In order to promote the week-long voting for the “G7: Fight Music” tournament of Friday Night Fights, Spacebooger has asked the competitors to include a special “bonus track” Tuesday, using Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” as our fight music. Although I’m not a fan of Black Sabbath, and the song has nothing to do with everyone’s favorite armored hero, I can still use the opportunity to include my obligatory mini-comic into the fight. Besides, there hasn’t been a lot of buzz with this tournament (a lot of the mainstays stayed away, sadly), and it is at least the most challenging that I’ve been a part of.
Personally, I’m curious to see if anyone makes a connection that doesn’t feature Shellhead. So one more time, with feeling…
The last use for that logo.
The Dance Floor: Iron Man: Disaster; pack-in comic from the Fox Kids VHS release of the three parter “The Origin of Iron Man” from the terrible first season of the 90’s cartoon
The Promoters: Mariano Nicieza (writer), John Statema (penciler), Rick Bryant (inker), Ken Lopez (letterer), and Tom Smith (colorist)
Iron Man is battling Crimson Dynamo (who never appeared in season 1, and I don’t recall him being in season 2), who plans to steal Stark technology for an unnamed terrorist group. (My guess would be AIM.)
Extreme Martial Arts would be so much cooler in high-tech battle armor from 50,000 feet!
Unfortunately, it isn’t going to be that easy.
The irony? Crimson Dynamo forgot to pay his electric bill that month.
After helping out the good people caught in the wake of Dynamo shutting off the power, Tony tracks the fiend to the lab where Dynamo is planning his theft of Stark secrets.
"Well, kind of, yeah."
Yeah, it’s a very short comic at only 7 pages of story. Plenty of other pack-in mini-comics have a full amount of pages. Then again, season 1 was a nightmare, thanks to poor animation and stories that made no sense. Really, I dare you to watch the episode with the Grim Reaper plane and go five minutes without going “THAT MAKES NO BLOODY SENSE!”. Season 2, on the other hand, was some of the best Iron Man cartooning ever, and my measuring stick when it comes to Iron Man cartoons.
Now that I’ve done that, head back to the top of the post, and go vote for the best of the Fight Music offerings these past 12 tracks (by 6PM ET Friday), and come back here on Friday for the second half of the “Knockout” fight retrospective.
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