The Comic Watchers – Episode 272: School Is In Session With Kane Gallagher’s THE UNDERCLASS

By Chad Burdette

 on July 14, 2025

School’s in session. The cost of failure? Your life!

At Alva High, the classes are a joke, the teachers don’t care, and the real lessons are taught in blood. Gangs rule the halls, handpicked by crime syndicates to become the next generation of killers, dealers, and pimps. If you’re not affiliated, you’re prey.

When new student Frank walks through the gates of North Alva High, he thinks he’s starting over. Instead, he’s entering a war zone run by gangs, where every student is either affiliated, bought, or broken.

From the first bell, he’s targeted, beaten by the school mafia. His only solace is Yukio—a sharp, guarded girl with secrets of her own. The daughter of Alva City’s Yakuza kingpin, she was meant to rule, but it’s her younger sister who commands the gang with ruthless precision. Yukio wants out. So does the Freshman.

But there’s no out. Only deeper in.

When Yukio is forced to brand him—burning an “F” into his face to mark him as nothing—something inside the Freshman shatters. What follows is a violent reckoning igniting a gang war that engulfs the entire school.

THE UNDERCLASS is an 80-PAGE graphic novel containing four stories of revenge, survival, and ultra-violence from writer and illustrator KANE GALLAGHER. It is a savage, unflinching descent into a corrupt education system turned battlefield, where only one lesson matters—kill or be killed.

Creator Kane Gallagher joined the show to talk about this project and more:

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THE UNDERCLASS – 80 Page Graphic Novel by Kane Gallagher  is still available for late pledges on Kickstarter