Friday Night Fights--snell Learns To Follow The Rules Style!!

Let's dispel all questions--I screwed up.

Somehow, last week I missed the instruction that all Friday Night Fights were to include onomatopoeia.

No clever excuses, no deflecting. Bottom line--snell = suck.

But we more than make up for it this week!!

Long story short--well, there's no way to make this a short story. Suffice it to say, Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang have come to Gotham City to settle a "who is the better criminal" contest they're having. And this bizarre little tale involves boomerangs made out of mirrors, people hypnotized, people only pretending to be hypnotized, traps, traps within traps, and a broken Batsignal.

But for our purposes tonight, all we need to know is that it ends in a fisticuffs fracas with Batman and Robin and Harvey Bullock vs. Mirror Master vs. Captain Boomerang. And it goes a little something like this...

That enough onomatopoeia for you?

Spacebooger would like to note that this single Batman comic contain more Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang than 3 seasons of the CW Flash show...

No one asks why they have this showdown in Gotham of places in Detective Comics #555 (1985), by Jason Todd, Gene Colan and Bob Smith. Yes, I said Jason Todd. Don't believe me? Look:

See?

OK, OK, it was part of some silly device where Jason was supposedly writing up the case as practice for composition class. The real author--so it's claimed--is Doug Moench.

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because I actually followed the rules this time, so I should be rewarded!! So go vote!!

Friday Night Fights--Boomerang Vs Batarang Style!!

It ends with a punch, but starts with a classic weapons showdown in this week's Friday Night Fights!

Captain Boomerang has come to Gotham City on a personal vendetta!

Batman thwarted him!! Boomer knocked Bats out, and put hm in one of his ridiculous boomerang-death-traps!! Batman escaped it!!

And now, it's high noon--the showdown of peculiarly shaped throwing weapons!!

POW!!!

Spacebooger would now like to see Flash take on the Joker, please.

Batman beats Digger at his own game in Batman #322 (1980), by Len Wein, Irv Novick and Vince Colletta

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? If I win, maybe I'll show you how a powerless Batman escapes from a boomerang death trap! So go vote!!

Batman Has No Respect For Flash's Rogues Gallery!!

An unusual villain has come to Gotham...

A team-up?!?

As if. Batman doesn't need any help against Flash's lame-ass villains!! Captain Boomerang is no threat at all!!

Well, until Atom's ex-wife hires him to kill Tim Drake's father as part of a deranged plan to win back Ray Palmer's love. Maybe then you'll wish you'd taken him a little more seriously.

But what are the odds of that ever happening?

From Batman #322 (1980)

You Won't Find These At IKEA!!

Captain Boomerang has quite the well-decorated lair!

Ah, but there's a surprise visitor!

"The upper part of his chair--made up entirely of boomerangs!"

Central City must have some great furniture stores!

But wait--there's more!!

OMG, where does he get all those wonderful toys?

But even though he's managed to fill his lair with boomerang-shaped furniture that also functions as death-traps and escape vehicles, we have to give Digger one very large demerit:

Oh, Captain Boomerang...think about the children!!

From Flash #278 (1979)

Manic Monday Bonus--This Is Why Criminals Should Wear A mask!!

Iris Allen was murdered at a costume party, and Barry is on a tear to find the true identity of everyone who was there, so he can figure out who dosed him with angel dust and killed his wife (see, it isn't just current DC that's awful...).

Anyway, there was one person who was there that Barry definitely recognized:

Uh...and why would "many" of Central City's super-villains crashing a masquerade party?

They're just there to party and pick pockets.

Aim high, Rogues--aim high!!

[Although that "murdering a woman is beneath a gentleman like me" line doesn't play well with the "I was hired to kill Tim Drake's father" Captain Boomerang of Identity Crisis. I know, different reality, but still, it just goes to prove that Identity Crisis sucked worse than anything in the history of sucking.]

From Flash #278 (1979)

"I'm Not Touching You!! I'm Not Touching You!!"

Sometimes, the dynamic between the Flash and his Rogues' Gallery can best be described as "two boys sitting in the back of a station wagon on a long family trip."

The Flash has foiled Captain Boomerang's plots...

"Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?!?"

Boys, we're going to turn this comic book around if you don't stop it NOW!!

From Flash #278 (1979)

(manic) Brightest (mon)Day #7--Cleared Of All Charges?

Just so we're clear...

Post-Blackest Night resurrection:

Captain Boomerang is incarcerated (yet allowed to wear his costume!!) for his pre-resurrection crimes:

Maxwell Lord is a wanted man for his pre-resurrection crimes:

But Hank Hall?

Mulligan. For some reason he's forgiven for all his crimes. Forgiven for being an asshole dystopian dictator who has killed millions; forgiven for helping to end the life of every being in the universe in Zero Hour; forgiven for murdering several members of the Justice Society.

No one's pursuing him, no one has incarcerated him...he apparently has a "get out of jail free card" for his crimes, despite making Boomer and Max look like angels.

DC--where no crime is so severe that your hero can't be completely forgiven for it.

Hank Hal, Hal Jordan and Captain Atom probably have regular meetings where they just laugh their butts off at the rest of the DC schmucks heroes...