Bug Wars #1
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artist: Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson
Letterer: Becca Carey
Publisher: Image Comics
Release Date: February 12, 2025
Cover Price: $4.99
Mini-Series Premiere. Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining, a world of marauding ant armies, spellcasting 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 now plunges young Slade into the middle of a brutal Bug War to decide the fate of his family. From the superstar team of writer Jason Aaron and artist Mahmud Asrar comes the over-sized debut of a dark fantasy epic for the ages.
Score:
★★★★1/2 (4.5/5)
QUICK REVIEW: Jason Aaron describes 'Bug Wars' as “Game of Thrones meets Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and you know in the opening sequence it's an all-out war giving credence to that description. It's an R-rated 'A Bug's Life' where the combat is vicious and bloody as choreographed by Aaron and artists Mahmud Asrar and Matthew Wilson. There is an entirely microscopic hidden world amid the blades of grass and anthills of the Slaymaker property where Slade's father was eaten alive by bugs. Slade's family is in a bit of disarray trying to pick up the pieces when he finds himself entrenched in the middle of a bloody conflict. Genuinely thrilling as a fully realized tribal conflict as the first issue lays out the factions and interesting character designs. As any good opening chapter should do, it reels in the reader wanting to see more. 'Bug Wars' is a captivating new adventure you can't miss.
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