Number 1 by Box Brown is my Retrofit/Big Planet comic of the day. Of the 46 pages, 44 are made up of the story, "Kayfabe Quarterly," the story Virgil, who gets "smartened up" by a wrestler named Diamond Dick Corduroy (real last name, Corduroyzsky) and starts a magazine called Kayfabe Quarterly, which gives an inside view of not only wrestling but other secret aspects of life. For instance, Virgil's brother Ollie says that at school, they sprayed this stuff in the air that smells like marijuana, and it smelled like their father's office. The last two pages are "The Documentarian," a short piece about... guess what?
Number 1 came just at the right time for me. I had just put on the movie Mockingjay, Part 2, and it's BORING! I love a good wrestling story, and author Box Brown has put out a couple of good ones in "Kayfabe Quarterly" and Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. I do recommend this comic, which is $6 on Amazon Smile or $2.99 on Kindle. What makes it for me is the growth of Virgil, who sees everything as a shade of gray after a short talk with a wrestler; he even makes a decent living off it.
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