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[Rob Naylor @NINaylor]

Yoshida vs Akino
1999 ARSION

[Rob Naylor @NINaylor]

Victor Zangiev in UWFi

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

Mark Gruenwald had some serious penciling chops.

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@millerman Any tips for old dogs to remain injury free and mitigate the danger of spazzy white belts? 🤣

[Vintage Puroresu プロレス @vintagepuro]

Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith x Dean Malenko & Joe Malenko. Korakuen Hall roars with appreciation for this technical tag team masterwork. (1.28.1989) 🌟

[LAST-MAN @Game_Over9891]

これ昭和だぜ…。

[Kurt Angle @RealKurtAngle]

In 1996, on this day 29 years ago at the Olympics in Atlanta, Ga…. I proudly represented the USA and won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling, with a broken freakin neck!! 😃. #olympics #goldmedal.

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

Just finished this bad boy. Great book. Wanted to check it out ever since I read Peter David’s Hulk novel in the late 1990s. It’s funny how much this novel feels like PAD’s comic book work…his singular voice shines through be it prose or comics.

Episodes you might want to watch before reading this - "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (TOS), "The Squire of Gothos" (TOS), "Encounter at Farpoint" (TNG), "Yesterday's Enterprise" (TNG), "Parallels" (TNG), "Tapestry" (TNG), "Attached" (TNG).

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@ManFirestorm Steve Rogers represents the reconciliation of courage and love…which is TRUTH.

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

A very nice two-parter from Stainless Steve Englehart and a striking example of his esoteric compositional depth. Tigra has changed from favoring the tiger and its manifestations of physicality, aggression, lust, spontaneity, and impulsiveness to taking refuge within the human/woman and its “soft” traits of intellect, restraint, modesty, calculated behavior, and self-control.

There is an overarching play on Apollonian and Dionysian forces throughout the issues. The natural (Apollonian) forces of gravity, electromagnetism, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear are represented by the cadre of wonderful b-list baddies Graviton, Zzaax, Half-Life, and Quantum Man, respectively. These natural forces are pitted against the forces of the heart (Dionysian); freedom and control. Graviton is able to subdue the ferocious, wild animal of abandon yet is unable to contain the quiet strength of the human/woman.

Steve also displays comic book craftsmanship which is readily apparent. Graviton uses his gravitational mastery to divert Mockingbird’s radio distress call intended for the East Coast Avengers into the cold void of space. I enjoyed Greer’s (Tigra’s) use of a gravity field to KO one of Graviton’s guards. Also, Al Milgrom does one helluva splash page of Graviton at the end of issue 12.

One may say these are just two issues of West Coast Avengers and my fancy flight on the wings of psilocybin, but to me these stories are a meditation on the Hegelian dialectic, a display of “the becoming”, the conflict, revelation and reconciliation of Tigra’s two souls.

#steveenglehart #hegel #psilocybin

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@mrmarkmillar @robertliefeld @JoeMadx Got all excited excited for the Steve Englehart interview but it’s not posted yet 🥲 looking forward to listening 🤘🤘

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@mrmarkmillar The look, feel, and even smell of newsprint has a stronger energy than glossy paper.

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@TheDayGhost @mrmarkmillar @MrGabeHernandez @robertliefeld Lol I’ve been thinking about asking “ What happened to the Steve Englehart interview?” for days now. I’m glad to see others are interested!

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

I’ve always been captivated by this prose piece…not so much the writing itself, but the blocky bold font, orderly columns, and muted greens of the atmospheric illustrations. Blasting this out into the aether for posterity. #bigbangcomics #prosepiece

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

A couple nice pages from Avengers #39 by Dazzlin' Don Heck!

Very fun issue. Roy Thomas (he just can't help himself!) emulates All-Star Comics by splitting-up the team to tackle the Mad Thinker and his Triumvirate of Terror: Hammer-Head, Pile Driver (who later became an enforcer for Hyrda during Tony Isabella's much vaunted DD run) and Thunderboot!

I ask myself this now, and I must ask it of you, learned scholars...what became of Thunderboot?!

[Kurt Angle @RealKurtAngle]

This occurred at the 1972 Olympics. The 250 pound East German wrestler, Wilfried Dietrich did the “impossible”. He suplexed American wrestler Chris Taylor (450 pounds) and pinned him. I had this poster on my wall while growing up, for motivation. #wrestling #olympics

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@mrmarkmillar Jim Shooter
Steve Englehart
Doug Moench

[Mike Hollow @RealMikeHollow]

Virtua Fighter 6 x Dragons Forever

[Slaybag @ProfSlaybag]

@TheVallyD Great post! Excellent use of alliteration (DMT-dabbler) 👍