Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music! - Round 7: Mind Games!

To celebrate my victory in Round 6 of Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music, I'm changing things up in Round 7 with a fight that's a little more....cerebral.

Let's start with a question: Who do you think is the most powerful member of the Legion of Superheroes?

Superboy? Mon-El? Wildfire?

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It's Imra Ardeen, aka Saturn Girl, as my entry in Round 7 will demonstrate.

This scan comes from Legion of Super-Heroes#35, written by Paul Levitz and illustrated by Greg LaRocque (of super-speed pimpslap fame) and Mike DeCarlo. Universo has taken over virtually everything, and all the Legionnaires have either been taken out (Brainiac 5, Dream Girl, Chameleon Boy) or are under Universo's control. All except Saturn Girl.

And here she is confronting Universo for all the marbles:

Oh, snap!

But wait! There's more!

You mean a duel against the combined might of Mon-El and Ultra Boy... was only the preliminary?

That's right. Wait until you see the main event. Time for tonight's fight music, "Mind Games" by John Lennon:

We're playing those mind games together

Pushing barriers, planting seeds.....

Yeah,whose conqueror are you NOW, beyotch?

Not this guy's.

Happy July 4th!!

Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music! - Round 6: Man In The Mirror


Last week I submitted my Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music Round 5 entry on Tuesday, 2 days prior to the news of Michael Jackson's death. So, for Round 6, I'm paying tribute to the late Mr. Jackson's music by using one of his songs as this week's fight track.

Tonight's melee is brought to you courtesy of Animal Man#8, by Grant Morrison, Chas Truog, and Doug Hazelwood. Mirror Master has been hired to kill Buddy Baker (a.k.a. Animal Man), and has chosen to attack Baker in his own home to accomplish that goal. Buddy's wife, Ellen, ain't havin' it.

The Jackson tune I'm using for tonight's fight is --- what else? --- "Man In The Mirror".

I'm starting with the man in the mirror,


I'm asking him to change his ways.....

And no message could have been any clearer......

That message?

"Don't fuck with Ellen Baker."

Is Doc Ock Marvel's Hal Jordan?

You be the judge:

In the good Doctor's defense, at least he sustained all his head traumas at the hands of legitimate pros like Cap, DD, and Spidey, along with heavy hitters like Sandman, Ultron, and even the Green Guy himself.

Hal, on the other hand:

Well, it just speaks for itself.

Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music! Round 5: Head First!

A few weeks back, I made a promise to our host that I would post at least one "Hal Jordan head injury" entry for Friday Night Fights: G7.

Now, thanks to the wonderful and generous Sally P, I'm keeping my promise in Round 5.

Tonight's brawl comes to us from Green Lantern#45, "Prince Peril's Power Grab", by John Broome, Gil Kane, and Sid Greene. Fighting against the aforementioned Prince Peril, Hal demonstrates that he doesn't need to rely on his power ring because he knows how to use his head in a fight.

As for tonight's fight music, I'm going with "Head First" by The Babys for....obvious reasons:

"We're going head first!"

Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music! - Round 4: The Mighty Quinn!

Tonight's round of Friday Night Fights: G7 comes from Harley Quinn#28, in which Harley is kidnapped by a bunch of idiots who are actually dumb enough to believe that she's trapped with them.

(Cue the fight music)

Come all without,

Come all within,

You'll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn!

Tonight's featured fight song was, of course, "The Mighty Quinn", written by a little-known songwriter named Robert Zimmerman* and performed by Manfred Mann.

(*Bob Dylan.)

Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music! Round 3: You Owe Me Money!


In tonight's entry for Round 3 of Friday Night Fights: G7 - Fight Music! , I'm getting some tag-team assistance from none other than Christopher Sims himself. You see, back in January of 2007, Mr. Sims recapped the Marvel Bronze Age crack that was Luke Cage, Hero For Hire#9. (By the way, it was a non-FNF post, otherwise I would not use the scans below.)


In this tale entitled "Where Angels Fear To Tread" by Steve Englehart and George Tuska, Dr. Doom, through a third party, hires Luke Cage for $200 to take down some of his robots who are disguised as black men and hiding in New York. (No, I'm not making this up.) Cage does so, only to have Doom skip out on paying him faster than you can say "Sweet Christmas!". Luke isn't having it, so he borrows a Fantastic Four pogo plane and jets to Latveria to get his due.

Only one thing could make this story better: Setting it to music.

And I can think of no better or more appropriate fight music than a song by a band I saw at many a live show in Chicago during my mid-to-late 20's. Tonight's featured fight song is "You Owe Me Money", written and performed by Ralph Covert (of Ralph's World fame, for the parents among you) and his band, The Bad Examples.






I think I'm gonna like this
Cutting you down to size
I've never been a bully -- I think it's about time
Gonna take you in the alley
Cut you up against the wall
Makes me feel so big -- makes you look so small


You owe me money
You owe me money
You owe me money
I'm gonna get it all




You're a real James Dean
Another rebel on the run
You gotta pay a price
For having other people's fun

Don't mess with me baby
'Cause I've been standing in your shoes
They got it out of me
I'm gonna get it out of you


You owe me money
You owe me money
You owe me money (yah)
Money (yah)
Money (yah)
I'm gonna get it all!!




Count your blessings, Vic. At least you didn't owe money to this guy.


Or this guy.