As work-weeks go, this one has been yet another gigantic vat of boiling-hot llama poops. But it’s Friday at last, and we all get to enjoy a couple mostly-blissful days of not having to go to work and endure workplace stress. And the best way to blow off steam before the weekend? We all know it’s… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s battle comes to us from November 1983’s Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew #20 by E. Nelson Bridwell, Joey Cavalieri, Rick Hoberg, and Carol Lay. It’s the final issue of the legendary funny-animal series, and Earth-C gets a couple of visitors from Earth-1. Gorilla Grodd shows up intending to enslave everyone and take over the world, and the Changeling gets dragged along in his wake and attempts to help the Zoo Crew take down the evil mind-controlling monkey. So Changeling decides to blend in with some of Grodd’s cartoon henchmen…

There we go, kids. Monkeys, green elephants, funny animals, and more puns than you can shake your trunk at. Now head out there and grab yourself some rest and relaxation this weekend.

Alright, it’s time to start up another 12-round series of Friday Night Fights, for which I am once again woefully unprepared. There’s only a finite number of comic books out there, with only a finite number of fights — it’s only a matter of time before I’m posting panels of Garfield kicking Odie off the table. Nevertheless, we must forge ahead.

Tonight’s battle comes to us from June 1981’s Charlton Bullseye #1 by Benjamin Smith and Dan Reed, in which the Blue Beetle and the Question fight off a gang of thugs.

That’ll do it for tonight — y’all try to have a weekend so good, you won’t even mind the rest of the coming workweek.

Okay, time to get the weekend going with another round of FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS! And SpaceBooger is giving us a quick theme for tonight — the final blow has to take place either off panel or by surprise.

So tonight, we’re going with just one single panel where all we see — in fact, the only image we see of the entire battle — is just the image of the hero’s victory.

From February 2006’s GLX-Mas Special by Dan Slott, Georges Jeanty, and Drew Geraci, here’s Squirrel Girl vs. Thanos.

(Click to embiggen)

So run on over to SpaceBooger’s joint and vote for your favorite fight — the winner this time gets a small prize, so be sure to pick the one you think most deserves an Amazon card. But I’m pretty sure Squirrel Girl wants you to vote for me. Not like Uatu will interfere, right?

Well, it’s been another long, hard, horrific week, and we only get two days off, then we all have to go back and do it all over again for another five days. This is a far-from-ideal situation, but we gotta make do with what we got — two days of relative freedom, all started off with a little… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s fairly epic battle comes to us from April 2002’s Batgirl #25 by Kelley Puckett, Damion Scott, and Robert Campanella, as Cassandra Cain squares off against Lady Shiva! Let’s take a look at this awesome brawl through a whole bunch of full pages, okay?

That’ll do it on this end of things. Y’all go have a great weekend.

Good gravy train, what a week. I don’t know about y’all, but I need at least four weekends, all strung together, to recover from the last five days. We won’t get that, unfortunately, so we’ll have to make do with the usual too-short weekend. But we can at least start things off the fun way with… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s battle comes to us from June 1980’s The Avengers #196 by David Michelinie, George Pérez, and Jack Abel, as Captain America and Iron Man meet up with the Taskmaster!

Remember to run over to SpaceBooger’s place, check out the other contestants, and vote for your favorite!

We’re gonna make this short and sweet so we can all get right into enjoying the weekend. Ya know what time it is, kids? It’s FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS time!

From April 1979’s DC Comics Presents #8 by Steve Englehart and Murphy Anderson, here’s Superman punching Solomon Grundy crosseyed.

Yep, Grundy definitely “grew worse on Friday.”

We went with Scott Pilgrim in last week’s belligerent brawl, and while I normally try to avoid repeating myself, we’re going to go right back to that same comic for this week’s edition of… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

So again, from 2004′s Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley, we continue our battle between Scott Pilgrim and Matthew Patel, as Patel demonstrates his magical abilities by summoning a horde of Demon Hipster Chicks:

And then breaking into a Bollywood musical!

And after that comes a scene that I really wished had appeared in the movie: Scott and his friends sing along!

That’ll take care of things for us for this week — enjoy your weekend, and see y’all back here in a few days.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s pert-near the weekend, and it’s time for us to get it started with a nice fat dose of… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

I think I’m gonna split this battle across a couple of weeks ’cause it’s so good. It’s from 2004’s Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley, as Scott begins his fight against Matthew Patel.

Things’ll get musical next week, but for now, head on over to SpaceBooger’s joint and vote for your favorite fight.

Alright, lads and ladettes, it’s another Friday night at the beginning of another much-too-short weekend, so let’s try to squeeze all the enjoyment we can out of these meager few days before Monday kicks us in the butt again. In other words, tighten your shorts, pilgrim, it’s… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight’s battle is from June 2009’s Marvel Adventures: The Avengers #35 by Paul Tobin and Casey Jones, in which Batroc the Leaper pays the team a visit to talk a little smack and leap into a little butt-whuppery.

And if a Frenchman kicking an archer in the face doesn’t get you in the mood to party, there’s something wrong with your party glands.

I don’t think I’ve got a lot of patience for blogging — or much of anything else — this week, so let’s get this one knocked out fast.

Tonight’s battle comes from January 2011’s X-Men: To Serve and Protect #1 by Christopher Yost, Derec Donovan, and Andres Jose Mossa. Rockslide and Anole of the Young X-Men are, with the rest of the X-Men, hanging out in San Francisco, and they’ve both decided they want to go out and fight crime, not the usual fighting-with-other-mutants that the X-Men normally focus on. So they go put on disguises that do nothing to disguise them and go fight crime.

The most amusing thing comes a couple panels later when we learn that Rockslide wore a fake mustache underneath his mask. Nicely played.

So head over to SpaceBooger’s house and vote for your favorite.