Right. It was hilarious and looked awesome. And I just can shake my head about it being canceled because the art wasn't what was expected. I suppose this wouldn't have happen at the "Image Comics" of today.

-Thorsten

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 Well, it was sort of a matter of not getting what you thought you paid for. Keith Giffen had a very particular art style that was very well known and easily identified prior to TRENCHER. Seriously, you could spot a Keith Giffen page a mile away. Obviously, Image thought they were dealing with a known commodity. The fact that TRENCHER looked NOTHING like anything Giffen had done before probably made folks a little nervous.

And, if Image worked back then how it works now, they did pay for nothing, really.
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True. I didn't mean "paid" literally. But yeah, as good as TRENCHER may or may not have been, it wasn't what they thought they were getting when they went into business with Kieth Giffen. They were making cuts and this weird thing that they couldn't identify with got the axe.

Donald Pfeffer wrote: I tend to look at Image Comics has nothing more than a comic book company. That is to say, I don't understand why some people seem to take the things they did or said so seriously or so much to heart. They publish comics.

Very foolish.  The last thing a fan should take into consideration is their comics.  Behind the scenes politics we know nothing about, personalities of people we've never had so much as a beer with, that's what matters. 

Who cares if Image publishes Age of Bronze or A Distant Soil?  Those evil bastards dared unleash Youngblood on the world!  Damn near 20 years ago it was! Curse them!

Donald,

Ambush Bug was a character that Giffen introduced as a comical foil for Superman in the early eighties. His main superpower is that he can teleport, complete with a Loony Toons style "POP!" every time he does it. Giffen later spun him off into several different miniseries and specials, most of which took place inside Ambush Bug's own very disturbed mind. I liked the character a lot. Those miniseries were weird, crazy, funny stuff, with lots of breaking the fourth wall and plenty of DC in-jokes. It was a little like JB's SHE-HULK but a lot more violent. Giffen was clearly having fun on those books. You might want to check them out. I'm sure you can find them cheap.