Bugtown
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Bugtown is a fictional city that is the setting of several comic book
s and novels written by Matt Howarth
.
Bugtown is a blighted cityscape with no government or laws. Violence is constant from individual fights to interdimensional invasions.
Bugtown exists in its own dimension of reality and has several unique properties. The city has reverse entropy
which causes any building which is destroyed or any person who is killed in the city to be spontaneously restored, albeit often changed by the circumstances of their destruction. The constant death and destruction in the city are in fact necessary, because without the energy being diverted into the resulting resurrections, the city would explode.
Bugtown is connected to other dimensions and at times sections of other cities, along with their occupants, are spontaneously transferred into Bugtown and become part of that city. As a result of this interdimensional connection, natives born in Bugtown also have the ability to travel between dimensions. This ability has created a division between the city's natives and those who were brought to the city.
Howarth created Bugtown as the home setting for some of his already existing characters and gradually introduced the city in his work. At one point there was a planned role playing game to be based on the city which, while it was never published, caused Howarth to develop more detail for Bugtown. In 2005, Howarth published a six issue mini-series titled Bugtown using some of the ideas he had created for the game.
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
s and novels written by Matt Howarth
Matt Howarth
Matt Howarth is an American comic book writer/artist known for such series as Those Annoying Post Bros, Savage Henry, Star Crossed, and Bugtown....
.
Bugtown is a blighted cityscape with no government or laws. Violence is constant from individual fights to interdimensional invasions.
Bugtown exists in its own dimension of reality and has several unique properties. The city has reverse entropy
Entropy
Entropy is a thermodynamic property that can be used to determine the energy available for useful work in a thermodynamic process, such as in energy conversion devices, engines, or machines. Such devices can only be driven by convertible energy, and have a theoretical maximum efficiency when...
which causes any building which is destroyed or any person who is killed in the city to be spontaneously restored, albeit often changed by the circumstances of their destruction. The constant death and destruction in the city are in fact necessary, because without the energy being diverted into the resulting resurrections, the city would explode.
Bugtown is connected to other dimensions and at times sections of other cities, along with their occupants, are spontaneously transferred into Bugtown and become part of that city. As a result of this interdimensional connection, natives born in Bugtown also have the ability to travel between dimensions. This ability has created a division between the city's natives and those who were brought to the city.
Howarth created Bugtown as the home setting for some of his already existing characters and gradually introduced the city in his work. At one point there was a planned role playing game to be based on the city which, while it was never published, caused Howarth to develop more detail for Bugtown. In 2005, Howarth published a six issue mini-series titled Bugtown using some of the ideas he had created for the game.