The Decimation of The Amicable Plains (The Underground #1: TOS 1999)
In The Underground: TOS, The Amicable Plains were completely annihilated by the Hive. Doesn’t sound too different does it? In the original storyline, there was literally an armada of bees and wasps laying siege to the Ladybug home. Baron Tarq himself was present. Given the pitifully defenseless nature of the Ladybugs, this did not make sense. So in the present story we’ve taken the opportunity to introduce the Shock Troops, and bring the ‘battle’ to a more appropriately personal level.
Cyrus Meets Gretta (The Underground #1: TOS 1999)
In issue #0 (Unearthed), Cyrus is visited in a dream by the mystical Silkmoth, Gretta. It’s an eerie and ethereal sequence in which Cyrus is released from his captive bonds. In the original series, Cyrus is visited in ‘person’ by Gretta and she instructs him most directly to travel to Coryn. The biggest problem I found when reviewing this section of the story/artwork was the relative size of Gretta when compared to Cyrus. Gretta should be a giant compared to a ladybug! In order to emphasize this, and her mystical nature we use a dream sequence which was originally used in issue #3 of the original series, but this time we also made Gretta speak in a more whimsical, and mysterious way.
With the posting of Bad Seeds’ seventh page, comes our first glimpse at Queen Azulon’s new design, and her chambers. We’ve decided to use a Roman theme with Coryn, and I wanted to make sure to use certain key elements throughout the colony to emphasize this. Azulon’s chamber was a great opportunity to demonstrate some ant chamber paintings. The wall behind the ant queen shows a visual story of Coryn’s history dating back to the colony that Azulon was born into.