MC Spacebooger has decreed that the next 12 rounds of Friday Night Fights must "feature something reminiscent of summer."

Well, what the hell is more reminiscent of summer...than Alex Summers?

Yeah, yeah, that's kind of cheap. But it's worth it to tie into this fight.

We start with the X-Men being all angsty, as only Roy Thomas, Neal Adams and Tom Palmer could do:

Throw in a Sentinel to break up the soap opera:

Don't make Alex Summers angry...you wouldn't like him when he's angry!


SHAZAM!!!

Special bonus: The rad cover by Adams & Palmer:

Spacebooger has always been disappointed that the movie Havok can never, ever look as cool as Neal Adams drew him.

Concentric rings of death from X-Men #58 (1969), by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams and Tom Palmer.

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because there's a lot of members of the Summers family, and I'll keep using them, unless I win. So go and vote!!

Many people have wondered about the wisdom of placing Alex Summers in charge of the Uncanny Avengers.

Well, wonder no more:



Damn. I was wrong--that IS leadership.

I'd best practice up for the day that I'm made chairdude of the Avengers. "Go be Thor!" "Go be the Vision!" "Go be The Forgotten One!" "Go be Dr. Druid!"

Whew, that was quite the workout for the strategic side of my brain...

From Uncanny Avengers #3...and if you want to know how the series can be so late, well, just look at Cap's knee pads...just look!! Jack Kirby would have been late, too, if he had to draw those!! And the laces on his boot--I mean, it's worth the book already being two months late for that level of detail, right?