A crazy new story from Image Comics is officially announced, combining the novelty of Honey, I shrunk the kids Featuring the most heroic and fantastical elements of the barbarian fantasy genre. The result is Bug WarsA dark fantasy tale of a child thrust into a brutal war, on the scale of bugs. And if anyone can make it work, it’s the duo of Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar.
Bild makes the news official in the midst of New York Comics Con 2024, with writer Jason Aaron (The Mighty Thor, Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesAnd Absolute Superman) and artist Mahmoud Asrar (Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, And Batman and Robin) Joining forces for this strange, dark fantasy epic. The first issue arrives in February 2025, with the first details and cover art giving a clear sense of the extraordinarily outrageous tale, which should not be missed.
Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagination, a world of marauding ant armies, spell-casting spider witches and bug-riding barbarians. A kingdom of tiny but deadly warriors hidden in its 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.
What BUG WARS means to fantasy/barbarian fans
All the best parts of fantasy, just very, very small
With more insight into the premise of the tale and Slade Slaymaker’s role in it, the comparison between Honey, I shrunk the kids Make perfect sense. A young boy finds himself in a larger-than-life territory that somehow manages to be even smaller than he is could make for compelling reading. Even more so when readers take into account The bloody, barbaric nature that synopsis for Bug Wars TeaseWhich means right up the alley of the minds behind Thor And Conan the Barbarian. Speaking of, Jason Aaron had the following to say:
“When I was a child, our backyard was a wonderful 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 child, running around the yard, Make up. Only the stories have gotten a little darker over the years. Eating beetles and acid-spraying ants have declared war on his family Honey, I shrunk the kids Meets Game of Thrones.”
In addition, Mahmud Asrar had this to add:
Bug Wars is the culmination of what I wanted to do in comics: a fantasy epic told with no bard. A story 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.
Our take on Bug Wars, coming out of the picture in 2025
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Aaron promises an ambitious imagination, which tends to be par for the course for most of his stories. It is A story that seems to capture the photographic inner child at the heart of Aaron’s writing., While he also addressed the bloody (and gore-inducing) violence that his work typically welcomesFound even in a gritty Game Ninja Turtles Reboot. The Game of Thrones analogy along with Honey, I shrunk the kids Showcases how it can be an overarching capricious to Bug WarsBut an underlying darkness that could creep in at any moment.
If it was not already clear from their previous works, it is especially clear from their words that both Aaron and Asrar are completely passionate fans of the fantasy genre and somewhat barbaric. They’re committed to bringing the philosophies and sensibilities of both to Bug Wars, and that’s something readers should be excited about.. Bug Wars of Image comics Promises something tonally different, and also bring to his heart the unyielding love and passion of the genre of fans of the genre.
Bug Wars #1 Will be released by Image Comics on February 12, 2025.
Source: Image comics