A bittersweet tournament for me. I had such hopes. Remember when I mentioned in my “State Of Internet Reviewing” article how tough it is to pull off a blog takeover like some video reviews? Well, for this tournament I tried it anyway, which is how I learned that lesson. First the rules: every fight had to end with a kick. Which led to one problem for me. See, every tournament to this point used at least one fight involving everyone’s favorite one-eyed diablo, Shockwave–Decepticon Commander Supreme! The problem is that I didn’t have any fights with Shockwave that involved him either kicking someone or himself being kicked.
The solution was to use Shockwave himself as a co-host for my entries. I even had a neat idea for the Prize Fight round, which at that point only required you to acknowledge it and the vote was which of the 12 entries was the best overall. Now we come back for one more choice based on a theme starting this latest “Smokin’ Joe” tournament. I’ll explain next week why this failed, but I take no blame for it other than not realizing some medicines don’t mix with the multivitamin I was taking at the time.
The other interesting this was that I had four possible logos and after five votes (because my polls have few voters) we went with the logo below. So let’s see what Shockwave and I went up against this tournament.
The Best Of
Rounds 1-6
- I don’t usually list Spacebooger’s entries because you see them all anyway when I link to the round list (so you can see the ones I didn’t put on my list–you might like some of those) but Superman kicking himself worth pointing out.
- Our dose of Hal abuse, courtesy of the Flash.
- Shang-Chi versus gorilla. I shouldn’t have to say more than that.
- I’m just going to pretend Beast is kicking a ninja.
- That’s one long kick.
- And My Entry: Just because I couldn’t use Shockwave, that doesn’t mean I can’t use Transformers.
- This vengeance is too cute to be dark.
- The only thing better than Wolverine abuse is Klan abuse.
- Errol Flynn (I can’t believe I spelled that right the first time) would be proud.
- Does this means Spidey is with Team Edward?
- And My WINNING Entry: Yes, I actually won a round. You’ll see in part two why I couldn’t capitalize.
- Our pal Snell took a big risk using a different Shockwave. And we used the same hero that round.
- More of a stomp than a kick, really.
- Here’s a rare occurrence, as we discussed in the entry’s comments: Hal kicking someone else for a change!
- Spidey took the wrong language course in school.
- And My Entry: I don’t have a lot of Shang-Chi action in my collection, so obviously the one time I do Snell steals my thunder.
- Hey, a literal butt kicking!
- But I think THIS is closer to going into orbit.
- When it comes to kicks, Reed is imaginative.
- And My Entry: You wouldn’t think Doctor Who would fit into a kicking fight, but I found a way.
- A little something Batman learned from Aquaman.
- Kick to the nose, Atom style.
- Any joke I make here would be wrong in at least two different definitions.
- And My Entry: It was around this time that I started going through Top Cow’s mostly faithful reboot of Battle of the Planets, and I found Mark spent a lot of time introducing people to his boots. He would pop up a few more times in the second half of the tournament.
- Three kicks for the price of one.
- I just like how Spidey makes his entrance.
- Why yes, I do have to appreciate the mid-air-horizontal-double-disarm-scissor kick. Especially when it’s a guy dressed as a bird giving it to guys dressed as crocodiles.
- I think someone used this in the Smokin’ Joe tournament, too.
- And My Entry: Interestingly, my traditional mini-comic entry was still intact, but didn’t feature He-Man, but Spider-Man.
That’s our first six rounds. Next week is the Prize Fight, so join us in two weeks for the second half of Feet of Fury and watch my plans fall apart around me. 😦
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