The Woods (comic)

The Woods
Cover of the first printing of issue #1, published in May 2014.
Publication information
Publisher	Boom! Studios
Schedule	Monthly/bimonthly (irregular)
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	May 2014 – October 2017
No. of issues	36
Main character(s)	Isaac Andrews Karen Jacobs Calder McCready Sanami Ota Maria Ramirez Adrian Roth Benjamin Stone
Creative team
Written by	James Tynion IV
Artist(s)	Michael Dialynas
Collected editions
The Arrow	ISBN 978-160886-4546
The Swarm	ISBN 978-160886-4959
New London	ISBN 978-160886-7738
Movie Night	ISBN 978-160886-8223
The Horde	ISBN 978-160886-8575
The Lost	ISBN 978-160886-9435
The Black City	ISBN 978-160886-9893
The Final War	ISBN 978-168415-0403
The Way Home	ISBN 978-168415-1271

The Woods is a serialized graphic novel written by James Tynion IV, with art by Michael Dialynas. In the story, more than 500 students, faculty, and staff from a Midwestern preparatory school vanish from Earth, and reappear on the forested moon of a planet in another star system.

The Woods was published by Boom! Studios in 36 issues, from May 2014 to October 2017.^[1] Distributors bought every copy of the first issue the day it was made available for wholesale purchase; Boom Studios! issued a second printing with a slightly different cover design.^[2] The entire series was later anthologized in nine volumes, which Boom! Studios published from September 2014 to March 2018.^[1]

Honours for The Woods include "Best Graphic Novel for Young Adults" (YALSA, 2016) and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book (2017).