26
Mar
2009
From the East Emerges Mangenius
This is intergalactic bounty hunter IG-88:
This is Mangenius:
Mangenius has left the metallic storefronts of New York for the football epicenter of the nation—Cleveland, Ohio—to reinstall toughness into a roster that has floated for a decade.
Mangenius from the East.
This is 4-Lom:
4-Lom is a bounty hunter hired by Vader for his technological coldness. The guy has never been comfortable in his own skin (obvious to the reader).
This is Brady Quinn:
Quinn—at this hour—hangs on the fringe. He is full of promise, largely untested, entrenched in a beguiling quarterback duel with the erratic and gangly Derek Anderson. Neither have proven a thing to anyone. Wildly strange times. Ego battles. Bland animals emerging from the forest. A press corps longing for a subject. In the end, it is a scuffle that may amount to nothing, if the team (once again) refuses to compile more than four wins in 2009 and—per the norm—implodes upon itself for the tenth time in a row since returning to the National Football League in 1999.
This is Bossk:
Bossk has spread a wide net across the star system. He is out for blood. (He is also a food critic.)
Circa 1987. This is the Lovely Elizabeth with Randy “Macho Man” Savage:
She is gone—lost to a home-brewed, drug-fueled cocktail. He is elderly now—a memory to all, snapping vaguely into a Slim Jim.
Bounty hunters cross the galaxy as you read this.
Mangenius hovers above a meadow in central Iowa.
King Kong Bundy floats motionless in water.
The autumn looms.
