

This series is really important to us, because we get to do the best of both worlds. We get to have the high drama of high school right alongside the giant aliens and monsters. And that, I think, captures the feeling of what it’s like to be in high school better than the real thing. At some point in their time in high school, everybody feels like an alien.”

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