Episode 183 – It’s an Ambush Bug, Not a Feature!

<p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> With April Fool’s Day just around the corner, the time seems right for a long-overdue look at DC Comics’ Ambush Bug, who was breaking the fourth wall and spreading mayhem almost a decade before Marvel Comics’ Deadpool. Specifically, we take a look at his appearances in 1984’s Action Comics #560 and issues 1-4 of 1985’s Ambush Bug miniseries, by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Combining elements of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Looney Tunes shorts and the superhero parody of Steve Gerber’s Howard the Duck, these issues find the chartreuse crackpot crossing paths with the despotic space-sock Argh! Yle!, the giant koala known as Quantis and even Superman himself!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> But can he survive a run-in with (gasp!) Darkseid??!! And can these twisted tales survive that Spanish Inquisition known as ... The Comics Canon?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><strong><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> In This Episode:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 106%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><