Professional wrestling perpetually lurks in the shadows of pop culture entertainment. Despite its overwhelming staying power (for well more than a century now) and despite its enormous popularity, the scripted sport remains plagued by a lurking sense that it is somehow less than other forms of popular entertainment. And, in that way, pro wrestling is very much like the art form of comic books. Both are at the heart of robust and raucous fandoms, but both are side-eyed by the mainstream, regardless of their obvious influence on more-lauded forms, namely film and animation.