Hey everyone, I wanted to share with you some more awesome wrestling comic strips that Martytholath showed me! Great work once again, Martytholath! Please go check out more of his work at his DeviantArt page here.
Fanmade botched spot strip -4 by joey2132132 on DeviantArt
Now that 2016 is officially over and 2017 is kicking off with a fresh start of Roman Reigns and John Cena challenging for WWE’s top championships, I wanted to take a look back at my most popular comics from 2016! These are the comics that really resonated with you, the readers of Botched Spot.com, and got you share the link with your friends, families, and everyone else. Based strictly off of page views, the most popular comics of 2016 were:
“Triple H Through the Ages”, from January 25th
While this one took a bit of planning as far as the dialogue and what people wore, remembering all the times Triple H has “helped” wrestlers out by beating them in big matches was fairly easy.
“Ryback at Home”, from May 9th
Sure, this one’s pretty wordy, but you just can’t cut down a good threatening rant from Vince McMahon.
“Stepdad Foley’s NXT Kids”, from September 28th
The NXT Kids are always a big hit and fun to draw, and Foley makes such a good punching bag for everyone.
“How Total Bellas Was Created”, from November 4th
Seeing people’s reaction to this comic almost makes up for the pain of watching “Total Bellas” and learning about John Laurinaitis’ sex life. Almost.
“Vince’s Quest”, from February 23rd
I’m not gonna lie, I totally forgot about this comic and had a lot of fun reading through it again when writing this article. Good ol’ crazy Vince! Will he ever learn? Well I guess not, because now it looks like Roman may hold two titles going into Wrestlemania 33.
I hope you all had as much fun taking this trip down memory lane as I did! Now that I know what gets the upvotes in people’s lives, please prepare yourself for many, many more comics about Vince being crazy, Triple H holding people down, and Foley being brought to tears by children’s insults.
As we boldly venture forth into a new year, I, as always, make time to reflect on the previous one. Predictions are the only tradition I’ve been doing at Botched Spot since I started way back in 2008, and it’s one of the most fun to do. Just because it’s fun doesn’t mean I don’t take it seriously though, and it’s now time to take a look back at at my predictions from 2015 for 2016 to see how well I did. Here we go!
Sadly, Blondie LaFemme and Lacy LaPants never had their shot at WWE, as the plans for the previously announced Divas Search revival were ended and instead WWE went full force with the Women’s Revolution. And while Bayley eventually made her debut, she still hasn’t had her chance to shine in main event matches. I’m going to have to call this one as a miss!
While TNA survived, so did their Pop TV deal! Another miss! And not only is TNA still on Pop TV, but they have a new investor in Anthem Sports who believes in them more than anyone. After TNA survived 2016, despite all of the legal bouts, wrestlers leaving, and rats in cages, I’d be a fool to predict that they lose a TV deal ever again.
I’m not sure if WWE Breaking Ground is ever coming back, but after their first season WWE’s obsession with pulling the curtain back subsided. Talking Smack comes close to the line, but just teases going over, without blatantly saying “these are characters being portrayed by athletes!” Another miss for me, but fortunately for the better.
Well it looks like my predictions scored a big ol’ zero out of three, but I’d honestly rather take a chance and get them all wrong than get three safe predictions right. Especially considering that I don’t put any money on these predictions. If there’s a Hardcore Wrestling Tournament in 2017 though, I’ll never stop bragging about predicting it!
