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That's what I meant. Venis does do more in his few minutes on TV than HHH does with his 20 mintues on PPV. I only used the Masters match because it was recent, short, good, and involved a poor wrestler. If you want to see what Venis can do with time, check out his PPV matches with guys like Rikishi and D'Lo. He takes what he gets and does more with it. Also, when watching any midcard match on WWE TV you have to remember that they're not allowed to go all out like main eventers are. According to WWE, the opening match isn't supposed to be a good as the main event. The bottom card guys aren't allowed to show up the top card guys.

This is the first time in my life where my jaw literally dropped and stayed there while I stared. Yargh...

Benoit/JBL. Someone book it now.

See... I'm with Hoffalump. C's gonna win.

That sounds better than JR/King, actually.

Tenay/Coach/Styles on RAW and Matthews/Tazz on SD would be super-great.

At least I have a posting personality, "tekcop". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Six years of on-and-off message boarding and this is the first insult ever thrown at me? Y'know, I'm sure I could latch on to someone's teet until I got noticed too. But really, what is your personality now? You're like a cross between a sycophant sidekick and one of those guys that jumps in people's faces and yells "funny" things at them to get attention. Excellent.

Venis does better with what he's been given than HHH has with what he has. Monday night Venis and Chris Masters went out and worked a four minute match on RAW with probably less than a day to plan anything out and had a good match which got the crowd interested in both men. HHh gets twenty minute PPV matches with whomever he wants with weeks of planning available and has boring matches. Thus, Venis is better.

The word "penis" followed by a question about a child and a pacifier. Nope, nothing creepy there.

Funny, I can't really think of any four star HHH matches, either. That's weird. Also, think of all the time and road agent help HHH has been given and how many bad matches he's still had compared to how little Venis is given and how many bad matches he's given.

Explain.

MMH's like one of those guys who seems like a nice enough guy who you might even consider being friends with until he hooks up with the wrong crowd and tries to show off in front of them. I don't get it. It's like his whole posting "personality" changed after Kotz started paying attention to him.

I am so getting the Taker set, especially if it has the Angle SD match and some Cena matches. Edit: Fuck, I guess I should have payed more attention to people's posts.

Yes, yes they are. Also, I'd like to point out that Keith is a moron and that the Jordan/Moore match was the best match of the night.

I didn't think anyone payed attention to him anymore.

You lie. Eddie Benoit Rey London Benjamin Michaels JBL Venis Regal Tajiri There, ten wrestlers off the top of my head better than HHH at his best.

There should be a rule against posting that picture. I mean, god, post the other fucking picture. Atleast it's less scary.

Fuckin' ninja smileys and their drugs.

This makes the pm I got feel less special.

I don't want all my "hard work" to go to waste so I'm sticking my indie comic thread here until JWing's back. Don't like it? Fuck you or something to that extent. --------- One of my favorite things in the whole world is independant/small press comics. There just something about a writer and artist actually getting to show people exactly what he or they wanted without having to worry about making anyone happy. I stopped reading comics all together a little over year ago, but I'm starting to get back interested in the little guys. I plan on writing reviews for just about everything I can find. That way, I have something pushing me to find more cool stuff besides just entertaining myself. I'm helping out these self publishers by getting their name out, even if it is only to a select few on a mesageboard. I'll will warn you, though. I'm not much of a writer, I'm just doing this out of love. Also, if anyone her reads any indie comics and has any recommendations or would like to review something, this is the place for that. First review: Teenagers from Mars by Rick Spears and Rob G Original issues published in 2001-2003. Collected in 2005 Macon's your typical, starving comic book creator living in Mars and Mars is your typical, American suburbian town. It has a MallMart, a comic book store, some grave robbing kids, and a mayor with a hook for a hand. Macon writes and draws his comics during the night, copies and prints it on the mornings his buddy works at the copy store, and works at MallMart during the day. He's got a pretty normal life going on until an overly up-tight mother comes into the store complaining about the violent nature of a comic her son had been sold. Words are exchanged and the woman promises to never come back again. Pissed off, the manager tells Macon to get rid of all the comics on the magazine rack. A comic lover, Macon can't bring himself to do that. Words and fists are exchange and our hero is suddenly jobless. While this is going on, on the other side of the store a creeping sexual offenders picks the wrong girl to try and sneak an upskirt look. Our heroeine, Madison, beats the crap out of him fo her troubles. Our girl is punk, that's all you need to know. Madison's is being escorted out by sercurity when Macon notices her. As fate would have it, these two meet up at a party later that night and leave together. After some stupid, teenage vandalism and kiss they part ways and go home. Only this is a night they'll never be able to forget about no matter how much they may or may not want to. Macon gets the stupid idea breaking into his old place of employment and spray painting "Comic Book Liberation Army" on the front of the store, garnering the attention of the mayor and a hard nosed investigator. The mayor goes on television claming that comics are destroying the moral values of kids today, Macon is arrested, the comic book store is pickited, and comics are burnt. I guess that means it's time to fight back. So a comic book about a starving indie comic book creator and the general stupidity of small towns with large groups of self-righteous people, sounds like a neat concept. Unfortunately, the plot doesn't quite live up to the idea. My biggest complaint is that the underlying storyline is very bland. There's a lot of interesting subplots such as the mayor trying to make an example out of Macon and the Comic Book Liberation Army to show off how tough he is on crime since it's election month, and the three kids trying to scrape up enough money through any means necassary to buy a collector's item comic. Issue #4 ended on a bit of a cliffhanger on that storyline and it was never brought up again for the rest of the book. Another big problem I had with the book is that it took it's time to get halfway then rushed to the finish. In the first few issues we meet the characters, they meet each other, and a little vandalism is done on all parts, then, suddenly, characters are assaulting town officials, getting arrested, shot, and stealing cars and then it's over. As for the art, I don't really have an eye for that kind of thing, but I do like it. There's some manga influence, but not much. It's done in grey tones, like color, but in black and white. Ultimately, I'm not sure what I think of Teenagers from Mars. I like it, but it doesn't feel like it could be as good as it could. I'm stil going to recommend it as something for anyone looking for something in their funny books besides spandex. Recommended Edit: I'd like to mention that while everything that happened in this book was imaginary it was inspired by the real life treatment of a man named Mike Diana. Story here. Next up: Dan Berger's Gutwallow -------------------- Bride of Freakshow #1 by C. G. Kirby and a slew of artists. $2.99 Published February 2005 by Digital Webbing I know I promised all four of you who read my other review that I'd do Gutwallow next but I found this while cleaning off my shelves yesterday and I felt like reviewing it. Digital Webbing isn't quite as small press as I plan on doing, but when I first started reading DW published books years ago they were really small and almost entirely done over a message board, so it still feels ok with me. Anyways, on to the review. Bride of Freakshow is a collection of short stories written by C. G. Kirby, a regular contributor to DW's Digital Webbing Present's anthology book. While all of his stories that I've read have followed a certain pattern, although they are generally well written and sometime spooky. It's kind of like reading a comic book version of the Twilight Zone; either the good guys lose or they think they win while the viewer is shown that whatever evil they thought was gone isn't quite. There are four stories, all of which end with a foreboding tone. You never see what happens to the characters or the world they live in, but you know it's not going to be good. The art for each story is handled by a different artist. Greg Scott pencils and inks "Shell Shock," a WWII story about experimental warfare weapons. Scott has a very dark, almost inky style that works well with the given plot. Enzo Pertile does the work on "Flu Bug" which is about a sick kid who realizes his virus isn't quite normal after it jumps out of his nose and attacks him. The only real way I can find to describe Pertile's art is "cartoony Mcfarlane." Not my cup of tea, but certainly not bad. The visuals for "Medicine Men" is handled by Steven Perkins. It's about an extremely strange illness that happens in a small tribal village in Tanzania. Perkin's art is awesome. Parts of it are painted, some of it is colored, and some's in black and white; very unique. The last story, "Drones," is about a corporation's experiment with replacing regular office workers with half-ant half-human workers. It's drawn by Steve Morris. I can't reall recomend this book enough, I don't think. It's the perfect single issue anthology comic. Four short stories, all really good. If you're a fan of The Twilight Zone, you should probably like this. Recommened Next up: Hopefully I can do Gutwallow before this weekend. I need to re-read it first. ------------------- I'm using this thread to pimp a web-comic screw you haters and all that. I'm a part of the Ferret Press newsletter and it seems that Dara Naraghi, one of my personal favorite writers at the moment, has his very own web-comic at Movie Poop Shoot. I urge everyone who reads this thread to give it a shot. Naraghi's got a great sense of dialogue. He's probably my favorite "talking heads" writer currently doing things. Here's the link. Admittedly, the first strip isn't great, but give it a shot and if you like it, buy his stuff. He's good people, I tell you.

Kitten's are the cutest creatures on Earth.

I really need more information on this guy. I mean, I need more than that picture. It's become this sick interest of mine. I can't stop thinking about him.

Can posters jump the shark or is that only for television shows?

Carlito is the new Piper. Y'know, without the coked out promos.

OK. Now do something to make us hate you.