Friday Night Fights--Pac-Man Fever Style!!

It's the Championship Round of this bout in Friday Night Fights--but there's a catch.

Master of Disaster Spacebooger has decreed that "The loser of every fight should reference a bug or insect."

Fair enough. And we all know that there's only one bug that matters--AMBUSH BUG!!

Omnipotent former comic book creator The Interferer has decided to take over the multiverse, but poor Irwin Schwab is in the way!!

So the Interferer keeps altering reality to put Ambush Bug into ridiculously dangerous situations. Such as...
  

"Dude, you have to learn the pattern!!"

Spacebooger would prefer to see Ambush Bug versus Ms. Pac-Man, if you know what I mean...

Not enough power pellets were avaialble in Son Of Ambush Bug #4 (1986), by Keith Giffen (plotter, penciller), Robert Loren Fleming (scripter) and Bob Oksner (inker).

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because you've never seen Pac-Man in a Friday Night Fight before. Now go vote!!

Friday Night Profanity

As we endure the continuing national tragedy that is the "Channel 52" feature that runs in the back of DC books each week, let us note two things:

A) They're going to bleep a backwards profanity? Well, nmad!

B) For the joke to actually work, shouldn't it have been [PEELB] instead of [BLEEP]?? I mean, c'mon, guys, if you're seriously going to do "comedy" bits about Zatanna, don't blow the most basic jokes...

Seriously, DC would be better off running two bank pages each week...

Tales From The Quarter Bin--Jumping The Space Shark

There comes a time when you've got to retool your concept a little bit. A time when, as the society around you evolves and grows, a comic company has to act to make its intellectual property seem more modern, more in touch with the zeitgeist.

Of course, sometimes that can make you look fairly silly:

Yes, for a few brief, shining moments in 1972-1973, Harvey Comics actually gave us Casper In Space.

For the first five issues, the book was known by the odd title of:

But then, for issues #6-8, they switched it to the Casper IN SPACE title.

How could this idea NOT win? I mean, you've got a child ghost with another child ghost for a girlfriend and other ghosts and a witch as friends, and the hero can pretty much go anywhere and do anything. Boring, right?

So, with amazing intuition on a par shown by DC with the nu52, the Harvey braintrust recognized that the only way to make Casper interesting was...to put him IN SPACE.

(No, he did not become Space Ghost. Shut up.)

Sadly, after 8 issues of increasingly convoluted ways of getting Casper into space adventures (IN SPACE!), the plug was pulled on this fine endeavor.

The good news, we still had 8 issues of interesting cosmology:

And, the only recorded meeting between Casper and Ambush Bug (IN SPACE!!):


OK, it's probably not him. Then again, prove that it isn't Ambush Bug (IN SPACE!!)!!

Just for the record, I'm predicting that 10 of the nu52 comics will add IN SPACE to their titles before too long...

Thank You For Making Us Love Again

Oh, Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming, thank you from the bottom of my heart:

If more comics were this perceptive and funny and nasty, I could give up this blog and take up my true calling: watching Power Rangers 24 hours a day.

The beauty part: this wasn't nearly the nastiest dig in the Ambush Bug Year None #3. Not by a long shot. Hee hee.