{"id":10302,"date":"2025-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:46:43","slug":"the-bug-wars-hit-bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/the-bug-wars-hit-bookstores\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bug Wars hit bookstores!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In October of 2024 we covered the announcement<\/a> of BUG WARS – the new sci-fantasy\/horror comic series by writer Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Absolute Superman<\/em>) and artist Mahmud Asrar (Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Batman VS Robin<\/em>). The series was first announced at New York City Comic Con<\/a> last year with a limited edition ashcan that whipped up early buzz with attendees at the show and landed it on IGN<\/em>\u2019s Most Anticipated Comics of 2025<\/a> list before going on to reach massive critical acclaim and multiple sell-outs and reprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you haven\u2019t heard of Bug Wars<\/em>, do yourself a favor and go check it out immediately\u2026 Off to a really compelling start, giving us action right from the jump and promise of an epic (and violent) fantasy adventure, but also presenting a more delicate story about a family navigating grief and trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Engadget<\/em><\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Bug Wars: Book One<\/em> the trade paperback is now available from Image Comics. It will collect the first six issues in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids<\/em> meets Conan The Barbarian<\/em> in this epic tale of a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining\u2026 a world of marauding ant armies, spell-casting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. In Bug Wars: Book One<\/em>, the Old Slaymaker House is shrouded in mystery. 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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Slade Slaymaker and his brother Sydney, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When these two brothers\u2019 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\u2019s gruesome demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bug Wars<\/em> is where tiny warriors wage violent battles for dominance over an insect-driven kingdom all hidden beneath the grassline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bug Wars: Book One<\/em> trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534329850) is currently available at local comic book shops<\/a> and will be available at independent bookstores<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Barnes & Noble<\/a>, Books-a-Million<\/a>, Indigo<\/a>, & Waterstones<\/a> next Tuesday, October 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bug Wars: Book One<\/em> will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Omnibus.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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