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HEAT #57 – Mexican Jumping Bean

by Jeff on July 21, 2010 at 9:34 pm

The first three panels of this page turned out pretty much how I pictured them. Panel four, less so. This also solves my personal mystery from last update of which page comes next. Turns out it was the one with the spinning wheel kick. Or spinning heel kick, I’ve heard it called both.

So this week’s Monday Night RAW was one of the best I’ve seen since I started watching regularly again, back in January when Bret Hart was the guest host. I sure hope the Nexus can actually wrestle, though, or that tag team match is going to be godawful. Wade Barrett did as well as could be asked considering he had to work with Mark Henry. And good on him for managing to not kill Mark Henry when Henry fell off of his shoulders the wrong way. I didn’t see NXT season 1, so hopefully I missed the evidence that all of the Nexus are sublime grapplers… or at least won’t ruin the 14-man tag team match.

On Saturday: LGN implement their post-head-kicking strategy.

└ Tags: Dick the Bastard, Hugh Jameson, John Bradley, Los Gordinflones Negros, RAW, Spinning Heel Kick, Spinning Wheel Kick, WWE

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HEAT #56 – Momentum Swing

by Jeff on July 17, 2010 at 6:46 pm

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This page is full of hard things to draw, but it turned out pretty well and was a ton of fun. The bulldog was easily the most enjoyable panel to draw (and also the one that I think turned out the best), although the headlock and the elbow drop turned out nicely as well. Speaking of things that turned out nicely, I spent the last two days working on a new piece that’s going to be part of an illustration portfolio that I’m putting together because I need to makes me some money.

I just started drawing Classic Wrestling Moments #6, which features a young Mad Doc Crockett (well, technically it’s Doc. He has a different name and gimmick in this one). It also let me work on some of Galactic Wrestling’s stage designs, which has been fun so far, and a interesting challenge since it gives me the opportunity to go far beyond the fairly simple Prison Pro Wrestling set-up.

Contest! Enter it. At this point, 2 out of 4 correct would take the lead. I also realized that one of them has two acceptable correct answers, which makes it a little easier.

On Wednesday: The momentum swings yet again… or does it? Check back on Wednesday, because I can’t remember what happens on page 57!

└ Tags: Bulldog, Dick the Bastard, Elbow Drop, Headlock, Los Gordinflones Negros, Mad Doc Crockett, PPW, Prison Pro Wrestling, Referee, Ron "The Con" Gould, Torture Rack

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HEAT #55 – Special Man-Pain

by Jeff on July 14, 2010 at 8:22 pm

Posted In: Heat Comics

“Special Man-Pain” was the result of having more space in the upper-right hand corner than I expected after placing the dialogue balloons and the characters and stuff. I could have re-arranged the layout, but “special man-pain” made me laugh so I left things how they were.

We also learn that Dick isn’t a very convincing improviser, but referees are easily distracted. Also, TV Tropes will ruin your life. So, uh, don’t say I didn’t warn you when seven hours have gone by and your eyes start bleeding. There’s a whole big list of pro wrestling tropes and an even bigger list of tropes that aren’t wrestling-specific but are found in wrestling. Which probably only vaguely makes sense, but if you take a look at the way the trope categories are laid out it should be a little clearer.

I also added a new sub-category to the About section describing the basics of pro wrestling rules. I suspect that it’s not new information to most of you guys, but it doesn’t hurt to have it there for folks who might not be as informed about the specifics of large men (and in this comic, aliens, robots, and maybe even a wrasslin’ bear or two) smashing each other in a ring.

On Saturday: Can Ron make the tag?

└ Tags: Dick the Bastard, Los Gordinflones Negros, Mad Doc Crockett, PPW, Prison Pro Wrestling, Referee, Ron "The Con" Gould, Super Max Challenge, Super Max Challenge Cup

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HEAT #54 – LGN in the Driver’s Seat, Brother

by Jeff on July 10, 2010 at 7:07 pm

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HEAT #54 – LGN in the Driver’s Seat, Brother

This was a fun one to draw. The kick in the gut in the corner was actually the hardest thing to draw, which surprised me a little bit. I assumed the body slam would be the biggest challenge, since moves that involve the wrestlers’ limbs being entangled somehow tend to be the most difficult ones to draw. In the grand scheme of the match, though, nothing on this page was all that tough to do. Springboard spinning heel kick? Much, much harder.

Still no winner in the contest. I’m thinking that it’s either too hard or I overestimated the audience participation level of my readership, since the first contest was won within a day… although it was also won in the first entry, which is where the overestimation of audience participation bit comes in. I figured the pretty decent level of comments I get would translate into contest entries, but not to worry! I’ll come up with some other things to try for future contests. I encourage you to hone your Google-fu or bust out Wikipedia and give the current contest a try, though. Four correct answers is an automatic win, but three or even two could be tough to top.

On Wednesday: Powerbombs and the countering thereof.

└ Tags: Body Slam, Hugh Jameson, John Bradley, Leg Drop, Los Gordinflones Negros, PPW, Prison Pro Wrestling, Ron "The Con" Gould, Super Max Challenge, Super Max Challenge Cup

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HEAT #53 – Seeing Double… Dropkicks, That Is

by Jeff on July 7, 2010 at 9:52 pm

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HEAT #53 – Seeing Double… Dropkicks, That Is

I keep writing dropkicks into matches and forgetting that they’re pretty hard to draw. Dos’ looks all right, but Uno’s is… weird. My favourite panel is the second one, though, with Dick crumpled on the floor next to the guard rail. Speaking of crumpled on the floor, I penciled page 63 last night, which features a piledriver that I’m quite pleased with.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before, but Los Gordinflones Negros are the second design in this series inspired by Big Van Vader. The previous instance was Wooly Bully’s elephantine entrance helmet (waaaaaay back on page 10). This one is probably a little bit more obvious, since LGN’s outfits are based on Vader’s ring gear, which, as far as I can tell, has been basically the same for the bulk of his career. And by “based on” I mean “pretty much the same except they don’t say ‘Vader’ on them”. And they have luchador masks instead of Vader’s head-jockstrap thing. And a bunch of little subtle differences only interesting to me and intellectual property lawyers.

On Saturday: Dos channels his inner Hulkamaniac.

└ Tags: Dick the Bastard, Double Dropkick, Dropkick, Hugh Jameson, Irish Whip, John Bradley, Los Gordinflones Negros, PPW, Prison Pro Wrestling, Ron "The Con" Gould, Super Max Challenge, Super Max Challenge Cup

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HEAT #52 – Jumped in the Aisle

by Jeff on July 3, 2010 at 7:29 pm

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I don’t think I’ve talked about Ron Gould’s design yet, which I meant to do the first time he appeared in his ring gear. I had a very specific picture in my head of what I wanted Ron to look like, although it wasn’t until later that I realized that my inspiration for him, visually, was Greg “The Hammer” Valentine. With Adrian Adonis’ hair, pre-haircut from Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake”. I’m not sure if Greg Valentine ever wore a sparkly jacket like the one on this page (I mostly remember him wearing a Ric Flair-style robe. Why is that committed to my memory?), but during the era he wrestled in you could pretty much guarantee that somebody on the card would be a wearing a jacket like that.

Nobody has won the contest yet. At this rate I suspect that three correct answers will be enough to win it, since I think I might have been a little too devious with the difficulty of one of them. Email answers to jeff@rentathugcomics.com to see a character of your creation in the pages of HEAT! Dooooooooo it.

On Wednesday: The brawl continues and faces get kicked.

└ Tags: Dick the Bastard, Hugh Jameson, John Bradley, Los Gordinflones Negros, Mad Doc Crockett, PPW, Prison Asteroid 32J, Prison Pro Wrestling, Ron "The Con" Gould, Super Max Challenge, Super Max Challenge Cup

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HEAT #51 – Chapter 5: Showdown

by Jeff on June 30, 2010 at 9:49 pm

Posted In: Heat Comics

The first panel is one of those ones that I’m proud of now but probably wanted to punch my past self in the face for writing while I was drawing it, although if I recall correctly the last panel was actually a lot more difficult, despite being a much simpler shot in terms of composition and perspective and all that technical jazz.

This match is fairly long; in fact it’s the longest one I’ve written so far (I’m on page 80-something now). I’d very much like some feedback after it’s over about whether it’s too long.

Also, the new contest has yet to see a winner, so get your entries in!

On Saturday: Making their way to the ring, representing Prison Asteroid 32J…

└ Tags: Hugh Jameson, John Bradley, Los Gordinflones Negros, PPW Tag Team Championship, Prison Asteroid 32J, Ring Announcer, Super Max Challenge, Super Max Challenge Cup

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HEAT: Classic Wrestling Moments #5

by Jeff on June 26, 2010 at 10:23 pm

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Oh god this page took forever to ink. And to try to figure out the perspective of the arena in the background. The second panel was easier to work out than the first in that respect. The first panel… I’m not sure why I thought that perspective was accurate; it was probably one of those “ARGH I’ve been trying to figure this out for three hours, it’s close enough” moments, but I can’t remember.

Los Gordinflones Negros’ tag team finisher, the Fatty Bomb, harkens back to the drawing in my sketchbook that became our favourite pot-bellied Luchadors. I should scan it, because it was the start of the process that eventually led to HEAT existing. That original drawing was of an unnamed wrestler whose design I ended up using as the baseline for the Fatties delivering a ridiculously over-the-top powerbomb to another unnamed wrestler.

CONTEST TIME!

Like the last contest, the winner of this one will get to have a wrestler of their creation show up later in the comic. This one will make you work a little harder, though. In each of the Classic Wrestling Moments thus far I’ve hidden a piece of real-world wrestling trivia. The first person to email jeff@rentathugcomics.com and correctly identify the hidden wrestling factoids in CWMs 2, 3, 4, and 5 (CWM 1 was the subject of the first contest) will be declared victorious! If nobody is able to identify all four, whoever gets the most will be the winner.

For your convenience, here are the four CWMs that are part of this contest:

Classic Wrestling Moments #2

Classic Wrestling Moments #3

Classic Wrestling Moments #4

Classic Wrestling Moments #5… you’re reading it right now.

On Wednesday: The Super Max Challenge opening round begins!

└ Tags: Fatty Bomb, Los Gordinflones Negros, PPW, PPW Tag Team Championship, Prison Pro Wrestling

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HEAT #47 – Not-So-Quiet Riot

by Jeff on June 12, 2010 at 8:09 pm

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Looking straight(ish) down on the action is probably the shot I have the hardest time drawing; low angle (looking up at the subject from below) is right up there, though. That probably explains why the first panel on this page took me foreeeeeever to draw, especially since it wasn’t just a down shot. No, that’d be too easy. It had to be a down shot of a crowd scene.

It also seems like this isn’t the first time Mad Doc Crockett has incited a riot or been chased by an angry mob.

On Wednesday: Escape?

└ Tags: Dick the Bastard, Los Gordinflones Negros, Mad Doc Crockett, PPW, Prison Asteroid 17E, Prison Pro Wrestling, Ron "The Con" Gould

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