Manic Flash Day #1--When Do We Get The nu52 Version Of Mr. Originality?

You know what you need this Monday morning?

You need a chronological list of The Flash's most memorable menaces (through 1978).

And look, we just happen to have one!! How convenient!!

Enjoy!

From Flash Spectacular (a.k.a. DC Special Series #11) (1978)

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Do you know what life was like in pre-Crisis DC?

It was pretty damn cool.

Take, for example, this car parked along the Potomac...

Yes, this was when Barbara Gordon was in Congress. Yes, this was when Batgirl started operating in Washington, D.C. at the same time there was a new red-headed Congressperson from Gotham...and no one put 1 and 1 together.

And, this was a time when Congresspersons and Senators went parking along the Potomac, because ROMANCE!!

Also...

...it was a time when secret commando teams snuck into D.C. in front of legislators getting frisky in their cars. So what you gonna do, Barbara?

This was a time when Barbara wears her Batgirl costume under her street clothes WHEN SHE'S PARKING WITH A MALE SUITOR. Think about that, won't you?

Oh, and it was also a time when a 4 person "commando team" could effortlessly defeat the guards and take over the Pentagon. Really.

Well, it helps that one of them was really...

So why the Pentagon??

Goddman, I love comic books.

Batgirl, of course, figures out the perfect way to foil the scheme...

She blows holes  in the walls of the interior of the Pentagon. Boom.

BOK!!!!

But, of course, there's still the most important issue:

How to get back together with your hot Senator boyfriend!!

From Batman Family #18 (1978)

Spoiler Saturday--The Fox And The Man Of Steel

Gee, it's been a few months...I wonder if Mark Waid is still miffed at the Man Of Steel film.

Let's find out, shall we?

The Fox is fighting the evil Madame Satan, and just can't seem to beat her...

 Let's blow that up, Cambot:

Sick. Burn.

So, yeah, Waid is still cheezed off.

And, yes, I still feel that way, too.

From The Fox #1, plot and art by Dean Haspiel, script by Mark Waid. Don't worry, that didn't actually kill Madame Satan.

Friday Night Fights--No Damned Asgardian Font Style!!

Look,it's going to take all of my restraint to stop from turning this entire Friday Night Fights into a rant against the use of Marvel's "Asgardian font."

So let me just ask you to notice that, throughout this story--throughout the whole goddamn Lee & Kirby run--there's not a trace of that soul-sucking, brain-deadening excuse for depicting the way that all Asgardians speak. BAH!!!

Anyway, in yet another of his trademark bi-polar snits, Odin has stripped Thor of his godhood. Mjolnr is no longer enchanted, Thor can't fly or summon the storm or anything remotely cool. He's still as strong as an ox, but that's it.

Thor has just been thrown in jail--long story, it's the Circus Of Crime's fault--but he's just been bailed out by a mysterious benefactor...

Oh, sibling rivalry...

BAM!!

Sif and Balder show up to prevent that final blow, but I think we know Thor was finished there...

Spacebooger would like to know why people get so worked up about Comic Sans yet are willing to give Asgardian Font a pass...

Artie Simek never, ever used Asgardiasn Font, especially in Thor #147 (1967), as reprinted in Marvel Spectacular #18 (1975), by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Vince Coletta

Now is the time time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Well, if I lose this week, I might do all of my future posts in Asgardian Font...and we wouldn't want that. So go vote!!