Seth Green is returning to comics. Top Cow Productions today announced the Freshmen 20th Anniversary Kickstarter, celebrating two decades of the cult-favorite superhero comedy Green created with writer Hugh Sterbakov. Launching August 18, 2026, the campaign offers longtime fans and new readers the opportunity to experience the complete Freshmen saga in a definitive anniversary collection. The campaign will also debut an all-new 32-page Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special, available as a standalone comic book and included in the hardcover edition.
Fans can pre-register now at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/topcow/seth-green-freshmen-top-cow-collected-edition to be notified the moment the campaign goes live.
Originally published in 2006, Freshmen follows a group of socially awkward college students who survive a strange laboratory accident and emerge with superpowers inspired by whatever they were thinking about at the moment of the explosion. Equal parts superhero adventure, college comedy, and coming-of-age story, Freshmen explores what happens when ordinary young people are handed extraordinary abilities without the experience, maturity, or confidence to handle them.
Twenty years after its original debut, Freshmen returns at a time when audiences have embraced more grounded and character-driven superhero stories. The series combined humor, friendship, insecurity, and genuine emotional stakes with unconventional powers and large-scale comic-book action, offering an irreverent alternative to traditional capes-and-tights storytelling.
Headlining the campaign is the all-new Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special, an original 32-page comic written by series creators Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov with artwork by original series artist Leonard Kirk. Set during the classmates’ twentieth reunion, the story reunites the original cast as they reflect on adulthood, friendship, old romances, and one hilariously disastrous mission they never quite managed to forget.
Top Cow and Rocketship Entertainment will manage and fulfill the Kickstarter campaign, presenting the series in a premium anniversary edition featuring exclusive formats, collectible rewards, stretch goals, special add-ons, behind-the-scenes material, and additional surprises created specifically for backers.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years,” said Seth Green, co-creator of Freshmen. “This series came from a genuine love of superhero comics and the idea of exploring what real college students might do if they suddenly found themselves with incredible—and sometimes incredibly inconvenient—powers. I’m excited that longtime fans will be able to revisit the story and that a new generation of readers will get to meet these characters.”
“Freshmen has always been about friendship, finding your place in the world, and discovering that becoming a hero is usually much messier than anyone expects,” said co-creator and writer Hugh Sterbakov. “Bringing the complete story back for its twentieth anniversary gives us the opportunity to celebrate the characters, the creators, and the readers who have kept the series alive.”
Top Cow President and COO Matt Hawkins emphasized the celebratory nature of the campaign.
“Fans have continued asking us about Freshmen for years, and the twentieth anniversary gave us the perfect reason to bring it back,” Hawkins said. “But we didn’t want to simply repackage the original series. Seth and Hugh came back with a brand-new story that catches up with these characters twenty years later, which makes this feel like a genuine return rather than just an anniversary collection. For longtime fans, it’s a chance to see some old friends again, and for new readers, it’s a great way to discover what made Freshmen special in the first place.”
The anniversary collection features the complete original Freshmen series by Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov, with artwork by Leonard Kirk and Will Conrad. The campaign also introduces the all-new Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special, written by Green and Sterbakov, featuring artwork by Leonard Kirk, and brand new covers illustrated by Leonard Kirk and Rodolfo Migliari. The hardcover edition also includes behind-the-scenes material, a complete cover gallery, and additional anniversary bonus features.
Freshmen 20th Anniversary Hardcover Includes:
• The complete original Freshmen series
• The all-new 32-page Freshmen: 20th Anniversary Reunion Special
• Behind-the-scenes material
• Complete cover gallery
• Kickstarter-exclusive editions and rewards