Friday Night Fights--Football With A Blindfold On Style!!

It's Prize Fight week for Friday Night Fights, which means there is actual $ on the line!! So get your voting fingers ready!!

MC Spacebooger has declared that "every fight should have an overwhelming amount of darkness/lack of light". So be it!!

Spider-Man is trying to hunt down the Jackal and his henchperson, Tarantula. Professor Warren has pointed the web-slinger towards one of his former assistants (shh...poor Peter doesn't know yet that Warren is the Jackal).

The alleged assistant's apartment is in an abandoned factory, and...

SPLOOSH!!

Spacebooger would complain about the fact that the last two panels are terribly inconsistent about exactly where Tarantula penetrated the billboard, but why get in the way of a good visual gag?

Darkness into light into wetness from Amazing Spider-Man #148 (1975), by Gerry Conway (script), Ross Andru (pencils), Mike Esposito & Dave Hunt (inks) & Petra Goldberg (colors)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? It's the holidays, man--I need the cash!! So go and vote!!

Friday Night Fights--Yes, This Is 100% Canonical Style!!

OK, gang. It's Friday Night Fights time, and I've been waiting to run this fight for a few weeks...but without a scanner, I couldn't do it justice, as my Flintstones version of doing posts was far too arduous [long story short: I had to physically cut panels out of my comics, send them by carrier pigeon to a wizened shaman who would convert them to digital, and then send the 1s and 0s via smoke signal an offshore site, where they would convert them back into pictures and email them to my phone, whereupon I would spend many hours swearing at my phone and Google and Blogger and anything else that came to mind until, by osmosis, the pictures appeared on my site. Then begin the process of actually writing...Longer story short--don't let your computer die.]

Anyway, you may ask, what fight was so special that it justified my holding it back for almost a month?

Oh, yes. Or, as I'm fond of saying: THIS REALLY HAPPENED!!

Yes, Ren & Stimpy had their very own Marvel comic book for 44 issues (and many, many specials) back in the 1990s. So,take back everything bad you ever said about comic books in the 90s.

A recurring character in the show and the comic was, well, Powdered Toast Man. Look, it can't be explained...just click the link.

Anyhoo, PTM is being controlled by an evil villain:

Fortunately, a certain wallcrawler is on the scene to help out:

And thus begins the battle royale:











And then Spider-Man milks out the finale...






Spacebooger is just glad I left out the 3 FULL PAGES where Spidey is trapped in Powdered Toast Man's snot...

Dan Slott and Mike Kazaleh give us the long lost issue of Marvel Team-Up in The Ren & Stimpy Show #6 (1993). Yes, Dan Slott. Dan Slott writing a Spider-Man story. Therefore, ipso facto, it is 100% canonical. So there...

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight this week. Why? Well. if you don',t I can always run those snot-covered-Spider-Man pages...

Maybe He Should Have Checked Wikipedia First...

Hawkeye's got a problem in Secret Avengers #23.

You see, Captain America is trying to put Flash Thompson, the all-new, all-different Venom on the team. And Clint isn't very happy about it:

True, Hawkeye...Captain America would know absolutely nothing about being "saddled" with former villains on his team...they could never be "assets"...

And you, Hawkeye? You would never, ever, ever want to lead a team that had reformed notorious super villains. That's obvious...

Hmmm...maybe when he's done writing issue-length Hawkeye hissy fits, Rick Remender could read up on a little history of the guy leading the team. (In fairness, I was much happier with Remender's handling of certain other characters...more on that later in the week)

You'd think that with Hawkeye coming up in the Avengers movie, Marvel would want to make him look, you know, heroic and all. But between this and last week's Avenging Spider-Man, there seems instead to be a concerted effort to make Clint Barton into an unlikable, reckless, arrogant, incompetent ass who's neither very good at heroing or at leading teams.

If so, mission accomplished, Marvel.