Whoop! Whoop!

I admit, I still read comics.  Though I've pretty much given up following regular series and stick to minis and trade-paperback collections of runs that I enjoy, I do still read them.

I've got a soft spot for a number of things, some of which I intend on mentioning someday when I finally get around to writing up some of my favourite graphic novels. But for the meantime, I merely mean to mention my favourite character, one who has only ever been collected in graphic novels where he appears in cameo.  One who i meant to write a long entry on a while back, but forgot.  (Yes, you may breath a sigh of relief.)

The character in question is called Ambush Bug — a character who once berated the Superman letterer for the overuse of the 'Whoosh!' sound effect, fought a mask-wearing intelligent sock, locked horns with real-life former DC editor-in-chief Julius Schwarz in numerous comics, and applied for jobs working for Morpheus, Swamp Thing, and the Grant Morrison-era Doom Patrol (among others) — definitely falls into the sillier section of stuff I like.

That said, I still maintain that any fan of early '90's DC comics, especially the Vertigo titles, should read 1992's Ambush Bug: Nothing Special #1, where Ambush Bug tries to find employment throughout the DC Universe.  However, that was the character's last appearance in his own title.  Barring one or two panel cameos in other titles and appearances in 2003's Lobo Unbound (which even Lobo fans are better off not reading; trust me on this one) and one issue of 2006's 52 miniseries, he's been pretty much dead for the past decade and a half.

Which is why the announcement of a new miniseries, written and drawn by original creators Keith Giffen (plotting and pencils) and Robert Loren Fleming (scripts), fills me with glee.