Bug Wars (2024)

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.

'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.