Friday, September 17, 2010

Friday Night Fights--West Side Story Style!!

There are some things that are as certain as death and taxes...and one of those things is that sometime during a bout of Friday Night Fights, I'm going to play the Master Of Kung Fu card.

Having just prevented Fu Manchu from blowing up the World Trade Center (using UFO's, electronic zombies, South American leopard cultists, and a nuclear bomb...seriously), Shang-Chi eschews a vacation. Instead, he takes it upon himself to settle the growing Asian gang problem in New York City. Why? Because that's how Shang-Chi rolls, dammit!

He approaches the Joy Boys, and expresses a desire to talk. You can imagine how well that goes. Fortunately, Shang-Chi is quite the linguist:
















Let's see the Jets and Sharks try to top that, huh? Shang-Chi makes even Spacebooger look like Officer Krupke...

Shang-Chi performs on off-Broadway version of Eight Men Out in Master Of Kung Fu #90 (1980), by (of course) Doug Moench, Mike Zeck, and Gene Day.

And all you readers--join in the fights. Come play each Friday!! It's fun!!

5 comments:

Abe Lucas said...

Poor fools never knew what hit 'em.

I'm just about ready to annoint Master of Kung Fu my new all-time favorite comic of all time. From start to friggin' finish, MoKF delivered the goods. Even when Doug Moench quit/was forced off by Shooter three issues before the series ended, MoKF was a high-grade book all the way. No "Jump the Shark" moments whatsoever.

And I finally snagged a copy of the elusive issue #64, with the iconic Gulacy cover. It's already gonna be a helluva weekend, Snell-san.

Gary Baker said...

Not one POW or SPLAT - great stuff. (Now wondering if there's a thesaurus of onomatopoeia type words for when speeding objects or body parts meet opposing objects or body parts ... )

snell said...

Gary--Doug Moench is well known his creative sound effects. I should do an encyclopedia of his MOKF onomatopoeia someday...

C.K.--I had no idea #64 was elusive, especially as it was a fill-in issue. I was just leafing through it last night. It's interesting--Gulacy didn't do any covers while he was the book's artists, but he did several after he left...

Abe Lucas said...

"I had no idea #64 was elusive, especially as it was a fill-in issue."

It probably isn't, despite the fine Gulacy cover. However, it was elusive to me because it kept vanishing every time I went back to get it while collecting the run.

Michael May said...

How has Master of Kung Fu not been in continuous publication since the '70s? Because people suck, that's why.