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He Man & Masters Of The Universe Power Of Fear #1, $2.95 Rob Zombie Spook Show Intl #1 (Of 5), $3.50 Formerly Known As The Justice League #5 (Of 6), $2.50 GI Joe Frontline Seeley Cvr #16, $2.95 Wolverine #7, $2.25

Actually, the story arcs are really pretty damaging to creative flow of a book. For example, look at the Denny O'Neil stuff on 'TEC in the 70's. Stand-Alones and two-parters blended together seamlessly, and while they told different stories they created consistant characters. Characters who would remember and reference their previous defeats. It felt more real, and things like exposition were handled quickly because of space constraints. Sure it was a pain sometimes, but 99% of the best comic fiction ever was written that way. Now, instead of writing a story that happens to warrant a TPB, they do it intentionally. They stretch out stories that creators of old could have wrapped up in 3 out to 6 or 7. And there's no flow. No sense of episodic continuity. It's like a movie franchise (especially the Ultimate line) where every 6 issues kinda sorta futhers the storylines and gives us a villain for the hero to beat. When you look at this in comparison to stuff like Miller's work on DD, or Starlin's on BATMAN there IS NO COMPARISON. Plus, with everyone doing it's making storytelling in the comic world predictable. It can be done and it works, especially when the writer doesn't change. Just change the artist up, since usually the art takes longer to do than the actual script. Mark Waid's current run on Fantastic Four is a great example of how this can be done right. All of the arcs can stand alone by themselves, yet still hav continuity from arc to arc.

and the only other WWEr to win an olympic medal is KURT ANGLe

Aside from Stevie being one of my obvious favorites, Stevie already has a bunch of neck problems. Neither of which make me happy.

At least Gberg has been selling the leg injury well. He even sold it during his little jumpy thing taunt.

TPB's are the way to go. When you preorder, they are much cheaper then buying each issue. I'm all in favor of producing comics in mind for trades. It gets better rotation of talent onto titles. My best example of this is with Incredible Hulk. In the last year or so, the only time I've picked up the title was for the arcs where Mike Deodato was drawing. That's the only reason I picked up the damn series. I don't know if it's just me, but another thing I've noticed is since most of the stuff is now written under the assumption that it will be colelcted into a 5 issue volume that stories are much tighter and don't seem to wander all over the place.

Batista messed up that powerbomb...it looked like crap.

Lebron's a better worker than Batista.

Battista is so goofy looking. He's got little disproportionate legs, just like Launchpad McQuack from Ducktales

Battista's sit out power bomb is impressive. If this was 1991.

He has a really creepy look on his face when he's playing with the bra in that commercial.

I'd rather see a Nathan Jones match than that segment.

So who is the 5th on Bisch's team going to be?

That's what I was thinking. Very odd. I don't even think they mentioned that during their WM program.

Not even Rosie could save this segment.

Austin/HBK's acting in this segment is really bad.

Everyone knows that all the cool people bring hardware and tools with them to WWE events. You never know when you're going to have to repair the Titantron.

Stupid Gail Kim. Terri's a better worker than her.

is that Jazz?

Molly Holly is dressing better each week.

Here's my WWF/E list.... Hulk Hogan - The Rock - Andre the Giant - Steve Austin Bret Hart - Shawn Michaels - Randy Savage - Kurt Angle Bruno Sammartino - Roddy Piper for WCW Sting - Ric Flair - Ricky Steamboat - nWo - Vader Dusty Rhodes - Goldberg - Harlem Heat - Lex Lugar Arn Anderson for ECW Raven - Tommy Dreamer - Shane Douglas - Sabu Terry Funk - Sandman - Justin Credible - RVD the Dudleyz - Joey Styles

I think one of the reasons why KsE has been so acceptable is that they were the only true metal band to come from Roadrunner Records in a long time. For one of the top indie labels in America that wound up being part of the Island/Def Jam conglomeration and to be cashing in on all kinds of crappy nü metal bands in recent times, it was surprising that they actually signed a quality real metal band. The lack of solos comes from their hardcoreness. Hardcore bands that are similar to them like 18 Visions, Zao, and Norma Jean all kinda stay away from solos. If their guitarists do not want to do solos, I'd rather them not put them into songs and make it sound forced. If they do not know how to write solos, I'd rather not hear them put crappy ones into their songs.

But that's what makes us special

Woo hoo~!

What I've heard about this series is pretty good, and I think i'll get the TPB once it's out.