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HEAT #189 – Picking On The Little Guy

by Jeff on February 18, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #189 – Picking On The Little Guy

Today’s update is early because I’m going to PWA: Fruition tonight, so I’ll be too busy watching Harry (David Hart) Smith defend the PWA Heavyweight Title against Chavo Guerrero Jr to update later on. Look for the show review on that one in the next few days.

It’s surprisingly difficult to find reference material for a guy getting clotheslined in the corner, which seems very strange to me since it happens in pretty much every match featuring a guy over 250 pounds, and it’s not exactly infrequent amongst smaller guys either. It’s also difficult to draw one of the most cut guys in the match as smaller than other people, even though he is. Apparently watching WWE for years has led me to consider muscle mass and muscle definition as the same thing.

In non-HEAT-related news, I recently watched what may very well by my new favourite tag team match of all time, which I recommend you check out: it’s Ricky Marvin and Kotaro Suzuki defending the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against the Briscoe Brothers from ROH Invades Japan Volume 1 (available from Rudo Reels, who are a great source of affordable wrestling!) They also have quite a few contests on Twitter for free stuff, so check ‘em out.

Next Saturday: Johnny Law picks on somebody his own size. Sort of.

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HEAT #185 – From A Thousand-ish Feet In The Air

by Jeff on January 21, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #185 – From A Thousand-ish Feet In The Air

Invincinator continues to do cool stuff in the second update of the new weekly schedule, in this case a Daniel Bryan Danielson-style front missile dropkick. I’m not entirely sure why, but I find top rope moves infinitely less difficult to draw than the preceding panels where the guy is standing on the top rope about to leap.

Next Saturday: Invincinator punches everything that moves until his lungs start to hurt.

 

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HEAT #182 – The Corpse-Scrapers Are On Speed Dial

by Jeff on December 17, 2011 at 11:53 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #182 – The Corpse-Scrapers Are On Speed Dial

This page may hold the record for most tags in one strip, which is a record which nobody knew existed or cared about until just now, including me. Relatedly, I can’t really think of anything to say about this particular strip, so instead I will direct your attention to this:

I have been named one of Review Fix’s Top 10 Comic Book Writers You Haven’t Read Yet. Pretty fuckin’ cool.

On Wednesday: Does Invincinator find himself squashed like a pancake by Uno, or does he do something productive and wrassler-like?

 

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HEAT #180 – The Bell, And Bells, Get Rung

by Jeff on December 10, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #180 – The Bell, And Bells, Get Rung

I kind of forgot about this page, but art-wise I’m very proud of it, pretty much all-around. I think the punches were referenced from photos of hockey fights, since simultaneous wrestling punches tend to look kind of stupid as static images (since they’re mostly foot-stamping and no-selling), which is actually something that I’ve noticed while drawing this comic. Good worked punches look great in motion, but really goofy in pictures, so for the most part HEAT wrestlers throw pretty typical comic book punches since they look more natural as still images.

Also, if the Cody Rhodes-loving contingent on my Twitter timeline reads this, they’re probably losing their shit over the Rhodes-inspired face protector that Vinny is wearing to protect his busted nose, although it turned out to look more like a traditional sports noseguard than Rhodes’ super villain mask.

On Wednesday: The punching leads to more punching. And some kicking. General mayhem, really.

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HEAT #177 – Representing Prison Asteroid 32J…

by Jeff on November 30, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #177 – Representing Prison Asteroid 32J…

This goes into the category of pages that took forever to draw but take very little time to read. Entrances typically take a while to draw because I always try to make them look different, even when they’re for the same guys. I remember when I drew wrestling comics in elementary school based on WWF and WCW I always drew the exact same entrance: a straight-on shot of the wrestler posing on the stage after coming out of the entry curtain (this was back when RAW still used the classic Attitude-era set with the entry area inset a little bit). That was fine when I was 13, but now that I actually know what I’m doing I like to try to shake it up a little bit. Drawing four separate entrances on one page makes that a little more difficult.

John Bradley leaning in to try to get on camera in the first panel wasn’t planned in the thumbnails, but when I drew the page at normal size I messed up a little bit on Blorg’s positioning and didn’t have enough room to fit John Bradley into a normal two-shot. I sketched out the lean-in a little bit and thought it was a nice visual bit for a page that doesn’t have much of an actual joke.

On Saturday: And their opponents, representing Prison Asteroid 17E…

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HEAT #175 – This Is Wrestling

by Jeff on November 23, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #175 – This Is Wrestling

This speech seemed a lot shorter when it was just a few lines in a WordPerfect document. Then I started drawing and it turned into eleven panels’ worth of speech balloons, which is slightly below the threshold for a page driving me crazy. Seriously, fitting eleven panels on a page is this size is… let’s say challenging. Or maddening. Or idiotic

I don’t really have much else of interest to say about this page, so I’ll mention that I’m thinking about cutting the schedule back to once a week because I’m working six days a week right now. What do you guys think?

On Saturday: The Cup.

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HEAT #174 – Chapter 10: The Finals

by Jeff on November 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #174 – Chapter 10: The Finals

Original Title, before I realized I broke my “first strip of the chapter is the title of the chapter” thing: Speechus Inspiratus Interruptus.

BREAKING NEWS: Tonight (Saturday, November 19th, 2011) I will be appearing LIVE at Real Canadian Wrestling: Road to Redemption! Come say hi and pick up an autographed copy of HEAT Volume 1, then settle in for the amazing action of the Gladiator Cup tournament featuring 8 of RCW’s top stars, as well as a pair of tag team grudge matches!

With that out of the way, on to today’s comic, which features the rare combination of a fake-Latin title and a throwaway character I drew based on a girl I went on one date with because I thought her hair would be interesting to draw.

Speaking of throwaway characters, that’s what Invincinator was supposed to be when he first appeared as the result of the contest I ran in the early days of the comic, but I had so much fun writing his goofy super heavyweight-in-his-own-mind gimmick that I kept coming up with more things to do with him. He does tend to be a pain in the ass to draw in matches, though, since I have to constantly adjust things due to his height (or lack thereof).

On Wednesday: Doc’s speechus inspiratus, sans interruptus. Language enthusiasts just died a little insde.

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HEAT #173 – The Finals Are Set

by Jeff on November 9, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #173 – The Finals Are Set

The end of chapter 9! HEAT Volume 1 had 7 chapters and clocked in at 100 pages, including Classic Wrestling Moments. Volume 2 is composed of only 3 chapters and will be somewhere in the 120 range, I think. For my own sanity I will hopefully be smart enough to divide up volume 3 a bit better. But up next, chapter 10, the final chapter of volume 2! The last panel of this comic tells you pretty much all you need to know about what that chapter is going to be about.

I think this might be the first time the Super Max Challenge Cup has been shown in the comic, so I guess I’ll talk a bit about it. The idea of having a bit event which awarded a trophy was stolen from Japan by TNA to create the various X Cup tournaments that they used to run when they were watchable, which are the events which inspired the Super Max Challenge. I remember watching the X Cup for the first time on one of TNA’s Wednesday night PPVs from the Asylum, which I would have friends over to watch once in a while. I think it was the second one, which featured Team Mexico against Team UK, and a really fascinating clash of styles, as the Mexican team wanted to fly all over the place and the British team was all about ring psychology and chaining holds together with only a few big moves to punctuate matches. It was a very different affair than the later X Cups in which all of the teams seem to have agreed that flying around and hitting big moves every ten seconds would be the mutual strategem, and my first exposure to the British style of wrestling (other than commentators mentioning it every time somebody threw a European uppercut). I really liked the tournament format that they had set up, particularly because it was the kind of simple, tight storytelling that I love in wrestling.

Also, while I was writing this I got a retweet from former ECW World Heavyweight Champion Steve Corino. Fucking sweet. It was about people putting Paterno’s contributions to Penn State football over the fact that he was aware his assistant was raping kids and let it happen. Significantly less sweet.

AND FINALLY: I’m taking a week off from posting comics because my school semester has seriously burnt me out and I need a week to recharge. I’ll be back with Classic Wrestling Moments #10 next Wednesday!

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HEAT #147 – That Sure Was A Draw

by Jeff on August 6, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #147 – That Sure Was A Draw

A draw? Uh oh! That leaves the current Super Max Challenge standings at: 6 pts Prison Asteroid 17E, 6 pts Prison Asteroid 56Q, and only 4 points for Prison Asteroid 32J. We’ve still got two more matches left in round 2, though, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens! Well, you will. I already know. Because I wrote it. Up next is Rod Black & Vinny LaGrazo (17E) vs. Wildman Harris & Pretty Boy Paul Meyers (56Q).

“Donk” might be my new favourite sound effect, especially since it’s a really innocuous seeming noise for a guy’s head getting smashed into a steel post and killing most of his thinky meats’ thinky power.

Blorg’s line about draws being ultimately disappointing is something I recently experienced while watching Ring of Honor: Final Battle 2009 on DVD, although I wrote that line beforehand. For those unaware, Final Battle ’09 features Tyler Black challenging Austin Aries for the ROH World Title in a main event a year in the making. Aries had beaten Black in a number one contender’s match at Final Battle 2008 and gone on to win the World Title while Black was sidelined with neck surgery. During the match, Aries slowly came to realize he couldn’t beat Black, so he started trying to get Black counted out. It didn’t work, so he started trying to get himself disqualified. That didn’t work either. Eventually, as the one hour time limit loomed over the match, Black hit Aries with everything he had… but it ended in a time limit draw.

Now, I don’t know how that storyline progressed after Final Battle, other than that at some point in 2010 Tyler Black did manage to capture the ROH Title before leaving to sign with WWE, but watching two guys try to kill each other for an hour only for there to be no payoff was disappointing.

On Wednesday: The phrase “rage shit” is used. Do you really need to know more than that?

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HEAT #146 – The Floor Is Tapping Out Right Now

by Jeff on August 3, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #146 – The Floor Is Tapping Out Right Now

Holy shit, you guys! HEAT: The Space Age of Pro Wrestling Volume 1 is at DriveThru Comics for only five bucks! *

*Depending on currency fluctuations, actual price may vary. It’s $5 Canadian for 120 pages, including an exclusive 14 page story by Daniel Schneider and 100 pages of commentary by Dick the Bastard and Mad Doc Crockett. This comic is fan-supported, so if you’ve got a few bucks in your pocket, I’d really appreciate it if you’d head over there and take a look.

On to today’s comic, which I actually don’t have a whole lot to say about, other than it was pretty fun to draw a fat guy getting clothesline over the top rope. And squid ref. Squid ref is always enjoyable to draw. I actually have to look through previous Super Max matches to keep from using him over and over again, since I established three different referees for the event early on (squid ref, a black guy, and a white guy). I actually had to re-read an old match (Invincinator vs. Dr. Fat from round 1) because I completely forgot what the white guy looked like, since that was the last time I drew him.

On Saturday: El Gangster II and Invincinator attempt to extricate their respective partners from the crater in the arena floor that they’re currently inhabiting.

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