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HEAT #189 – Picking On The Little Guy

by Jeff on February 18, 2012 at 4:51 pm
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HEAT #189 – Picking On The Little Guy

Today’s update is early because I’m going to PWA: Fruition tonight, so I’ll be too busy watching Harry (David Hart) Smith defend the PWA Heavyweight Title against Chavo Guerrero Jr to update later on. Look for the show review on that one in the next few days.

It’s surprisingly difficult to find reference material for a guy getting clotheslined in the corner, which seems very strange to me since it happens in pretty much every match featuring a guy over 250 pounds, and it’s not exactly infrequent amongst smaller guys either. It’s also difficult to draw one of the most cut guys in the match as smaller than other people, even though he is. Apparently watching WWE for years has led me to consider muscle mass and muscle definition as the same thing.

In non-HEAT-related news, I recently watched what may very well by my new favourite tag team match of all time, which I recommend you check out: it’s Ricky Marvin and Kotaro Suzuki defending the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against the Briscoe Brothers from ROH Invades Japan Volume 1 (available from Rudo Reels, who are a great source of affordable wrestling!) They also have quite a few contests on Twitter for free stuff, so check ‘em out.

Next Saturday: Johnny Law picks on somebody his own size. Sort of.

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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 #184 – They Still Haven’t Learned He’s Short

by Jeff on January 14, 2012 at 10:14 pm
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HEAT #184 – They Still Haven’t Learned He’s Short

Aaaand we’re back! The first HEAT of 2012 resumes the Super Max Challenge Cup finals where we left off, with Rod Black having just been tagged in by Uno following an Invincinator body slam.

The Yakuza kick is one of those wonderful but rare instances when the photo reference that I am convinced exists not only actually exists, but it’s where I thought it would be! If I’m recalling correctly it was a photo from one of MVP Yakuza kicking a Japanese guy I don’t recognize in the face during an NJPW match.

Remember, updates are Saturdays only now! If you missed the explanation, scroll down for the blog post explaining the schedule adjustment.

On Saturday: Ron Gould spends roughly 12 seconds in the ring before Invincinator comes back and does something cool.

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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 #178 – Deal With An Inanimate Devil

by Jeff on December 3, 2011 at 10:43 pm
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HEAT #178 – Deal With An Inanimate Devil

The eye-pointing thing that became my favourite joke on this page is something that has been a running joke in my house since seeing Bucky do it in several Get Fuzzy strips in the paper (comics used to come in a thing called a “newspaper.” Jackassy cats are a common character featured in them). It was funnier when Bucky did it because he doesn’t have, y’know, fingers.

My production rate of HEAT pages has ground down to a crawl, but on the plus side I think I’m doing some of the best pages I’ve done so far.

On Wednesday: The other team has to come out before the match can start.

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HEAT #177 – Representing Prison Asteroid 32J…

by Jeff on November 30, 2011 at 9:04 pm
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HEAT #177 – Representing Prison Asteroid 32J…

This goes into the category of pages that took forever to draw but take very little time to read. Entrances typically take a while to draw because I always try to make them look different, even when they’re for the same guys. I remember when I drew wrestling comics in elementary school based on WWF and WCW I always drew the exact same entrance: a straight-on shot of the wrestler posing on the stage after coming out of the entry curtain (this was back when RAW still used the classic Attitude-era set with the entry area inset a little bit). That was fine when I was 13, but now that I actually know what I’m doing I like to try to shake it up a little bit. Drawing four separate entrances on one page makes that a little more difficult.

John Bradley leaning in to try to get on camera in the first panel wasn’t planned in the thumbnails, but when I drew the page at normal size I messed up a little bit on Blorg’s positioning and didn’t have enough room to fit John Bradley into a normal two-shot. I sketched out the lean-in a little bit and thought it was a nice visual bit for a page that doesn’t have much of an actual joke.

On Saturday: And their opponents, representing Prison Asteroid 17E…

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HEAT #175 – This Is Wrestling

by Jeff on November 23, 2011 at 10:08 pm
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HEAT #175 – This Is Wrestling

This speech seemed a lot shorter when it was just a few lines in a WordPerfect document. Then I started drawing and it turned into eleven panels’ worth of speech balloons, which is slightly below the threshold for a page driving me crazy. Seriously, fitting eleven panels on a page is this size is… let’s say challenging. Or maddening. Or idiotic

I don’t really have much else of interest to say about this page, so I’ll mention that I’m thinking about cutting the schedule back to once a week because I’m working six days a week right now. What do you guys think?

On Saturday: The Cup.

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HEAT #174 – Chapter 10: The Finals

by Jeff on November 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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HEAT #174 – Chapter 10: The Finals

Original Title, before I realized I broke my “first strip of the chapter is the title of the chapter” thing: Speechus Inspiratus Interruptus.

BREAKING NEWS: Tonight (Saturday, November 19th, 2011) I will be appearing LIVE at Real Canadian Wrestling: Road to Redemption! Come say hi and pick up an autographed copy of HEAT Volume 1, then settle in for the amazing action of the Gladiator Cup tournament featuring 8 of RCW’s top stars, as well as a pair of tag team grudge matches!

With that out of the way, on to today’s comic, which features the rare combination of a fake-Latin title and a throwaway character I drew based on a girl I went on one date with because I thought her hair would be interesting to draw.

Speaking of throwaway characters, that’s what Invincinator was supposed to be when he first appeared as the result of the contest I ran in the early days of the comic, but I had so much fun writing his goofy super heavyweight-in-his-own-mind gimmick that I kept coming up with more things to do with him. He does tend to be a pain in the ass to draw in matches, though, since I have to constantly adjust things due to his height (or lack thereof).

On Wednesday: Doc’s speechus inspiratus, sans interruptus. Language enthusiasts just died a little insde.

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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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