Posts Tagged ‘Los Gordinflones Negros’

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HEAT #188 – Face-Kicking Pretty Goodery

by Jeff on February 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm
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HEAT #188 – Face-Kicking Pretty Goodery

And we have our first elimination! Rod Black is the first one out, putting Team 17E at a 4-3 disadvantage for the time being. Wait, the least-developed character is the first one eliminated!? It’s almost like there’s somebody writing this thing…

The viewing angle in panel 3 is brought to you by WWF Royal Rumble for Super Nintendo (and WWF RAW, and pretty much every wrestling video game until they started doing TV style cameras), which is an angle I really need to use more, since it looks neat and is relatively easy to draw. I also had a lot of fun drawing the lock-up to wristlock transition, which was a fun bit of technical wrestling that I really should do a little more often. I suppose it doesn’t help that most of the guys in this match are brawlers, powerhouses, and flyers.

Also, I still haven’t finished writing this match. In what probably isn’t a very surprising development, the 8 man elimination tag team match is going to be the longest one so far in the comic by quite a wide margin (and probably the longest one for a good long while, unless I do something crazy later on). I’m on page 214 or 215 in the script right now and there are still three guys left. So, uh, we’re gonna be here for a while.

On Saturday: Can Invincinator match Vinny’s technical skill, tag out, or generally do something productive? Come back next Saturday and find out!

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HEAT #186 – Punching Everyone But The Guy In The Ring

by Jeff on January 29, 2012 at 12:23 am
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HEAT #186 – Punching Everyone But The Guy In The Ring

Alternate title for this page: Invincinator flails about violently then injures himself. Well, Rod Black injures him with a lungblower, but that’s just semantics. The semantics of pain… I need to use that as a strip title later. For some reason around the time I was writing this strip I became possessed by an overpowering desire to draw a lungblower, so I wrote it into the script for a page that I wasn’t going to draw for like two months, which did very little to assuage that overpowering desire. It was pretty fun when I finally got around to it, though, and I’m quite pleased with how Invincinator’s reaction turned out in the last panel.

In other news, the Royal Rumble is tomorrow! Or technically later today, since it’s shortly after midnight as I’m posting this because I forgot to upload the comic because me am smrt. Anyway, the Royal Rumble means the Royal Rumble drinking game, which means myself and several of my friends will get absolutely demolished and somebody will probably die after throwing up some fashion of important internal organ. Hopefully not me, because I have to draw more comics. And so I can collect the DVDs which I will hopefully be winning in the various Royal Rumble pick ‘em contests I’ve entered.

On Saturday: Can Invincinator tag out before Rod Black can capitalize? Will the Bazooka Knee be loaded up? How does one load a knee? I don’t know the answer to that last one.

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

by Jeff on January 21, 2012 at 9:01 pm
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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 #183 – Super Heavyweight, Muthafuckas!

by Jeff on December 21, 2011 at 10:17 pm
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HEAT #183 – Super Heavyweight, Muthafuckas!

This is my favourite page in quite a while, and definitely my favourite body slam in the entire comic. Which puts it ahead of the one other body slam I’ve drawn in this comic (which, if I recall correctly, also involved Uno). Speaking of drawing this comic, I’ll actually have time to do more of that soon!

Also, this will be the last HEAT comic of 2011. On Saturday I’ll be posting this year’s Christmas Special, then I will be taking my customary Christmas break, with the main event of the Super Max Challenge resuming in early January. This is going to be a long-ass match.

On Saturday: Christmassacre 2, the Re-Christmassacre-ing.

 

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

by Jeff on December 17, 2011 at 11:53 pm
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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 #181 – The Irresistable Force Meets The Very Movable Object

by Jeff on December 14, 2011 at 9:50 pm
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HEAT #181 – The Irresistable Force Meets The Very Movable Object

This is one of those pages that features a relatively simple sequence wrestling-wise which turns out to be really hard to do in comic form. In retrospect it probably could have used a few more panels for the dropkick and shoulder tackle spots, but in all I think it turned out pretty well, particularly Vinny’s landing after the shoulder block. I’ve also gotten to the point that I can draw dropkicks without reference, which is nice, since when I started the comic, the dropkicks I drew without it looked like ass. Don’t believe me? Look at the double dropkick from the first Los Gordinflones Negros match.

I think I mentioned this earlier, but Vinny LaGrazo’s face protector is inspired by Cody Rhodes’ recent “undashing” gimmick and, far more obscurely, the face mask that Virgil wore at WrestleMania VIII in a godawful eight-man tag team match featuring the dregs of 1992′s midcard.

On Saturday: Tags are made. Smashing may or may not be the result.

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HEAT #173 – The Finals Are Set

by Jeff on November 9, 2011 at 9:55 pm
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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 #172 – Sore Winner

by Jeff on November 5, 2011 at 1:43 pm
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HEAT #172 – Sore Winner

There was a lot of thinking involved in figuring out how to approach the tag team titles in this match, with a few different directions being considered. One discarded scenario was that Doc would somehow convince/provoke LGN or their warden into putting up the tag team titles in this match, but the payoff of that situation didn’t really work in the long term projection of where the comic is going. After talking it over and bouncing ideas off of Dan Schneider (artist for the back-up story in HEAT Volume 1, available now) we came up with what you just read, which plants some seeds for later on while providing a reminder that the tag team titles A) exist and B) are desireable. So the opposite of how WWE treats their tag team titles, basically. You’ll have to keep reading to find out what exactly this altercation might lead to, though.

On Wednesday: Umberto Hulka reveals the finals of the Super Max Challenge Cup Tournament!

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HEAT #171 – He Was Right Over There The Whole Time

by Jeff on November 2, 2011 at 9:52 pm
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HEAT #171 – He Was Right Over There The Whole Time

And that’s the final match of round 2 of the Super Max Challenge! I am also now fully aware that this story arc is going to last longer than a year, because I’m still writing the eight man tag team match that will cap it off, and there’s a decent chunk of that match left. It’s easily going to be the longest match of the comic so far. Which I suppose is natural since it’s a Survivor Series-style elimination match with eight characters in it.

On Wednesday: Doc is a really sore winner. A really, really sore winner.

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HEAT #170 – Serious Like A Hart Attack

by Jeff on October 29, 2011 at 9:07 pm
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HEAT #170 – Serious Like A Hart Attack

Hart Attack jokes are kind of like the title jokes I write for Johnny Law matches: awful puns that I don’t feel even the slightest bit badly about thoroughly abusing. I think this might be my favourite page in this match, mostly because of how much fun it was to do all of the motion stuff while Dick is bouncing back and forth on the ropes. The motion of him slamming his helmet into Dos was more of a challenge than a joy, as I ended up drawing and erasing various attempts at it for a few hours before finally ending up with one I liked (that process included erasing what I had thought the night before would be the completed panel because I realized the next day that I hated it).

While you can clearly see that I eventually settled on having Dick and Ron use a modified Hart Attack as a tag team signature, you didn’t see the whole whack of other moves I considered first. If it was a tag team move from the late ’80s/early ’90s and I could figure out how to work a headbutt into it, I worked out a spot involving it. I came really close to using the PowerPlex (anybody else remember Power & Glory?) with a diving headbutt replacing Paul Roma’s big splash, but I couldn’t come up with a sequence I liked for it.

On Wednesday: Three count or kick in the back of the head? Both are fine choices, whatever floats your boat, really.

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