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When cometh… THE COMMUTER
Peter Allen David got it. He was a journalist. He wrote stuff. The amazing thing was… Marvel editorial didn’t want him. They were locked in battle against the forces of the Sales Department, which is where PAD got his foot in the door at Marvel. It took maverick editor Jim Owsley (now known as the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Last week, messed around and got a triple-double
Another back to back Dynamite / Collision double header this week, due to, I dunno, sports of some kind. Hockey-ball or summat. It was probably for the best… while there was some stuff I REALLY liked on Dyna… the lack of actual, in-ring wrestling content left me fairly cold… but Collision… a show that the…
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Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
I was led to believe that yesterday was Superman Day. It was not; but strangely both April 18th and June 12th are listed online as a POSSIBLE candidate for same. Perhaps it was serendipitous luck that I accidently selected MIRACLE MONDAY (IYKYK) instead and that seems appropriate enough to have drawn the following: This image…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I know it’s not your thing to care
I guess whether or not you dug last night’s Dynamite really comes down to how into SHENANIGANS you are. If you’re into FOUR segments with the Hurt Business / MJF, if you’re into GABE KIDD and around 12 other people being involved with a cage match (and it’s aftermath) or not. I’m not into either…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Coraje para dar un paso adelante
Not a lot moves me in the world of wrestling anymore. It takes a pretty big, emotional sendoff or climax to an important story to get me. But when Hiromu Takahashi came out this weekend in Fukuoka with “LIJ” written on his wrist tape, when BUSHI came out and couldn’t stop himself from crying, I…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Power Production
I, like a fool, thought he was just Japanese John Cena. He came into TNA once maybe around 2005 or 6 and had a NOTHING match with AJ Styles, AJ STYLES, for crying out loud, someone *I* could probably have a passable match with and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. I didn’t like him, didn’t appreciate…
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You need a fire engineer when I lay this blaze
Why, friends, is HOMICIDE, one of the most important wrestlers of the early 2000s, retiring tonight on some tiny show no one has heard of? If my addled brain isn’t playing tricks on me, I believe the first time I saw Homicide was delivering a VICIOUS lariat to his longtime rival, Samoa Joe, a man…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: To turn your mind around I know will take time
I don’t know that AEW has a great record with go home shows. Often times they overshoot the mark, miss the peak, end up DECREASING interest in matches, etc. I’d say they made a concerted effort with the build to Revolution to avoid that, and even if I don’t love Mercedes Moné and her same,…
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The host with the most
We’ve lost another one… the great George Lowe. You likely know him best for being Space Ghost on SGC2C, but he was also Brak’s dad on The Brak Show and a zillion other Adult Swim shows. I like trying to ape the mighty Alex Toth, so I dug out a copy of the Toth penned…
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