It’s 2012, it’s time for Wrestlemania! In anticipation of the biggest professional wrestling event of the year, we welcome Super Pro KO’s Jarrett Williams and Chikara Pro Wrestling commentator Leonard F. Chikarason to the show! Chris and the guys run down all the stuff they’d like to see happen at this year’s showcase of the immortals, and Matt asks some questions from the perspective of someone who hasn’t kept up in a few years. It’s an extravaganza!
The Rundown
- Leonard and Jarrett are on Twitter! Follow ’em!
- The card for this year’s Wrestlemania isn’t even on the Wrestlemania website, but at least it’s on Wikipedia.
- If you’ve never seen a live wrestling show before, you could win this Chikara contest!
- Witness the hilarity of Ebessan.
- Here’s Parker Posey’s WWE movie debut. And check out the amazing cast list of Little Creeps, featuring Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Joe Estevez, Robert Z’Dar and many others.
- Take a look at Matt Digges’ awesome Draw Something drawings! And here’s Matt Wilson’s drawing of “Spoon!”
- Chris’ checks and recs: Draw Something, “The Atomic Elbow” fanzine
- Matt’s checks and recs: Stand-up showcase, Eastbound and Down
- Music used: Wrestlemania themes of the ages
Comics Talked About:
- Justice League #7
- Batman #7
- Secret History of D.B. Cooper #1
- Wonder Woman #7
Shameless Self Promotion:
- The @FakeAPStylebook book, Write More Good, is still available to buy right here!
- Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
- Check out Matt’s Fake e-Etiquette Twitter feed, his webcomic Copernicus Jones, his Tumblr and the ISS.
- Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
- Check out Max Huffman on Twitter, or at his site.
- Check out Rusty Shackles on Twitter, or at his site.
Remember to send in your listener questions to warrocketpodcast_at_gmail.com!
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Good argument for WW7 does not fit into myth:
http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.ca/2012/03/on-wonder-woman-7.html
It certainly does an excellent job of talking down to/insulting the intelligence of anyone who would think a comic that has been entirely about Greek myth up to now would expect something to hew closely to Greek myth.
The myths of the Amazons and the Sirens are two different things and don’t really have anything in common besides “women”. I don’t think anyone had a problem with the DC Amazons being derived from the parts of myth that described independent warrior women, but combining that with another story and making them seductresses that actually need men but still hate them to the point they go out of their way to kill them seems like an unnecessarily misogynistic adaptation.
Incidentally, Matt’s Rec was thematic as well – Court Bauer, one of the writers on Eastbound and Down, used to run Major League Wrestling and was a writer for WWE.
I haven’t watched wrestling for years, but I do enjoy you guys’ occasional wrestling-themed show.
In keeping with this episode’s theme, watch this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9obAE2w26Y
Court Bauer never wrote for Eastbound and Down. It’s a story he made up. Complete lie.