Marvel Madness - Day Four

3. Bullseye

vs.
62. Dirk Anger
30. Dark Beast

vs.
35. Diamondback

14. Chaos King

vs.
51. Alex Wilder

19. Surtur

vs.
46. Madelyne Pryor

6. The Leader

vs.

59. The Fallen One

27. Daken

vs.
38. The Enforcers

11. Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger

vs.
54. Demogoblin

22. Mysterio

vs.
43. Belasco

Matchup notes: It hurts my heart to have to throw Dirk Anger as a sacrificial lamb to Bullseye, but Nextwave is perhaps the greatest forgotten comedy book in the history of comics.

You will never find a better compare and contrast of the kind of villian from different eras than the Daken/Enforcers matchup. The Enforcers, a lean, mean band of cowboy-themed gangster flunkies from early Spider-Man and Daredevil stories were almost too cheesy for the 60's. Daken to me represents the worst of modern comics. What if we created a villian and gave him his own ongoing book before he ever was actually popular? Then, what if virtually the entire book was just reading Daken's thoughts as he poetically rambles on about what it would mean if he did this or that, and was very mysterious all the time like something epic was planned but yu weren't supposed to know what? What if after three years of stories, nothing had happened yet and it was becoming clear that the book exists solely to soak up some of the extra popularity of Wolverine? What if the book included random, somewhat disturbing, bisexual moments on a regular basis that had no real point or meaning?

Preseason Countdown continues with:

22. Arizona State

No, this team wasn't even bowl eligble last year, but they seem to have finally figured out their offense, after a few years of playing QB carosoul. The Sun Devils return almost everyone from a year ago from a very, very competative team and that should be enough to win what looks like a really bad PAC-12 south.