When BOOM! Studios announced James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas would come to the publisher for a new, science-fiction project earlier this year, they did it with all the pomp and circumstance usually reserved for “event books” at the big two.A week of teasers, a Twitter campaign to get people talking about the #WhatIsThisPlace hashtag and a lack of confirmation, even when it became obvious, that the book even was from Tynion and Dialynaas, gave The Woods a sense of scope and mystery…before anybody even knew it was called The Woods.ComicBook.com, based on clues found on Twitter, was one of the first to report that it would be Tynion and Dialynas on the book and, while nobody would confirm it for us and Tynion tweeted that he’d “never tell” when approached individually, the publisher did retweet our speculation, effectively giving the Internet all the clues they needed to keep right on speculating.The series felt like some kind of high school drama at first, with yearbook photos popping up as the viral campaign progressed and each one accompanied by a fairly typical high school classification for the kid in the picture: “The Screw-Up,” “The Wallflower,” “The Control Freak.”Then, there were aliens.Ultimately the announcement came that the series would be about a Midwestern high school is transported into the middle of an Alien forest.”This is the story of what happens next,” they teased at the time.Tynion joined ComicBook.com to talk about the upcoming series, the mysteries at its heart and that red-carpet viral campaign.
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