Free Comic Book Day has come and gone! Thanks to everyone who stopped by Variant Edition Comics & Culture to chat and get books signed, as well as everyone who hit up Happy Harbor Comics and picked up the World’s Largest Comic that I helped create! Now it’s back to the comic mines to work on more cool stuff for you guys.
Next Week: FLIPZ. WITH A “Z.” Read it now on Patreon!
Aaaand we’re back! The first HEAT of 2012 resumes the Super Max Challenge Cup finals where we left off, with Rod Black having just been tagged in by Uno following an Invincinator body slam.
The Yakuza kick is one of those wonderful but rare instances when the photo reference that I am convinced exists not only actually exists, but it’s where I thought it would be! If I’m recalling correctly it was a photo from one of MVP Yakuza kicking a Japanese guy I don’t recognize in the face during an NJPW match.
Remember, updates are Saturdays only now! If you missed the explanation, scroll down for the blog post explaining the schedule adjustment.
On Saturday: Ron Gould spends roughly 12 seconds in the ring before Invincinator comes back and does something cool.
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?
