About
About ANTS
ANTS is a weekly twice monthly (for now) updating action-adventure web comic about a team of hapless mercenaries (or private military contractors, as Ember would put it). It is mainly set in a fictional country called Formica, land of humanoid anthropomorphic ants and various other giant sized insects. Formica borders Vespia, a country once at war with Formica, but relations between the two have cooled since then. Formica is a highly modernized and extremely capitalist society where large corporations tend to hold more power than the national governing bodies themselves. This gives our quirky soldiers of fortune plenty of employment opportunities and a valid excuse for lots of gory battles.
This comic is probably rated somewhere between PG-13 and R. There will be swearing, there will be violence, there will be blood, and there will be Bleachy getting her kit off. But that’s pretty much why you signed up, right?
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The story so far (contains spoilers!):
Postmen
Streyer hires the ANTS to courier his company’s latest invention to a client. A rival mercenary group has also been hired by one of Streyer’s competitors to intercept the shipment. The ANTS suffer all kinds of setbacks from hitting a minefield to getting Skullder and Locklear thrown in prison for threatening a store attendant. Eventually they defeat their enemies and get to their destination only to find out they were hired as decoys by Streyer to distract his rivals.
The Jupiter Deal
The ANTS are hired by Carmen Delvecchio to obtain something called the Jupiter Deal from the main computers at Valhalla Corp. They infiltrate the building and manage to breach security using more brute force than flair, and end up removing an entire server when Skittle runs out of time to hack into their files. Mission completed, and both parties are happy – Ember gets a significant payout and Carmen gets to sell the Jupiter Deal to Streyer’s rivals. Obviously this is not going to bode well later on.