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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Help me lay the renegade to rest
Obviously it was already going to be an emotional show, AEW Dynamite celebrating the career of the stalwart second banana Rebel (not Reba) and her struggles against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gerhig’s disease)… …but then Andy Williams, the Butcher (of Butcher and Blade infamy) only went and passed away on Sunday at the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Life goes on after the show
What deadly dose of poison do I quaff before Dynamite starts; dirt awful discourse about the ratings Big Dave Meltzer is going to give the top matches at All In, SUPER dirt awful discourse about how no matches have been announced for Dynamite as of 2pm PST, or the SUPER, MEGA TOXIC discourse about how…
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M-Day
My first issue of Avengers was issue #222; not a fill in, exactly (and actually somewhat important as it’s the first outing for this particular lineup of the team), but it was not produced by a permanent creative team. The book was undergoing changes; a new editor had arrived and the editor in chief was…
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U.N. Squadron sounds like a Cannon film starring Michael Dudikoff
When I walked into the classroom, that shining day in 1989, she was there, waiting for me. The one. Well, maybe not THE one. That would come later, of course, at a time where I was unprepared and from a direction I didn’t suspect. But for eleven year old me, smart, awkward, head full of…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no Canada like French Canada
We could argue all day the merits of AEW slowly but surely crawling towards the once per month pay per view model… suffice to say I don’t like it but it’s not like I don’t understand it. Money talks, and all that. I do think that there is a touch of nuance lost when AEW…
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40th Anniversary Non Apology Tour
An awful looking, tacked on CGI horror dropped into MY Transformers the Movie (1986)? A “secret” in a story “we know so well?” I know I’m supposed to sink to my knees in fanboy supplication and say six “Hail Hasbros” while I hold my hand over a resin copy of the Matrix of Leadership, but…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: When I needed soul revival
May as well get right into it this week, as I kick it speed style. If you want the more thoughtful, more introspective side of my writing, I dropped a near 7,000 word screed about TNA earlier this week. Tranquilo. Assenayo. Much like most heel commentators when the in-ring action gets… questionable… you might say…
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Dark Side of the Ring: In this world I find a way to cross the line
This is for you; you know who you are. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and poorly produced documentaries. While this isn’t really the space to go into a line for line attack on the latest Dark Side of the Ring documentary, this time featuring Total Nonstop Action (a dark…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Clarissa wrestlesplains it all
I could write paragraphs, COLUMN INCHES about the difference between wrestlers using sand for a dumb, crooked finish and wrestling MANAGERS using powder or salt since time immemorial but I get tired of wrestlesplaining or being wrestlesplained to, so we can table that. A plea from ship to shore and all points east; I try…
La Zona Muerta 