New BUG WARS Series Launches in August
- Jason
- 19 hours ago
- 2 min read
Hey, friends. Have you heard the news? The bugs are coming back for another feeding.
BUG WARS Book Two kicks off in August, a new eight issue series by the same crew of Blooddrunk Bug Warriors that brought you last year’s BUG WARS Book One, “Lost in the Yard,” the dark fantasy comic that the Hollywood Reporter named One of the Year’s Best. That crew includes my co-creator and one of the world’s most kickass fantasy artists, Mahmud Asrar; his partner in badass imagery, the venerated colorist Matthew Wilson; nothing less than the best letterer and designer working today, Becca Carey; and the bug wrangler of all bug wranglers, our esteemed editor Heather Antos.
This time around, we add a dash of Lord of the Flies to our Lord of the Rings, as more kids get in on the backyard bug-killing action, including some new neighbors and Slade Slaymaker’s beleaguered brother, Sydney, AKA the Annihirazer or He Who Lays Waste to the Grass. There’s also a mysterious exterminator who enters the fray, one of the heavily-armed, Raze-spraying Exterminauts of Krawll. If you think a battle axe is good for killing bugs, can I interest you in a machine gun full of insecticide? And of course there’s that creepy new bad guy, the Squirrel King, who commands all the crawling, skittering, slithering and flapping beasts of the Woods, beasts that are suddenly making more and more incursions into the Yard, killing every bug and Myte they can find, while searching for the one they call the Worldstomper.
This is the story we were previously going to call “The Fellowship of the Fucked Up,” until it was pointed out that putting an F-word in the title of your book becomes more trouble than it’s worth. So now we’re calling it “The Coming of the Wardoom.” Though don’t worry, there’ll still be plenty of F-words and fucked up shit on the insides. Book Two goes even bigger than Book One, as we venture into previously unexplored parts of the Yard, filled with new bugs, new Mytes, new beasts and new hints at the truth behind the death of Slade’s father and the nature of his mystical amulet.
Expect a plethora of awesome variant covers by a crew of our favorite artists, including another bagged adult variant, this time by the great Babs Tarr. I’ll be highlighting each of those covers as we creep closer to August.
The Countdown to Infestation has begun.
