Comments for Scott's Blog of Doom

Comment on Lightning Round: Comics Edition by SHough610

SHough610 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:33:34 +0000

We’ll have to agree to disagree about Brubaker (and I like Fraction, you should check out his Invincible Iron Man). I’m just not a fan of any X-book at this point, I loved Astonishing X-Men and X-Men when Morrison wrote it tho.

I agree with you 100% about Tomasi, I got caught up on GLC and think that he’s killing it on that book.

Comment on Eddie Guerrero Division: Quarterfinals! by CEOIII

CEOIII — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:31:55 +0000

a) I believe Dynamite was out of the business by the time Arn and Larry started teaming, and b) I don’t believe Arn and Larry were ever a team on Vince’s payroll. Did Larry Z ever work for McMahon?

Comment on Eddie Guerrero Division: Quarterfinals! by The Fuj

The Fuj — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:08:52 +0000

I will also go on record and say that those 3 teams are the most overrated teams of all time in terms of workrate.

They never had a good match without a table/ladder/chair involved.

Everybody splooges themselves when talking about that 3way feud. I never got it. I thought it overblown and complete trash. No workrate. Crazy heat, but no lasting effects. 2 out of the 6 made it to the next level and it took years to do so. One had to change his style drastically (edge, and will do so again when he comes back from the achielles tear) and the other was… Jeff Hardy: Reason #1 you dont push drug addicts no matter how over they are.

Comment on Eddie Guerrero Division: Quarterfinals! by The Fuj

The Fuj — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:36 +0000

(toughie, both had great matches and both teams drew money but I decided to go with Bulldogs because I don’t think Dudleys had a good match outside Hardyz and E&C),

They didn’t.

Comment on Lightning Round: Comics Edition by The Fuj

The Fuj — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:58:25 +0000

X-Men is a team book, he wrote the Vulcan story (which was good) but from there he wrote bullshit. “Extremists” Bullshit. His 3 parter to Messiah Complex? Garbage. And he was off the book. I just think that he wrote that Vulcan story to placate his ego.

His Cap is awesome. From Cap.. to Bucky, and a supporting cast Its still one MAIN character and if said character isn’t in the book, the supporting character talk about the main character ad nauseum.

Along with his bum protege Matt Fraction write UXM as a solo series Starring Cyclops.

I mean, Im thankful that it isnt the Wolverine show, but sheesh. there are at 500 X Men. Every f’n scene is Cyclops… and then Cyclops… Have you had some Cyclops lately? Try some. Its good… nom nom Cyclops… nom.

Cyclops has to be the most boring character in the X Men. And Fraction writes him as if he is this god-send. BUM.

Johns on the other hand… He was made for DC. A little too Silver Age-y for me, but he is a great writer. He got me to love Green Lantern, and Superman Secret Origin is just the shit.

I will say this. The writer who is being slept on is Pat Tomasi. Wirter of GL Corps. Its even better than GL. IMO.

Comment on Eddie Guerrero Division: Quarterfinals! by 5 Star List

5 Star List — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:24:02 +0000

This has got me thinking: have Bulldogs and the Enforcers ever had a match during their WWF tenure?

Comment on TNA and ROH by nwa88

nwa88 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:23:34 +0000

Yeah, plus I guess another big draw for Nitro that might have got them off to a big start was the promise for main event matches versus JTTS on RAW. That’s probably a big part of it.

Comment on Lightning Round: Comics Edition by SHough610

SHough610 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:20:36 +0000

I completely disagree with you about the one trick pony part. I didn’t read his Uncanny X-Men run, but has anyone besides Joss Whedon or Grant Morrison written a good X-Men (I mean X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Treme X-men, not counting X-Force or X-Factor) since Claremont? Johns wrote a good, not great, Avengers book and that doesn’t make him a one trick pony.

You can’t hold UXM against him when he’s written: over fifty incredible issues of Cap (defining the character the same way that Frank Miller defined Daredevil, and I’m someone who’s read the Englehart, Stern/Byrne, Waid, and Gruenwald runs on Cap so that’s saying something), a great run on Daredevil, Criminal (probably the best non-superhero book on the market), Incognito, and Sleeper.

Comment on Eddie Guerrero Division: Quarterfinals! by 5 Star List

5 Star List — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:16:27 +0000

Los Guerreros, The Fantastics (seriously underrated team, which is why I think they’ll lose here), British Bulldogs (toughie, both had great matches and both teams drew money but I decided to go with Bulldogs because I don’t think Dudleys had a good match outside Hardyz and E&C), Tully & Arn (another toughie. both had great matches, but went with the Enforcers because I think they drew money whereas WGTT didn’t).

Comment on TNA and ROH by The Fuj

The Fuj — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:07:52 +0000

94 before the “Hogan Love-in” as Scott puts in his books was on fire. WCW Saturday Night had a built in audience already and with Turner owning both TBS/TNT it was easy to say.

“Tune into our new Monday show”

Not to mention, Hogan/Flair despite its one sided-ness did good business. The old WWF guys who showed up still had a shelf-life. I think this attributed to when Hogan left the WWF, ALOT of fans did as well. And when he showed up in WCW, it piqued interest, then you saw the different product WCW put on.

Plus the WCW die-hards wanted to see Sting/Hogan Vader/Hogan etc. so that held interest.

And as a 15 yr old kid, the Macho/sting/hogan/luger thing had me. Tweener Luger was awesome.

then the NWO happened.