Formerly State Of… Now Just Plain Update…

Happy St. Patty’s Day. Enjoy your green stuff today.

Anyway, this was last week’s State Of The Blog thing that’s since been downgrade to a plain ol’ site update. Feeling sick the previous week and also some other stuff I had to deal with. A new video schedule was revised and updated on the March SotB post, which you can access on the sidebar. TLDR; the big Vania reviews are now set for April, while this month has more Tetris… exciting stuff, I’m sure.

Meanwhile, WCW Nitro Musings will continue on as scheduled… nothing else wrestling related on the horizon. For those who didn’t catch the Elimination Chamber musings last weekend, please do so because that’s about the extend of modern WWE as you’re going to see covered. I figured I’d comment on the Cody title win from last week until I realized that I’m past the point of actually caring about this Mania card and anything I’d say would be just random words on a page… which is pretty much what this is to begin with, but I’d like to say something worthwhile whenever I write (or type, in this case) words. Would be nice.

On a final note, I guess I should congratulate Joe Hendry on winning the NXT championship. I have a feeling that’s as far as he’s go before he ends up on the midcard doing jobs to The Miz or Logan Paul after they strip away everything that made the guy special in the first place. How ironic that the guy who used to run NXT when it was a really good show is somehow the same guy who can’t get me excited about CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns… which we already saw LAST YEAR (to an extent, but still…)

Enjoy your St. Patty’s Day, kids.

P.S. On a proper final note, I finally got around to fixing all the links in the Bite commentary page. Now if you want to hear my hot takes from 2002-2012, those links work now. Not sure why you’d want to, but it’s easy to go back and point and laugh. Have fun, I guess.

COMIC REVIEW – MMPR: Zord Quest #1

Zord Quest is a story that treads on fairly familiar territory; after an incident separates the Rangers, each one goes through their own personal trial to prove their worth as heroes in order to overcome the latest monster of the day from Lord Zedd. Chances are you’ve seen some variation of this story when it was called Alien Rangers and the little kid Rangers each went on their own personal journey to recover a piece of Zeo Crystal that would set up the next incarnation of Power Rangers.

Zord Quest almost follows that same template, but doesn’t quite hit the mark. It’s a one-shot story that gets resolved quickly. The trials that the individual Rangers go through serve only to reinforce their teamwork and apply their newly learned lessons to use in order to defeat the latest monster of the week. The trials themselves are resolved fairly quickly with no real substance behind it. There’s a sense that Zord Quest wants to say something, but fails to actually say anything.

On top of that, the continuity snafus are hard to ignore. The story supposedly takes place during the second season (or Year Two, as the book calls it), but they’re still using the Dinozords, which were mostly inactive and replaced with the Thunderzords. (Funny how all these MMPR Boom comics that wasn’t their main series always default to using the old Megazords and not the later ones despite timeline placement.) Lord Zedd is at least the main baddy. but his characterization is inconsistent with what was established during that time. It’s a story that neither fits with TV or comic continuity and as someone who followed this franchise since the very beginning, things like this do grate a bit.

Still, I’d be hard-pressed to call this bad. At worst, it’s a fairly ho-hum story with some questionable continuity snafus that almost harken back to the Hamilton Comics days, but on the other hand, it’s also straightforward in its storytelling that leads to the very obvious resolution and on that count alone, it’s more than fine. I do appreciate the much grittier artwork that’s at least a fair departure from the usual bland artwork that I’ve seen in some of these Mighty Morphin comics during that series run. It’s not quite perfect.

Zord Quest doesn’t offer much in terms of substance or anything that hasn’t been done before, but it makes for a quick read if you’ve got nothing better to do and can forgive the continuity gaffes. I’d call this “merely okay” and move right along.

Review #1295 – WWF No Mercy (Nintendo 64)

Happy 3:16 Day. Celebrate the occasion with a listless episode of RAW that tries to sell you amateur hour rehearsals at the community theater as “cinema” while praying for the one bald guy to show up and raise some hell…

Or you can watch this video that covers an old WWF video game that people really like for some reason. And it’ll take less time than an episode of RAW, Smackdown, or even NXT, for that matter! Wrestling is fun (allegedly)!

You want mercy? Take your ass to church.

Bleeding Cool Should Stop Using That Paul McGann Clip

Why is it that every time Bleeding Cool does an article (or clickbait, whichever you prefer) on Doctor Who, they make a point to include a clip of former Doctor person Paul McGann on a podcast confirming that a series of AI-doctored (no pun intended) pictures featuring him in costume were not real? I get that you want people to know that there are fake photos floating around that aren’t real, but if someone has never seen these fake photos – such as yours truly – this comes across as “We’ve got nothing else to post to make this article look like anything of substance, so we’re just going to repost the same Paul McGann clip that we’ve posted several times over the PAST MONTH ALONE!

Seriously, folks. Stop using that clip every time you talk about Doctor Who. If your regular readership saw it once, they’ve seen it a thousand times. And while I’m not a regular reader, I have seen enough Doctor Who posts on this site that I can safely say that clip is on EVERY DOCTOR WHO POST ON THEIR GODDAMNED SITE THAT I’VE READ.

Enough. Find something else to fill the void. Promote the next Big Finish audio or upcoming comic. Just about anything that Doctor Who isn’t a complete and utter Doctor Boo in at the moment. That’d be nice.

Here. I’ll give you an example.

Doctor Who’s one TV Movie starring Sylvester McCoy and a couple others is being redone in 4K, so it won’t look or sound like shit anymore. How cool is that?

AEW Dynamite (March 11th, 2026) – Main Event Press Conference

For the record, I didn’t watch the whole show. I saw bits and pieces here and there. I’ve heard that there was the usual good matches that you’ve come to expect from some of the featured talent. Someone suggested that I’d give the Kyle Fletcher/Speedball Bailey match a watch and I thought that was pretty fun. So if you’re expecting a full-blown musings on the show as a whole, I’m afraid I’ll have to let you down here.

However, I did watch the main event press conference between Hangman Page and AEW Champion MJF to hype up their Revolution main event because AEW uploaded the clip onto Youtube. And THAT’s the piece of business I want to touch on today.

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Inside The Ropes Can Kiss My Clickbait

Earlier today, I came across this headline on the Inside The Ropes website, which you can check out here:

So you’re reading that headline and you figure, “Oh man. Heartbreaking end of an era? What could that possibly be? No more Hall Of Fame? No more commercials. Going back to smaller arenas? Cutting back on pyro? No chance in hell they’re bringing back the ring carts?” Clearly something terrible must have happened if we’re going to label this as “heartbreaking.” The kind of buzz word that baits people into clicking your articles.

Inside The Rope has a tendency to do this quite a bit, using very vague terms to avoid telling you what the article is all about. “42-Year-Old WWE Star Pooped Their Pants. Blames Tony Khan” or “Former WWE Champion Pissed On Wrong Side Of River” or “38-Year-Old AEW Veteran Gives Dave Meltzer A REDACTED” and so on and so forth. I mean, it’s incredible the lengths these people will go to avoid telling you what the article is about in their headlie.

And so what was this heartbreaking update on a Wrestlemania tradition that spurned curiosity?

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Review #1293 – Magical Tetris Challenge (Nintendo 64)

After almost three years of untouched and unloved dormancy, Nintendo 64 returns to the spotlight in grand fashion… in the form of a video review spotlighting a Tetris game featuring classic Disney characters. Did you honestly expect anything less?

But if that doesn’t tickle your fancy… No Mercy hits Monday. That’ll be a jam up game.

WCW Monday Nitro (March 11th, 1996) – Not Even Steiner Math Can Save This One

We open today’s edition of WCW Monday Nitro with the Giant NOT making short work of Hacksaw Jim Duggan… because he ain’t doing a job without getting his shit in, tough guy! Hey, at least now I know it’s not just a lack of wanting to put over that German kid Alex Wright in ’99; this was fairly consistent behavior for an otherwise swell guy.

Speaking of Alex Wright, he gets beat by Lex Luger in a thing that happened and Hulk Hogan and his band of merry idiots (the Macho Man and the BOOTY MAN… fucking shoot me) overcome the odds… but the most significant piece of business is the return of the STEINER BROTHERS to WCW, where they have a match with the Road Warriors that turns out to be quite a fun spectacle before Rick eats a spiked weapon from Animal and gets pinned by Hawk. Well, that was odd… but then again, maybe it’s odd now knowing which of these teams stuck around and which didn’t.

Yeah, so other than the one tag match, this Nitro didn’t do much for me… but then again, it’s hard to get excited for this show when we’re building towards one of the most worst WCW PPVs to ever be conceived by human hands: WCW Uncensored 1996.

You know… the one with the Doomsday Cage match.

If you don’t know, here’s a refresher.

Now you do.

Fuck.