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Ant Wars
ANT WARS
When military personnel spray an untested insecticideon ants in the Brazilian rainforest, the colony mutate intosuper-intelligent creatures with a taste for human flesh!As the terrifying army head closer towards civilisation,Captain Villa and a young forest native race ahead inthe vain attempt to warn an unprepared world!
Written by Gerry Finley-Day (Rogue Trooper), with Artby José Luis Ferrer (Robo-Hunter), Lozano (M.A.C.H.1),Pena (Planet of the Damned) and Azpiri (BlackHawk), Ant Wars is an exhilarating take on the classicsci-fi movies of the fifties and sixties.
When military personnel spray an untested insecticideon ants in the Brazilian rainforest, the colony mutate intosuper-intelligent creatures with a taste for human flesh!As the terrifying army head closer towards civilisation,Captain Villa and a young forest native race ahead inthe vain attempt to warn an unprepared world!
Written by Gerry Finley-Day (Rogue Trooper), with Artby José Luis Ferrer (Robo-Hunter), Lozano (M.A.C.H.1),Pena (Planet of the Damned) and Azpiri (BlackHawk), Ant Wars is an exhilarating take on the classicsci-fi movies of the fifties and sixties.
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112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 14, 2018
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June 13, 2018Soldiers, in the South American jungle to round up indigenous people and get them 'civilised', decide they might as well test an experimental insecticide while they're there - and end up creating giant ants instead! So right from the off, while the science may be a fright (never mind the square-cube law - how does anyone get past initial labwork without noticing the difference between 'kills' and 'embiggens'?), the anti-colonial credentials are solid. And it doesn't get any more subtle, with the one surviving military man unshakably sure of his own superiority even as it's 'Anteater', the native, who consistently saves their hides and leads the fightback against the ants. As the captions get increasingly shrill and gloating, and the ants march unstoppably on Rio and an unsuspecting Alan Whicker, the whole thing starts to take on the same lurid, apocalyptic fascination as Corman's Masque of the Red Death. Sure, in terms of making one genuinely fear an apocalyptic revenge by ants, it's no
Phase IV
, but as a fire and brimstone rant about what we've got coming, it's still pretty compelling. And while the second segment does start to feel like it's overstretching the material, the resolution has a neatness which I loved.
The much later and more self-aware sequel, 'Zancudo', is also included; it's far better than most of 2000AD's late attempts to return to old hits with new writers. Tying the earlier series into Dredd's world, it's admirably concise and creepy, while still finding room to nod to the original, not least in the grim exhortations of its captions.
The much later and more self-aware sequel, 'Zancudo', is also included; it's far better than most of 2000AD's late attempts to return to old hits with new writers. Tying the earlier series into Dredd's world, it's admirably concise and creepy, while still finding room to nod to the original, not least in the grim exhortations of its captions.
June 3, 2025
3 stars = Average. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t really stand out or stick with me.
What do you get when you accidentally mutate ants into giants and give them more intelligence? This. It’s chaotic, fast-paced, and fun in that old-school 2000AD way.
Some parts were a bit repetitive, and it’s definitely a product of its time, but I still enjoyed it for what it was. The art is solid in places, and the concept delivers exactly what you would expect from a classic pulp sci-fi.
Not amazing, but I had a good time with it.
What do you get when you accidentally mutate ants into giants and give them more intelligence? This. It’s chaotic, fast-paced, and fun in that old-school 2000AD way.
Some parts were a bit repetitive, and it’s definitely a product of its time, but I still enjoyed it for what it was. The art is solid in places, and the concept delivers exactly what you would expect from a classic pulp sci-fi.
Not amazing, but I had a good time with it.
July 27, 2022
When pest control goes wrong in the Brazilian rain forests, giant super-intellgent ants take on humans.
From the very early days of 2000AD (the strip appeared in 1978) when ‘comics were for kids’, this is episodic and fun but also gruesome and gritty. I’d have been 9 when I first read this and it would have been right up my street. After being affected by a US-used pesticide, the ants take on the Rio carnival, rebels in the hills and even the might of the military with only our heroes - army officer Captain Villa and a native (who becomes more civilised with every episode until he speaks normally) dismissively called Anteater but who often saves the day - standing between them and all-out carnage. Re-reading it as an adult, it’s easy to see this as a hark back to the sci-fi horrors of the 50s and it’s all the better for it - enjoy the great artwork (by Lozano, Azpiri and Pena) and delight in the incredibly bleak and downbeat ending (9 year olds were obviously far more capable of handling things back then). This is backed by a short Simon Spurrier/Cam Kennedy story called Zancudo, set in the Judge Dredd world that’s nowhere near as effective. Well worth a read.
From the very early days of 2000AD (the strip appeared in 1978) when ‘comics were for kids’, this is episodic and fun but also gruesome and gritty. I’d have been 9 when I first read this and it would have been right up my street. After being affected by a US-used pesticide, the ants take on the Rio carnival, rebels in the hills and even the might of the military with only our heroes - army officer Captain Villa and a native (who becomes more civilised with every episode until he speaks normally) dismissively called Anteater but who often saves the day - standing between them and all-out carnage. Re-reading it as an adult, it’s easy to see this as a hark back to the sci-fi horrors of the 50s and it’s all the better for it - enjoy the great artwork (by Lozano, Azpiri and Pena) and delight in the incredibly bleak and downbeat ending (9 year olds were obviously far more capable of handling things back then). This is backed by a short Simon Spurrier/Cam Kennedy story called Zancudo, set in the Judge Dredd world that’s nowhere near as effective. Well worth a read.
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