Twelfth Grade Night

 Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, and Jamie Green, 160 pages.

Vi started at Arden High, a magical public high school, for a fresh start and an escape from uniform skirts. But the school isn't the same without her twin brother, who was supposed to switch with her and decided to stay at the private school they had been attending. Luckily, Vi is quickly swept up in the excitement of the new school. She's swept into helping plan the twelfth grade night dance, and swept away by Orsino (aspiring poet and influencer). The only problem is that he wants her to ask Olivia to go to the dance with him, and Olivia keeps flirting with her, not to mention that all of her new friends seem to assume she's not even interested in guys.

This is a shockingly true adaptation for a high school au that also removes the most central plot element of the original play (ie, Vi is not masquerading as her twin brother). Somehow it still comes together into something that feels like Twelfth Night (which, fun fact, is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays). This comic is fun and weird, and it's super fun to see how the author's twisted some things to make the story feel completely natural in the modern day. Apparently there's another upcoming book in the series called King Cheer and I'm very excited for it.