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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.

Was at the last NXT house show with Ricky Jackson in Vancouver where the Street Profits closed the show with the announcement that they'd been called up to the main roster. They were hugely over during their match and the closing of the show, and had what seemed to me as genuine charisma. They were certainly able to improvise and deliver spontaneous promos from the middle of the ring. So I pretty much disagree with DMJ on every point. Of course I'm a middle-aged white Canadian guy so my opinion might be suspect?

Outstanding.

Dear Lord I did not expect to see the de Vere theory mentioned here. Can we stay on topic. (The Roland Emmerich film is terrible.)

There are so many venues to cover. It's a neat topic. The three notable Canadian venues do suffer from a paucity of extant footage, but Toronto, Montreal and Calgary all have a long history of professional wrestling being held in those cities. The Forum and Maple Leaf Gardens are gone now of course but as Kelly mentioned the Victoria Pavilion still stands (and it's the one venue of the three I've not been to so I can still fix that!).

The more I look at the list of candidates, the more I think my top ten list would have to have earlier stars on it: Whipper Watson, Gene Kiniski, Yvon Robert - whom in particular is a tremendous regional star with a lot of cultural importance - as well as big modern stars on it. I don't think I'd still vote Bret Hart as number one though.

Earl McCready probably should be considered on a list like this.

I was so happy to find that footage last year. A life well-lived by all accounts.

I hope to help with CBC research going forward, as Mr. Nelson well knows. A fun way to put research skills to use. Encore + is a worthwhile resource, for sure.

Okay, fair enough. I'll definitely find a way to check that out.