With it seeming as if barely a day goes by these days without some sort of comic book adaptation being announced, you can now add Brian Ralph’s Daybreak to the ever-expanding list of adaps in development.

As announced by Netflix themselves, Daybreak is being developed as a ten-episode “post-apocalyptic dramedy” by Star Trek: Discovery’s Aron Eli Coleite, Rampage’s Brad Peyton, and Frontier’s Jeff Fierson. Coleite will serve as showrunner, while Peyton and Fierson are on board as executive producers.

The official blurb on the show reads:

Based on the graphic novel by Brian Ralph, the subversive dark comedy Daybreak finds 17-year-old high school outcast Josh searching for his missing girlfriend Sam in post-apocalyptic Glendale, California. Joined by a ragtag group of misfits, including a pyromaniac 12-year-old Angelica and Josh’s former high school bully Wesley, now turned pacifist samurai, Josh tries to stay alive amongst the horde of Mad Max-style gangs (evil jocks, cheerleaders turned Amazon warriors), zombie-like creatures called Ghoulies, and everything else this brave new world throws at him.

Daybreak was first published back in 2006, and it’s no exaggeration that this live-action series could be something truly special if all goes to plan.

As ever, expect more on this as we get it.