Free-for-All Brawlin'!
Shang-Chi shows up a lot in these Friday Night Fights-- perhaps as appropriate for a guy with the title of Master of Kung Fu! (I wonder that if he only went for four years of university if he would be called the Bachelor of Kung Fu? That makes it sound like it would have been a 70s' prime time sitcom with the lead-in of Three's Company.)
FRIDAY NIGHT POP QUIZ!
Imagine that you are a bare-chested kung fu fighter who often walks around London, your home for now, in silk pants and no shoes. You are enjoying your favorite pasttime-- staring into a river and musing about how messed up your life is because your dad is a megalomanic bent on destroying the world with his own evil cult of worshippers-- when the quiet evening is interrupted by a woman's scream. Naturally, you want to save any damsel in distress, so you rush down the street and into a vacant mansion. Inside, there is a man who looks like a pile of orange rocks in a trenchcoat and fedora along with a woman.
Do you:
A) Assume that you dashed into the wrong house and search in a more obvious place for danger?
B) Recognize the world-famous hero known as the Thing and ask for his help in tracking down the danger?
C) Ask the woman what is going on?
D) Call the rock-pile a monster and hit it with your bare knuckles?
The answer is below:
from Marvel Two-In-One #29 (1977) by Marv Wolfman, Ron Wilson, and Sam Grainger.
So what really happens is this: (Deep breath...)
the thing and his girlfriend alicia were in london for a vacation but not really because reed richards wanted them to find this doctor kort guy who lived there and was an expert in cybernetics because reed was trying to fix deathlok who is a cybernetic warrior that the villains mentallo and fixer found after his battle with spider-man and recovered him from being lost in the timestream but then they tried to use deathlok to assassinate jimmy carter on his inauguration and since the fantastic four were there they defeated all the villains and took deathlok to their headquarters even though reed couldn't fix him sorry you'll have to go find this doctor kort guy even though they went sightseeing around big ben and on the double decker bus first and when alicia screamed it was only because she found blood but shang-chi and the thing fought anyway until they teamed up to find out that doctor kort was kidnapped by the terrorists of hydra and forced into making a serum even though he was a cybernetics expert but thankfully shang-chi's contacts in mi-6 helped him locate the hydra cell and the two heroes could bust hydra heads and rescue the scientists, his daughter, and his daughter's boyfriend who was also there for some reason and the heroes were happy after that even though they didn't realize the doctor kort guy actually completed the serum by that time anyway and hydra used it to point dramatically at spider-woman who was thought to be a hydra agent at that time and would fight the thing next issue.
Whew.
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