Ringside, Issue #3 begins with a flashback of Danny and Teddy's breakup, how Danny Knossos walked out to wrestle in Florida and maybe get a real job in the wrestling business. Of course, now it's Teddy with the real job and Danny chasing Teddy's demons. Terrence, the bounty hunter from the previous issue, confronts him. From there, we go to the boardroom of the CMW, where a sitcom writer with three weeks in the company named Ragan is pulling for Reynolds becoming a top star. Reynolds is a friend of Teddy's; we saw him in Issue #1.
When the show Total Divas came out, Matt Hardy famously tweeted that his three favorite people on the show were Daniel Bryan, John Cena, and Mark Carrano. Sure, he was saying that the divas' boyfriends and husbands are more interesting than the divas themselves, but Mark Carrano is the guy in charge of talent relations. He tells the girls they have to dye their hair, move back to NXT, not get a tattoo, or whatever else. Most people who watch the show hate him because he's the boss, but even Matt Hardy, who's an insider (although not with WWE), likes the behind-the-scenes look at the wrestling business.
The scene with the sitcom writer trying to make it in the wrestling business is definitely my favorite, not just because it offers a true inside look at the world of wrestling but because Reynolds is a neat character, and I'd like to see where he's going. See, if this becomes a comic purely about one character and his search for justice, truth, and the American way or whatever, it wouldn't go very far, but now that the creators are investing pagespace to the minor characters, the series can really grow.
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