Bug Wars

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids meets Conan The Barbarian in this epic tale of a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining, a world of marauding ant armies, spell-casting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. The Old Slaymaker House; Neighbors whisper about it. Children dare each other to step foot in its overgrown lawn. Exterminators refuse to visit and shudder at the thought of what multi-limbed monsters may burrow in its earth. For Slade Slaymaker and his brother Sydney, it’s the last remnant of their father, a dedicated entomologist devoured by the very creatures he dedicated his life to understanding. Slade, too young to remember his death, continues his legacy with his own love of all things insect. Sydney, old enough to remember the gruesome scene, despises and seeks to annihilate any bug he sees. When these two brothers’ opposing obsessions clash, Slade finds himself shrunk to the size of his diminutive subjects and thrust into the middle of a brutal Bug War, an earth-shattering struggle that will decide the fate of his family and, perhaps, uncover the secrets behind his father’s gruesome demise. From the superstar team of writer JASON AARON (Southern Bastards, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Absolute Superman) and artist MAHMUD ASRAR (Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Batman VS Robin) comes BUG WARS: BOOK ONE, collecting issues #1-6 of the sprawling new dark fantasy epic.

MINISERIES 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 (SOUTHERN BASTARDS, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Absolute Superman) and artist MAHMUD ASRAR (Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Batman & Robin) comes the over-sized debut of BUG WARS: BOOK ONE, the first adventure in a sprawling new dark fantasy epic.

LOST IN THE YARD Slade Slaymaker is lost in his own backyard, prisoner of tiny bug-riding warriors known as Mytes. And in Swarm City, the most dangerous hive in all the Yard, Slade will have to learn to unleash his newfound powers…or else watch his family die.

LOST IN THE YARD Prisoner of the barbaric Beetle Clans, Slade Slaymaker fights for his life against a horde of hungry mosquitoes, with the mysterious spider witch Wysta by his side and the marauding armies of the Ant Imperium coming to slaughter them all.

LOST IN THE YARD Imbued with the power of a mystical amulet, Slade Slaymaker has survived blood-crazed mosquitoes and barbaric Beetle Riders. But as he crosses the wilds of the Yard with the spider witch Wysta, an even greater danger awaits, for they must enter the world of death and utter ruin known as the Mowed Lands.

BOOK ONE: LOST IN THE YARD To save his family, Slade Slaymaker must enter Wyrdweb, a mystical, cobwebbed labyrinth full of Spyder Wytches, ancient fate-spinning Weavers, and the deadliest spiders known to man, all of it hidden inside some potted ferns on the side of his house.

MINISERIES FINALE BUG WARS BOOK ONE: LOST IN THE YARD The first volume of the year's hottest new creator-owned series comes to its gut-wrenching finale, as Slade Slaymaker stands alone against an army of warrior Mytes and murderous insects, fighting for the fate of his family. No matter who wins, the Yard will be left drenched in blood.