I'm back, and I'm better than ever! Got a knack for making things better.

Actually, I'm not better at all, medically speaking. If anything I'm worse. But on the plus side: I HAS INTERNET NAO. Again. So whooo! *does Flair Flop* Ow, my chest.

Thanks to my tricky internet situation I've been out of the fedding loop since early autumn last year, meaning I've missed some developments. I've also realised how much I've not missed all-nighters working on results, unreadable contract apps, and wrangling people's match ideas into a workable card without relieving oneself on anyone's dreams too much. But that's fedding for you! We do it because we love it, and not because we're all hopeless addicts. No sir.

While I was away, a number of interesting feds have sprung up. Prime among them is True Glory Wrestling, which made RoughKut's top ten e-feds a couple of months ago and is recommended by my buddy James, former owner of the much-missed Phoenix Wrestling Enterprise, which is good enough for me. TGW runs a weekly show and monthly PPVs and the front end is incredibly slick, with an easy-on-the-eyes colour scheme, simple and effective graphics and a great, easily navigable layout. There looks to be a decent range of talent there, and results are fairly well written, although the matches are a little on the short side. Overall it's a very stylish promotion and while it's not doing anything especially new, it does what it does well.

In the spirit of the aforementioned late Phoenix Wrestling Enterprise as well as the short-lived, Chikara-influenced New Revolution Wrestling Association, comes the excellently monickered Death Company Wrestling. It's still building to its first show, and already has a great OOC community going. Fedhead Boomtax is never short of inspired, unique ideas, and DCW promises to be crazy, anarchic and very funny. Not everybody will 'get' DCW, but those who do should have a blast. Also hosted on the DCW board is another promotion, Nic Cage Championship Wrestling. Mere words can't be employed in the expression of how much PURE CONCENTRATED AWESOME is in NCCW but suffice to say, it supplies over 250% of your RDA of Nic Cage.

One very intriguing fed which both opened and closed during my time away was Virtue, brainchild of noted hyperweirdo Ripplemagne (I mean that in a loving way, Ripp) which is every bit as unique as its progenitor. It's set in 1985 which already makes it genius, with all of the trappings that entails - small arenas, no Tron or pyro, terrible mullets and sweet electronic entrance music. It's currently out of commission as Ripplemagne has computer issues, but if it comes back (as is threatened), it has the potential to be truly radical to the max, as I believe was the vernacular in the mid eighties.

Another fed with a great gimmick is Unleashed. It's all based around underground, unsanctioned fighting with more influence from MMA than wrestling, with win/loss records kept on display and match cards presented like a genuine company. It has a tremendous sense of style and professionalism and is also possibly the fed with the highest overall level of writing talent within its membership I've ever seen - it seems to be a magnet for the most scarily awesome roleplayers I've ever had the fortune to get my ass handed to me by.

Femme Fatale Wrestling shares a lot of the same handlers as Unleashed, meaning the overall quality should be high. As the name implies, this one is all about the ladies, and while I've never exactly been noted as a fan of character segregation in e-fedding, I thoroughly applaud any fed which encourages people to break out of the 'white 20-something American male' default character in any regard. They're currently seeking tag teams, so those of you with any all-female teams should very definitely check it out. If I had the time, I'd be signing up for sure.

Finally, a real wrestler fed to close us out. ECW Hardcore Revolution has a pretty unique approach for a real wrestler fed, in that it's indy - specifically, a modern update of the pre-Invasion ECW of old, with a roster featuring some true hardcore legends (including Iron Shiek, Terry Funk, New Jack, Mayumi Ozaki, Steve Corino and... er... Colin Delaney). Shows are wild, free and untamed, much like the hair of current ECW Champion Brian Kendrick. God he's sexy.