Posts Tagged ‘Piledriver’

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HEAT #452 – Special Man Pain 4: Ballnado

by Jeff on August 23, 2017 at 5:24 am
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #452 – Special Man Pain 4: Ballnado

I don’t know why I started naming the Special Man Pain strips like B movie sequels, but it happened, and I’m embracing it.

Also, apologies for the late update. The entire comic is drawn up until the end, but I’ve really gotten out of the flow of updating on Mondays and keep forgetting. I mean, there are reasons that the comic is winding down, and that’s definitely a factor.

August 25th-27th, I’m going to be appearing at Yukomicon! If you’re there, you should come buy some books or art so I can continue to justify the cost of flying up there.

Next Week: We find out what’s hanging off of this here cliff. Read it early on Patreon!

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HEAT #418 – Murder Success

by Jeff on December 5, 2016 at 6:33 am
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #418 – Murder Success

Remember when piledrivers were death moves? And then the late ’90s happened? If you don’t, I’m sure you’ve heard the Retired Wrestler Podcast Mafia complain about it regularly enough that it’s LIKE you remember. I miss seeing piledrivers on a regular basis, though. They’re the perfect blend of simplicity and looking like they hurt. And they’re hilarious when the guy doing it messes up and falls over sideways.

What happened to the 3 months of buffer strips I had queued up? What, time passed and I’m down to two weeks? Weeeeell shit.

Next Week: Taking a break from fighting to be a dickhead for no reason is not necessarily wise. Read it now by becoming a patron on Patreon!

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HEAT #379 – Aggressive Spanish Gibberish!

by Jeff on February 22, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #379 – Aggressive Spanish Gibberish!

Sometimes it’s really fun to include moves or counters that a real person wouldn’t even try. Doing it all the time doesn’t really fit the tone of the comic, but once in a while it’s very enjoyable. Like the Air Raid Crash onto the top turnbuckle from what feels like a million pages ago.

It’s also fun trying to draw moves that don’t really look painful in ways that make them seem like offence that would hurt in a real fight, like the hurricanrana. In most of those cases, the solution is drawing people landing on their heads/necks.

PATREON! Go support it. That would be pretty cool. You can use it to read next week’s comic RIGHT NOW! You also get a bunch of digital comics and stuff. It’s a good time.

Next Week: The linguistics of facepunching. Read it right now on Patreon!

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HEAT #261 – That Was Mur-Der, Clap Clap ClapClapClap

by Jeff on August 12, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #261 – That Was Mur-Der, Clap Clap ClapClapClap

One of the things that really bugs me in wrestling is the devaluation of a lot of really killer moves, especially in indy wrestling. Recently (this is going to date the shit out of this post, but whatever), BJ Whitmer suffered a match-ending neck injury in a Ring of Honor  match against Mike Bennett when they used a piledriver on the ring apron as a mid-match spot. I’m of the mindset that a piledriver of any kind is a finish except in the most epic battles (for example, Shawn Michaels kicking out of the Tombstone in his retirement match). A piledriver on the floor? That guy stays home selling the injury for at least a few weeks.

Also, if you look closely at the fifth panel you can see a couple of cameos, particularly a certain Kaiju Big Battel villain as well as George, one of the protagonists of my other ongoing project, Jeff Martin’s The War of 1812. Incidentally, now that it’s August, we’re back to the weekly schedule, so check that out as well. The more of you who check it out, the more likely I am to pick up more paid work from those guys, which is good for everyone. But especially me.

Next Week: Buster Pallas busts a blood vessel. He may have anger management issues, or a guy named Dick the Bastard might just make a really terrible babyface. Hard to say.

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HEAT #63 – Piledriver! 1, 2… 3?

by Jeff on August 11, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #63 – Piledriver! 1, 2… 3?

Unlike TV wrestling, the piledriver is still allowed in the world of science-fiction wrestling comics. The placement of Dick’s arms was a little bit tough, since LGN are both too fat for him to reach all the way around their stomachs. I tried having him just grab a fistful of belly flab, but it looked strange, so I went with the quads instead. Which, from a safety perspective, is a terrible idea, but in a world where pro wrestling is a competitive combat sport (as opposed to entertainment centred around staged combat), protecting your opponent is less of an issue. And in both cases the piledriver is a great match-ender. I think this page may also be the first explicit reference to John Bradley’s previous career as a wrestler, although his Dusty Rhodes-esque forehead hinted pretty strongly at it. I’m going to have to include him in a Classic Wrestling Moment at some point, come to think of it.

I mentioned this last update, but I figure a reminder won’t hurt: After Saturday’s update, I’ll be taking two weeks off to finish up two other projects and build up my buffer zone of HEAT comics a bit. There will still be blog updates and some Bodyslam Magazine articles, and perhaps some guest art if I can wrangle it, so keep on comin’. Or the Wooly Bully will get you.

On Saturday: Is it a three count? The referee’s decision is announced!

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Classic Wrestling Moments #4

by Jeff on May 17, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
Classic Wrestling Moments #4

Oh, Sharkenstein. Can you tell I thought of the name first? I don’t remember why, but at some point the name “Sharkenstein” popped into my head and I knew I had to use it in something. I didn’t really know what to do with it until I came up with the tagline “half man, half shark… suit”. Then I knew that I needed to design a wrestler wearing a shark suit who believed he was a shark, because he was an idiot.

The Big Splash in the third panel was the hardest thing on this page to draw, despite the piledriver and torture rack being more complex. I’m really pleased with how the torture rack (or Shark Attack, as our shark-suit clad friend calls it) turned out, especially the guy on the receiving end of it.

Earlier tonight I finished HEAT page 50, which is the end of chapter 4. Chapter 5 features a tag team contest pitting Dick the Bastard & Ron “The Con” Gould against Los Gordinflones Negros. It’s a little long, but would have been even longer if I hadn’t re-written it.

Also, In the process of typing this news post, I accidentally activated some hot keys that zoomed the page way in and then replaced quotation marks with a capital E that had a French accent over it. That took a good ten minutes to figure out how to fix.

Goddamn I hate computers sometimes.

On Wednesday: Tag Team Strategery.

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