My Take Radio

As much as I love wrestling and their spin-off prod­ucts, there are times that you really need to go “What The Fuck”!!!! My dear read­ers - this is one of those times. WWE has decided to launch a series of comic books enti­tled “WWE Heroes” which cen­ters around the WWE ros­ter and their adven­tures. The back­story for the series cen­ters around an age-old feud between “The Shadow King” and “The King Of Kings” (which prob­a­bly means HHH and The Under­taker or some­thing along those lines).

While I appre­ci­ate cre­ativ­ity and inno­va­tion, WWE Heroes to me is just another WWE attempt to cash in on a new medium. Not to be a total douche but are any comic fans really read­ing this? Do they even care?

I admire what WWE is try­ing to do but I feel that they are spread­ing them­selves thin with so many projects. Between films and comics and poor attempts at main­stream­ing (Raw guest hosts I am look­ing at you), WWE is pro­vid­ing var­ied prod­ucts but none are par­tic­u­larly inno­v­a­tive or engag­ing. I think that the most suc­cess­ful thing that they have done thus far in terms of new projects was the flick “See No Evil” and while it was orig­i­nal, at least used a gen­uine scary lead char­ac­ter in the form of Kane.

I really would like WWE to reach that pin­na­cle of pop­u­lar­ity, but with all these hokey attempts at main­stream­ing they are tak­ing three steps back instead of mov­ing for­ward. That’s my take! What’s yours?

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