We published an interview with Jason Aaron yesterday about Absolute Superman – his upcoming revamp of the Man of Steel for DC. Well, it turns out that's not the only comic that's going to be keeping the in-demand writer busy... Image Comics has just announced Bug Wars, a brand new limited series written by Aaron with art from Conan the Barbarian and X-Men artist Mahmud Asrar, that launches in early 2025.
Described as a "dark fantasy epic" by the publisher, Bug Wars follows Slade Slaymaker, an average kid from Alabama who finds himself "lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining, 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." It turns out that this same world claimed the life of his father and now young Slade will find himself in the middle of the titular Bug War trying to save the rest of his family.
