Friday, January 7, 2011

Friday Night Fights--Steranko Style!!

We're going minimalist this week for Friday Night Fights...just one panel of set-up and one power-packed panel of punch!!

Bobby Drake is in love with Lorna Dane!! It turns out she's Magneto's daughter!! Drake refuses to leave her behind to her evil daddy's tender mercies!! So that means Cyclops is committed to stay--and he's not happy about it!!

And you really don't want to piss Scott Summers off, because...

He puts his whole freakin' body into a punch!!!

Spacebooger's not the only one wondering--if he can punch like that, why does he need eye beams???

Disclosure: a few issues later, it will be revealed that that wasn't really Magneto--it was just a robot. But since Arnold Drake, Jim Steranko and John Tartaglione, who created X-Men #51 (1968), will all be long gone by the time of that little retcon, let's not hold it against them, shall we??

Now go over to Spacebooger's crib and vote, before Cyclops remembers that he can punch like that and lays YOU out!!

2 comments:

Lazarus Lupin said...

That punch would be a ten in any kung fu film. You don't often see the whole body approach but it's always impressive when you do. Tony Jaa is about the latest who can do that craziness though usually it's with his kicks. My favorite scene of his is when someone kicks him and he kicks the incoming kick which totally kills that guy's happy day.

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Anonymous said...

Well, as we all know, Cyclops's eye beams are blasts of concussive force. In other words, punchbeams from the punching dimension.

So, it's for punching when someone's in another room, natch.