I can see by the horns
I’m not a huge wrestling fan, but I am constantly confronted by how many people who love comics also love wrestling. Fortunately I have read Simon Garfield’s “The Wrestling”, an incredible oral history of the UK scene, more than once because I am a huge fan of Simon Garfield. All my research for this story was done by watching old ITV wrestling on Youtube. I watched tons of it, eyes wide with delight.
I will not stop shipping these two, but I suspect Glim will not be in a fit state to take advantage of Little Claire’s excitement tonight.
Maybe Claire will be the one taking advantage of Glenn tonight. She’s all fired up.
If you can envision any circumstances under which Glen could “take advantage” of Claire, we may not be thinking of the same two characters…
Someone should tell Claire that this is not wrestling (at least not the good Olympic wrestling), it’s a massacre! But Claire now seems all fired up. Poor Kiwi, he fought bravely, now let’s see if Panda can win.
Authentic Kiwi softened up Ultimate Bully, now Mind Panda will finish him off!
But will they have anything left for Plague Doctor?
All I can say is, this is a tough way to earn a burger.
If Plague Doctor is anything like Susan Ptolemy, they have no chance.
Talking about wrestlefans on Youtube, the guys from WrestleMe have been beautiful at giving all kinds of background on the criminally underserved history of the British scene before Vince McMahon ate everything. Assuming that’s not who you were talking about, of course.
I didn’t realize on the last page that Lottie’s panda ears are actually her hair. Nice touch.
Hah. Based on panel 2 of the July 26th comic, I’d thought she was wearing a Mickey Mouse hat, with the ears.
The cad! Doesn’t he know that kiwis are vulnerable?!
This one certainly is!
I assume TheWreck meant “endangered” but your answer stands anyway.
I believe “vulnerable” is one of the ranks or stages on the scale.
The bull bent Kiwi’s beak! For this he shall pay!
I’m starting to think maybe Lottie and and I were a little overly generous in assessing Real Kiwi’s fighting prowess.
Kiwi’s fighting super power is the ability to run fast – away from his opponent. He should use it.
I’d thought he’d try to use the tampolinish properties of the “squared circle”, but maybe they wound the surface a little too tight when they set it up.
I’d just like to mention that the episode of Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends that’s about wrestling is probably the best one he’s done.
Coming up next – some proper pandemonium!
That’s panda-monium.
Perhaps Glorm should have embodied one of New Zealand’s more powerful and majestic fauna such as the kākāpō (a type of flightless parrot) or takahē (a flightless swamphen)!
Or Haast’s Eagle, which could fly, but can’t any more as it’s extinct
The kakapo can inflict an unpleasant shagging when aroused!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
It’s not unpleasant for the kakapo. He quite enjoys it.
The kakapo can inflict an unpleasant shagging when aroused!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY]
A meat-eating parrot would definitely be more fitting in a wrestling match.
Or a bottle of Savingon Blanc, but that probably wouldn’t fit with the animal motif going
Giant moa. Only five or six hundred years extinct. Certainly they could be grandfathered in.
I was quite intrigued by the ads that appeared in Fortean Times for some years advertising a zine that promised discussion of British Wrestling’s ‘dark side’.
Never intrigued enough to actually order a copy, but intrigued nonetheless.
There is no dark side of wrestling, really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
I have often pointed out that most comics are 1/2 soap opera and 1/2 professional wrestling.
On the risk of being banned from the UK foreever: The only sports stranger (i.e. more asenine) than wrestling is Cricket.
And John Allision is the only person who could explain Cricket in a way that gave me a basic idea of its rules.
You are definitely banned from the UK and now the USA is starting to play cricket, you might find yourself stateless.
U.S. beat Pakistan in the T20 World Cup!
There’s cricket at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics too!
Well, there goes the neighborhood…
I’ve developed a bizarre habit of watching cricket matches from the other side of the planet late at night. I…I like it better than baseball! I may have to seek asylum if my countrypeople ever find out.
ONE OF US ONE OF US
MANY years ago, on one of those bus tours of The Greatest Hits of England, at Bath, after I saw the namesake, I decided to spend the rainy evening in, catching up on some rest. I had the telly in the room turned on to a cricket match, and by the end, I began to catch the glimmer of a hint of how the game worked.
You know, it’s not that hard, and I wrote up a nice little summary of the rules.
Then I deleted it, on the premise that it’s actually far easier for the strip to exploit that eternally rich vein of cricket-related humor if no one here actually ever demystifies “silly mid-on”.
I too am a huge NON-fan of wrestling, Olympic or otherwise.
As for the “otherwise”, those who wonder if it’s real or not are asking the wrong question. The real question is, is it *staged* (the outcome scripted)? Of course it is. Always has been, probably.
Having said that, the pain–and sometimes blood–can be real enough, I s’pose.