Squared Circle Wrestling - The Hot Seat - Grant McLaughlin

Love the comic, Ben. Like you, I've also fallen in love with Swingie, so I hope you'll excuse me if I explore his “secret origins” a bit.

1 – Swingie and Mrs. Swingie are at home, eating dinner. Their home is small and a little run down, but it's theirs, which makes it special. Swingie is contentedly eating his meal, while Mrs. S looks like her mind is occupied by something other than their food. Please keep in mind that although Swingie is a foldout chair, Mrs. S is actually a buxom card table.  The two are eating dinner at another, (albeit) inanimate table.

MRS. SWINGIE: Swingie?

SWINGIE: Hmm?

2 – Mrs. S reaches out to hold one of Swingie's hands; her other hand is on her stomach (if card tables can have those). She has an imploring look on her face. Swingy looks back at her, and recognizing the seriousness of the situation, wears a sympathetic expression.

MRS. SWINGIE (1): I know working at SCW is your dream job, but I'm worried that we won't have enough money to make ends meet.

MRS. SWINGIE (2): Especially with our little ones on the way.

SWINGIE: Don't worry, honey. I'm working my way up the ladder. Sure, right now I'm just the technical difficulties guy, but if I play my cards right, soon I could be in honest to goodness matches. Chair matches. TLC matches. Or even headlining the main event...

MRS. SWINGIE: I'm just worried that soon might not come soon enough.

3 – Swingie stands up and goes around the table to his sweetheart. He kisses her reassuringly on the forehead (table edge?). While still concerned, Mrs. S puts on a brave face for her hubby.

SWINGIE (1): I'm sure an opportunity to distinguish myself will come along sooner than you think.

SWINGIE (2): And when it does, I'll keep your words in mind. But now I gotta get going. It's Entertainmania tonight, after all.

Squared Circle Comics - Forty Three - Ben Rosenthal

I love it when I can multi-task.  Below is the ACTUAL script for SCW this coming Tuesday night/Wednesday (depending on your timezone and Mike Perry's paralysed hand).  You may want to read the previous strips leading up to this particular one. Also, I crave hits.

FORTY THREE

1. Technical Difficulties panel, with Swingy beaten and bloody, laying on the ground unconscious.

2.  Jack Heart is standing in the middle of the ring, once again SCW Champion.

2a. The Commentator’s booth. Reilly is weeping.

MURDOCH

What a night folks! Jack Heart is once again the NEW SCW Champion!

REILLY

Shockmaster....

MURDOCH

Thank you for being a part of Entertanimania, and we will see you tomorrow night for the Entertainmania fallout!

3.  The commentator’s panel. Reilly and Murdoch are talking between themselves.

VOICE (off panel)

And we are off air!

REILLY

Think we got away with the ‘Technical Difficulties’ thing?

MURDOCH

You mean the fact that we had no idea where we were going with this match so made up a stupid mascot to distract people’s attention whilst at the same time taking their money?

REILLY

I love the way you summarise plots!

MURDOCH

Whilst using correct English!

Why Squared Circle Wrestling?

Squared-Circle-Comics.com

Oh come on now...it’s been two years and not one of us has used this site to get some extra traffic to their projects.  It had to happen in the end.

Squared Circle Wrestling is a bi-weekly comic written by myself (Ben Rosenthal) and drawn by the uber talented Mike Perry.  It is a comic about wrestling – commentaries on what makes wrestling great, and what makes it not so great.

As a special incentive, the strips posted by our tenured writers, and perhaps those written by you at home, may in fact appear on the site.  If I can be bothered...which I totally can be. Perhaps.

I really don’t want to get into what I personally think of the comics I wrote (they’re awesome, by the way) and would really appreciate it if you could have a look, read a few and ‘Like’ the page on the .

Wrestling fan or no, here's hoping you enjoy the tenured writer's attempts to strike down my mighty ego.