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.

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

The story follows seven students in particular: Isaac Andrews, Karen Jacobs, Calder McCready, Sanami Ota, Maria Ramirez, Adrian Roth, and Benjamin Stone.

After James Tynion wrote The Woods, Boom Studios helped to find an artist to draw the comic.

[7] In December 2016, US television channel Syfy was announced to have begun developing a series based on the comic,[5] but the project stalled.