Ambush Bug: Year None

*Ambush Bug: Year None*
Ambush Bug: Year None
	Cover of Ambush Bug: Year None #1 (September 2008).
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Humor/comedy, superhero;
Publication date	September 2008 – January 2009 and December 2009
No. of issues	6 (numbered #1-5 and #7)
Main character(s)	Ambush Bug
Creative team
Written by	Keith Giffen; Robert Loren Fleming
Artist(s)	Keith Giffen; Al Milgrom
Penciller(s)	Keith Giffen
Inker(s)	Pat Brosseau
Colorist(s)	Guy Major
Editor(s)	Jann Jones

Ambush Bug: Year None is a six-issue comic book limited series written by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming, and illustrated by Keith Giffen and Al Milgrom. The first issue, "Hey, You Sank My Battle-Ax!", was published on July 23, 2008.^[1] DC Comics announced that instead of releasing a sixth issue, the series would skip issue #6 and conclude with issue #7. Ambush Bug: Year None #7 was released on October 28, 2009.^[2]

Plot

The first issue, "Hey, You Sank My Battle-Ax!", revolves around

Source Wall

, as a sentient slab of concrete, appears vacationing across time and space in places where Ambush Bug passes.

The second issue makes fun of

Zook, Mister Nebula and Blue Beetle

's death. Go-Go Chex continues to pursue Ambush Bug. In the Mister Nebula segment, he briefly takes on the uniform of the Amber Butane Corps, a lampooning of the Green Lantern Corps that wields a sentient lighter instead of a ring.

In the third issue, Ambush Bug discovers that he and the Dumb Bunny (a member of the

Neron (whom he asks to nullify his marriage in a spoof of the Marvel Comics storyline "Spider-Man: One More Day"), Darkseid (whom he goes to a karaoke bar with), Super-Turtle (who wreaks massive destruction, à la Superboy-Prime), Jerro the Merboy, the Odd Man

and Go-Go Chex and his assistant Saki Toomi ("Sock it to me").

The fourth issue starts by referencing a mistake made in issue #2, where one page was printed without its dialogue balloons. DC editor

invisible speaker phone

and confirms that he is alive and is not Dan DiDio. He then gets kidnapped by the Ambush Bug Revenge Squad, who argue over obscure comic book quotations while Ambush Bug gets bored and escapes.

The final issue of the miniseries had been delayed for more than six months for undisclosed reasons.[3] Fans have speculated that the delay was related to the departure of DC’s Senior Coordinating Editor Jann Jones from the company, as she was included in the story as a character. The final issue of the series was released on October 28, 2009.^[2]

References

^ "Ambush Bug: Year None #1 (of 6)". Archived from the original on 24 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
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^ "And Then I Read: Ambush Bug: Year None 4-5". April 15, 2009.

[1] "Ambush Bug: Year None #1 (of 6)". Archived from the original on 24 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-25.

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[3] "And Then I Read: Ambush Bug: Year None 4-5". April 15, 2009.

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