Ambush Bug
Ambush Bug (Eng. " kissing bug " ) is published since 1982, the title of a series of humorous comic stories that the U.S. publisher DC Comics.
Content
The focus of the Ambush Bug stories that approach the genre of American superhero comics on benevolent parodic manner, is a humanoid insect of the same name, which the author and artist Keith Giffen, together with his co-writer Paul Kupperberg for the first time in December 1982 comic book DC Comics Presents # 52 introduced. The Ambush Bug comics, can be described as a mix of Fun Comics, Adventure Comics and science fiction, while taking numerous " classic" superhero segment on the grain, so among other Superman, Spider -Man, Fantastic Four and Green Lantern. In breaking through the fourth wall is Ambush Bug - the most extremely " crazy " thinks and acts - also recognizes its own fictionality, Thus saith the bow occasionally with his readers, changes in the "real" world over and in his fictional world back and interacts over again. with the makers of his comics such as the editor Julius Schwartz, who appears as a recurring character within the Ambush Bug comics
Publications under the title Ambush Bug
After Ambush Bug was first used by Keith Giffen as a character in various Superman stories, the character was put in time at the center of their own stories: To act in several published in the early 1980s in the Action Comics series back- stories of his adventures, which later two miniseries - Ambush Bug (1985) and Son of Ambush Bug (1986 ) - and some ideas - Ambush Bug Stocking stuffer (1985 ) and The Ambush Bug Nothing Special (1992 ) - followed. As an author and illustrator mostly acted while Keith Giffen, Robert Loren Fleming occasionally supported by the scripter.
The Ambush Bug comics were doing awarded several prizes: So got a miniseries to Squiddy in the category "Favorite Limited Series" and the Nothing Special won the Squiddy Award for "Favorite Graphic Novel " for the year 1992.
Action
Ambush Bug starts with a twisted interpretation of the origin story of Superman: How the Supermancomics take their starting point that it is sent as a child by his father Jor -El with a spaceship from its moribund home planet Krypton to Earth, Ambush bugs begins history with it, that the bohemian aliens Brum -El (whose name not only on Jor -El but also the forefather of the British dandyism Beau Brummell alludes ) from the planet Schwab - who also is on the verge of destruction - his wardrobe (but not themselves) in shipped a spaceship, which he sends to the earth: he hopes so, if not themselves, then at least be able to maintain his preppy outfits from destruction.
After a giant radioactive spider attacks the spaceship on its way through space to reach only two garments Earth: A with diced patterns Plated suit ( the Ambush Bug suit ) that a man named Irwin Schwab finds and an ominous garment called Argh Yle! in which there is a neurotic sock with world conquest complexes, which carries similar Doctor Doom, archenemy of the Fantastic Four, a metal face mask. Schwab, after he puts the bug suit in a 1.80 -meter green " membranous " insect man and gets transformed by wearing the suit - he can no longer put off - given the gift of yourself to teleport at will.
After bug only acts as a villain, he decides after his first encounter with Superman, this emulate and become a hero himself. Similarly, Batman Robin creates Bug, whose trademark is his long orange insect antennae, finally a sidekick to a doll which he called " Cheeks, The Toy Wonder" calls.