Center stage, Bugs Bunny pulls himself from a hat. Behind Bugs are several rows of spectators, all Looney Tunes characters. Here is an index of them:
(Thanks to Andrew R. Mutchler for the outline drawing.)
In case you are wondering, no that isn't every character. A few of the characters not shown (perhaps some are hidden behind Bugs?) are Bugs' nephew Clyde, Ralph Wolf, the gangsters Rocky and Mugsy, Baby-face Finster, Hippity-hopper, Witch Hazel, Hector, and the Do-do. Of the characters listed here or above, all but Rocky and Mugsy appear on the cover or somewhere inside this issue.
Beneath and to the left of the standard Looney Tunes logo "All-Star 100th Issue!" is proclaimed. Beneath and to the right of the logo is "A to Z!" which tells the title of the story inside.
This 100th issue is rather unusual. While it has only a single story, almost every page was drawn and inked by a different artist or artists. Here, as in the comic, the credits will be at the end.
At Clyde's bed time, Bugs asks his nephew how his day went. Clyde shows off the results of his spelling test, boasting he got an "A" though the grade is truly "F." Bugs suggests brushing up on the basics and reads a book of ABC's to Clyde. This launches into the telling of the Looney Tunes alphabet, "A is for Acme, where Wile E. gets his stuff. B is for..." Each story page, aside from the first which is the setup, lists another letter or sometimes two letters. Many, though not all, Looney Tunes characters are shown throughout the comic, each page having its own look and characters. At the end, Clyde is asleep and demonstrating the letter Z.
Page 1: Clyde's incorrect spelling consists mostly of words that have been misspelled the same way for effect in the comics. Page 2: The non-ACME truck is for Jones Mfg. which is a nod to animator Chuck Jones. Page 4: The two men giving Charlie a home are Warner Bros. animation directors Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones. Friz is on the left and Jones is on the right in the third panel. Page 6: Egghead reads an atlas of the world's rivers and the stone he skips returns shows that it has been around the world as it is plastered with luggage labels. Page 6: Foghorn was originally called a "loud-mouthed shnook" in The Foghorn Leghorn (McKimson, 1948). Page 8: Artist Stephanie Gladden thought to dedicate the page to the McKimson brothers (director Robert, and animators Charles and Tom), which is appropriate given the character selection. Page 9: This page refers to Water Water Every Hare. Page 12: It isn't just Bugs who doesn't get that turn in Albuquerque correct. Page 12: Bugs has dressed as Granny before, in Hare Trimmed (Freleng, 1953). Page 14: Porky is drinking, and leaking badly, in the background behind Nasty Canasta. Page 15: Three-panel Opera is a play on the Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigröschenoper) by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Page 15: Ragnarok is the end of the world (and the beginning of another world) in Norse mythology. Page 15: Fudd's exclamation of "Wabbitdämmewung!" is, of course, not what it may seem like to a speaker of English, but simply a Looney version of Götterdämmerung, one opera of Wagner's Ring of the Neibelungen. Page 15: The description of blows in the fight include Sturm! and Drang! (literally, storm and stress). Sturm und Drang was a literary movement that took its name from a play by F. M. von Klinger, which put an emphasis on unease and rebellion against standards of society. Page 16: The edge of the page is decorated with items that tend to be infamous for their odor. Page 16: The pseudo-French on the bottle of bleach promises, translated, "Gets your whites whiter!" Page 17: This page refers to A Pest In The House. Page 21: Bugs is suddenly reading a comic book upside-down and backwards, but it fits in with Wackyland. Also note the "(FOO!)" on the script. That nonsense word also appeared in the original Porky in Wackyland. And the page style really captures the wackiness of Wackyland. Page 22: Besides Elmer, Bugs, and Daffy there are, left to right, Cecil Turtle, Mac 'n Tosh, the weasel from Weasel While You Work and Weasel Stop, the Crackpot Quail, Sniffles, a miscolored Bruno the Magnificient (Thanks to David Alvarez for the identification ...PN), and Michigan J. Frog. Adding to the confusion, the Quail moos, and Michigan oinks very uncharacteristically.Much of the above was, if not directly pointed out by, certainly enhanced by Eric O. Costello. His nearly encyclopedic knowledge of things Looney Tunes allowed greater character recognition and certainly more listings of the classic era shorts than would have been otherwise possible. Any errors, however, are not his but can be blamed on the maintainer.
Page 13: The original, and accepted as correct, name is Marc Antony, not Marc Anthony. Page 14: A horseshoe over a doorway or a set of longhorn horns over a doorway, or even both would seem reasonable, but a horseshoe stuck onto a set of horns? Page 18: Ralph Wolf, unlike Wile E. Coyote, should have white eyes.At the end of the story, taking up half of a page, the credits are presented in a centered format which is reflected here:
Writers
Dan Slott & Jennifer Moore
Artists (In order of foist appearance)
David Alvarez & Mike DeCarlo - Pages 1, 4, 22, 24
Neal Sternecky - Pages 2, 6
John Costanza & Mike DeCarlo - Page 3
Kyle Baker - Page 5
Marie Severin - Page 7
Stephanie Gladden - Page 8
J. Bone - Page 9
Bill Wray - Pages 10, 15
Mike Kazaleh - Pages 11, 18
Leo Batic & Ruben Torreiro - Page 12
Ty Templeton - Page 13
Darwyn Cooke - Page 14
Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti - Page 16
Lynne Naylor - Page 17
Rick Parker - Page 19
Jill Thompson - Page 20
Stephen DeStefano - Pages 21, 23
Letterer - Tom Orzechowski
Colorist - Dave Tanguay
Separations - Digital Chameleon
Cover by Walter Carzon & Ruben Torreiro
Assistant Editor - Harvey Richards
Editor - Joan Hilty
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Last updated 04 March 2004