Friday Night Fights--Doofus With Slippers Style!!

Holiday weeks cramp my style, so there's no time for lengthy prologue--let's just hit the ground running with today's Friday Night Fights!

Nitro (after he killed Captain Marvel, before he blew up Stamford) has been hired to blow up Wall Street!! The Heroes For Hire have been...well, hired, to stop him.

Hercules is already down, so it's up to Iron Fist to be the man...(click to embiggen for full dialogue glory...)

The result?

Well, Nitro hurt his widdle hand, but Danny is unconscious. So I guess we have to declare Nitro the winner!

Spacebooger reassures us that the Black Knight took down Nitro, so the good guys did win...Black Knight? Really?

Fists of fury from Heroes For Hire #3 (1997), by John Ostrander, Pascual Ferry, and Jaime Mendoza

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Things go BOOM!!! So go vote!!

Friday Night Fights--Sweet Christmas Style!!

Did you ever wonder why, before Bendis got a hold of him, Luke Cage never actually swore?

Tonight's Friday Night Fights provides the answer.

The Controller has teamed up with the U-Foes to take on the Heroes For Hire, because Marvel. And one of those U-Foes calls dibs on one of those heroes:

Oh, Bendis, just think how you've offended Cage's grandmother with your constant stream of %^&* and #@$%!!

Spacebooger regularly exclaims "Sweet Columbus Day!"

Cage klangs Ironclad in Heroes For Hire #4 (1997), by John Ostrander, Pascual Ferry and Jaimie Mendoza

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Do you really want to run the risk of offending Cage's grandmother? Really? Than go vote!!

Manic Catch-Up Monday--What I Missed last Week Part 1!

So, in last week's Avengers Origins: Luke Cage #1, it's revealed that a bank guard was crippled in a heist Luke foolishly got himself involved in right after breaking out of prison.

And it turns out that Luke had been secretly giving most of the proceeds of his Hero For Hire business to the guard. But it was an awful lot of money, so the guy put a pretty good good chunk of it back into the (formerly) decaying neighborhood--with one very unexpected result:

Oh, man is this a can of worms!

First, who's their mascot?!? Are they the Cages? The Iron Fists? (Their defense becomes like unto a thing of iron!) Let's hope it's not the Heroes For Hire Heroes, because that would be lame. What about school colors? Fight song?!? Good gravy, we need to set an entire series at Heroes For Hire High RIGHT NOW!!!

Then again, that name might make them a magnet for super-villain attacks.

And does anybody donating money get a school named for him? If Magneto were looking for good publicity, could he throw a kazillion dollars at a broke school system to get Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants High (a magnet school, naturally)?

Furthermore, are there any other schools named after famous Marvel citizens? Man, there had better be a Benjamin J. Grimm Elementary School or three in New York City (And they had best be called The Things, and have orange as their school color, and have "It's Clobberin' Time" as the chorus of their fight song). And given that he was believed dead for a couple of decades, there have got to be dozens--nay, hundreds--of Captain America High Schools out there, right? (Odds are, there are no Speedball High Schools out there)

Lastly, Heroes For Hire was, essentially, a business--it generated enough money to refurbish neighborhoods and build schools, according to this story. Isn't naming a school after a business a bad precedent? Because while, yeah, good guys and all, what's really the difference between naming it Heroes For Hire High and Goldman Sachs High or Amazon.com High?

Then again, if it brings money into the school systems...Still, I'm just suggesting that they might have been better off naming it Luke Cage High School.