A new semester will bring all-new experiences for freshmen everywhere-and all-new adventures for Freese College’s The Freshmen.

Top Cow Productions is reuniting with co-creators Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov for a new Freshmen comic series in November, 2006. The six-issue series will hit stores as the highly anticipated sequel to Freshmen, Top Cow’s 2005 smash hit about a group of incoming college freshmen who acquire amazing-and sometimes hilarious-superpowers. Art chores on the new series will be handled by Will Conrad (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer). Uproarious humor will still be the order of the day in Freshmen II: Fundamentals of Fear, but new elements will be introduced as well.

"Freshmen II is going to be darker and scarier than our first series. We have a great new villain in Mr. Fiddlesticks, a character from a series of childrens’ books, who is haunting our heroes, and a couple new romances to stir things up,” said series writer Hugh Sterbakov. “There’s a great twisting mystery at the heart of this series, which will further explore some of the threads we set-up in the original, like Annalee’s father’s interest in the Ax-Cell-Erator, the device that created our team. Also, some characters who were in the background of the original series come to the fore, like the Green Thumb and the Drama Twins. I looked to one of my favorite sequels of all time, The Empire Strikes Back, for inspiration, and Rodolfo Migliari’s fantastic cover reflects the direction of the next series perfectly. I can’t wait for November!"

Co-creator and Buffy and Austin Powers actor Seth Green is similarly jazzed. "In the midst of trying to absorb the overwhelming response to the first series, Hugh pitched me the plot and secrets for Freshmen II,” Green said. “After I collected myself from the knockout punches, I called Top Cow and begged and screamed until they promised to let you guys read it. They said I could stop calling, because they already agreed to do it. And here it is: Fundamentals of Fear! Stuff blowing up! Hearts getting broken! Abuse of powers! And a talking Beaver! Are you seriously not reading this book yet?

The Freshmen vol. 1 paperback is currently on-sale, and available with Diamond order code: FEB061821 D*