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HEAT #189 – Picking On The Little Guy

by Jeff on February 18, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
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 #188 – Face-Kicking Pretty Goodery

by Jeff on February 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #188 – Face-Kicking Pretty Goodery

And we have our first elimination! Rod Black is the first one out, putting Team 17E at a 4-3 disadvantage for the time being. Wait, the least-developed character is the first one eliminated!? It’s almost like there’s somebody writing this thing…

The viewing angle in panel 3 is brought to you by WWF Royal Rumble for Super Nintendo (and WWF RAW, and pretty much every wrestling video game until they started doing TV style cameras), which is an angle I really need to use more, since it looks neat and is relatively easy to draw. I also had a lot of fun drawing the lock-up to wristlock transition, which was a fun bit of technical wrestling that I really should do a little more often. I suppose it doesn’t help that most of the guys in this match are brawlers, powerhouses, and flyers.

Also, I still haven’t finished writing this match. In what probably isn’t a very surprising development, the 8 man elimination tag team match is going to be the longest one so far in the comic by quite a wide margin (and probably the longest one for a good long while, unless I do something crazy later on). I’m on page 214 or 215 in the script right now and there are still three guys left. So, uh, we’re gonna be here for a while.

On Saturday: Can Invincinator match Vinny’s technical skill, tag out, or generally do something productive? Come back next Saturday and find out!

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HEAT #187 – The Murder Number

by Jeff on February 4, 2012 at 11:45 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #187 – The Murder Number

Yep, it’s time for HEAT #187, which is appropriate since Rod Black may have just been murdered by Invincinator’s vertebreaker.

The vertebreaker was, if I’m remembering correctly, initially pitched by Invincinator’s creator, contest winner Jay, as a joke finisher that would be teased a lot but would never actually be hit because he was too small. Upon consideration, I realized I’ve never seen anyone use the vertebreaker who wasn’t small, so Invincinator has ended up hitting it a couple of times over the course of the comic. He’s never hit his signature move, though, which writing this just reminded me of. It’s the big boot, except it only ever hits guys in the stomach/chest because he’s too short to hit their faces.

On Saturday: Can Rod Black kick out of Invincinator’s vertebreaker, or are his vertebrae too vertebroken? Will he be the first elimination in the Super Max Challenge Cup finals!?

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HEAT #186 – Punching Everyone But The Guy In The Ring

by Jeff on January 29, 2012 at 12:23 am
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #186 – Punching Everyone But The Guy In The Ring

Alternate title for this page: Invincinator flails about violently then injures himself. Well, Rod Black injures him with a lungblower, but that’s just semantics. The semantics of pain… I need to use that as a strip title later. For some reason around the time I was writing this strip I became possessed by an overpowering desire to draw a lungblower, so I wrote it into the script for a page that I wasn’t going to draw for like two months, which did very little to assuage that overpowering desire. It was pretty fun when I finally got around to it, though, and I’m quite pleased with how Invincinator’s reaction turned out in the last panel.

In other news, the Royal Rumble is tomorrow! Or technically later today, since it’s shortly after midnight as I’m posting this because I forgot to upload the comic because me am smrt. Anyway, the Royal Rumble means the Royal Rumble drinking game, which means myself and several of my friends will get absolutely demolished and somebody will probably die after throwing up some fashion of important internal organ. Hopefully not me, because I have to draw more comics. And so I can collect the DVDs which I will hopefully be winning in the various Royal Rumble pick ‘em contests I’ve entered.

On Saturday: Can Invincinator tag out before Rod Black can capitalize? Will the Bazooka Knee be loaded up? How does one load a knee? I don’t know the answer to that last one.

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HEAT #185 – From A Thousand-ish Feet In The Air

by Jeff on January 21, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
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
Posted In: Heat Comics
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 #183 – Super Heavyweight, Muthafuckas!

by Jeff on December 21, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #183 – Super Heavyweight, Muthafuckas!

This is my favourite page in quite a while, and definitely my favourite body slam in the entire comic. Which puts it ahead of the one other body slam I’ve drawn in this comic (which, if I recall correctly, also involved Uno). Speaking of drawing this comic, I’ll actually have time to do more of that soon!

Also, this will be the last HEAT comic of 2011. On Saturday I’ll be posting this year’s Christmas Special, then I will be taking my customary Christmas break, with the main event of the Super Max Challenge resuming in early January. This is going to be a long-ass match.

On Saturday: Christmassacre 2, the Re-Christmassacre-ing.

 

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HEAT #182 – The Corpse-Scrapers Are On Speed Dial

by Jeff on December 17, 2011 at 11:53 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
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
Posted In: Heat Comics
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 #180 – The Bell, And Bells, Get Rung

by Jeff on December 10, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #180 – The Bell, And Bells, Get Rung

I kind of forgot about this page, but art-wise I’m very proud of it, pretty much all-around. I think the punches were referenced from photos of hockey fights, since simultaneous wrestling punches tend to look kind of stupid as static images (since they’re mostly foot-stamping and no-selling), which is actually something that I’ve noticed while drawing this comic. Good worked punches look great in motion, but really goofy in pictures, so for the most part HEAT wrestlers throw pretty typical comic book punches since they look more natural as still images.

Also, if the Cody Rhodes-loving contingent on my Twitter timeline reads this, they’re probably losing their shit over the Rhodes-inspired face protector that Vinny is wearing to protect his busted nose, although it turned out to look more like a traditional sports noseguard than Rhodes’ super villain mask.

On Wednesday: The punching leads to more punching. And some kicking. General mayhem, really.

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