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Casting Gargoyles
Casting Gargoyles by Jerry Whitworth
Recently, Richard Rushfield of the entertainment newsletter The Ankler reported actor/director Jordan Peele approached Disney about producing a live action adaptation of its critically-acclaimed, cult classic animated series Gargoyles. The report went on to say, however, that given Peele’s momentum from his blockbuster hit Get Out (2017), the studio did not want to turn him down but was unwilling to greenlight the project and likely hopes Peele will take on another film and forget about the pitch. The news of the pitch though has spread like wildfire generating a lot of buzz online which could give Disney pause to genuinely consider the film (not unlike the impetus leading to 2016’s hit Deadpool). Gargoyles was a 1994 animated series created for the Disney Afternoon programming block to spotlight the company’s burgeoning animated television division. Created by Greg Weisman, known better today for Young Justice, Gargoyles ran for two seasons and featured a clan of magical guardian gargoyles in tenth century Scotland that were stone by day and flesh by night put to sleep in stone for a thousand years until awoken for a malevolent purpose by wealthy genius David Xanatos. Living in modern day Manhattan, the gargoyles combated Xanatos, rogue gargoyle Demona, unaging Scottish king Macbeth, mercenary band the Pack, ancient magician Archmage, and all manner of magical beings like Puck, Oberon, and the Weird Sisters of Shakespearean lore. The show failed to attain the level of massive ratings of competing series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Batman: The Animated Series, and X-Men leading to its cancellation. A second animated series created largely without input from Weisman emerged called Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles in 1996 but was so reviled, future printed installments of the franchise treated it as non-canonical. In 2006, Gargoyles found second life as a comic book series written by Weisman for Slave Labor Graphics and Creature Comics continuing the show’s narrative until 2009 when Disney raised its licensing fee and the publisher abandoned it. Joe Books, who currently has the license to produce many Disney properties, planned on releasing a cinestory based on the first five episodes of the television series in 2016 but lack of pre-orders led to its delay and eventual cancellation. If the the buzz surrounding Gargoyles‘ adaptation into a major motion picture pan out, lets take a look as to who could portray its characters.
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Tagged Casting, Disney, Gargoyles, Jerry Whitworth
Global Expansion: The WWE Invades the World
Global Expansion: The WWE Invades the World by Jerry Whitworth
In less than a couple of weeks, this year’s WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament will air on the WWE Network as the company is reportedly moving forward with a UK-based ongoing series to air on its streaming service. While WWE’s aggressive expansion into the UK market was seemingly due to the return of World of Sport on ITV last year (which stalled only to recently get back on track), the UK scene has exploded of late (as has the wrestling industry in general). This is clearly evident by New Japan’s recent announcement of Strong Style Evolved UK N1 which happens only days after WWE airs its UK tournament. New Japan has already expanded its territory into the US in the last year and the UK is its latest bid to become a global brand like WWE. This has led to battle lines being drawn as WWE has made arrangements with UK promotions Insane Championship Wrestling and PROGRESS as well as snagging several of World of Sports’ stars while New Japan has formed an alliance with Revolution Pro Wrestling and prominently features Zack Sabre Jr (who participated in WWE’s inaugural Cruiserweight Classic), Will Ospreay, Marty Scurll, and “British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith Jr. in its promotion (Ospreay and Smith are also both featured in upcoming episodes of World of Sport). However, these moves could very well only be the opening salvo for a much larger confrontation as WWE tries to bring its Network to every corner of the world and New Japan has been emboldened by its consistent significant growth to try and offer some semblance of competition since WWE consumed WCW and ECW to become the undisputed king of sports entertainment. The question then becomes what country will enter WWE and New Japan’s optics next.
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Tagged AAA, CMLL, Impact Wrestling, Jerry Whitworth, Lucha Underground, New Japan, NJPW, Noah, Ring of Honor, Stardom, TNA, World of Sport, WWE, wXw
Top 10: Toys for TTMU Season Three
Top 10: Toys for TTMU Season Three by Jerry Whitworth
On May 25th, the second season of The Toys That Made Us debuted on Netflix bringing an end to the eight-part documentary series about toylines that helped define the generations that grew up with them. Covering Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Star Trek, Transformers, Lego, and Hello Kitty, TTMU went over each toyline’s broad history while touching base with the effect they had on the people who collected them, at times weaving in celebrities whose lives’ were impacted by the toys. Stated within the opening sequence of each episode, TTMU was created as an eight-episode series however the concept could easily be expanded much further. Should Netflix order future seasons of TTMU, lets see what toys could be featured next.
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Tagged Jerry Whitworth, netflix, The Toys That Made Us, toys
The Wrestling Time Machine: May of 1995
The phone’s ringing, better pick it up.
Because it’s the latest installment of The Wrestling Time Machine!!! Continue reading
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Tagged "Flyboy" Rocco Rock, "Flyin'" Brian, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff, "Spark Plug" Bob Holly, "Stunning" Steve Austin, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, 1995, 911, Adam Bomb, Alex Wright, Angelo Poffo, Antonino Rocca, Antonio Inoki, Arn Anderson, Bam Bam Bigelow, Beaulah McGillicutty, Big Bubba Rogers, Big Van Vader, Bill Alfonso, Bob Backlund, Booker T, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Brian Knobbs, Cactus Jack, Chief Wahoo McDaniel, Cody Rhodes, Colonel Robert Parker, Dave Sullivan, Dean Malenko, Diamond Dallas Page, Dick Murdoch, Diesel, Dusty Rhodes, Earl Robert of Eaton, ECW, Eddie Guerrero, Ernie Ladd, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Gordon Solie, Hakushi, Harlem Heat, Hulk Hogan, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Ivan Putski, Jeff Jarrett, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Jerry Sags, Jimmy Hart, Joey Styles, Johnny Grunge, Kevin Sullivan, King Kong Bundy, Lex Luger, Lord Steven Regal, Luna Vachon, Mabel, Man Mountain Rock, Mantaur, Max Muscle, Meng, Mick Foley, Mikey Whipwreck, Owen Hart, Paul Heyman, Pitbull #1, Pitbull #2, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Raven, Razor Ramon, Savio Vega, Shawn Michaels, Skip & Sunny, Slim Jim, Stevie Ray, Stevie Richards, Sting, Sycho Sid, Taz, Ted DiBiase, Terry Funk, The 1-2-3 Kid, The Allied Powers, The Blue Bloods, The Bodydonnas, The British Bulldog, The Butcher, The Diamond Doll, The Giant, The Great Muta, The Master, The Million Dollar Corporation, The Monster Maniacs, The Nasty Boys, The Pitbulls, The Public Enemy, The Renegade, The Roadie, The Sandman, The Smoking Gunns, The Triple Threat, The Undertaker, Tommy Dreamer, WCW, WCW Hall of Fame, WCW Slamboree, WCW Slamboree 1995, WCW Slamboree A Legends Reunion, WCW Tag Team Championships, WCW Television Championship, WCW Television Championship Tournament, WCW United States Championship, WCW United States Championship Tournament, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment, World Wrestling Federation, WWE Hall of Fame, WWF Championship, WWF Hall of Fame, WWF In Your House, WWF Intercontinental Championship, WWF King of the Ring, WWF Tag Team Championships, Yokozuna
Wrestling Time Machine: April of 1995
That’s right Wrestling Fans, I’m back from the Not-Too-Distant Past with another installment of The Wrestling Time Machine, and you know what that means? That’s RIGHT! We’ve got Wrestle Sign!
Call your Cable Operator today, tell them that you want Wrestling Time Machine, and that you won’t be disappointed!
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Tagged "Flyboy" Rocco Rock, "Flyin'" Brian, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Stunning" Steve Austin, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, 1-2-3 Kid, 1995, 2 Cold Scorpio, All Pro Team, Alundra Blayze, April 1995, Arn Anderson, Avalanche, Bam Bam Bigelow, Beaulah McGillicutty, Bertha Faye, Big Van Vader, Bob Backlund, Bobby Eaton, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Brian Pillman, Bull Nakano, Bunkhouse Buck, Cactus Jack, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Diamond Dallas Page, Diesel, Earl Robert of Eaton, ECW Television Championship, ECW World Heavyweight Championship, ECW World Tag Team Championship, Eddie Guerrero, Harlem Heat, Hulk Hogan, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Jean Pierre LaFitte, Jeff Jarrett, Jim Cornette, Jimmy Hart, Johnny Grunge, Kama, Kevin Sullivan, King Kong Bundy, Lawrence Taylor, Lex Luger, Lord Steven Regal, Max Muscle, Mr. Fuji, Nick Bockwinkel, Owen Hart, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Raven, Razor Ramon, Rick Steiner, Sabu, Shawn Michaels, Sonny Onoo, Stevie Richards, Sting, Sycho Sid, Ted DiBiase, Terry Funk, The Allied Powers, The Blue Bloods, The British Bulldog, The Broad Street Bullies, The Butcher, The Dangerous Alliance, The Diamond Dolls, The Faces of Fear, The Four Horsemen, The Million Dollar Corporation, The Monster Maniacs, The Nasty Boys, The Pitbulls, The Public Enemy, The Renegade, The Roadie, The Sandman, The Tazmaniac, The Triple Threat, The Undertaker, Tommy Dreamer, WCW, WCW Slamboree, WCW The Great American Bash, WCW United States Championship, WCW World Tag Team Championship, Woman, World Championship Wrestling, WrestleMania, WrestleMania XI, Wrestling Time Machine, WWF Intercontinental Championship, WWF Women's Championship, WWF World Heavyweight Championship, WWF World Tag Team Championship, Yokozuna
Wrestling Time Machine: March of 1995
We’ve got Wrestle Sign here on Wrestling Time Machine, and don’t worry about sending the kids to bed, because it’s Uncensored in name only!
I Do Not Think That Word Means What WCW Thinks It Means
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Tagged "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, "Stunning" Steve Austin, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, 1995, Arn Anderson, Avalanche, Bam Bam Bigelow, Barry Horowitz, Big Bubba Rogers, Big Van Vader, Bob Backlund, Bobby Eaton, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Bull Nakano, Cactus Jack, Chris Benoit, Colonel Robert Parker, Dean Malenko, Duke "The Dumpster" Droese, ECW, ECW Championship, ECW Tag Team Championships, ECW Television Championship, Harlem Heat, Hulk Hogan, Jeff Jarrett, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Jim Cornette, Jimmy Hart, Johnny B. Badd, Kama, King Kong Bundy, Lawrence Taylor, Lord Steven Regal, March, March 1995, Meng, Mick Foley, NFL All-Pro Team, Owen Hart, Paul Bearer, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Raven, Razor Ramon, Renegade, Sabu, Shawn Michaels, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, Steven Dunn, Stevie Richards, Sting, Terry Funk, The Blacktop Bully, The British Bulldog, The Broadstreet Bullies, The Dangerous Alliance, The Four Horsemen, The Million Dollar Corporation, The Nasty Boys, The Sandman, The Smoking Gunns, The Tazmaniac, The Triple Threat, The Ultimate Warrior, The Undertaker, Tommy Dreamer, Tully Blanchard, Vince McMahon, WCW, WCW Saturday Night, WCW Uncensored, WCW Uncensored 1995, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, WWE, WWE Intercontinental Championship, WWE Women's Championship, WWF, WWF Intercontinental Championship, WWF Women's Championship
To My Friend
To My Friend by Jerry Whitworth
When I was a kid, for the most part, I was the only person I knew really into comics. Occasionally, I’d run into someone else who read them but it was a fairly solitary existence. My world changed in 2003 when I bought my first computer. I worked at a retail store and rather than a Christmas bonus, they gave you a slip you could use to get 10% off any one item in the store. I used mine for a computer I put on layaway and had a family member help me bring it home because my parents didn’t have a car at the time. Getting online, I found a horde of websites about comic book knowledge like DCU Guide, DC Cosmic Teams, Heroic Images, and the Captain’s Unofficial Justice League Homepage. These sites gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge of comics without buying longbox after longbox of comics as I had before. At some point, I befriended Jason Kirk of the Captain’s site and I became a contributor from character profiles to his listing of cinematic appearances of characters to desktop wallpapers. I produced so many background images, Jason made a mini-site called the JLA Desktop and, to supplement it, I created a Yahoo! group called the JLA Micro Desktop. It was through this group I met Glenn Walker. While the group was primarily about images, we also had debates about current comics and past comics. In my thorough research of the medium, people viewed me as some sort of comic historian and thought I was twice my age. Glenn was a frequent contributor to our discussions and he became one of my first online friends before things like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter existed. Over the course of running the group, JLA/Avengers began publication and I decided to host a tournament on the group. People would secretly vote among match-ups I set up and I announced the winner via stories I wrote about the fight. While I was published before for two essays I wrote about my life growing up in Philadelphia and had character profiles on the Captain’s site, these stories I told about these bouts were my first fictional tales that I shared with anyone. Everyone was a fan of these short stories but perhaps none more so than Glenn. He loved them. He wanted more of them. He wanted me to write for a living so he could read these stories that came out of my head. He may have been the biggest advocate I ever had in my life to write.
Wrestling Time Machine: February of 1995
Snap into your Slim Jims, and shut off your Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it’s time for the latest installment of Wrestling Time Machine!
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Tagged "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, "The Giant" Paul Lauria, "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, "The Sexiest Man Alive" Jason, 1995, 911, Alex Wright, Arn Anderson, Avalanche, Bam Bam Bigelow, Big Bubba Rogers, Big Van Vader, Blacktop Bully, Cactus Jack, Charles Wright, Chief Jay Strongbow, Chris Benoit, Colonel Robert Parker, Dean Malenko, Diesel, ECW, Eric Bischoff, Extreme Championship Wrestling, February 1995, Harlem Heat, Hulk Hogan, Jason Vorhees, Jeff Jarrett, Johnny B. Badd, Kama, Kevin Sullivan, King Kong Bundy, Lawrence Taylor, Lex Luger, Mick Foley, Mikey Whipwreck, Paul E. Heyman, Paul Roma, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Raven, Ric Flair, Roadie, Sabu, Sister Sherri, Stars & Stripes, Stevie Richards, Sting, Sycho Sid, Tatanka, Tazmaniac, Ted DiBiase, Terry Funk, The British Bulldog, The Broad Street Bullies, The Butcher, The Dangerous Alliance, The Faces of Fear, The Four Horsemen, The Million Dollar Corporation, The Monster Maniacs, The Nasty Boys, The Sandman, The Triple Threat, The Undertaker, Tommy Dreamer, Tully Blanchard, Vader, Vince McMahon, WCW, WCW Clash of the Champions, WCW Clash of the Champions XXX, WCW Saturday Night, WCW SuperBrawl, WCW SuperBrawl V, WCW Tag Team Championships, WCW Television Championship, WCW United States Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment, World Wrestling Federation, WrestleMania, WrestleMania XI, Wrestling Time Machine, WWE, WWE Championship, WWE Intercontinental Championship, WWE Monday Night RAW, WWF, WWF Championship, WWF Intercontinental Championship, WWF Monday Night Raw
Review: Where is Zog? TP
Review: Where is Zog? TP by Jerry Whitworth
Back in 2015, creator Jeff Martin (HEAT: The Space Age of Pro Wrestling, Wrestlemon) was asked to pitch a comic to a music magazine. Listening to one of his favorite bands Gwar, the song “Where is Zog?” played which planted the seed for what became his webcomic Where is Zog? on HeavyMetal.com. The series features aliens Grum and Zill marooned on an unfamiliar world in search of the mysterious Zog. Despite its science fiction-based premise, the piece is best described as a dark comedy as Grum and Zill race from life-threatening situation to life-threatening situation with comical gore and death. A running gag of the work is the different interpretations of what a zog is to the different cultures of the alien world (which undoubtedly is a nod to the reader themselves who have little idea what the Zog the story centers around is in fact). Admittedly, I’m not really the target audience for this piece. I have little idea about Gwar where in doing research into the band and its expansive mythology, only more questions seemed to emerge (it should be noted, Martin would eventually get to contribute to a Gwar comic in the final issue of Dynamite’s GWAR: Orgasmageddon mini-series). And while there are space-based science fiction and dark comedies I enjoy, it’s slightly out of my wheelhouse. Still, I found the work to be inventive and entertaining albeit difficult to encapsulate what it is. Spending a few days considering it, I would likely qualify it as if someone took a PG-13 version of the original Heavy Metal (1981) animated film short “So Beautiful and So Dangerous” and stuck it in a blender with Undertale, 2011 ThunderCats, and Rick and Morty and you’d have some idea what you’re in for regarding Where is Zog? It’s an ongoing journey that is yet resolved where Grum and Zill’s misadventures seem to stack upon themselves more danger which, seemingly, will result in an entire planet uniting to get rid of them. You can own Where is Zog? in print via its Kickstarter which ends November 9th and should ship by the end of the year.
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Tagged Comic Books, Jeff Martin, Jerry Whitworth, Kickstarter, review
Review: Polybius Dreams #1
Review: Polybius Dreams #1 by Jerry Whitworth
Creepypastas, or horror-based urban legends from the internet, have grown in popularity in recent years with the likes of Slender Man, Candle Cove, and Jeff the Killer entering the mainstream. However, one of the earliest creepypastas is making a resurgence on the printed page. The Polybius legend is of an arcade cabinet video game called Polybius distributed by mysterious men in black to a handful of arcades in the Portland, Oregon area in 1981. These machines acted as part of a psychological experiment, one that made players addicted to it, induced various psychological affects (amnesia, night terrors, sleepwalking, depression, seizures, hallucinations, etc), and led to some committing suicide before the game disappeared a mere month after debuting. As with the other noted creepypastas, there are people out there who believe in the existence of this game (which some attribute to the early version of the 1981 Atari game Tempest which reportedly gave a player a migraine in Portland). The phenomenon surrounding Polybius even led to the development of a documentary from Todd Luoto, Jon Frechette, and Dylan Reiff that, due to lack of funds, culminated into a currently ongoing seven-part podcast series centering around Bobby Feldstein who claims the game was real and played a part in his supposed abduction (as well as the abduction of at least one other child). About six months ago, a crowdfunding effort would begin to produce the first issue of a comic book based on the legend of Polybius. Titled Polybius Dreams, Ben Grisanti, Keith Grachow, and Ester Salguero through Grisanti’s Hypnotic Dog Comics recently published its first issue and are currently crowdfunding for its second chapter of the four part series. Following a trio of lovable losers in Patrick, Paul, and Michael in 1986 Autumn Hill, NY, a mysterious new game called Polybius arrives in the small town’s arcade followed by the deaths of several youths. Friends with the arcade’s co-owner, the trio are given the opportunity to play the new addictive game after hours thus pulling them into the suspenseful mystery.
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Tagged Comic Books, comics, Jerry Whitworth, Kickstarter, review
Wrestling Time Machine: January of 1995
Grab yourself a bag of Butterfinger BB’s, set your VCR to record TekWar and tune in to the latest Wrestling Time Machine Column, as we flip the switches and travel back to January of 1995!
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Tagged "Spark Plug" Bob Holly, "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, "The Giant" Paul Lauria, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, 1-2-3 Kid, 1995, Alex Wright, Arn Anderson, Avalanche, Bam Bam Bigelow, Bobby Eaton, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Cactus Jack, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Diesel, ECW, ECW World Heavyweight Championship, Hack Myers, Harlem Heat, Hulk Hogan, Irwin R Schyster, Jason, Jean-Paul Levesque, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Johnny B. Badd, Kevin Sullivan, King Kong Bundy, Mantaur, Marcus Alexander Bagwell, Mikey Whipwreck, Pamela Anderson, Randy "Macho Man", Raven, Razor Ramon, Ron Simmons, Sabu, Scotty Riggs, Shawn Michaels, Stevie Richards, Sting, Tatanka, Ted DiBiase, The Butcher, The Faces of Fear, The Four Horsemen, The Million Dollar Corporation, The Monster Maniacs, The Patriot, The Public Enemy, The Sandman, The Tazmaniac, The Triple Threat, The Undertaker, Tommy Dreamer, Tully Blanchard, Vader, WCW, WCW Tag Team Championship, WCW Television Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, William Shatner, Woman, Wrestling Time Machine, WWE, WWF Championship, WWF Intercontinental Championship, WWF Royal Rumble, WWF Tag Team Championship
Wrestling Time Machine: February of 1997
Hello my precious professional wrestling pals, and welcome to another edition of Wrestling Time Machine! We’ve got the dates keyed in on our time circuits, the Flux Capacitor is a-roaring to go, all to take us to February of 1997*!
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Tagged "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, "Hollywood" Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, "The Stalker" Barry Windham, "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan, Ahmed Johnson, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Buh Buh Ray Dudley, Chris Benoit, Chyna, Crush, D-Von Dudley, DDP, Dean Malenko, Debra McMichael, Diamond Dallas Page, ECW, ECW Tag Team Championships, ECW World Heavyweight Championship, Eddie Guerrero, Farooq, Goldust, Headbanger Mosh, Headbanger Thrash, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Jeff Hardy, Jeff Jarrett, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw, Kevin Nash, Kronus, Lex Luger, Lord Steven Regal, Lost His Smile, Marlena, Matt Hardy, Miss Jacquelyn, Nancy Benoit, Owen Hart, Prince Iaukea, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Raven, Rey Mysterio Jr, Road Warrior Animal, Road Warrior Hawk, Rob Van Dam, Rocky Maivia, Sabu, Saturn, Savio Vega, Scott Hall, Shawn Michaels, Steve "Mongo" McMichael, Sting, Sycho Sid, Syxx, Terry Funk, The British Bulldog, The Dudley Boyz, The Dungeon of Doom, The Eliminators, The Four Horsemen, The Giant, The Hardy Boys, The Hardy Boyz, The Headbangers, The Legion of Doom, The Nation of Domination, The New Blackjacks, The New World Order, The NWO, The Outsiders, The Road Warriors, The Sandman, The Undertaker, Vader, WCW, WCW Cruiserweight Championship, WCW SuperBrawl, WCW SuperBrawl VII, WCW Tag Team Championships, WCW Television Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, Woman, Wrestling Time Machine, WWE, WWE Network, WWF, WWF Championship, WWF European Championship, WWF In Your House, WWF In Your House 13: The Final Four, WWF Intercontinental Championship, WWF Tag Team Championships
Wrestlemon: Gotta Review ‘Em All
Wrestlemon: Gotta Review ‘Em All by Jerry Whitworth
Known primarily for his webcomic HEAT: The Space Age of Pro Wrestling (fusing pro wrestling and science fiction), cartoonist Jeff Martin is combining together elements of pro wrestling with another genre in battle monsters. Wrestlemon (2017) parodies the popular Nintendo property of Pokémon (short for Pocket Monsters) while also parodying pro wrestling with allusions to lucha libre in its featured monsters and homages for the likes of “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair, Jake “The Snake” Roberts, John Cena, Demolition, Ultimate Warrior, and more. The plot revolves around rookie trainer Jacey and her Wrestlemon Technico (after the lucha libre term “tecnico” meaning technician and referring to a babyface or hero) as they begin their path toward competition in the world of Wrestlemon. In their way is Jacey’s rival Thad and his Wrestlemon Roodo (after the lucha libre term “rudo” meaning rough and referring to a heel or villain) as Thad struggles to escape the shadow of his legendary father and his Wrestlemon Flaireon. All paths lead to a Wrestlemon gym where Jacey and Thad must prove their worth as trainers and their Wrestlemon demonstrate the ability to overcome in such a highly competitive environment.
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Tagged Jerry Whitworth, pokemon, review, wrestlemon, Wrestling
Top 10: Favorite Articles at CAC
Top 10: Favorite Articles at CAC by Jerry Whitworth
Hey Stranger Rangers, I told you I’d be back and here we are. As I said in my last post, ComicArtCommunity.com and I have parted ways and over my five year career with the site, a few of my 267 articles have stood out. Previously we covered the most popular articles on CAC where now we’ll examine my favorite. The criteria for my favorite articles largely encompass one prevalent component: hard work. While I tend to invest a lot of time and energy into many of the pieces I write, some I have really needed to pore over and research. As such, many of these projects I’ve needed to care a great deal about in order to bring to completion (as I assure you, not every article I begin crosses the finish line). Of course, some of the most popular articles were also my favorite (like “Destroy All Monsters! Tokusatsu in America”) but for the sake of this list, there will be no repeats. Without further ado, my favorite articles I’ve crafted for CAC.
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Tagged Anime, Captain Marvel, Comic Books, comics, Jerry Whitworth, Martian Manhunter, Marvel Studios, Top 10, Wrestling