Box Brown talks about his Andre the Giant book.

Remember back in The Atomic Elbow #1 there was that awesome comic about Andre the Giant in Japan? You should remember this. Because it was awesome.

Anyway, that comic was part of a larger project that Box Brown has been working on for a long time. I'm really excited about it, and you should be, too.

Box Brown recently gave an interview to the website YandP.tv about his work on the Andre the Giant book, and it's great. You should go read it. And start saving your pennies so you can buy that Andre the Giant book when it comes out. It's about time we got an Andre biography that's actually good. That Andre book by Michael Krugman that WWE published in 2009 is a piece of garbage.

Anyway, click here to read the interview with Box Brown. He's great.

The Atomic Elbow at King of Trios

It shouldn't be any secret that Chikara's King of Trios is basically the greatest wrestling event of the year. I couldn't make it to Easton, PA this year for the event, but that doesn't mean that The Atomic Elbow would miss the show. Referee Bryce Remsburg (Issue 2) kindly offered to stock a few copies at the merchandise table.

Friend of The Atomic Elbow Jesse Mack (@JMaq on Twitter) sent me this photograph, which simultaneously makes me very happy and very jealous.

Thanks, Bryce and Jesse. Oh, and you probably want one of those "Da Bryce is Right" t-shirts, too. You are right to want this. If you're not at King of Trios, you can order yours from Gimmick$ Wrestling tees.

Hope you jerks in Easton are having fun.

The Atomic Elbow: Issue Three

 It's done. The third issue of The Atomic Elbow is here. Hooray! This one's got some good stuff in it, including:



A live report from a recent NWA All-Stars show in Lexington Lebanon, VA by Shannon Smith,



An interview with Super Pro K.O.! creator Jarrett Williams,



An in-depth interview with the guys from The Old School Wrestling Podcast by Scott T. Holland,



An article about the time Rowdy Roddy Piper smashed a bottle on his head, written by Stewart Voegtlin and illustrated by Beaver, two of the guys from Chips & Beer Magazine (the best magazine),



A bunch of words about Smoky Mountain Wrestling's Volunteer Slam '92 Heavyweight Championship tournament, and a bunch of other awesome stuff including a comic by Tom McHenry, who either is, or should be, one of your favorite cartoonists.



Incredibly date-specific information follows: Today is Wednesday, August 29th. Tomorrow morning, I am having mouth surgery. They are going to shoot the inside of my mouth with lasers. I do not know how this will feel, but I assume "bad." Anyway, I have every intention of mailing the first orders of the third issue either tomorrow or Friday, but if I am in an incredible amount of pain, I will stay in my house watching America's Funniest Home Videos and Deadliest Warrior on Netflix. Monday is Labor Day, so the post offices will be closed. What I'm saying is that if you order tonight or tomorrow, I am going to try really hard to put this in the mail to you before the weekend, but I may not be able to because of mouth pain.

Everything is fine. Orders are shipping out within 24 hours of being received. I have a pile of envelopes and a bunch of stamps and I'm ready to send you some mail!

Now that you are armed with all of that information, go to the official Atomic Elbow online store and place your order!

Thanks!

Podcastin'!

Hey, guys... the editor of The Atomic Elbow (that's me, but talking about me in the 3rd person makes me feel all special) was recently a guest on the What A Maneuver Podcast.

We talked about wrestling and motorcycle enthusiasts and a bunch of other stuff.

You can listen to it by clicking here.

I hope you'll do that.

Hey, also, the third issue will be out very very soon. All the writing's done, I just have to collect some art and edit everything together.

Thanks, everyone!

So, I'm selling these posters...

I found a few old wrestling posters, and I thought it would be the kind of thing that some of the friends of The Atomic Elbow might be interested in having. There are three different designs advertising wrestling events in Gainesville, Georgia. As near as I can tell, they're from the early 70's, probably 1971 and 1972.




I have 2 of each of the three designs you see above. These posters are approximately 24" x 14" and they look really nice if you put 'em in a frame, even if it's a cheap frame you got on clearance at Michael's or Hobby Lobby or whatever. I am selling them for $15 each, which is a pretty good price for a 40 year old piece of cardboard, believe it or not. They're kind of expensive to ship, and I have to buy some special packaging materials for them so I have to charge $7 for shipping in the US. If you order more than one, I have to add a couple of bucks for each additional poster.

Shipping these posters flat means I have to pay "large package" rate which is, to be honest, way too damned much money to ship to the rest of North America, not to mention the rest of the planet. I even called my local post office to make sure the prices I was seeing on the US Postal Service website were correct ($23 to Canada!), and they confirmed that they were. I apologize to my international friends for the astronomical shipping charges associated with this item.

They are available now in the Atomic Elbow Online Store, but they are all listed as one item because I'm too cheap to pay for the Big Cartel package that lets you sell more than 5 items at a time. When you place your order, you will have to choose which poster you want from a drop-down menu. The options will be, from left to right in the photos in this post, "Medics/Von Brauners", "Little Eagle/Galento", and "Galento/Kozak".



I only have two of each poster right now. I may be able to get more, but I'm not sure. I'll let you know if that happens.

Thanks, everyone. Now, go buy some old rasslin' posters, okay?

So, I'm having a contest.

The Atomic Elbow is pleased to announce our first-ever contest. Enter to win these fabulous prizes!

 

Okay, look, let's drop the pretense. I have a bunch of wrestling stuff that I think some of you may want to have in your house more than I want it in mine. Which isn't to say that it's not fabulous, because I suppose it probably is, if that's the sort of thing you're into, but whatever. Man, I'm being a real downer about this. This stuff's actually pretty cool. Here is a bulleted list of what you get if you win:

• The 1990 Coliseum Video VHS release "Battle of the WWF Superstars." I'm pretty sure it plays. I haven't watched it in about 4 years, though.
• An Atomic Elbow embroidered patch. Nobody's buying 'em so I may as well give 'em away.
• A sealed pack of 12 WCW trading cards. These are from the 1991 series by Impel. There are about 70 different El Gigante cards in this series, so there's a good chance you'll get a lot of pictures of El Gigante. Everyone's into that, right?
• The November 1986 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. This one is in pretty good shape and still has the Baby Doll pin-up in the center. I scanned the whole thing and put it online here, which probably violates all kinds of copyright laws, so don't tell anyone, okay?
• A 2-pack of World Wrestling Champion action figures. I bought these in a dollar store a few years ago. One of the guys kind of looks like Mistico and the other guy kind of looks like Blue Demon. The package is coming open on one edge, so it's not "mint" or whatever, but you'll probably want to open it and play with these guys right away anyway. It comes with 2 championship belts and 8 knee and/or elbow pads because what kid doesn't want a ton of knee and elbow pads that barely fit his poorly made action figures.
• A size XL Shawn Michaels t-shirt. I bought this at a thrift store, so it could have been owned by Shawn Michaels himself , although you know good and well that it was not.
• A WWE "Snack Down Mugs and Cocoa Set" including 2 ceramic WWE mugs and a .75 ounce pack of Snack Down Cocoa. The cocoa is only 10 years old, so it's probably still good, right? (To avoid being taken to court by your family because you're a dummy, I feel like I've gotta tell you not to consume this crap if you win it.) This prize was generously donated by our friends at Bizarro-Wuxtry in Athens, GA. It is the best store in the world. 
• An Old School Wrestling Podcast box set. This is the 2-disc DVD box set containing their first 50 episodes as well as bonus episodes unavailable elsewhere. This is good stuff. This box set was generously donated by the hosts of The Old School Wrestling Podcast.
• The winner will also receive a free copy of the (as yet unreleased, obviously) third issue of The Atomic Elbow. 
• Finally, when you win, will be contacted via email, and I'll make you a mix CD based on whatever kind of music you tell me you want to hear. If I think your music tastes are dumb, it'll just be a CD full of Roy Drusky songs.

So what do you have to do to win all of this amazing junk? It's pretty simple, really. I'm running out of pictures for the back cover. So basically this is an Atomic Elbow photography contest. Send me a photo of something wrestling-related that also has a copy of The Atomic Elbow in it. Remember Shawn Struck's awesome picture of him in the ring with Ultramantis Black? That's the kind of thing I'm looking for. But it doesn't have to necessarily just be that photo with a different wrestler. It could be you and your friend doing something stupid or you shoving a copy of The Atomic Elbow up Abe Lincoln's nose at the Lincoln Memorial (probably don't try that) or whatever. Just do something, make sure there's an Atomic Elbow patch, 'zine, or something with that dumb logo on it somewhere in the picture and email it to me at xgobbledygookerx@gmail.com.

"Legal" stuff: All entries become property of The Atomic Elbow and I can (and will) publish them on the internet and/or in future issues of my fanzine. Atomic Elbow contributors, the hosts of The Old School Wrestling Podcast, and that kid Keith who used to live in my neighborhood in high school are ineligible. Keith knows why.

This thing's purely subjective, by the way. I'm the final judge of which photograph is the "best" based on a set of standards that exist only in my stupid brain. My decision is final and you'll probably disagree with it. If you don't have a camera, you can draw something. If you can't draw you can make something else like one of those Blair Witch stick figures and mail it to me.

Now start entering my contest. I'm tired of waiting.

So, I have these patches...

I guess I wanted to sew a patch with the name of my 'zine on it on my sweatshirt under my spooky tough-guy Iron Maiden patch, so I had one made.



The problem with this idea was (and is) that the place I used to make these patches had a minimum order of 100. I didn't sew three patches on my sweatshirt as the photo above seems to indicate. I'm not that ridiculous. I haven't actually sewn any on there yet. But, I'm only going to use one. That means I have 99 patches that I probably won't use.

Do you want one?

They cost $3.00 each and I'm pretty sure I can mail them as a regular letter, so I'm only charging "letter" postage for them. I'm charging less if you order one with anything else. You can buy them from the Atomic Elbow Online Store. Look how good they'll look on your work shirt:



These patches say "The Atomic Elbow" in no uncertain terms, but they don't say what that is, so be prepared to answer that question when you wear these in public. Unless you look tough enough that you're basically unapproachable. Which could happen, because this thing has three skulls on it. Oh, they're four inches square, in case you're wondering how big they are.



So, yeah... go to the Atomic Elbow Online Store and order some patches for all the holes you've got in all of your clothes. They work really well for clothes without holes, too.



By the way, the Box Brown "Official Ratings" prints are almost sold out, so if you want one of those, now would be a good time to buy one. They're both still available in the Atomic Elbow Online Store, but now when you selct the print, you have to choose either "1983" or "1990" at checkout. Thanks, guys!