Archive for August 31st, 2009

Disney buys Marvel

Monday, August 31st, 2009

People have been e-mailing me about this all day, so I figured I’d comment.  And I think that comic nerds are over-reacting just a tad (as you’d expect), as I don’t think the Mouse is gonna swoop in and suddenly start giving a shit about the comics division.  I’m thinking that Disney’s board finds more change in their couch than Marvel takes in from comics in a month.  Really, the money here is from the movie division, thanks to the ultra-brilliant idea of creating an independent movie studio and shopping to individual studios.  Disney wants the rights to the characters, not the ability to mess with the comics that not many people actually read anyway. 

Plus, come on, Pixar doing a CGI Fantastic Four movie?  MADE OF WIN.

Wrestling Press #2

Monday, August 31st, 2009

http://www.thewrestlingpress.com/mag.html

Issue #2 sees another list from me, “16 Unlikely Professions for Pro Wrestlers”, as I explore the world of goofy gimmicks.  As well, Charlie Reneke defends John Cena. 

Check it out!

Wrestlemania: The TV Special

Monday, August 31st, 2009

What the fuck was the point of this show? I DVR’d it out of curiosity and was assaulted by an hour of video packages hyping nothing and advertising nothing.  Hey, John Cena won a title that he no longer has from a guy who’s not even currently wrestling, that’s nice.  The show was only 4 months ago and already all the storylines have no connection to anything here, except of course that HHH is still fighting Randy Orton in an infinite time loop of suck.  Since there’s no WWE show on NBC, I don’t really understand what this is supposed to make me watch.  I’m guessing it was just a contractual obligation on NBC’s part to burn off the failed SNME experiment, but why not just show the Shawn v. Undertaker match to hook new viewers instead of using storylines that mean nothing to the current product?