Sic Semper Tyrannis!!

Because some mornings...

...you need to see Steve Rude draw the living hell out of Reed taking down a Galactus-sized Doctor Doom while yelling "Sic Semper Tyrannis!"

You're welcome.

Also, Rude drawing giant Doom taking on Fin Fang Foom, It The Living Colossus, and others...

From the same issue, Jorge Lucas giving us more Fin-on-Doom action!

From Fantastic Four:World's Greatest Comic Magazine #12 (2002)

The Cure For Bullying In The Marvel Universe!

Of course...

...chasing kids with a dragon threatening to eat them is in and of itself bullying, too.

Geez, this issue is complicated.

From Unbelievable Gwenpool #25 (2018)

Friday Night Fights--Iron Man 1999 Style!!

I'm back, and badder, than ever!!

After being the bad kind of illin', I'm all about the cool kind of illin' this week, as we present the Battle In Seattle:

IRON MAN vs, FIN FANG FOOM!!!

And our musical accompaniment? My good friends...The Jonas Brothers!!

He's cool, he's hot like a frozen sun.

He's young and fast, he's the chosen one.

People, we're not bragging,

He's the American Dragon.

He's gonna stop these enemies with his dragon power,

Dragon teeth, dragon tail, burning dragon fire,

A real live wire!

American Dragon,

American Dragon,

He's the American Dragon, (break down with the dragon! )

His skills are getting faster with Grandpa the Master,

His destiny will walk up streets, showtime, baby, for the legacy!

Sad to say, though, that despite what the Jonas Brothers say, Fin can't stand up to Iron Man PLUS a battery of missiles...




Here's the video, for you completists...


And yes, the song works, because Fin is occupying the body of an American kid (seriously). Spacebooger is down with that...why not you?

Stuff from Invincible Iron Man #17 (1999). Full credits and fuller discussion of the issue below.

So, yeah, it's Iron Man:

Our creators:

Busiek wrote the first dozen issues of the relaunched Iron Man, and then co-plotted with Roger Stern. So the book had a fairly good coordination with Busiek's Avengers. Warbird was hanging around with Stark as a supporting player, learning how to be an alcoholic hero. As an extra bonus, we no longer had to deal with the child Tony Stark, or the strange armor where Iron Man was carrying around a steam calliope on his back:

No real subplots this issue, though. Just dragon smashing action. Oh, yeah, and no matter what the era...


Tony Stark is a dickweed...

ELSEWHERE IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE:

Thor #12. Thor and the Destroyer fighting some dudes. Sorry, that's all I've got.

Friday Night Fights--Colossus Style!!

Yeah, now THAT'S a sucker punch!!

This titanic battle of behemoths took place in Astonishing Tales #24, Featuring It! The Living Colossus in mortal combat with Fin Fang Foom!!

If I could, I would buy 1 million copies of this comic, and distribute it across the country to our nation's children, like Johnny Appleseed, so our youth can understand what TRULY STUPENDOUS AND EARTH-SHATTERING BATTLE SCENES should be like.

I also wish I could scan every single panel of this comic for you loyal readers, but I'll just go with the selected highlights. Early on, Fin Fang Foom, having sucker punched the Colossus, has the upper hand:




But later, in the inevitable rematch, our giant-statue-carved-by-a-Soviet-dissident-and-possessed-by-a-conquering-alien-but-now-occupied-by-the-mind-of-a-Hoolywood-special-effects-master-crippled-in-a-freak-explosion gains the upper hand on our apparently-real-and-not-at-all-mythological-Chinese-dragon:







Now that's a heart-warming battle.

No time for love, Dr. Bahlactus!!