{"id":13093,"date":"2008-07-25T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T00:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/25\/comic-book-battles-subsequent-rounds-and-conclusion.html"},"modified":"2008-07-25T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T00:22:53","slug":"comic_book_battles_subseq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/comic_book_battles_subseq.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Battles – subsequent rounds and conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gah – forgot all about this one<\/a> (still need to trot over and do BD’s latest update<\/a>, but, for the moment). <\/p>\n

In the Chicago Trib Super-Hero contest<\/a>, my votes (ex post facto, as the tallies have already been made) for the Second Round:<\/p>\n

STAN LEE REGION<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. No. 1 Superman vs. No. 4 Capt. America <\/strong>— Cap’s the best there is of his sort, but he’s basically got nothing that would stop Supes.<\/li>\n
  2. No. 2 Wonder Woman vs. No. 3 The Thing <\/strong>— I think Ben would hesitate too long to slugfest with with a woman. Strengthwise, too, I think WW has the edge, and is a better warrior than Ben’s brawling. Advantage: Wonder Woman.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    KEVIN SMITH REGION<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. No. 1 Batman vs. No. 5 Buffy Vamp. Slayer <\/strong>— Buffy’s good, but she’s not Batman good.<\/li>\n
    2. No. 2 The Flash vs. No. 3 Silver Surfer <\/strong>— SS has enough cosmic mojo to cause the Flash serious problems with, like, changing the laws of time and space. SS has enough of an edge to win here.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      NICOLAS CAGE REGION<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. No. 1 Spider-Man vs. No. 5 Punisher <\/strong>— I’d go with Spidey, assuming he was willing to be brutal enough and the Punisher didn’t have a chance to prep the battleground.<\/li>\n
      2. No. 2 Iron Man vs. No. 3 Green Lantern <\/strong>— With yellow no longer an issue, Hal takes Tony apart at the seams.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        ROSARIO DAWSON REGION<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. No. 1 Wolverine vs. No. 5 Daredevil <\/strong>— Potentially a pretty close battle, except I can’t think of much DD can do to take Wolvie down. I give it to Logan.<\/li>\n
        2. No. 3 Hulk vs. No. 7 Kitty Pryde <\/strong>— The unstoppable force against the intangible object? Sooner or later, Hulk connects and that’s all she wrote.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Results, and the rest of the competition, below:<\/p>\n

          <\/p>\n

          I win all the votes except for Buffy beating Batman (!), and Kitty baaaarely beating the Hulk.<\/p>\n

          Feh.<\/p>\n

          ROUND 3<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. No. 1 Superman vs. No. 2 Wonder Woman<\/strong>: Classic. Have to give it to Supes, though I would accept the opposite argument.<\/li>\n
          2. No. 3 Silver Surfer vs. No. 5 Buffy Vamp. Slayer<\/strong>: Battle of the angstmeisters! Silver Surfer in about three nanoseconds.<\/li>\n
          3. No. 1 Spider-Man vs. No. 3 Green Lantern<\/strong>: This should be Hal’s battle, but Spidey’s enough of a chaos-bringer that I’m going to go with the underdog here.<\/li>\n
          4. No. 1 Wolverine vs. No. 7 Kitty Pryde<\/strong>: He taught her everything she knows about fighting. Wolvie takes her, unless he allows sentiment to make him stupid.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Final tally: I win 3 of 4, with Buffy somehow defeating the Surfer. It’s whacky.<\/p>\n

            ROUND 4:<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. No. 1 Superman vs. No. 5 Buffy Vamp. Slayer: <\/strong>Clearly Buffy has the popular vote here, but I refuse to go along with it. Superman has her wrapped up, even with his vulnerability to magic.<\/li>\n
            2. No. 1 Spider-Man vs. No. 1 Wolverine: <\/strong>I have to go with Spidey here. He’s dealt with lunatics with blades and regnerative factors before.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Final tally: The Buffyistas magically make up a victory for their girl.<\/p>\n

              ROUND 5:<\/p>\n

                \n
              • No. 5 Buffy Vamp. Slayer vs. No. 1 Spider-Man<\/strong>: Given that she’s defeated Phoenix, the Silver Surfer, and Superman so far, she should win. But Spidey’s the perennial underdog victor, and dagnabbit, I will not concede defeat for him. Spidey by a mask-covered nose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Final tally: Buffy gets 85% of the vote. No. Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Gah – forgot all about this one (still need to trot over and do BD’s latest update, but, for the moment).  In the Chicago Trib Super-Hero contest, my votes (ex…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11069,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/all_the_news_thats_fit_to.html","url_meta":{"origin":13093,"position":0},"title":"All the news that’s fit to quiz","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Apr-07 1:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I only scored a 77 on the Pew News IQ test (vs a national average of 50, but well below BD's 96). \u00a0Bleah. \u00a0Though one of the questions was automatically...","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9489,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/on_a_roll_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":13093,"position":1},"title":"On a roll","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Jun-06 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, BD's blog is evidently now showing up in Blogrolling.com update list, but my blogs are not. 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