tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188560222026-04-19T17:52:38.835+09:30Secret Wars on Infinite Earths: The Comic Book Fight Club<b>Secret Wars on Infinite Earths</b>: Dedicated to reliving and reviewing the best and worst of superhero slugfests. Some ask who WOULD win in a fight? We're asking who DID!Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.comBlogger1321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-19916870736841547222026-01-04T18:27:00.014+10:302026-01-04T18:53:45.605+10:30RANK & FILE: TOP 10 FEATURED FIGHTS OF 2025
Happy new year! Season 2025 of the Secret Wars on Infinite Earths is officially over, which means it's time to take stock of the top fights of the year! Usually that means finding the best of our new entries, but since we had such a modest line-up -- this time Rank & File is looking at the Top 10 Fights of 2025 from the entire Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-87383068138498114142025-12-30T18:24:00.004+10:302025-12-30T18:24:21.200+10:30ANNUAL PUNCH-UP: 2025 RANKINGS RECAPWhat if every superhero and super-villain in existence were unwittingly competing against one another in a grand secret war across infinite earths? That's right, sports fans! The end of another year means it's time to take a look at the Fight Club Rankings!Every win, loss, and draw on Secret Wars on Infinite Earths impacts the overall standings. Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-47158909053540916722025-12-16T03:44:00.002+10:302025-12-23T21:34:45.517+10:30ANNUAL PUNCH-UP: 2025 FEATURE FIGHT RECAPAnother year of Secret Wars on Infinite Earths comes to an end and that means it's time to reflect on the superhero smackdown that made Season 2025! We were only able to pick a few fights this year, but what The Comic Book Fight Club lacked in quantity -- it made up for in quality!You can find even more superhero smackdown by checking out the Secret Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-44432306631393418842025-11-30T01:25:00.010+10:302025-11-30T01:29:41.306+10:30GREEN LANTERN versus SUPERMAN & BATMAN
The Enemies Among Us (DC)
Where: Superman/Batman #29 When: October 2006Why: Mark Verheiden How: Ethan Van Sciver
The Story So Far...The past is coming back to haunt Batman and Superman! An unprovoked attack from Martian Manhunter precedes deadly affronts from Titano, Parasite, and Doctor Phosphorus -- all old adversaries who are dead or long since dealtMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-1661093317225652312025-11-24T02:24:00.084+10:302025-11-24T03:32:48.622+10:30DARK CLAW versus HYENA
Through a Glass Darkly (DC/Marvel)
Where: Legends of The Dark Claw #1 When: April 1996 Why: Larry Hama How: Jim Balent
The Story So Far...When
twin primordial entities re-collected their dissipated conscious energies -- they became aware of each other once more and turned to pit the warriors of
their respective universes against one another in battle to the death!InMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-15287703091144988722025-11-16T03:14:00.004+10:302025-11-16T03:17:16.112+10:30WRECKER versus DAREDEVIL & ELEKTRA
"Rites of Reconciliation" Part Five (Marvel)
Where: Daredevil #24 When: October 2025Why: Saladin Ahmed How: Jose Luis Soares
The Story So Far...When The Kingpin of Crime, Wilson Fisk, disappeared from New York City, he left a power vacuum in Hell's Kitchen soon filled by a mysterious European syndicate known as Nouvelle Direction.They use their considerableMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-24821710032391684642025-10-25T03:03:00.035+10:302025-10-25T03:43:34.134+10:30THING versus WRECKER
RAGE (Marvel)
Where: Fantastic Four #355 When: August 1991Why: Danny Fingeroth How: Al Milgrom
The Story So Far...The Thing's feeling down and his funk has brought him to the Lower East Side slums of his old stomping grounds. He's so bleak he doesn't even care about the kids whipping bricks at him as he skulks toward the stairs of 7135 Yancy Street -- the apartment block he Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-88904959314944123012025-09-19T21:36:00.004+09:302025-09-20T00:00:43.312+09:30DAREDEVIL versus ABSORBING MAN
Alone Against The Absorbing Man! (Marvel)
Where: Daredevil #360 When: January 1997Why: Karl Kesel How: Cary Nord
The Story So Far...To the world at large -- the Avengers and Fantastic Four are dead. Seemingly killed in their battle to end Onslaught's conquest of New York City. In truth, they are merely lost in a pocket dimension of a child's creation -- but that Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-61798723988278915612025-09-03T23:32:00.003+09:302025-09-04T20:38:29.220+09:30WRECKING CREW versus DEADPOOL, SPIDER-MAN & PUNISHER
(Marvel)
Where: Deadpool: Suicide Kings #5 When: October 2009 Why: Mike Benson & Adam Glass How: Carlo Barberi
The Story So Far...A standard job for the Merc' with a Mouth becomes a battle for life & death as a hit on Tombstone turns in to a double-or-nothing bet that Deadpool won't survive the next twenty-four hours!It's the Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-33586474044020884162025-01-09T19:42:00.006+10:302026-01-04T18:29:02.648+10:30RANK & FILE: 2024 TOP FEATURED FIGHTS
Happy new year! Season 2024 of the Secret Wars on Infinite Earths is now officially history, meaning we must convene one more time to determine the best battles of the last year! Usually we do that with a Cover To Cover spotlight, but this year we're taking advantage of the Rank & File format to determine the Top 10 Season 2024 Featured Fights asMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-70031515914181992342025-01-05T20:48:00.002+10:302025-12-30T18:30:34.709+10:30ANNUAL PUNCH-UP: 2024 RANKINGS RECAPWeaving through every entry on Secret Wars on Infinite Earths is the constant thread of the Fight Club Rankings! Each result impacts the overall standings, with character-specific updates nestled at the bottom of every new battle -- but only here can we see the true consequence of another year of wins & losses!Season 2024 was a short but sweet series that Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-87583217057271005132025-01-03T18:30:00.004+10:302025-12-16T03:57:30.096+10:30ANNUAL PUNCH-UP: 2024 FEATURE FIGHT RECAPIt's the end of another year on Secret Wars on Infinite Earths and it's time to take a look back at the spectacular battles that made Season 2024! The Comic Book Fight Club year ends in November, but we managed to squeeze in seventeen featured fights into a year of off-site distraction.What were the best battles of the most recent bouts? Every time you Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-81669306278232191112024-12-08T19:32:00.004+10:302024-12-08T21:44:04.599+10:30RHINO versus THING
One Man's Prison (Marvel)
Where: The Thing #24 When: June 1985Why: Michael Carlin How: Ron Wilson & Joe Sinnott
The Story So Far...The Thing has returned home from his adventures on Battleworld, but his arrival proves less than triumphant when he learns of a budding relationship between Johnny Storm and his ex-girlfriend Alicia Masters!The last place Thing wants to be is Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-54908950739100246952024-11-30T23:59:00.003+10:302024-12-01T01:51:36.274+10:30STORM versus CALLISTO
Dancin' in the Dark (Marvel)
Where: Uncanny X-Men #170 When: June 1983Why: Chris Claremont How: Paul Smith
The Story So Far...The leader of the mutant Morlocks desires a husband and she's taken the high-flying Angel by force!With his wings clipped: Warren Worthington III is helpless to resist the woman who covets what she believes is the most beautiful man in the world. Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-58144770203052522122024-11-22T18:53:00.013+10:302025-01-12T19:41:13.851+10:30RANK & FILE: TOP 10 MARVEL VS CAPCOM FIGHTING COLLECTION
We're living in a nostalgic age and after a decade or more of eighties throwbacks it seems the 1990s are having a resurgence. Between comic books and multimedia you can't keep the flashy era down, and the hottest thing in gaming right now is the Marvel versus Capcom Fighting Collection -- the flashiest of all video game adaptationsMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-45544906275743811182024-11-10T00:17:00.004+10:302024-11-12T03:10:47.349+10:30BLACKHEART versus DAREDEVIL & SPIDER-MAN
Blackheart! (Marvel)
Where: Daredevil #270 When: September 1989Why: Ann Nocenti How: John Romita Jr
The Story So Far...It began in 1658, with the brutal murder of a woman named Abigail Housman.Her body lay undiscovered on a gentle, but lonely hillside, soaking the land with blood for hours, as crows circled knowingly over the site. This was to beMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-35634781099321508052024-11-02T02:38:00.005+10:302024-11-02T22:44:08.393+10:30BEAST versus CORPORATE SPY
The Beast! (Marvel)
Where: Amazing Adventures #11 When: March 1972Why: Gerry Conway How: Tom Sutton
The Story So Far...Of all the mutants who joined Charles Xavier's X-Men -- Henry McCoy was a gifted youngster, indeed. Possessed of both brilliant brain and brawn, he excelled as magnificently in the laboratory as the battlefield. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that he Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-77235438162865862122024-10-26T22:23:00.004+10:302024-10-27T18:49:08.271+10:30BATMAN versus SOFIA GIGANTE FALCONE
Peace (DC)
Where: Batman: Dark Victory #13 When: December 2000 Why: Jeph Loeb How: Tim Sale
The Story So Far...The mystery of a new killer grips Gotham City in the wake of The Holiday murders. The months melt away as The Hang Man stalks the ranks of law enforcement, pinning a crude scribbling of the children's word game to their victims, written on documents Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-75446191818895553782024-10-20T00:28:00.005+10:302024-10-20T18:44:01.725+10:30BATMAN versus PENGUIN
Snow and Ice Part Two: Bird of Ill Omen (DC)
Where: Detective Comics #611 When: February 1990Why: Alan Grant How: Norm Breyfogle
The Story So Far...The Penguin is dead. Claimed by a heart attack in Gotham Penitentiary while working out in the gym. An ignoble death for a man whose final will & testament pledges protection to the bird species from which he took his Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-13114979790830689232024-10-12T02:00:00.010+10:302024-10-12T02:04:37.694+10:30RYU versus DHALSIM
Battle 04: Carnival (Tokuma)
Where: Street Fighter II #3 When: June 1994Why: Masaomi Kanzaki How: Masaomi Kanzaki
The Story So Far...Ryu has travelled from Japan to the crime-ridden island metropolis of Shad in pursuit of earning his place in the renowned Third Annual Grand Fight. Something he can only do by competing in street fights to earn a place in the final stadium Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-86526563239469469562024-09-21T23:14:00.014+09:302024-09-21T23:34:36.650+09:30IRON MAN versus MAGNETO
Family Reunion (Marvel)
Where: Avengers West Coast #57 When: April 1990Why: John Byrne How: John Byrne
The Story So Far...The emotional strain of learning her children were plied from the fractured energies of Mephisto -- only to lose them to the reincorporated devil -- takes a terrible toll on the Scarlet Witch!Estranged from an emotionless, reconstructed Vision, she Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-48020203029439955502024-09-14T01:54:00.004+09:302024-09-14T01:57:46.113+09:30PUNISHER versus KINGPIN
Face Off (Marvel)
Where: Punisher #18 When: April 1989Why: Mike Baron How: Whilce Portacio & Scott Williams
The Story So Far...Investigating gun & drug running gangs at Malcolm Shabazz High School draws The Punisher into a web of crime that leads from the schoolyard all the way to the very top of the illegal empire overseen by The Kingpin of Crime - Wilson Fisk!Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-25591846035277883482024-09-09T00:47:00.004+09:302024-09-10T17:16:31.380+09:30CASSANDRA NOVA versus PROFESSOR X
Silence: Psychic Rescue In Progress (Marvel)
Where: New X-Men #121 When: February 2002Why: Grant Morrison How: Frank Quitely
The Story So Far...The X-Men face challenges from within and without as they discover the comatose body of their newest arch-enemy, Cassandra Nova, actually contains the brilliant mind of their visionary leader - Professor Charles Xavier!Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-33929722271525092532024-08-10T00:56:00.006+09:302024-08-10T19:33:57.990+09:30WOLVERINE versus ELEKTRA
Top of The World, Ma! (Marvel)
Where: Wolverine #103 When: July 1996Why: Larry Hama How: Val Semeiks
The Story So Far...The trauma of being forcibly stripped of the metal that once coated his entire skeleton has thrown Wolverine into an increasing series of unforeseen challenges.Although he regained the full use of his mutant ability to rapidly repair once trivial woundsMike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856022.post-17281395645469447902024-08-03T20:18:00.003+09:302024-08-03T20:20:33.890+09:30WOLVERINE & HULK versus WENDIGO
And Now... The Wolverine! (Marvel)
Where: Incredible Hulk #181 When: November 1974Why: Len Wein How: Herb Trimpe
The Story So Far...The rampaging Hulk has been lured from his usual stomping grounds in the United States to the frigid wilds of northeast Quebec. The purpose: to use him to subdue and cure the supernatural beast known as the Wendigo!The Canadian Mike Haseloffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13245812535350962900noreply@blogger.com0