"The Joint" in "Phatsville Comix" #11

THIS scatalogically inclined Aussie indy comic has a wrestling link with The Joint, a comix jam featuring "Phatsville's Phinest" (John Stewart, Ben Cee, Brett Weekes, Will Kelly, Giles and Corey Warren).
The six-page yarn starts off with "the most amazing wrestling match in Phatsville history" courtesy of the Wide World of Wrestling Fuckwits: The Muscle-Bound Beauty vs Logan The Bionic Bogan.
However, the two combatants immediately fall in lust with each other and head home to pull cones and do naughty things together.
However, their horizontal shenanigans lead to tragedy when Beauty's powerful vagina accidentally rips off Logan's penis. Despite his demise, his cock runs off shouting, "Ah yes, freedom at last!"
Sadly, his freedom is short-lived as he's beaten, raped and murdered by Scro & Tum, Phatsivlle's Teste Warriors in true Mike Diana gross-out style.
Um...yeah, as you can see the storyline degenerates from stupid to really stupid at this point.
Still, there's a wrestling connection at the start of the tale, so it gets a guernsey in this blog.

To order Phatsville #11, e-mail phatsville@hotmail.com. It cost me AUD$5 from Kings Comics in Sydney.

Slamwich in “Deep Fried: Suicide Note” #2

HE LOOKS like a wrestler, but is he a wrestler? That was the question I put to Deep Fried creator Jason Youngbluth.

I wrote and asked, “Is Slamwich a wrestling-themed character? This info is vitally important to me and I need to know NOW!!! Er…please.”

His reply? “Slamwich is not a wrestler per se. I just thought he looked good as a luchador.”

Okaaaaay then.

If you want Jason’s filthy, totally non-PC but hilarious Deep Fried: Suicide Note #2 – featuring The Death Of Beepo The Clown (and a preview of Weapon Brown: Blockhead’s War) – e-mail him at comic@whatisdeepfried.com, go to his web site at www.whatisdeepfried.com or write to Death Ray Media, PO Box 10446, Rochester, NY, 14610, USA. Tell him Dann the Mann sent ya! The ish is 32 A5 B&W pages and a BARGAIN at US$3!

Krushki of “The Exiles”

TEMPTATION got the better of me today and I finally bought that second-hand copy of The Essential Super-Villain Team-Up Vol. 1 I’d seen sitting in Elizabeth’s bookstore for several weeks.

Hey, 400+ B&W pages of classic 1970s bombastic action starring Doctor Doom, the Red Skull, The Champions, The Avengers and the Sub-Mariner for only $16 was too good a deal to pass up. Plus I was a big fan of the short-lived title as a kid. The first 40 pages is even illustrated by the supremely talented Wally Wood! Bargain!

But who knew they’d be an extra bonus hidden in the tale reprinted from Astonishing Tales #4-5? Seems the Red Skull wants to conquer Latveria while its despotic ruler Doc Doom is chillin’ in some rich resort (in full armour, no less). He makes use of his old Axis allies the Exiles (first seen in Captain America #102, June 1968), one of them being the imaginatively named Krushki (what a Russian is doing hanging with a Nazi is beyond me, but…well, I don’t write the comics, I just read ’em). Krushki is – surprise, surprise – a “skilled wrestler” who favours the bear hug when putting the hurt on people.

Whether he has a pro or amateur background isn’t clarified, but I’ll assume he learned his trade from the Ivan Koloff School Of Professional Wrestling Heeldom.

Naturally, he and his motley colleagues (including some poor sap who uses a curtain as his weapon of choice) get royally fucked up by Doom who, let’s face it, is one pretty powerful dude.

So Doom beats up the Exiles AND the Red Skull and sends ’em packing. Great stuff (even if the last half of the yarn is illustrated by George Tuska, a cartooning jobber if ever I saw one).

And speaking of “Super-Villain Team-Up”…

I BOUGHT the first issue of the new five-part miniseries MODOK’s 11 – an Ocean’s 11-style rip off starring A.I.M.’s favourite big-headed megalomaniac genius. Seems MODOK’s recruiting some minor villains to help him in some super-heist and one of the guys he pulls in is the awesome rassler Armadillo (who’ve I’ve written about in the past in BP).

He’s introduced in this issue in a spectacular two-page spread wrestling El Chupacabra (whose costume resembles Ultimo Dragon somewhat) somewhere in Mexico. It’s nice to see the big guy back in Marvel continuity, especially now that he’s broadened his ring style to include lucha libre. You’d never see Kane or Kevin Nash doing that. Clearly, the man’s talented – even though he is a super-villain. And he has the best finishing move ever!

I’ll be following this title closely, particularly if we get to see more in-the-ring action from the Armadillo.

PREVIEW: Lucha Libre

FROM the pages of the briefly revived Metal Hurlant magazine comes Lucha Libre (from Image in September). Jerry Frissen, Bill, Witko and Tanquerelle explore the world of some down-and-out Mexican wrestlers in this cool anthology which, I understand, is based on a toy line. I WANT ME SOME OF THEM TOYS!!! (hint hint). Find out more about Lucha Libre at muttpop.blogspot.com/.

JESSE JUSTICE

I LOVE Jesse Justice’s lucha-themed art on Champions Of Justice (www.championsofjustice.net/), but it doesn’t look like he’s ever done an actual comic.
He’s clearly connected with the lads (and lasses) who used to put together From Parts Unknown – his artwork’s been published in past issues of the zine. Does this guy do comix as well? I hope so.

RABID

I JUST ordered this comic from www.smallzone.co.uk, so I don't have many details at this stage until it arrives. According to its description, Rabid is a British superhero comic with some wrestling in it. The creators are Scott Claringbold and Marc Olivent. It's 24 B&W pages, A4 format.
Here's the description off the web site:

"I quite enjoyed this dose of mayhem. If you like stories with loads of action, a healthy dose of bounty hunters and mutants, with a pinch of wrestling, then this comic is definitely for you. If not, then still buy it anyway, as Marc's artwork is a real treat."

A proper review on this comic soon, I hope.