Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar are teaming up with a wild-sounding, six-issue dark fantasy miniseries titled Bug Wars. Coming from Image Comics, the series will debut with an extra-length issue in February of 2025.
“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 via a press release. “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.”
As Aaron notes: yes, the main character is named Slade Slaymaker. The Alabama kid gets lost in a world of “marauding ant armies, spell-casting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians.” And it turns out that his father was killed by this world — now he must fight the Bug Wars to save his family.
Added Asrar, “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.”
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. 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.
Bug Wars #1 hits comic book shops on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
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