There’s no 450 splash in this one, because I didn’t think of it, somehow. Also, y’know, that would have been terrible for the story flow. But also I didn’t think of it.
In the last week I’ve written a pair of G1 Climax 27 reviews over at Voices of Wrestling, so go read those if you want to see my thoughts on nights 13 and 15 of the 237 day tournament.
Next Week: Moves that are really hard to draw happen. Find out which ones on Patreon!
I have returned from Otafest! Just in time to update the comic and head out to VanCAF next weekend! If you’re in Vancouver, you should drop by, it’s free to attend, and there will be roughly twelve thousand cartoonists exhibiting. Naturally, I will be one of them, which means you should say hi and then give me money in exchange for comic books. Deal? Deal.
I’m writing the next chunk of HEAT right now, which reminded me that I haven’t written any HEAT strips in like four months. Which means I haven’t written a script with the word “fuck” in it in four months! Time to write a looooot of swear words.
Also, Elimination Chamber as a bonus PPV? Why yes, that sounds delightful, WWE Network. A TAG TEAM Elimination Chamber? Well now you’re just insisting that I go to my friend Dan’s house to watch it.
Next Week: El Bell! Ring it now, on Patreon!
All right, so hopefully this autopost thing works properly. The comic isn’t showing up on the page preview, but the post databank lists the comic as being attached, so… yeah, don’t really know which one is right.
Edit: Okay, so autopost didn’t work. I have no idea WHY it didn’t work, but I just spent 12 hours drawing comics and don’t care even the slightest bit about figuring it out right now.
It only took 21 pages, but I’ve finally explained why Dick is wearing a viking helmet on the site banner and in his roster picture. And also what the point of Classic Wrestling Moments #2 was. The first Classic Wrestling Moment was done mostly as a promo image so that there was something on the site’s main page before I got the comic up and running, but also to introduce Mad Doc Crockett prior to the first scene and establish him as an experienced and successful wrestler. Once I realized how much fun it was to draw and thought a bit about its potential storytelling usefulness, I decided to use them as chapter breaks. I’ve drawn three of them so far, and have a few more written. Strangely, they’re more difficult to write than normal strips, because I have to create something that is both interesting on its own and subtley foreshadows something coming up in the following chapter.
While you’re reading this (assuming you’re reading it as it updates), I’m at Happy Harbor Comics participating in the 12 Hour Comic Challenge. I’m planning on doing a 12 page Hell, Inc. short story, but whatever I end up doing, drawing comics in a room with 23 other artists should be a blast.
On Wednesday: Who turned out the lights?
Bonus update time! Mad Doc Crockett and Ragnar Rasmussen are back for another Classic Wrestling Moment. The other day I finished drawing #3, which will be the first one not to feature Doc and Ragnar.
Doc’s counter to Ragnar’s charge move was supposed to be a Mountain Bomb (which I couldn’t for the life of me remember while I was drawing this), but a couple of misplaced limbs and it turned into an Air Raid Crash. Check out the video below to see the Air Raid Crash in action, courtesy Alex Shelley. Which is probably a better move to end the match with, anyway. In another “during the pencils” change, the cage went from being the modern steel mesh cage to being a much more sci-fi energy cage. Because while PPW is very purposely on the low end of the tech scale, Galactic Wrestling is the big time. And the big time can afford to have a cage made out of energy beams.
On Wednesday: Chapter 2 begins with an equipment malfunction.
