Page 188 – Revelations
Just as things were clearing up, they get all murky again. We get another piece of Krystin’s past. She decided that being a good hall monitor wasn’t worth the grief and she never thought she’d be in that position ever again.
There’s that mysterious caller again. We’ve seen Krystin on the phone before, notably pages 151 and 129. Same person, but who? Is it someone we’ve recently seen? Maybe haven’t seen in a while? They certainly don’t like the antics of Ms. Valentine or other like minded individuals. So who else is on this list of ‘cleaning up?’
Whoever Krystin is working for has the stroke to get Krystin fired. Poor Krystin, yet another Upstart girl in terror of losing her job and willing to put the boots to Sara Valentine for it.
Seems like a lot of readers are fans of Sara Valentine, so we’ll see what we can do about keeping her around. XD I’d like to give a big thanks to Justin Riley. He’s on the Rival Angels booking committee and really helped out in crafting this particular storyline. I had a bunch of ideas for Krystin but I wasn’t feeling any of them, they just weren’t good enough. He said, ‘how about this?’ and away we went. Expect more from Mr. Riley in the future. 😉
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See?! See?! Right to Censor! Cleaning up the league indeed! I am kind of surprised that Krystin would be someone’s errand girl after deciding not to be. But some people get desperate to keep their jobs. Though I do have to wonder who is on that list. I wouldn’t be surprised if Brooke was on it. The question is, does the list pertain to only “skanky” types like Sara or people with little to no talent?
Ha! Mysterious caller.. it’s non other that damn no good Commissioner Gabrielle..
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Evidence:
Skybox, Wine, Power, Great in Manipulate people…
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First the skybox.. who in the rival angels got skybox? Damage Inc, Hell’s Belles, York Sister, Commissioner Gabrielle..
Damage Inc, I won’t bet on Damage inc behind in these, coz I probably know that Damage inc. is with Sun in the Damage Inc locker room..
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Hell’s Belles.. They always stay at Skybox when they’re not yet in a match.. possible suspect, but what grudge will they have against Sara Valentine? unless Sara is being sacrifice as casualities like Monica, to play mind game on Sabrina..BUT I SAY NO.. even though the skybox, Wine, backstage power, and manipulate people.. I won’t go against the Hell’s Belles.. and Chloe won’t be calling “Krystin”.. Chloe will call Krystin as “Krystin” I know Chloe, she’ll call her “Moline” like in episode 70..
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York Sisters, Got skybox, Wine but not enough power.. so they’re out…
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Lastly Commissioner Gabrielle Reni, she got the skybox, great in manipulation, abviously got wine, backstage power. and wait! “If I’m disappointed you’re out of a job” Ha!! got ya! and after all, Brooke is the only upstart got lerture on the first place. and now why a private call only to Krystin? simple Commissioner Gabrielle already knows that Michael is on the work for Brooke, so Gabrielle will work on Krystin.. here’s a question, Commissioner Gabrielle have a grudge against Sara Valentine? or she is just plain bully..
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here’s another critic!I like the way, you put some history or flashback on the comics.. it’s like I’m watch anime.. usually anime got flashback, but always over do flashback, not in this comic though.. the flashback is well blended not to much, not to few.. Just one one bad critic though, Krystin Moline kayfabe storyline.. ah! I kinda don’t taste it.. but we’ll see.. maybe a tad error though.. Let say, Sun attack Sara.. that will be different, then someone called Sun said “excellent job” I will say great.. coz Sun is a ninja.. Ninja is always stick in the mission.. but Krystin Moline is not a ninja.. then using her as this.. kinda odd taste.. sorry maybe not my taste though.. just keep up, we’ll see..
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Panel 1: 2 male and 1 female referee came out.. poor Sara, she’s crying… 🙁
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Panel 2: Krystin back in the locker, and the show did a replay.. while Dawn and Jeff comments.. what’s this nobody around, where’s Sabrina?
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Panel 3-4: flashbacks
Panel 6: surely Commissioner Gabrielle.. why cleaning up these league? I don’t think it’s nice to fire one half of the angels in the “Rival Angels” cleaning up is means firing right? if Commissioner Gabrielle is having Sara fired.. we don’t have a choice though.. we can’t see Sara Valentine anymore in Rival Angels.. so let’s get on to it.. the question is whose next? what is Commissioner Gabrielle thinking about Krystin.. Krystin isn’t “Goldberg” who next?
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so.. Sara is getting fired by Commissioner Gabrielle? is it that’s why? she’s in garden planting (Voting Incentives) maybe someone have a farm, hired Sara Valenine of that job.. Poor Sara..
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maybe Rival Angels can conduction.. Rival Angel’s hall of fame.. and put here there..
Sara’s clutching her knee. That’s never a good sign. At least now we know that Sara has detractors in higher places. It’s a conspiracy!
I think that M.G.C. has it right; it’s got to be the Commissioner. She can’t directly tell Sara to clean up her act without getting in trouble with her bosses, but she can convince Sara through other means. The poor economy has got to be hurting ticket sales for Rival Angels, and sleazy acts like Sara’s can bring in the fans. But if the Commissioner doesn’t want Rival Angels to go in that direction, she’s got to play her cards carefully and maybe ramp up the drama for the fans.
BOOOOO! Sara is getting fired now?? Awwww man, this sucks. I so wanted her to be around and use her moves. Id so love Sassy to come out and pin Krystin middle ring 🙂 Shes my least favourite angle. And talking of favourite angels….. wheres the DD goddess gone?
Dream Match: Grudge Tag
Sassy & Brooke v Krystin & Sabrina with a double pin centre ring on Krystin and Sabrina by Sassy and Brooke… *hopes*
Poor Sara, her lower body has to be killing her. Ever since the missed A.S.S. that’s all her legs have been worked over a lot. Hope she’s ok and it’s just a little wear and tear. I also hope she does stick around, because she seems to have potential to be a great character with her in ring skills and cocky attitude. She’s somehow become my favorite character despite really not doing much. Then again, I always seem to like supporting characters rather then the main cast lol.
As for Krystin, I’m torn between feeling sympathy for her or just hating her for being weak. She’s went from being second banana to Brooke to being a tool for the higher ups to “clean things up”. It should be interesting. She may be on a head on collusion with her bosom buddy Brooke.
Well, at least we sort of know who called Krystin back during the fight between Brooke and Sabrina…
I don’t think Gabby is the Cloak and Dagger-type. but, I’m wrong lotsa times.
Is the vote incentive fixed yet?
::whistle:: Wow.
I mean, that’s really it – just Wow. Now I feel doubly bad for her. All those issues AND she’s being blackmailed??
here’s one question..
Why Commissioner Gabrielle didn’t just come out and face Sara Valentine. and ask her to apologize to the ring? and maybe.. invite Sara to join, Commissioner Gabrielle’s club. An Elite club.. Kiss Commissioner Gabrielle hind club.. Sara won’t, that’s the time Krystin intervine and destroy Sara Valentin.. hahahah.. that will be hell..
Good question, Mad-Libbs….just what criteria gets you on the list? More to come on that. There are certain parallels to Krystin and RTC, but the RTC believed in the cause. They didn’t have someone blackmailing them into doing that. That being said, Krystin does have disdain for girls like Sara, but I don’t think she’d be as zealous. We see a young and resolved Krystin and then we see an anxious girl desperate to keep her job. This has ‘trainwreck’ written all over it.
Love the enthusiasm as usual MGC, but look at what you’ve done to poor Matt! Who said anything about Sara getting fired? Was it the fact that Krystin gave her a warning to clean up? Or maybe in my notes, ‘Seems like a lot of readers are fans of Sara Valentine, so we’ll see what we can do about keeping her around.’ Good to see you’re not one to panic. Gabrielle is a good pick for the mystery person but you missed TWO big candidates, and one of them you even mentioned in passing. The other one you didn’t mention is very important, but hasn’t been seen in a little bit. One last little hint, is that the every single word was carefully chosen in the last panel. There’s no mention of ‘firing.’
A conspiracy indeed, Picky! Sara’s taken a beating over these last few pages and blissfully, its over. At least for now.
Good theory, GhostEraser, especially the reasoning behind it. I’m not saying you’re right (or wrong) but if Gabrielle isn’t afraid of telling Chloe De Sade off (pages 7-8) then I would guess she wouldn’t be afraid to ‘suggest’ that Sara clean up her image. Then again, good drama, eh? 😀
Matt, calm your nerves! 😛 Sara’s not really going anywhere, except to see a medic. The Dream Grudge Match is good, but do you think Sara and Brooke could beat Krystin and Sabrina? Hmmmm, that WOULD be interesting….
No worries, NappaAndVegeta, I think Sara is safe for the moment. Way to keep it real with your love for the Sassy Schoolgirl too. 😀 And, despite your conflict towards Krystin, I was shooting for that. You have a woman who was alone and principled as a girl to being someone’s agenda deliverer. I’m sure she’s not any more happy about that prospect than you are and now for the second time, we see an Upstart girl desperate to save her job. Could Krystin and Brooke be the first post-fatal-four-way match to feature Upstart vs Upstart?
Jamie, you are right about Gabrielle, though you never can tell. There really ARE many suspects. Is the Voting Incentive fixed? You should vote and find out. XD (and thanks again, man)
Hey Coyote Lovely, you seem to have received this update perfectly. A lot of people are talking about Sara, but she doesn’t have to worry about losing her job or being blackmailed. We also know that she’s been warming up to the other girls at the rookie house, but its still light years away from what Sun and Sabrina have.
@Albone..
Thanks! Sara Valentine won’t be getting fired at least..Â
I chosen the word “Fired” because of the phrase “Cleaning up this league” cleaning up, is taking away trash.. not to mention Krystin called Sara “Trashy” Valentine..
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I missed TWO big candidates.. one of them I mention in the passing.. and the other one  I didn’t mention is very important.. I guess, I mention passing is the Hell’s Belles.. it which I personally refuse put them on the suspect list.. coz Chloe De Sade won’t be calling Krystin as “Krystin” .. Chloe will call Krystin “Moline” and I know Chloe will put some deeper words in it..
I did mention Michael, though.. could be him.. there’s a possible though, let’s say Commissioner Gabrielle ordered Michael to handle both Krystin and Brooke.. I hardly doubt it..
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Next, I put.. Shannon McCourt.. Shannon loss to Sara.. could it be vengence.. Big yes.. there’s also a but.. She’s not rich, (I guess)
It’s hard to find which skybox is this mystery girl calling. coz all skybox are they same.. 127-128 (Commissioner Gabrielle Skybox) and 70-71 (Hell’s Belles).. the key of his mystery will be the wine bottle and the wine glass..  lately, in epsiode 177.. the Hell’s Belles are drinking wine..  but Krystin also called the Hell’s Belles “skanks” not likely to be working with them though. Unless using “Operation Overlord” in which deception is key factor.
nah! I’ll still go for Commissioner Gabrielle.. I don’t like her..
OMG!! It’s Vincent! He, I mean SHE, is Gabrielle’s twin sister, separated at birth, and raised by gay liberal wolves in sheep’s clothing! She’s with the FBI, looking into drug trafficking and wine smuggling, and her subordinate is Krystin, who has to do all the dirty work. Vincent is afraid that her sister is the kingpin, and is trying to find out before Krystin does…
Talk about plot twists! Jeez, albone – you’ve gotta be some sick puppy to come up with this stuff!
Hmmm… an episode with two dramatic plots playing out: Krystin’s inner teenager turning down the hall monitor job, what, ten years ago, only to be doing it again now. Then there’s the Mysterious Supervisor with the hidden agenda, it could well be any number of things but we’re only seeing one aspect.
Commissioner Gabrielle is the #1 suspect, for me the other person it could be is Marina, remember her pep talk to Sabrina before the Loretta Diaz match… it was about potential and making the most of your talent.
Michael is an intriuging possiblilty… he has all sorts of flings in private but secretly wants Rival Angels to be good clean family fun with no sleazy antics, just healthy young women throwing each other around the ring.
"Cleaning up the league"… I have to wonder how the Hell’s Belles and their steel folding chair antics rate as ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ in the Supervisor’s way of thinking.
Something I noticed in panel six… there is a wine glass on the table and the Mysterious Supervisor is away from the table … I don’t think we’re looking at a Lone Phoner situation here… there could be another person in the room. Oh, and the silhouette is holding the phone in his/ her left hand; this person is most likely left handed.
I am just going to have to make a list of the different sub plots going on.
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I was thinking of “Right to Censor” as well although whoever has hired her hasn’t gone as far as to order her to wear a long skirt and smart white shirt with tie.
Yet.
And oh god, could you imagined being summoned to serve the bidding of the RA Booking Committee?! Step aside TNA and WWE Scriptwriters, the Gold Standard of booking has just arrived in town! 😉
It’s been a while since I’ve commented, but I’d have to put De Sade as my top candidate. The wine especially is suggestive of her. It’s just too… there. I don’t see the comish just leaving a bottle of wine sitting. She’d have it handy to drink, not across the room forgotten. Plus the behind the scenes manipulation. It suits the Marquis strongly.
Well, De Sade, or Kat. I’ve never considered Kat a manipulator, but there’s no reason she couldn’t be. De Sade is the Ric Flair of this story, it feels like and I’ve viewed Kat as Arn Anderson. Still, Arn was part of Flair’s Black Scorpion manipulations so he did at least have a clue how to manipulate, even if he was the enforcer more normally. Kat managed to get the weak link of Jen Needles in place too, so she’s got to have something going for her in that more subtle department.Â
Personally, I think cleaning up the league is an excuse. It’s a way to motivate the Definition of Technician and a way to help cover the powr behind the phone. Whoever it is, we’ll see. It’s not the comish though. I’ll bet on that.
MGC, out of all of the things that the Belle’s have done, you don’t think deception is on the list? Just curious is all.
Ha Ha, Ghost Eraser, you nailed it. XD Of course, what does that say about you that you figured it out? 😛
Hey RDF! Your attention to detail is astounding. Hmmmm, Marina would fit as a suspect. She certainly has the backstage pull to get a rookie like Krystin fired. Michael is also a great choice because this is something that he’d do. As, uh, ‘devoted’ as he is to his extracurricular activities with Brooke outside of the ring, he certainly may have a stake in seeing the league have a cleaner image OR maybe he’s got something against Sara. The Belles are on a different kind of list as far as the image of the league is concerned, and until they step over the line (Monica’s beating is coming close) they’ll be okay, unless of course, they ARE the ones behind Krystin. Then, they have nothing to worry about.
Prestwick, Justin and I would rock their feeble scriptwriting worlds. XD I don’t think we’ll see Krystin go so far as to don a more modest outfit. I can tell you that Krystin is fine with her appearance.
Welcome back, Salazen! We’ve seen Chloe casts herself as a strategist, and using one of the Upstart girls in this manner would tickle her to no end. Chloe has shown more of herself to be a freight train than a surgeon, but then again what do we really know about her? Chloe’s done some rotten stuff, but we haven’t seen her in a match yet, and so the jury is still out on what her capabilities truly are. Great comparisons to Chloe and Kat to Ric Flair and AA, which is why Kat was labeled as an ‘enforcer,’ a while ago. And yeah, Kat is the reason why there is a Jennifer in Hell’s Belles, so Kat knows a thing or two of pulling the strings. I should warn that this mystery will remain as much for a little bit as Friday, we change gears a bit. Or maybe not, depending on your outlook of this mystery. O_o