March Madness Super-Animal Showdown — The Round of 32!
Your comments are in, the field is set, and it is time to begin the March Madness Super-Animal Showdown.
After some spirited comments here and on Twitter, it quickly became obvious that we had more than sixteen worthy candidates for this tournament, so I have expanded the field to thirty-two super-animals, and added a week to the schedule! I also basically gave up trying to tell the difference between animals, aliens, and furries, finally admitting some to the tourney while excluding others on the very same technicalities! In the end, only cartoon characters (rather than comic book heroes) were automatically excluded.
So it goes!
Now it is up to YOU to prove that bubble-busters like Topo, Titano, and Tufty deserved to take to the floor against the tournament’s top seeds.
YOUR VOTES WILL TELL THE TALE. (Tail?)
Here’s the first round of the March Madness Super-Animal Showdown — VOTING IS NOW OPEN!
It’s dog-eat-dog as #1 Krytpo, a Superman’s best friend, tangles with #32 Max, the Punisher’s pooch!
Fur flies as #16 Zabu, terror of the Savage Land, tears into #17 G’nort, the incompetent Green Lantern!
A dogfight without the dogs as #9 Streaky, Supergirl’s super cat, gets into a furball with #24 Redwing, the Falcon’s loyal falcon!
No horsing around as #8 Comet, Supergirl’s super horse, saddles up to fight #25 Monsieur Mallah, the French-talking super-ape!
Trapped in a bracket he never made, #4 Howard the Duck takes on #29 Hoppy the Marvel Rabbit, the oldest of old school funny animals!
Someone is bound to croak when #13 Throg, Walt Simonson’s thunder frog, battles #20 Cosmo, the psychic Russian space dog!
Monkey business beneath the sea as #12 Beppo the Super Monkey rumbles with #21 Storm, Aquaman’s loyal seahorse!
We go ape as #5 Gorilla Grodd, evil simian super-criminal, wrestles with #28 Ch’p, the Lantern with the bushy tail!
Massive overkill in the offing as #2 Rocket Raccoon fires all his guns at once at #31 Tawky Tawny, the urbane Indian tiger-man!
I have no clue who will win between #15 Detective Chimp, world’s smartest detective (simian division) and #18 Captain Carrot, erstwhile leader of the amazing Zoo Crew!
Invertebrate bragging rights are on the line as #10 Mr. Mind, the evil Venusian worm, wrestles #23 Topo, Aquaman’s squirmy octopus pal!
It’s a match worthy of Skull Island as #7 Devil Dinosaur & Moon Boy battle #26 Titano, the super-ape with the Kryptonite eyes!
It looks like no contest as #3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (all four of them!) pile on #30 Dr. Canus, the erudite dog doctor of Earth A.D.!
We don’t know what the hell he is, but we couldn’t keep #14 Proty out of the tournament, but he will have his psuedopods full as he takes on #19 The Spectacular Spider-Ham!
Someone is a lock to advance to the next round as #11 Lockjaw, the Inhuman hound, wurfs it up with #22 Lockheed, Kitty Pryde’s purple dragon sidekick!
It’s the masked dog Gotham needs in #6, Ace the Bat-Hound, taking on #27 Prince Tuftan, Kamandi’s tiger man friend!
And here is how the whole grid shapes up!
All right … get voting for your favorites! Only one critter can survive from each contest. You have one week to cast your vote. Vote early, and comment often! Let’s hear some trash talk in the comments section, below …
… and then meet me back here next week as we advance to the Round of 16!
- March 23: The Round of 16
- March 30: Elite Eight
- April 6: Final Four
- April 13: Championship!
Tell your friends!
(and for more Super-Animal Showdown fun, be sure to check out Between The Pages Blog, for comics … and cakes! … featuring Krypto and Streaky!)
Posted on March 16, 2015, in March Madness! and tagged march madness, March Madness Super-Animal Showdown, pets. Bookmark the permalink. 18 Comments.
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Reblogged this on thanhduong.
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There were a few toughies in here, of course. Streaky-Redwing, Comet-Monsieur Mallah, and Lockheed-Lockjaw were particularly tough.
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Streaky/Redwing is much closer in early voting than I expected, and I am surprised that the first results are favoring Monsieur Mallah over Comet. I guess Mallah’s more recent Doom Patrol exposure should have rated him a higher seed.
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My main exposure to Monsieur Mallah was from the classic New Teen Titans story from the early 80’s, but that was enough to put him high on my list!
What surprises me as that there aren’t too many blowouts. Only Ace-Proty and TMNT-Dr. Canus are what I’d call blowouts, And of course, I voted for the losing call in both cases. Sigh.
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I forgot about Mallah in the Titans … I need to read that collection again.
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YIKES! Lockheed and Lockjaw? In the first round? Awww. TOUGH.
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And it will only get tougher as the rounds wear on …
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Reblogged this on Illuminite Caliginosus- A Spark of Light Within the gloom.
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The only tough choice was Rocket vs. Tawny.
Sorry, Tawny. Paul put you in a unwinnable situation.
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The draws were largely without prejudice. I did the seeding without looking at the bracket, so aside from sending poor Max to his doom against Krypto, I didn’t have much idea of how the first round pairings would look. There were some happy accidents (like Lockjaw vs. Lockheed), but Talky Tawny was a victim of Fate more than anything else.
The more deliberate aspect of that pairing was that I reversed bumped Krypto up to Rocket’s provisional position as the #1 seed. Rocket Raccoon is far more relevant to today’s audiences, but as a Bronze and Silver Age comic blog, I felt I had to give Krypto the proper respect. I almost wrote that I wanted to give him every advantage by making him the #1 seed, too, but I may have just painted a target on his back, and as we saw last year, the #1 spot didn’t propel Robin to victory in the Sidekicks Tourney.
Let the voting begin!
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I feel like Max got screwed by the committee b/c they don’t care for his conference, Big 90’s.
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Nah, Max should be happy he got as far as he did. Aragon the flying horse — loyal mount to Black Knight AND the Valkyrie — is already giving Max serious side-eye that he got in the field at all.
Max got curb-stomped in his match with Krypto, but I’m not done with him yet. He’ll get at least one more appearance here at LBG, in my next Super-Blog Team-Up contribution …
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Will be cool to see what Max does in your next SBTU post!
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Only the lead dog gets a change of scenery, but Max will at least be part of the pack. See you next month!
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Aragon had a losing record in conference and lost to a bubble team in the conference tournament final.
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Still not a bad result for a candidate with a literal crazy person on his back!
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