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HEAT #23 – Gonna Need More Than A Helmet

by Jeff on March 20, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #23 – Gonna Need More Than A Helmet

This one is kind of a plot-mover, but I got some good perspective practice out of it, so art-wise it was pretty fun to work on. The referee’s design I kind of just worked out on the spot, which isn’t the greatest habit, but seemed to work out okay in this case. He did end up looking quite a bit like the referee from the first match, though, which was entirely unintentional. This one was supposed to be a different referee, which I guess he still could be, since now that I just looked it up we never see the first referee’s face.

I reorganized all of my old WWF tapes by date today. Because I am a huge nerd. And got sick of having to dig through my tape cabinet to try to find the next event, chronologically. Turns out I have every major WWF PPV from 1994 and 1995. Once the “In Your House” events started piling up I started buying a lot less PPVs. Earlier today I finished watching Wrestlemania VIII. The “double main event”  was kind of undercut by the fact that Randy Savage and Ric Flair’s WWF Championship match halfway through the card completely outshone the overhyped snoozefest that was Hulk Hogan vs. Sid Justice. I frequently forget just how bad of a wrestler Hulk Hogan was.

On Wednesday: Sunset on Dick’s Chances? Follow @HEATcomic on Twitter to see the preview image! Should go up at some point tomorrow after I scan the page.

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HEAT #22 – Blood Is For Pussies

by Jeff on March 17, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #22 – Blood Is For Pussies

When I was writing HEAT, I strongly considered making this the first page. It would have been a great opener. I ended up going the way I did because I wanted to establish the characters a little before brutally mangling them. It also let me establish more background stuff that would be more awkward to explain if Dick already had ring experience. I really like how the slow pull-out from the blood pool worked, though.

Incidentally, readers who aren’t comfortable with blood… well this comic might not be for you. There’s a lot of it.

Also, HEAT is now on the Twitter, @HEATcomic. I’m planning on tweeting about the various comic projects I’m working on, as well as providing previews of the next HEAT comics.

On Saturday: “He’s gonna need more than a helmet…” To see the preview image, follow @HEATcomic on Twitter!

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HEAT #21 – The Legend’s Lid

by Jeff on March 13, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #21 – The Legend’s Lid

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?

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HEAT #20 – Viking?

by Jeff on March 10, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #20 – Viking?

I like to challenge myself with perspective, partly because I know it needs improving. The first panel on this page was definitely a challenge, but I like how it turned out. The perspective still needs work, but I’ve gotten a lot better at it. I also got to draw Dick in his wrestling gear, which is always fun. When I was doing the pre-production design work for the comic, all of Dick’s designs were for his wrestling gear. Didn’t realize how often I’d be drawing him in normal clothes. I’m drawing Chapter 3 right now, and I think I’m on the 6th or 7th page in a row where he’s rocking his workout outfit.

Dick’s reaction to the viking helmet seems like the kind of thing that must have been common among wrestlers joining the WWF in the early ’90s. I imagine Ron Simmons would have felt like that when Vince McMahon showed him the blue… thing that he wanted him to wear. Or when they showed PJ Walker the jockstrap they wanted him to put on his head. Actually, by those standards, a viking helmet is pretty awesome.

Saturday’s update will probably be brought to you by ComicPress’ automatic update system, because I’ll be doing the 12 Hour Comic Challenge at Happy Harbor Comics all day. It’s kind of like the internationally recognized 24 Hour Comic Challenge, but shorter and for charity.

On Saturday: Doc drops some knowledge on his protege.

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HEAT #19 – The Match Board

by Jeff on March 6, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #19 – The Match Board

Like I mentioned on Wednesday, this update is a lot earlier in the day than usual because I’m attending tonight’s Monster Pro Wrestling show in Edmonton. Expect a blog update about it in the next couple of days!

By the time I got around to drawing this page, it had been written for a few weeks, maybe a month or so. When I sat down to draw it I realized that, aside from explaining that there’s a board somewhere in the prison with the matches on it, nothing really happens. Then I came up with the joke about the funeral and tried to make the page as visually interesting as possible. I feel like it was a success, but ultimately that’s up to you guys to decide for yourselves.

Oh, and you may want to take note of some of the names on the match board in the second panel. We’ll be seeing quite a few of those guys in the future (four of them on page 30, in fact).

On Wednesday: “… am I supposed to be a viking now?”

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HEAT #15 – Post-Victory Escape

by Jeff on February 20, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #15 – Post-Victory Escape

Ah, the post-victory escape, where one guy steals a win then flees immediately to avoid reprisal from his enraged (and usually much bigger) opponent. Aside from my enjoyment of the post-victory escape, this page’s purpose was mostly to reveal, within the comic, Dick’s ring name. Which was spoiled pretty much right off the start to anybody who reads these posts (or who checked out the roster pages). Dick the Bastad’s ring name was going to be a big reveal (foreshadowed by the “sneaky bastard” line from a few pages ago), but I ended up not bothering with it, since there wasn’t all that much payoff to it, and it meant pointlessly delaying his roster page. The viking helmet from the header banner, on the other hand, has a bit more of a payoff to it, even though you’ve been seeing it since the first page went up.

This page marks the end of HEAT’s first chapter. I finished Chapter 2 (pages 16-29) the other day. Chapters 3 and 4 are already written. I’m currently in the process of re-writing Chapter 5, which features the comic’s first major tag team match and was entirely too long.

On Monday: BONUS UPDATE! Classic Moments in Wrestling #2 features another one of Mad Doc Crockett’s classic encounters with Ragnar Rasmussen.

On Wednesday: Chapter 2 begins!

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HEAT #14 – Roll-up!

by Jeff on February 17, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #14 – Roll-up!

I have no idea why the roll-up from behind is called a “schoolboy.” Not that commentators call it that anymore, since most of them don’t seem to have a clue what any moves are called nowadays. For the most part, anything more complex than a suplex is “what a move!” Anyway, calling the roll-up a “schoolboy” just makes it sound kind of creepy, though, which is evidenced by the YouTube search I did to try and find a video of the move in action. “Pro wrestling schoolboy roll-up” resulted in a lot more dirty results than I anticipated.

The first panel on this page was easily my favourite part of it to draw. Mostly because it was complicated. This might also be the first instance of the scale issues that I have with Wooly Bully. I’m currently drawing his second appearance in a match, and he keeps getting bigger. It’s not really intentional, it just kind of happens every time I draw him. My first conception of him was a more exaggerated Taz build (short, stocky, bulky, and mean-looking), then he just kept getting bigger every time I drew him. Now he’s like a slightly smaller Big Show, except he can move.

On Saturday: The end of Chapter 1!

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HEAT #12 – Who’s Next? The Gullible One

by Jeff on February 10, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #12 – Who’s Next? The Gullible One

Masked Jobber got splattered by the Wooly Bully on the last page, which isn’t really the kind of act you want to have to follow. It’s a good thing our long-haired friend is easily convinced by an incredibly flimsy argument.

The first panel was my favourite part of drawing this page, mostly because I like drawing multiple layers of background. Yet at the same time, I hate drawing multiple layers of background. They always end up looking really cool and super-detailed, but are a pain in the butt to draw for pretty much that exact same reason.

In other HEAT news, I’m almost finished drawing Chapter 2 (which goes from page 16 to page 29). The pencils are almost done on page 26. I think I’m somewhere in Chapter 4 or 5 in the script.

On Friday: A Visit To The China Shop

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HEAT #9 – Yo’ Mama

by Jeff on February 1, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #9 – Yo’ Mama

Surprise bonus update! The reason for it — aside from the fact that I’m currently about to start inking page 23, so I’m not exactly straining my buffer to the limit –  is that I wanted to get the first match of the comic underway this week, and I completely forgot that this page was in between the last one and Wooly Bully’s entrance on the next page, which would have pushed the beginning of the match to next Wednesday, if I had stuck to the schedule. This way it’ll start on Saturday.

Writing this page really determined a lot the tone, content-wise for the comic. I had been thinking about keeping it to the pseudo-PG 13 rating that mainstream wrestling tends to maintain. Then I wrote this joke. Between this joke and the buckets of blood that appear throughout the later, it was a pretty easy call to just ignore any kind of content restrictions and just do whatever I wanted.

On Wednesday, the introduction of the Wooly Bully!

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HEAT #8 – The Poor Chumps

by Jeff on January 30, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #8 – The Poor Chumps

This being the first ring entrance of the comic, there were some logistics to it that I didn’t really think about and had to figure out while I was drawing it. I didn’t want a big, complex WWE or TNA style entrance stage for the prison league, but I still wanted to make it look science-fictiony, so I set the ring in a transparent cube attached to the side of the prison. That way I could keep the ring set-up and entrance stage very simple, but you could see the surface of the asteroid that the prison sits on in the background, as well as space. I changed how I rendered space in the background a few times over the course of the first match, trying to figure out what worked the best. I started off with cross-hatching, then tried blacking it out but with little things like the glass streaks and other asteroids in the background to identify it as space, as opposed to the crowd, which is also frequently blacked out.

The actual entrance was fun to draw, but took forever because I wanted to establish the crowd of inmates. It’s one of those things that ends up being worth it, but that causes me to question my sanity while I’m doing it.

Hugh Jameson and John Bradley, the commentary team for PPW, are also introduced here. Their commentary is identified by the little microphone icons with a letter attached to a caption box, like John’s line in the last panel. It’s kind of self-explanatory, but I wanted to point it out to make sure it made sense to people, because it’ll be showing up quite a bit over the course the comic.

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