Here's advance news on a series hitting comic shops next year. The art reminds me a little of last month's The Moon Is Following Us #1 (which has gone to a second printing), while the story sounds very different. Read on for all the details!
JASON AARON & MAHMUD ASRAR’S BRUTAL, HIGH-STAKES BUG WARS SERIES TO LAUNCH IN FEBRUARY 2025
The superstar team of writer Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Absolute Superman) and artist Mahmud Asrar (Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Batman & Robin) join forces for the upcoming series, Bug Wars.
The extra-length first issue of this six issue, dark fantasy, epic
miniseries is set to debut in February 2025 from Image Comics.
Aaron and Asrar will appear on the "Image Comics Presents: Breaking Ground" panel on Sunday, October 20 @ 11 a.m. in room 406.2 at
New York Comic Con this week to share more details about the
announcement. They can also be found in Artist Alley at tables H42
(Aaron) and D24 (Asrar) where a limited number of Bug Wars ashcans will be available for sale.
Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world
beyond his imagining, a world of marauding ant armies, spell-casting
spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. A kingdom of tiny but
deadly warriors hidden in his own backyard. The same world that saw his
father eaten alive by insects and now plunges young Slade into the
middle of a brutal Bug War to decide the fate of his family.
"When I was a kid, our backyard was a wondrous place, where I spent
hours imagining epic adventures, action figures scattered all through
the grass. In a lot of ways, I still feel like that kid, running around
the yard, making up stories. Only the stories have gotten a bit darker
over the years," said Aaron. "For Slade Slaymaker, the backyard of his
home in Alabama turns out to be a place of terror and brutality, where
sects of tiny sword-wielding Mytes and their armies of flesh-eating
beetles and acid-spraying ants have declared war on his family. Think Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets Game of Thrones."
Asrar added: "Bug Wars is the culmination of what I wanted to
do in comics: A fantasy epic told with no holds barred. A tale where our
imaginations run wild. A place where we reach the heights of escapism,
all while keeping everything grounded with pure human emotion straight
from the heart."
A savage, bloody look at the world below our feet, enter: Bug Wars—where tiny warriors wage a violent war for dominance over an insect-driven kingdom.
Bug Wars #1 will be available at comic book shops
on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. It will also be available across many
digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google
Play.
Check out the creators of Bug Wars.
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Check out all the covers for Bug Wars #1.
And if you haven't checked out The Moon Is Following Us #1, read my review at The Dragon's Cache.
Thanks to Image Comics for sharing this exciting news with us!
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