Friday, August 15, 2008

Friday Night Fights--Potato Salad Style!!

The scene: Danny Rand, in costume, has come to visit Misty Knight's crib.

BUT Misty's roommate is Jean Grey, you see (because everybody knows everybody in the Chris Claremont universe). And Wolverine is sitting outside her apartment being a whiny stalker boy. So, inevitably:

Isn't it cute how he think's Jean Grey is his girl??Now, our kung fu billionaire manages to hold his own for awhile.

Danny, we ALL need costume maniacs
The Chris Sims special
Just for the record...can you imagine Wolverine getting a beat down like this today?But Jean was going to be holding a dinner party, you see, so of course the rest of the "all new, all different" X-Men are showing up. And, being the 1970's, no one is willing to stop and talk things out. So:

Even for the 70s, this battle was pretty silly
At this point, the X-Men couldn't beat Iron Fist. Think about that, won't you?Not bad, holding your own against Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Colossus.

BUT WAIT A MINUTE, you're screaming at your screen right now. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE LADIES' NIGHT!!

Oh, it is, my friends....because look who shows up next:

Goddess ain't willingSo she'll end this quick, right?

SPLURTCH says it allUh-oh. That's not gonna go down well, is it?

Shazam!
It's amazing these guys survived 30 seconds without Xavier or Summers to hold their hands, isn't it?
Please...Danny, you're trashing them worse than Magneto ever did!So, Wolverine is finally man enough to lay hands on Iron Fist when someone else is holding him down...

Yeah, have the big strong guy hold him down for you, you pussSo who will save the day? Well, it is Ladies' Night, after all:

Trippy
But since she's technically not Jean Grey, but the Phoenix force copying her body, is this really ladies Night??Yeah, Phoenix, put 'em down!!

Even Bahlactus wouldn't throw potato salad on Storm...would he??

Heroes mistakenly fighting heroes for a whole issue comes from Iron Fist #15 (1977)...which was the last issue of IF's original run, as well as (I believe) John Byrne's first ever artwork depicting the all new, all different X-Men. And it has potato salad....

1 comment:

El Gigante said...

"The name is Phoenix!...This is my apartment" Hahahaha, nothing better than a cosmic entity with a good head for Manhattan real estate.