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Finally got to this week's issue of Justice Society and found this:

abug-unvictorious.jpg

I just about fell off the toilet.

For those of you not reading DC books right now, for the last few months they have been running villain-focused house ads... pairing up major league baddies like Luthor and Mongul with Successories-inspired adjectives and layout. Doing one with Ambush Bug not only harkens back to his initial appearances as a villain (He killed a guy! It's true!) but also shows that DC is genuinely attempting to turn Ambush Bug into something real.

The last time we saw the Bug for any length of time, it was in that Lobo miniseries that nobody cared about and wasn't much good anyway. The upcoming miniseries Ambush Bug: Year None is being positioned as a Big Deal. And as a longtime fan, I couldn't be happier.

Not that I think DC is somehow going to turn Ambush Bug into a villain - they're absolutely not - but sticking him in the villain house ads shows how important they think Year None could be. By all accounts, it will be a return to the brilliant in-house parody found in the second phase of Ambush Bug's existence, when Keith Giffen turned the character into his own personal soapbox for everything that was weird or stupid or forgotten about the DCU.

Is it too late to beg for a poster-sized print of that ad?

 

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