Stop booking terrible, stupid finishes, Vince. The āRasslinā Report: Your āRasslinā Dictionary When you know your babyfaces (good guys) from your heels (bad guys), you can impress the smarks (the āsmart markā internet fans). fuck finish (noun): a contrived finish that serves only as a workaround for bookers and fails to answer the kayfabe question…
Like most comic book journos, I do this for fun ā and āfunā there can be a few different things, from ripping on the trash books that deserve it to marveling at the ones that do the artform proud. In my interview pieces, I look for the characters, the creators, the people who tell stories…
Building a wrestling promotion around being cute is not. The āRasslinā Report A wrestling promotion ā like many other fallible human enterprises, really ā is a lot like a sandcastle. It can be intricate. It can be sloppy. It can be impressive. It can be the product of hours of hard work, or it can…
You got me, Robert Kirkman. The Splash There is something so unabashedly commercial in re-releasing āThe Walking Deadā in color that I canāt help but like it. Tellinā fans it wonāt be collected and makinā āem snap up those floppies? For a series thatās already made dump trucks of television and licensing* money? Itās so…
Welcome to the first of our new review feature: āBat Chat with Matt (and Will!).ā Weāre starting off with a big one, folks (Or is it? Weāll get to that), the end of the āJoker Warā story. As Gotham burns and the Bat-family tries to hold it together, Batman and Joker face down in a…
Itās all true. The Splash Tuesday was not a good day. And while none of you came here for presidential debate analysis, itās worth noting that what was once a sacrosanct observation in our national political tradition became so messy and vapid that CNN personality Dana Bash called it a āshit showā only minutes after…
The Autumnal #1 Writer: Daniel Kraus, Artist: Chris Shehan, Colorist: Jason Wordie, Letterer: Jim Campbell, Publisher: Vault Writers ā all of whom loathe the process of editing ā have plenty of advice for getting through the ordeal. British writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote in 1916 that scribes should ā[m]urder your darlings,ā meaning that those funny…
Because we canāt start with wrestling *every* week. William C. Nevin Memorial Pick of the Week Bourbon. Comics. Whatever. Itās my pick. This week? A big-ass IDW sale at comiXology. In prepping for our next āAssigned Readingā piece here at Xavier Files, I hit up comiXology to grab the first trade in the IDW TMNT…
They can’t all be winners. Find out why Will Nevin’s not mad, just disappointed in IDW’s Mueller Report Graphic Novel, and why Robert Secundus shrugged at the first issue of the comiXology original series Edgeworld. The Mueller Report Graphic Novel Written by Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler, Illustrated by Shannon Wheeler, Published by IDW Gary,…
The Best Man Miro might be in trouble. The āRasslinā Report If I owned stock in Miro ā which I donāt, because heās the professional wrestler formerly known as Rusev ā Iād call in a hold or maybe even a sell order into my broker, because Iām down as hell on his AEW debut, primarily…
āIām so excited. Iām so scared. Iām so, Iām soā¦scared!ā Poor Jessie Spanoās āSaved by the Bellā lament came almost 30 years ago; her heart kathumping on account of her reliance on āKeep Alertā caffeine pills to keep up with both school and her singing group, Hot Sundae. (The episode āJessieās Songā is much goofier…
Howdy, yāall. Professor (seriously) Will Nevin here. When I came on board to Xavier Files, I was coming from a mostly three-man operation at WMQ Comics to a family of 30+ contributors, and I figured it would be neat to get some folkx together on occasion to talk about something weād all read. You know,…
When even low expectations canāt save a thing. A Short Review of āMarvelās Avengersā (PS4) It aināt great. The āRasslinā Report AEWās āAll Outā was a middling affair, but thereās only so much you can do when half your main event participants are either too old (Jericho, and I am sorry, but he canāt keep…
The mailbag? Yeah, itās full as hell. And Now, Your Questions Tweet me (@willnevin) or just scream at me with some stupid thing you want answered. If you donāt ask me questions, Iāll find you and beg you for them. Donāt make me beg. @BigDadEnergy_: What lessons from pushing the Inhumans can Marvel apply to…
Jimmie Robinson loves Hello Kitty and says he is an āold Black dude who looks like a high school janitor.ā Self-deprecating and honest about his demons, thereās nothing about the writer and artist on the surface that telegraphs the weirdness, the darkness, the madness that has enabled him to create and subsequently resurrect the Bomb…