Friday Night Fights--Ten Rings To Rule Them All Style!!

No prologue to this week's Friday Night Fights--just straight to the punchin'!

It's time for another one of the Mandarin's plots to trick the USA, China and Russia into a 3-way nuclear war, so he can rule the ashes.

(Honestly, that seems like a pretty dumbass plan to me--but what do I know about megalomaniacal plots?)

Fortunately for all of us, Iron Man is there to stop him.

De-blinged!!

KRAM!!

Spacebooger would settle for a war between Golden State, San Antonio and the Clippers, wrecking the NBA and leaving Cleveland to rule them all...

Maximum fist in face is from Iron Man #100 (1977)--yes, kids, comics once reached numbers like 100, and it was a big deal!--by Bill Mantlo, George Tuska and Mike Esposito

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? KRAM, that's why!! So go and vote!!

Friday Night Fights--Is That A Slide Rule In Your Aromor, Or Are You Just Glad To See Me Style?

For this week's Friday Night Fights, let's roll way, way back--to Iron Man's first fight with the dreaded Mandarin!!

It turns out that Tony was not at all ready for this fight, so the Mandarin has him worn down--roughed up, batteries running out...it's not looking good for our hero!

In fact, Iron Man is in such bad shape, the mandarin has decided to forgo his rings, and deliver the killing blow with...KARATE!!

But...

Really? A built-in slide rule?!?

There you go, folks--Tony Stark proves that science can beat martial arts!!!

Spacebooger would like to see Iron Man try and pull that crap with Shang-Chi...

Slide rules beat karate in Tales of Suspense #50 (1964), by Stan Lee and Don Heck.

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because Stan and Don had Tony beat the Mandarin with a frickin' slide rule!! So go and vote!!

Spoiler Sunday--Iron Man Vs. The [REDACTED]!!

Look, I'm going to spoil the living hell out of the end of this week's Iron Man #18, because it's too cool not to share.

But if you haven't read it yet, well, you don't want to read this post. Unless you don't read Iron Man, in which case maybe this will make you want to read it.

Whatever. Spoilage will commence after the 5 Iron Man images. See you then...

Still with us? OK, here we go...

Here's the situation: Last time we saw the Mandarin, he revealed that each of his rings actually held the soul of an alien being, and he was trying to free them (in order to better rule the world, of course). Then, he kinda died, but the body and rings were never recovered (duh).

Meanwhile, in this issue Tony and his newly discovered brother are going to completely remake the world in order to save it, because Stark=Arrogant ass (you can look it up...that's literally in the dictionary*)! (*editor's note--no it's not**) (**author's note--but it should be!)

So, anyway, at the very end of this issue, out of absolutely nowhere...

Holy crap, Kieron Gillen is totally stealing the Green Lantern riff and applying it to the Mandarin!! His rings are going to create the Mandarin Corps!!

How is it possible that no one else has thought of this in the past 50 years?!?

Now let's just hope Gillen doesn't go so far as to adopt the "emotional spectrum"...

Friday Night Fights--Ten Rings To Rule Them All Style!!

Hey!! Iron Man and the Mandarin are in a movie right now!!

So I guess that makes this an apropos time to break this out for Friday Night Fights:

Awww, yeah!!

No preamble, no explanation--just fight, dawgz!!

And...he's out!!

Spacebooger is pretty sure Robert Downey Jr. smacked Ben Kingsley around like this backstage during the filming of Iron Man Three...

Ten rings don't rule them all in Iron Man #100 (1977), by Bill Mantlo, George Tuska, & Mike Esposito.

Now is the time for you to vote for my fight. Why? Because you don't want to know where the Mandarin kept his 11th ring....So vote!!