I didn’t get a chance to work on the comic this week. Other things took priority. My dad is going to need me for this week, so I’m not even sure I can get a full week of posts done in time. I didn’t even really do anything for this week’s Clutter Report except to state I’m taking the month off from article there, and I’m not going to have comics this week just to make sure I get anything done before my time is preoccupied. Comic reviews return next week, hopefully. Family takes precedence and this isn’t exactly my job, despite previous attempts to make it so. For all I know I may have to take the full month off from here as well. We’ll see what happens.

Current plans do include the next chapter of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image and a new article feature I want to use as part of the plan to create filler so when times like this happen the primary articles will at least be unaffected. First, a bit of history:

There was a now defunct website called Always Bet On Balactus, the owner of which had gotten together with a bunch of other comic book bloggers to take part in the Friday Night Fights. It’s pretty simple. Every Friday the participants, including a number of the sites that led my blogging, would post their favorite fight scenes from their favorite comics. Sometimes there was a shared theme and sometimes there wasn’t. All the participants would then link to a page on Balactus’ site that itself linked to the other fights. It was a good cross promotion for the sites and just fun to read.

When he stopped doing his site, the now archival site Spacebooger, a site that had a weekly comic and daily articles (sound familiar?), took up the Friday Night Fights. He leaned a bit more heavily into the themes for each fight, but also offered an actual prize during the “prize fights” at the end of each tournament. This is when I was finally able to take part, and of course designed my own logo for the events. Eventually, a number of the bloggers either pulled out of the Fights or out of blogging entirely and that included Spacebooger. So the Friday Night Fights were done.

I’ve always missed being able to take part in those. The fights are interesting and something you don’t usually get to review beyond “the fights were good/bad” in a regular article. So I’ve been wanting to bring them back, if only for myself, and it would make a good filler article series, like I was discussing earlier. However, I didn’t want to call the feature Friday Night Fights for two reasons: I didn’t want to be limited to a Friday I needed filler and that was someone else’s series. While I’ll be using the same format I did in my FNF postings, I wanted to give it an original name and make it my article series instead of reviving someone else’s. Friday Night Fights is the inspiration, but my series is called…

FOUR COLOR COMBAT!

“Four color” refers to the four colors that were used and mixed in printing comics: Magenta, Cyan, Yellow, and Black. I put the inspirations up there to represent where the initial idea came from, but this won’t be a multi-blog tournament like Friday Night Fights. It will just be me showcasing cool comic book battles whenever I have the opportunity. I do plan to have one of this up this week and hopefully more will come as ideas come to me. I might even revisit an old FNF battle if I’m of the mood, but that’s already archived and accessible. I want to focus on new fights as I continue to do comic reviews. We’ll see how this turns out and what the turn out actually is.

In the meantime, have a great week! I’ll do what I can but family comes first.