Four Color Combat!> Gorilla With A Fist

In case you missed Sunday’s comicless update, I used to take part in a multiblog collaboration called Friday Night Fights. That’s no longer around but I’ve always missed doing those. So finally I decided to do my own take, only with just myself. Not wanting to use the name Bahlactus and Spacebooger used due to it being their title and not wanting this filler article series stuck on Fridays, I call mine Four Color Combat!, and I have a good one to start with.

If you saw last week’s comic reviews, you may already guess where our first arena is. I didn’t read the Ultraverse comics when they came out. They seemed too 1990s, and even after watching the Ultraforce cartoon I just wasn’t connecting with what I saw on the shelves. Recently, since Marvel probably doesn’t care if you pirate them or not if they even know/remember they own it after burying it since they only wanted Malibu for their coloring techniques,  I’ve been looking into the comics and there are some pretty good ones. Solitaire is one of my favorites thus far, though I’m only a few issues in. It has some good action and a good story of fighting against a criminal organization run by the hero’s father. A father willing to employ a monkey cult where a fat woman thinks the baboon on her shoulder is a god and commands a white gorilla god to attack our hero.

Jane Goodall would be so disappointed.

THE ARENA: Solitaire #4 (Malibu Comics/Ultraverse: March, 1994: “Bad Monkey”)

THE PROMOTERS: Gerald Jones (writer), Jeff Johnson (penciler), Barbara Kaalberg (inker), Moose Baumann & Foodhammer! (coloring) and Tim Eldred (letterer)

Long story short, Solitaire has been tracking a monkey cult who wants to sell nukes taken from Cuba to his father. Captured, he’s left to die while the cult makes a run for it, but it’s who’s doing the killing that makes this fight interesting.

“God who rides my spine” still sounds dirty.

Our hero is also tied to a stake. You aren’t surprised they’re evil, are you?

Boy’s got a future in boxing. The new Great White Hope?

Solitaire manages to dodge his next punch (lucky thing for his face–nanite induced healing factors have a limit), but the gorilla keeps coming.

Now who’s going to pay for that floor repair?

It’s either him or the primate, and Solitaire chooses himself, using the chain that was used to tie him up to choke the gorilla. Guess the zoo’s not getting a new resident today.

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So, what do you think of this new feature? I’m up for recommendations, or even revisiting an old fight from the Friday Night Fights days, but those are already archived. It’s new battles I want to look forward to. And I have no restrictions or themes to worry about, so I can do all kinds of fights, even ones without gorillas. Hope this makes for a great filler series.