We’re still celebrating the Fourth of July, and we’ve gotten to point of the evening where we can start blowing stuff up. While we’re remembering not to blow our fingers off with fireworks — and also not to set off fireworks late at night outside my window while I’m trying to sleep — let’s enjoy some Friday Night Fights featuring our favorite patriotic hero and the most glorious French supervillain stereotype!

From December 1980’s Captain America #252 by John Byrne, Roger L. Stern, Joe Rubinstein, and Bob Sharen, the diabolical Mr. Hyde has a twisted plan to destroy New York City, just to avenge himself on one fellow supervillain. But he didn’t count on the always fantastic… Batroc! Ze Leapair!

Soon enough, Captain America has joined the fight, leaving the two Revolutionary War allies fighting against the villain inspired by a British novel. So it’s historical and educational!

Everyone have a wonderful Independence Day — and again, stop setting off those firecrackers outside my window! DON’T MAKE ME COME OUT THERE WITH THE HOSE, YOU PUNKS!

Time to get back on the Friday Night Fights train. Today’s battle comes from September 1967’s Fantastic Four #66 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, and Artie Simek, as we’re reminded that classic Ben Grimm is just as big a jerk as classic Reed Richards.

That’ll do it for me — see y’all Monday.

It’s time for another Friday Night Fights prize fight — and this time, SpaceBooger’s theme is “Red Devil.” Well, honestly, all these themes are always trouble for me, because I never come up with any good ideas to match ’em. SpaceBooger suggested a few ideas, but they wouldn’t work for me — I don’t seem to have any Daredevil comics with really excellent fights, I try to save Hellboy battles for Halloween, Kid Devil’s no good, ’cause I’ve tossed my Teen Titans comics, and I don’t have any comics at all with Trigon or Mephisto. I only know one other red devil in comics…

So tonight’s battle comes to us from August 1968’s Hot Stuff, The Little Devil #85 by Howard Post. Hot Stuff has been dosed with a potion that makes him laugh at everything, which is going to cause him some trouble in his saccharine little corner of Hell…

That’ll do it for me — run over to Spacebooger’s joint and vote for your favorite fight.

Kids, it’s been a long week, and papa’s tired. So without no further ado, let’s just get right to it. It’s time for… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s battle comes to us from September 1983’s The Flash #325 by Cary Bates, Carmine Infantino, Dennis J. Jensen, and Phil Hugh Felix. Professor Zoom has been killed by the Flash, and the Rogues have gone to the trouble to hijack his body from the morgue.

There we go, children. Now y’all shoo — papa’s gonna start the weekend off with a nap…

Friends and neighbors, it is my sincere wish that all of y’all will get to enjoy a nice long Memorial Day weekend. I know not everyone gets Monday off — and if you’re one of them that don’t, I hope you at least enjoy a not too stressful Monday. But it is definitely the weekend now, and that means it’s time for… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s brawl comes to us from April 1977’s Iron Fist #12 by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Dan Adkins, and Don Warfield. Iron Fist finds his way into Avengers Mansion — and onto Captain America’s hit list.

Hope y’all enjoy this (hopefully) long holiday weekend, and I reckon I’ll see y’all back here on Monday.

Well, now, my children, we’ve come up on another weekend, a much-needed break from drudgery and toil, and that means it’s time for us to get our all-too-brief break started with… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s battle comes to us from 2000’s World’s Funnest by Evan Dorkin and a ton of artists, including David Mazzucchelli, doing a near-perfect pastiche of Jack Kirby. Mr. Mxyzptlk has chased Bat-Mite to the worst place in the Multiverse: Apokolips!

Is it my imagination, or does Mxy look an awful lot like Kirby himself in that one panel?

Hope y’all have a great weekend, with not too much cosmic destruction and madness…

I’ve been treated to a very rare day off, so I got a slight head-start on the weekend. But lemme help y’all get caught up with some wonderful comic book violence. It’s time for… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s battle isn’t the bloodiest or most savage, but it still gives me a lot of joy. From August 2009’s Tiny Titans #17 by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, here’s the funny cartoon version of the Battle for the Cowl!

That’ll do it for me. Y’all enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I’ll see y’all back here on Monday.

Okay, it’s Friday, and we’re all tired of working, and good gravy train, do we ever need the weekend bad. Let’s get things rolling with a little comic book ultraviolence and… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

With Free Comic Book Day coming up tomorrow, I was hoping to find something for tonight’s battle with a comic shop theme. I was hoping to find something from Evan Dorkin’s Eltingville Club series, but I wasn’t able to find where that particular comic was hiding, but luckily, I found something even more violent. From 1994’s Milk and Cheese #666 by Evan Dorkin, here’s the Dairy Products Gone Bad vs. pretty much everyone!

Y’all don’t forget to stop by your local comic shop tomorrow and pick up your free comics — and please go ahead and buy a few comics, too. Let’s make it easier for our comic shops to keep operating in the future…

You ever had a week so weird and lengthy and stressful that it basically infects everything around it, including the weekends? I’ve had a lot of those lately. Doesn’t mean I’m not still looking forward to the weekends — just means they’re not as relaxing or stress-free as they should be. Doesn’t mean we’re still not gonna kick things off with some Friday Night Fights, though. ‘Cause I definitely need me some weird, weird violence this week.

And we’re going with one of the weirdest comics ever today — Winter 1941’s Big 3 #2, one of the first stories of Stardust the Super-Wizard by Fletcher Hanks. Stardust — he of the impossible musculature and bizarre powers and possibly drug-infused brains — meets up with a villain called De Structo, who has attempted to menace the entire world, just for the sake of random, rotten evil.

Congratulations, Stardust has just given us all some kind of horrible, hallucinatory brain fever. Let’s hope we can sleep through the weekend and it’ll all go away…

Well, it’s been another long, horrible week of working at our horrible jobs instead of maxxin’ and relaxxin’ at home where we belong. But we get a much-too-short break now, thank goodness, so we’re going to kick the weekend off as violently as we can with… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

We’re going with a true classic tonight — December 1985’s The Mighty Thor #362 by Walt Simonson. Skurge stands alone at Gjallerbru.

It’s always a good thing to read as many of Simonson’s Thor comics as you can.