Netflix has snagged up a hot new project: an adaptation of Charles Burns’ bestselling comic Black Hole, with acclaimed I Saw the TV Glow filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun aboard as writer, director and series creator. New Regency will be the co-studio alongside Netflix, which has given the show a straight-to-series order.

In the series, there’s a myth that haunts the seemingly perfect small town of Roosevelt: if you have sex too young, you’ll contract “the bug”, a virus that turns you into a monster from your worst nightmares. “Absurd, right? That’s what Chris always assumed, until, after one reckless night at the beginning of senior year, she finds herself infected. Now she’ll be cast out to the woods to live with the other infected, where a chilling, new threat emerges: a serial killer who’s hunting them one by one.”

Author Burns will executive produce alongside Plan B, Erin Levy, Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan, Natalie Lehmann, and Laura Delahaye.

Black Hole was published as a 12-issue limited series from 1995 to 2004 before being collected as a graphic novel.

Meanwhile, Schoenbrun has their third film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, due out soon on Mubi. Their debut novel, Public Access Afterworld, will also soon be published.