The Undertaker extended his WrestleMania undefeated streak to 21-0 against his latest challenger C.M. Punk. At the age of 48, the “dead man” was part of the match of the night at WrestleMania 29.

Last night was not the best WrestleMania is history, but not the worst. The ultimately felt unsatisfying. There’s no one thing that was missing, but this definitely wasn’t an event that felt like the culmination of the past year’s stories. Sure, Triple HHH and Brock Lesnar’s feud goes back to last Summer, and the Rock versus Cena goes all the way back to WrestleMania 27, but those were two lackluster matches on a four-hour card. The show did leave us with a lot to talk about, so in that regard it was a success.

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The road to WrestleMania finally ends tonight as WWE pulls into MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for the biggest show of the year. The stage is set and while the path to get here may have had some bumps and even a few questionable detours, there’s an inescapable excitement when the show is imminent. With mere hours to go, we’ll touch on this past Monday’s Raw, review tonight’s card, and make our predictions for the “showcase of the immortals.”

Also, we’d love for readers to interact with @MLDtweets throughout the night for some bonus WrestleMania action.

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Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app.

I’m thankful for a really light week to start April. I almost thought it was a joke when I first looked at the shipping lists.

• AGE OF APOCALYPSE #14 –  I’m going into Wednesday planning to get this chapter of the X-Termination crossover, but my resolve is wavering. I haven’t read chapter two yet and I’m honestly not sure how much I really need to continue here. 
• AGE OF ULTRON #4 – I’m expecting we’ll get a twist on what last issue’s revelation is really all about, but I’ll be satisfied with anything that puts together the pieces of how the Marvel Universe got to this point.
• ALL NEW X-MEN #10 – Always happy to see this on the schedule and after the ending to Uncanny X-Men #3 (which continues here) I can’t wait to see what’s next. The preview and cover also indicate Cyclops’ visit to the Jean Grey school isn’t the only thing to worry about.
• THANOS RISING #1 – Not completely sure about this one, but I’ll be giving it a serious look once I get to the store. I do enjoy Simone Bianchi’s artwork.

Check back every week to see what’s on My Latest Pull List and please share your thoughts on these titles and everything you’re reading this week in the comments.

A lot of big names gathered in Philadelphia last Monday night as WWE Hall of Famers Mick Foley, Booker T, Dusty Rhodes, Bret Hart and Jerry Lawler asked the Rock and John Cena what we can expect from their WrestleMania 29 rematch.

We’re just six days from WrestleMania 29, and the MLD Monday Night Warm Up is taking a bit of a break this week to prepare. We’ll be back later in the week with a special edition WrestleMania Warm Up, while tonight’s episode of Raw will emanate from Washington, DC. Last Monday’s Raw from Philadelphia was exactly the type of show WWE needed heading into the biggest show of the year. Local sports radio hosts in the City of Brotherly Love may not have understood any of what they were seeing last week, but the fans in attendance did and they approved. It would be great for the last Raw before WWE’s biggest show of the year to get the same high marks. At the very least, tonight is likely to bring the usual rhetoric from Cena and the Rock, more disrespect for the Undertaker from C.M. Punk, and Shawn Michaels returns for what could be the final Raw of Triple H’s career given the stipulations of his match WrestleMania match with Brock Lesnar.

While we get our thoughts together for WrestleMania, enjoy some of the highlights from last week.

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Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app.

It’s an absolutely huge Wednesday with eleven new books for me this week.

• A+X #6 – It looks like the solicit and the cover for this book are out of sync again (at least for the backup story as the listed Mister Sinister/Loki story was published in A+X #5 at the beginning of the month). If this issue indeed features Wolverine and Captain Marvel, I’ll be getting it.
• AGE OF ULTRON #3 – I’m still not sure about this series, but I doubt that will stop me from seeing it through to the finish. It’s early yet, so the event still holds a lot of promise.
• AQUAMAN #18 – I’m really on the fence with this series. I fell behind in my reading quite a whole ago and haven’t been able to catch up. If I buy this issue, it will be my last until I’m up to date.
• ASTONISHING X-MEN #60 – An X-Termination tie in issue but one that would have been on my list regardless. I’m not sure that crossing over with the current line of alternate timeline X-titles helps or hinders my chances of enjoying this.
• EAST OF WEST #1 – Jonathan Hickman‘s Sci-Fi/Western series featuring the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That description alone got the first issue on my list, and an advance look at the debut has me in for issue #2.
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1 – The “Point One” issue of this series was outstanding and I’m very interested to see what Brian Bendis has in store for these characters. It will certainly be different from what Danny Abnett and Andy Lanning were doing in the previous series, and the addition of Iron Man is interesting even if it does suggest some cross-pollenation between Marvel’s print and film universes.
• PLANETOID #5 – Ken Garing’s digital-turned-print sci-fi comic returns from a brief shipping hiatus for the finale of this first mini-series. Issue #3 was a high point, but what I recall of #4 didn’t thrill me as much. I have high hopes for how this will wrap up and I highly recommend it for fans of tales from the desolate frontiers of outer space.
• UNCANNY AVENGERS #5 – I’m very excited about the prospects of this series shipping monthly (or at least closer to it). It was honestly the book I was most looking forward to with the Marvel Now relaunch, and I still look forward to seeing more of it. Artist Olvier Coipel drawing the issue is an added bonus. I’m still undecided on his variant cover for this issue featuring Wonder Man and Rogue.
• UNCANNY X-FORCE #3 – Will we get an explanation of Energy Bear Bishop?
• WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #27 – Still have a lot of catching up to do on this series.
• X-MEN: LEGACY #8 – I’m enjoying Legion in this X-Men-less X-Men book, and Mike Del Mundo‘s covers are outstanding every time out.

Check back every week to see what’s on My Latest Pull List and please share your thoughts on these titles and everything you’re reading this week in the comments.