Comic Review: Bully Wars Vol.1 (Image Comics)

Image Comics releases a school life surrounded by some retarded disoriented punks in Bully Wars on its first volume.

What do you get when you take some random disoriented characters who go to high school for the first time, add a little spice of My Hero Academia with heroes and villains on it and your usual BS high school years in New York that makes every school a living hell, you’d get this comic while you’re taking a dump. Bully Wars is just another comic which makes it more competitive like any other comics you’ve read, but this topic is going to be Bullies, well yeah no one likes a bully, especially me. The story is written by Skottie Young and it was illustrated by Aaron Conley, the art style usually makes so hilarious that one of the characters can interact with each other. Either way, this comic is like playing the game of Bully from the PS2 while blindfolded, but the thing is this comic would bring some hilarious moments between the high school life and the bully.

So, where do I begin? Let’s look at the front cover. The art looks more like making a poster of Star Wars, but like I said the art style is quite cartoony, even though, Aaron just drew a lot of monsters in his experience. And whatever is the case, it seems that these main characters were surrounded by shit like they’re telling themselves that their lives are shit. And the big guy on the top of the comic, he looks like All Might, does he looked like All Might? Either way, he’s much more bigger than any high school football player, and what’s up with the monsters coming out of the lockers? I am not a fan of that, does this actually portrays this art as your worst nightmare in high school years?

Speaking of high school, let’s talk about the story itself, the story starts in the town of Rottenville where some teenagers goes to their first day of high school, well you’ll know what’s so rotten about this town I guess. A nerd named Spencer meets his friends to go to high school, but at the moment his childhood bully named Rufus steps in like he doesn’t have a care in the world. Right at the moment when they reach to high school, it’s full of shit, you’d get to see the image of the school building itself as if the principal is running a factory, there are rat statues, and the interior actually takes you in a sewer, I’m guessing that’s where my old high school lives. When they got in, Rufus met another bully just like on the front cover intimidates him and made his whole life a living hell. I assume that any high school that you go to right now would be a living hell, right? Then afterward, Spencer helps Rufus just to get into Bully Wars and gets his revenge on the big bully named Hock. You’d think that going to a bully school would change anything, Rufus didn’t even get what he deserved, all he did is that he gave an embarrassing picture of the school coach just to let him join the Bully Wars, and the experience was hell and surrounded by parasites. But in all of the glory, we all know who’s the real bully of the series, the toxic school coach, and mostly every other teacher in high school who does nothing but talk over the students. High School is just another torture, and people tend to have a bad time because some people at school made fun of almost every weeny stupid kid around the hallway.

Listen, I do know all the experience that you people took when you’re in high school right? But we all know how it supposed to be when you’re a teenager with full of freedom, even at the end of the comic, Spencer made a rule as a head of the bullies that there will be bullying at school no more. Yeah, congratulations, you just made the school turn upside down, his attempt to make him a leader was the bravest thing that I’ve ever heard. They should have called this comic “The Fastest Way to End Bullying is to show how Toxic these Teachers truly are for putting an illegal competitive activities in the School Grounds” Published by Image Comics.

So what I think about bullies are but a piece of work to torture the innocent and makes them feel retarded whenever they get themselves very bored. But what you think about bullies are: wedgies, their behavior, toxic personalities even adults, toilets, strict teachers with narcissistic attitude just to make them pass the state exams, food fights, bigger people picking other smaller people and make fun of them, and mostly every other kind of bullying that would make anyone miserable just for them to make an attempt to commit suicide. But whatever is the reason, this comic brings another series when you’re watching Fear Factor where everything tries to scare you. But actually, the Bully Wars competition truly takes place in a haunted mansion like an abandoned building, it almost exactly of what the school image looks like and actually a sense of humiliation.

So about the artist, Aaron Conley, like I said that his art style is much more cartoony if you ask me, and even going on a topic for making the comic about bullies is actually hilarious to know that these characters that he drew has a high comic action between the art and the story itself. And not just only he drew for Image, but he has connections with clients who works at Marvel, IDW, and Boom Comics, and actually, he’s famous of his best work of his comic series which is Sabertooth Swordsman. I would like to know more about him, who’s this guy who have a thought for making his character designs, it’s very hilarious and cartoony.

Anyway, Bully Wars is actually a great and very hilarious comic to read, even if you read it through, you’ll see some cameos from the past shows you’ve watched from your childhood. However, I’m very surprised that one of the main characters are working together with the bully to make his old self again because he has some rivals to beat, but then they decided to stop the bullying for good. The story is great, the character designs are charming, yet in a hilarious way, but it’s still has some good vibes in it, and most importantly this comic is rated for everyone to read, this is actually the first time that Image has the Rated E material of the comic. If you rather want to read another one of the school life between freshman and the bully, then this is for you.