From acclaimed graphic novelist dash shaw new school comes an audacious debut that is equal parts disaster cinema, high school comedy and blockbuster satire, told through a dream like mixed media animation style that incorporates drawings, paintings and collage.dash jason schwartzman and his best friend assaf reggie watts are preparing for another year at tides high school muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little read school newspaper, edited by their friend verti maya rudolph.but just when a blossoming relationship between assaf and verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, dash learns of the administration's cover up that puts all the students in danger. As disaster erupts and the friends race to escape through the roof of the school, they are joined by a popular know it all lena dunham and a lunch lady susan sarandon who is much more than meets the eye.