Image Comics Shares A First Look At Jason Aaron And Mahmud Asrar’s ‘Bug Wars’ #1

by Olly MacNamee

Image Comics has revealed a first look at the new upcoming fantasy/sci-fi series Bug Wars by writer Jason Aaron and artist Mahmud Asrar. A savage fantasy series, Originally announced at NYCC last year and coming out this February. Small scale characters but with large scan action, here’s the series’ synopsis:

“Bug Wars follows Slade Slaymaker, a kid from Alabama who is suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagination. It is 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.

Bug Wars is where tiny warriors wage violent battles for dominance over an insect-driven kingdom all hidden beneath the grassline.”