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HEAT #162 – “Uno” Is The Number Of Brain Cells He Has Left

by Jeff on September 29, 2011 at 1:49 pm
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HEAT #162 – “Uno” Is The Number Of Brain Cells He Has Left

Guess who was doing homework all last night and forgot that it was Wednesday? Me. The answer is me.

The corner spring spot took more panels to make clear than I thought it would, but it actually wasn’t as tough to draw as a bunch of way simpler moves. The back suplex was pretty easy, too, but I found a pretty good reference that just needed a little bit of tweaking, because for some reason nobody in Japan does the leg scoop thing that North American wrestlers do all the time. It’s also a reference back to a move Dick learned the hard way earlier, because I really like to do little call-backs for those sorts of things, even though I’m probably the only one who notices them.

On Saturday: Dick gets tired of throwing Uno around like a sack of potatoes. Good thing it’s a tag team match, then, hey?

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HEAT #161 – ‘Sploded

by Jeff on September 24, 2011 at 10:49 pm
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HEAT #161 – ‘Sploded

Guess who was out all day and didn’t realize he hadn’t uploaded today’s page to the FTP server yet? I am now also aware that I haven’t scanned anything past page 165, so now you know what my afternoon is going to be composed of tomorrow.

Drawing an exploder AND having the camera reverse angles twice during the execution of the move is REALLY hard. And my own stupid fault, like pretty much every other thing in this comic that ends up being really hard to draw. I also tend to get it in my head that I have tons and tons of reference for whatever move I find myself having to draw only to spend an hour combing through a stack of wrestling magazines to arrive at the realization that I must have somehow hallucinated that reference, because in 12 magazines there were like, two small pictures of moves that vaguely resembled a t-bone suplex.

On Wednesday: Uno didn’t actually explode, but you’d think his heart would explode after having already wrestled once on this card. ‘Cause he’s fat.

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HEAT #160 – International Object

by Jeff on September 21, 2011 at 8:09 pm
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HEAT #160 – International Object

The title for this strip comes from Mick Foley’s first book, Have a Nice Day, in which he tells a story about WCW becoming so PC in the early ’90s that they referred to foreign objects as international objects. I have no idea if that story is actually true, having not watched WCW at the time and being far too lazy to go look it up right now, but I think it’s ridiculous enough to be plausible. I think “Dead!” might be my favourite onomatopoeia of the last few months, and probably my second favourite of the series behind “Ptooth!”

Because I forgot to post it along with HEAT 158, here’s Dick and Ron’s entrance music (which is also Ron’s music as a singles wrestler):

On Saturday: Either Ron gets the three count, or gets kicked in the face. Maybe both.

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HEAT #159 – The Ol’ Smack ‘n’ Flee

by Jeff on September 17, 2011 at 2:31 pm
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HEAT #159 – The Ol’ Smack ‘n’ Flee

Early update! Because I’m going to Real Canadian Wrestling’s show in Edmonton tonight, featuring the batshit crazy Teddy Hart and, hopefully, his menagerie of trained kittens. No, really.

There’s a lot going on in this page, but I don’t really have much to say about it, so instead I’ll mention that I just finished drawing HEAT 170, which was the slowest page to draw that I can remember. I started it last Sunday and finished it this past Thursday. Apparently my Education after-degree is doing its best to get in the way of drawing men in stretchy pants fight each other. Of course, I followed that page up with one for another project that only took three hours total, so that theory might have some holes in it.

On Wednesday: The brass knuckles aren’t just for show. They’re for putting dents in jerks’ bone structures.

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HEAT #158 – The Rematch

by Jeff on September 14, 2011 at 8:53 pm
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HEAT #158 – The Rematch

This is, in fact, the first straight-up rematch in the comic. “But Jeff,” you’re totally not saying “the first two matches were Dick the Bastard versus Wooly Bully.” But, fictitious fan, you must take into consideration that the first match was actually a gauntlet featuring two other wrestlers who were destroyed so quickly I didn’t bother to name them, so the following singles match was technically not a rematch.

More entertaining than that explanation is the conversation I just had on Twitter (follow @HEATcomic!) about my desire to see a death match between a bear and forty-two midgets in which floor seats come with plastic ponchos. Because let’s face it, it would pretty much be raining midget bits by the end of that one. If Hulk Hogan steals that idea for his midget wrestling federation (that he’s promoting over TNA, which I find hilarious), I’m going to be super pissed.

On Saturday: Let’s dance. But not literally. By dance I mean fight. With the violence and punch-kicking and whatnot.

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HEAT #157 – The Plan Calls for a Brick-Like Object

by Jeff on September 10, 2011 at 9:46 pm
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HEAT #157 – The Plan Calls for a Brick-Like Object

While it’s arguable whether or not brass knuckles qualify as brick-like, I think we can all agree that they have a similar level of “I’d rather not get hit in the head with that.” That’s right, that’s a level on which people think about things. In my imagination.

This page ended up being reeeeally hard to lay out, because the dialogue-to-space-in-which-I-can-fit-said-dialogue ratio was pretty terrible. Especially when I started laying it out and realized I needed a lot more panels than I had initially anticipated. The panels in the middle of the page took a lot of pondering to figure out how to get everyone in the shots who needed to be in the shots AND fit in all the crap they needed to say.

In other news, I started my Education after-degree program this week, which will result in me becoming a social studies teacher upon completion. This will only matter to you guys if my workload gets in the way of drawing updates. Which it might, because I start student teaching in November, so I have four months worth of course work crammed into two months before that. Oof.

On Wednesday: Things happen! Specifically, ring entrances and some jokes and stuff.

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HEAT #156 – Evening the Odds the Bastard Way

by Jeff on September 7, 2011 at 1:02 pm
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HEAT #156 – Evening the Odds the Bastard Way

You know who loves transition pages? Everybody, that’s who.

Today’s update is much earlier in the day than usual, because I’m currently in the middle of a three hour break in my University schedule (I started my Education degree today) and will probably hate the thought of being on a computer by the end of the day, so I might as well post the comic now before the screen makes me go blind. Well, my vision’s already kinda shitty, so blind-er.

If you look back at some of the older comics that took place in this hallway, you’ll notice that I actually referred back to those to make sure the posters were the same and in the same places, because I love that kind of continuity, even if I’m the only one who notice (I’d have to, since I’m the one who, y’know, drew it).

On Saturday: The music means it’s time for men in stretchy pants to do violence.

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HEAT #155 – Arguably Unnecessary Roughness

by Jeff on September 3, 2011 at 8:56 pm
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HEAT #155 – Arguably Unnecessary Roughness

Hitting people with a metal helmet: it’s what you do when you’ve got a metal helmet and people that need hitting. If Vinny’s nose wasn’t busted before, it definitely is now, if what’s left of it can still be considered a nose.

The balance between quality and file size in digital comics is irrirating the crap out of me right now. I’m working on getting digital version of my print series, Hell, Inc., prepared for digital sale, but the files are either a good size and look awful or they look great and are stupidly large. I have no idea how Archaia gets issues of Mouse Guard down to 4-5 MB each without ruining the art, but they do, and I need to figure out how.

On Wednesday: It’s a good thing the music starts before Dick the Bastard maims anymore people backstage. If he doesn’t maim them where people can see, who will buy tickets!? WHO!?

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HEAT #154 – Bazooka Knee

by Jeff on August 31, 2011 at 9:12 pm
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HEAT #154 – Bazooka Knee

Like John Bradley, I’m no doctor, but I’m fairly sure that one’s jaw bone touching one’s brain would, in fact, be enough to keep them down for three seconds. I think Rod Black’s pin on Wildman Harris in the third panel might be my favourite drawing of a pin so far, and I don’t think I even used reference for it. Or I did and can’t remember where it came from now. Both are equally plausible. The Bazooka Knee was referenced from a New Japan Pro Wrestling image of two guys whose names I don’t know, and the name comes from Street Fighter II (it was one of Guile’s moves).

On Saturday: We’re on our way to the match that will decide the Super Max Challenge Cup finals!

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HEAT #153 – Flying Knee Injury

by Jeff on August 27, 2011 at 8:29 pm
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HEAT #153 – Flying Knee Injury

The script for this page could pretty much be summarized as “Rod Black misses a knee drop.” So basically that one sentence took about six hours to draw and ink. That’s what happens when you get into comics, kids; you spend hours and hours creating pages that take less than a minute to read. At least it’s not as bad as being a CG animator, where it takes two weeks to do a shot that lasts a second. I thought I’d have more to talk about for this page, since I had a lot of fun working on it, but apparently fun doesn’t always translate into interesting anecdotes.

In other news, HEAT is now available for sale online both digitally and in print, thanks to our friends at DriveThru Comics and Happy Harbor Comics, respectively. Go here to buy things.

On Wednesday: Can Rod Black’s Bazooka Knee put away Wildman Harris, or will the fact that his knee now barely works make that a problem?

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