Why, Will: Casting an All-Mutant SNL (You’ll Never Guess Who’s Chevy)

Stop booking terrible, stupid finishes, Vince. The ā€˜Rasslinā€™ Report: Your ā€˜Rasslinā€™ Dictionary  When you know your babyfaces (good guys) from your heels (bad guys), you can impress the smarks (the ā€œsmart markā€ internet fans). fuck finish (noun): a contrived finish that serves only as a workaround for bookers and fails to answer the kayfabe question…

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Why, Will: Kayfabe is OK, Really

Building a wrestling promotion around being cute is not. The ā€˜Rasslinā€™ 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…

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Why, Will: Hi, Iā€™m Will. Iā€™m a Mark for Colorized ‘Walking Dead.’

You got me, Robert Kirkman. The Splash There is something so unabashedly commercial in re-releasing ā€œThe Walking Deadā€ in color that I canā€™t help but like it. Tellinā€™ fans it wonā€™t be collected and makinā€™ ā€™em snap up those floppies? For a series thatā€™s already made dump trucks of television and licensing* money? Itā€™s so…

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    Battle Of The Atom Rankings

    Current Ranking of X-Men Stories These master rankings are the truth. There is no room for arguments, no room for disagreement. It is the definitive ranking of the X-Universe. This is not a quantitative measurement, there is no cumulative score, and there never will be. Factors such as uniqueness, historical significance, and the ever important how-much-I-want-to-reread-it-test,…

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