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They were, up until he did a face vs. face curtain jerker against Sal Bellomo, as I recall. But by then Backlund's aura and popularity had completely waned from that six year peak when he was champion.

In AJPW you had rigid hierarchy but also some pretty great moments where the aces of the company (Jumbo, Misawa) would really put over guys with great selling and some very famous losses. So I'd say they were at various times very unselfish top guys.

Speaking as an actual lawyer who has refrained from commenting until now, the conclusion reached here is ... grossly ignorant about legal ethics. Asking for money damages on behalf of a client is not grounds for disbarment in almost any circumstances. I have no opinion to share about the merits of the case, because like everyone else on this message board, I don't know nearly enough to offer an informed opinion. Much as I detest sexual abuse.

I too am a big fan of 70s Marvel doing work with literary IPs such as Howard's Conan stories and Burroughs' Barsoom novels. I'm not sure the latter are available on Marvel Unlimited, however. I should go look. There are a couple of very famous cover illustrations featuring Dejah Thoris and John Carter from that period. Marv Wolfman was the writer.

It's very good too, I'd have to re-read to say definitively which I prefer. By default I think Claremont's run (obvious warts and all) is the all-time best, followed by Morrrison, Gillen, and the current offerings.

Marvel Unlimited is definitely worth it. Been subscribing for close to a year. Since my interest is primarily in older comics, it's a gold mine. I've been impressed with some modern stuff; the current X-Men titles as a whole are very very good. Probably the best overall since Grant Morrison's New X-Men run.

The animal pelt dude has just been arrested.

Allow me to agree, I've always really enjoyed it. I'd stipulate that WWE doesn't put on great steel cage matches all that often, but when they do succeed they are outstanding, like this one was. Since I'm an older fan I'd rate Hart over Bryan because I have way more emotional investment and familiarity with Bret's career, but there's no doubt that Bryan is a fantastic worker and has been for a long time. Most days of the week if you ask me what is the best match in WWE company history, I'll say Bret vs. Owen at WM X; Hart vs. Austin at WM 13 would be way up there too. That goes a long way with me.

Same here, which is why the pandemic pushed me into reading lots of 60s, 70s, and post 2000s Marvel. I'd read and collected a ton of 80s and 90s Marvel in those decades.

I've been reading Byrne on FF myself. And high on my docket in the new year is Simonson's Thor.

I've been meaning to do a deep dive on the Starlin stuff from the 70s I have not yet read (Captain Marvel and Warlock) and I'm encouraged by the opinions voiced here. Will move that towards the top of my list.

He was truly a great performer whose contributions far exceeded his in-ring career. He will be missed.

Good luck with the project. Count me as a fellow fan of Jumbo. Welcome to the board.

You are not the first person to say so in my experience. I read some of Jaka's Story twenty years ago, I should give it another go.

Doctor Strange featured some great art and I believe there were delays and some back and forth because Frank Brunner put out great pages but balked at the deadlines. I have been meaning to look at the Chronicles but when I want to know history stuff I can just usually ask my comic store owner friend and he will just fill me in.

Cerebus is definitely a lost classic and a very good friend of mine who ran a comic shop for close to twenty years is a big fan of it as well. I need to go back to it, I never collected the series and only read a few issues here and there.

Sandman is my all-time favourite series; Astro City would be a close second. I've been reading tons of classic Marvel titles because of the pandemic and by far the most consistently good title for an extended period on re-reading now is Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. Since I drifted away from comics around the turn of the millennium, I'm diving into the Ultimates Marvel era; I've been liking it so far.

I dove into Marvel Unlimited in the last month and have been reading Doctor Strange, and have had loads of fun with the various runs (I collected Sorcerer Supreme back in the day). Diving into John Byrne's FF run now and will be exploring later iterations of FF soon.

All I can say to this is I count my blessings that I live in BC - as does @Ricky Jackson - where our government basically told the NHL to take a hike when they wanted to soften some of our stringent public health measures so that we could have the privilege of hosting their ridiculous made-for-TV play-in tournament games. It's yet another reason our ranking public health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, has been nominated for Canada's highest civilian honour and had a profile in the NYT. And my mother and sister would tell you she has excellent taste in shoes and is getting her own tribute shoe made for charity by the designer.

Sad news. I would always mark out when there was a title change and he'd announce ... " and new [insert title belt name] champion [insert wrestler name] .... !".

Without diving into the potential issue of jurisdiction in a hypothetical lawsuit by shareholders against McMahon, speaking as another lawyer here on the board I too think the above discussion is spot on.

Having watched the Hayes vs. Robin match, I can't quite get over the fact that I can confidently say that Al Hayes held up his end in 1957 in a 30 minute singles match which I have no qualms rating 4* on first impressions.

What about a link to the podcast?

Jumbo Tsuruta in '89 (a banner year for several all-time great wrestlers in several territories) should make the shortlist.

Just watched this and was tremendously impressed. I really must see more of both guys.