Image Comics has revealed the author Jason Aaron and artist Mahmoud Asrar Regrouping bug wara six-part dark fantasy series that begins this February. Recommended by Aaron for a crossover between the two Honey, I shrunk the baby and game of ThronesThe comic tells the story of a boy who is forced to wage war in a small kingdom in his own backyard.
Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama who is suddenly lost in a world more evil than he could have ever imagined, filled with armies of marauding ants, spell-casting spider witches and A savage riding a beetle. A kingdom of tiny but deadly warriors hidden in his own backyard. In the same world where his father was eaten alive by insects, young Slade is now thrust into a brutal insect war to decide the fate of his family.
Aaron commented: “When I was a kid, our backyard was a magical place where I spent hours imagining epic adventures with action figures scattered across the grass. In many ways, I still feel like That kid, running around the yard, making up stories. Over the years, the stories just got darker. For Slade Slamek, the backyard of his Alabama home was a place full of stories. A place of terror and brutality, where a horde of sword-wielding mites and their army of flesh-eating beetles and acid-spewing ants declare war on his family.
The book is Aaron’s first creator-owned comic since last year’s BOOM! studio legends Once upon a time at the end of the worldthis is his first time working at Image Stars and sea ends in 2021, for the first time since Asrar Generator 5 (2007-2010).
Asrar worked with Aaron on Marvel movies conan the barbarianadded, “bug war It’s the pinnacle of what I want to be in comics: a fantasy epic with no limitations. This is a story that lets our imaginations run wild. Here we reach the heights of escapism while keeping everything grounded in pure human emotion that comes from the heart.
The two will discuss the series more during New York Comic Con’s “Image Comics Presents: Breaking Ground” panel this Sunday at 11 a.m. in Room 406.2. The pair will also be seated at tables H42 (Aaron) and D24 (Asrar) in Artist Alley, where they will be selling copies of the first issue of the urn while supplies last.
bug war #1 will be released on February 12, 2025, and will feature a series of covers by Asrar, Pepe Larras, peach, Tony S. Danieland Mike of the worldwhich you can view below.
