Friday Night Fights: Feet Of Fury - Round 11: Pure Energy!

Last week in Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury! , I noticed I had followed up past victories by posting a Legion of Super Heroes entry in the next round. So last week I posted another follow-up Legion entry....and won again.

So that means another Legion entry this week for Round 11. Only this time I'm changing things up a bit: The Legionnaire with the feet of fury isn't Karate Kid.

It's Drake Burroughs, aka Wildfire. Or rather, as he is known at the time of this story, ERG-1.

Our fight takes place in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #201, in a story called "The Betrayer From Beyond", written by Cary Bates and drawn by the late, great Dave Cockrum. It's Legion Membership Tryouts Time again, and this issue focuses on an applicant named Molecular Master who has the power to make atoms really big. He makes it past the first round (not surprisingly, considering that his competition consists of such luminaries as Infectious Lass and Porcupine Pete). But there's one little problem: He's really an android who's been programmed to kill the Legionnaires and steal the Miracle Machine.

The one thing standing in his way? The aforementioned ERG-1.

How powerful are you, ERG?

Oh, that powerful.

It's up for debate whether that's technically a kick, but you can't deny that's some furious footwork. And you won't hear Molecular Master complaining.

Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury! - Round 10: Legion Time!

After I found out I won last week's round of Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury! , I noticed a trend the other two times I won a round: Both times I followed up my victory by posting a Legion of Super Heroes-related entry in the next round.

So why break tradition?

Tonight, for Round 10, I have some more Legion violence on hand, courtesy of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes#205 , "The Legion of Super-Executioners!", written by Cary Bates and illustrated by Mike Grell. In this story, the Legion is being mind-controlled by a mysterious villain.

Ultra Boy is immune to the brainwashing.

Karate Kid, unfortunately, isn't.

Even when he's not in his right mind, Karate Kid will still mess you up good.

Another lesson from Spacebooger.

If Only Carrie Prejean Had Seen This..


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Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury -Round 9: Punishing Kick!


Round 9 of Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury comes from the pages of Amazing Spider-Man#129, by Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Dave Hunt, and Frank Giacoia. This issue features the first apearance of Frank Castle, better known as the Punisher.


Here we spotlight how Spider-Man defeats the Punisher. I wish I could show more panels of this fight, but our host Spacebooger has ruled that we must use only three consecutive panels ending in a KO kick. His house, his rules.

And here's where it gets awesome: Spidey sets up his final knockout kick by bouncing off every wall in the room while simultaneously talking like William Shatner. Believe it or not, Spidey did this a lot in the 70's.

And DOWN goes the Punisher!

Bonus: In the spirit of G7, I'm including "Bouncing Around The Room" by Phish as our musical score for tonight's fight.

For Saranga


Oh, POOR YOU!!!

For those who just started reading this post, those scans above are not some sort of dig at Saranga. Quite the opposite. They're my way of thanking her for being instrumental in supplying me some scans I had requested help in getting earlier here. Not only did she help me find the scans I used in this post, but she also posted this scan of Hal Jordan and Ollie Queen on her site for me. (And while you're clicking on that last link, check out the rest of her blog. She has some interesting and entertaining musings on topics like comics, feminism, British politics and even Smallville.)

Thanks, Saranga! Enjoy these with my compliments!

Have A Super Halloween!!!!

Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury! - Round 8: Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots!

Normally in Friday Night Fights, I leave the robot battles to ShadowWing Tronix. But for Round 8, I'm making an exception because this fight features:

1. The art of Neal Adams

2. Sentinels

3. The man who inspired my blog's name, Dr. Henry McCoy aka The Beast.

Tonight's fight comes from Essential Classic X-Men#3, reprinting the late 60's Sentinel saga by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, and Tom Palmer. Synopsis: Cyclops, Marvel Girl and the Beast have just liberated Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, and the Toad from the Sentinels.

What happens next demonstrates what I love about Scott Summers: When he's not getting all emo or getting messed with by Professor X, Cyclops can be one sneaky bastard.

Case in point: His plan to mess with the Sentinels' sensors by having his team....dress like Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and the Toad.

How does this work? Pretty well, as it turns out....

Spacebooger knows how "Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots" should be played.

Friday Night Fights: Feet of Fury - Round 7 : The Bigger They Are, Part Deux!


For Round 7 of Friday Night Fights: Feet Of Fury!, we demonstrate once again that even a really big man is not invulnerable to a good KO kick.


Even if that really big man is, well, invulnerable.


That's the lesson our Man of Steel learns in Superman#302, "Seven-Foot-Two -- And Still Growing!!", written by Elliott S! Maggin and illustrated by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Bob Oksner.Synopsis: Lex Luthor has secretly hit Superman with a ray which causes Supes to grow uncontrollably.


Wait a minute! Here's a guy whose arch-nemesis is the most powerful man on Earth, and his grand master plan is to make that same arch-nemesis bigger and stronger?


But remember, this is Luthor we're talking about here, so naturally there's more to it. Luthor's ray makes Supes' body grow, but keeps his brain size the same. So the bigger Supes gets, the dumber he gets, until he grows so big his brain will actually shut down. (Think of Maul from WildC.A.T.S.)


Tonight we spotlight the climactic showdown between the oversized Man of Tomorrow and Luthor, who has armed himself with a portable whirly-copter and some very special footware...




Spacebooger also knows his way around a whirly-copter.