Hey all, Botched Spot reader Martytholath made some new wrestling comic strips about the rival to XFL that’s not the NFL, so please check them out on his Deviant Art page!
Longtime Botched Spot readers will know that I am a huge fan of Daniel Bryan. When I first saw him on NXT season one (no, I can’t claim to be a true original Bryan Danielson fan) it was love at first sight! Not only was he great in the ring, but his devil-may-care attitude really shined in challenges where he said he deserved to be eliminated or he handed out free copies of WWE programs when he was supposed to be selling them. “Down with capitalism!” he cried! He didn’t care if he was fired and you could tell.
When he was fired it was pretty hard though. I mean I was devastated when he was just “eliminated” from NXT, let alone fired from WWE entirely after choking out Justin Roberts with his tie. Mattel’s okay with wrestlers hitting each other with chairs, as soon as the ties come out they start worrying about impressionable kids?
Mattel never did capitalize on this by selling a Daniel Bryan action figure with a necktie accessory.
Even after Bryan’s return at SummerSlam 2010 when he quickly fell to the backburner in low card feuds with Cody Rhodes, Sin Cara, and the other Sin Cara, I never worried about him because I knew his skill would eventually bring him to the top. I loved watching him come out to no reaction but by the end of his match having the whole crowd cheering for him. I get similar feelings now watching Mustafa Ali on 205 Live. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On March third Botched Spot hit a big milestone: it turned ten years old! My comic has come a long way since those simple old drawings of Olav and Rad Bad that I started with and to celebrate I wanted to look back at some of my favorite types of comics from the past decade!
Great Moments for a Heel Turn!
My “Great Moments for a Heel Turn” comics were some of my most successful comics early on and ones that even people who didn’t watch wrestling enjoyed. Sure, they were a little formulaic, but these are a few of my early comics I can still look back on and feel proud of.
Animals as people!
Any time I get to draw animals talking or acting like people it’s a good day. I’m not even sure the Wyatts have been around alligators all that much, but it’s hard to turn down the opportunity to draw gators as pets/roommates.
