Friday Night Fights: Fight My Shiny Metal Ass!

Good news, everyone! It's Friday Night, and you know what that means! No, not the return of the iconic T.G.I.F. ABC Friday night lineup featuring Urkel and Kevin Arnold's kid brother...rather, it's time for the fast 'n' furious Friday Night Fights, fully fought by a flock of fantastic four-color firebrands! And other "F" words. Like Futurama, the animated series and comic book that brings us the world of one thousand years hence, but with 100% less Saturn Girl and 100% more of Mars University's leading co-ed, the Sweetheart of Kappa Kappa Wong, Miss Amy Wong!

And wow, maybe I didn't do the math right, because Futurama #33 brings us more than just double the Amy Wong: our favorite klutz from Mars has been exposed to one of Professor Farnsworth's super-growth formulas and is currently fifty feet tall, rampaging through New New York, all while wearing fetching two-piece pink eveningwear. (Well, if you're gonna crush, trample and destroy, as Amy might say, you might as well be cute while you do it, spluh!:

All panels in this post are from Futurama #33 (September 2007), written by Ian Boothby, pencils by Carlos Valenti, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Nathan Hamill and Rick Reese, letters by Karen Bates


Meanwhile, what's up with 3007's favorite mecho-mechanical auto-man, Bender? He's ingested every movie every made when he swallowed a bootlegged DVD, and now he's deliriously acting out the greatest characters of film. Who is he now? Why, only the greatest hero of them all, Mister Benjamin Grimm, that's who!:





Fry must find a way to save his friend Bender and stop Giant Amy Wong (with architecture-smashin' action!) by pulling out the oldest trick in the book:



From that point it's not a stretch to deduce Fry's flexible plan:




Down goes Amy! Down goes Amy! Like the theme of this batch of Friday Night Fights, Our Ms. Wong is quite literally a knockout:



...which doesn't stop Box-Office Bender, oh no. He's a ferrous fighting fool as he sucker-punches Steven Spielbot and Hollywood robot star Calculon right in the kissers:



...before coming to his programmed senses and pronouncing what Jack Valenti has been telling us all along:



And like every heartwarming episode of Futurama, America's darling of early Sunday night pre-empted-by-football animation, the comic book also winds up with a lesson well learned by all...



And knowing is half the battle, meatbag!



Bahlactus is not a fifty-foot tall Chinese woman, but he plays one on TV.