In 2026, Oni Press will release Dead Teenagers, a horror series set on prom night 1997, and the five friends who have been living and dying inside ever since.
Dead Teenagers is written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, with art by Caitlin Yarsky.
Since 1997, five friends have been trapped in the ultimate nightmare as a mysterious entity forces them to relive their first prom night over and over again… and re-kills them in new and increasingly insane ways each time. They dress up. They party. They make out. And no matter what they try to change, they always die… until now. Something is about to break the cycle that has kept Alicia, J.T., Ryder, Brandy, and their group of friends locked in a bizarre purgatory beyond all understanding… but what they find on the other side will be the most disturbing revelation of all.
“I think most of us have feared, at one point or another, that high school might literally never end,” said writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle in a press release from Oni Press. “Those of us who’ve made it out can also recall looking back and realizing that what we took for granted, back in those days, was actually terrifying. DEAD TEENAGERS is about both those feelings — about what it takes to get unstuck from your teen years and start growing up.”
For five friends, being trapped in an infinite loop of murder and dismemberment on Prom Night ʼ97 was living hell. They’re about to find out that being an adult in 2026 is much, much worse. After spending an interminable number of years trapped in an endless cycle of violent death and painful rebirth, high school seniors J.T., Ryder, and Brandy have found themselves catapulted forward through time into their adult bodies . . . and in new lives where everyone else is totally unaware of their harrowing, unexplainable ordeal. Physically, they’re now elder millennials with jobs and families. Psychologically, they’re badly damaged teenagers with middle-aged bodies and disposable income that are about to discover the consequences of making poor choices later in life. Even worse, not everyone thinks their new circumstances are an improvement over being ritualistically murdered every 24 hours. Is there a way to go back to their never-ending prom night massacre . . . and could it hold the key to finding out how and why they were chosen to live out this supernatural torment beyond all human reasoning?
DEAD TEENAGERS #2
WRITTEN BY JUDE ELLISON S. DOYLE
ART BY CAITLIN YARSKY
COVER A BY NAOMI FRANQ
COVER B BY KEYLA VALERIO
COVER C BY CAITLIN YARSKY
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