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HEAT #159 – The Ol’ Smack ‘n’ Flee

by Jeff on September 17, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #159 – The Ol’ Smack ‘n’ Flee

Early update! Because I’m going to Real Canadian Wrestling’s show in Edmonton tonight, featuring the batshit crazy Teddy Hart and, hopefully, his menagerie of trained kittens. No, really.

There’s a lot going on in this page, but I don’t really have much to say about it, so instead I’ll mention that I just finished drawing HEAT 170, which was the slowest page to draw that I can remember. I started it last Sunday and finished it this past Thursday. Apparently my Education after-degree is doing its best to get in the way of drawing men in stretchy pants fight each other. Of course, I followed that page up with one for another project that only took three hours total, so that theory might have some holes in it.

On Wednesday: The brass knuckles aren’t just for show. They’re for putting dents in jerks’ bone structures.

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HEAT #158 – The Rematch

by Jeff on September 14, 2011 at 8:53 pm
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HEAT #158 – The Rematch

This is, in fact, the first straight-up rematch in the comic. “But Jeff,” you’re totally not saying “the first two matches were Dick the Bastard versus Wooly Bully.” But, fictitious fan, you must take into consideration that the first match was actually a gauntlet featuring two other wrestlers who were destroyed so quickly I didn’t bother to name them, so the following singles match was technically not a rematch.

More entertaining than that explanation is the conversation I just had on Twitter (follow @HEATcomic!) about my desire to see a death match between a bear and forty-two midgets in which floor seats come with plastic ponchos. Because let’s face it, it would pretty much be raining midget bits by the end of that one. If Hulk Hogan steals that idea for his midget wrestling federation (that he’s promoting over TNA, which I find hilarious), I’m going to be super pissed.

On Saturday: Let’s dance. But not literally. By dance I mean fight. With the violence and punch-kicking and whatnot.

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HEAT #157 – The Plan Calls for a Brick-Like Object

by Jeff on September 10, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #157 – The Plan Calls for a Brick-Like Object

While it’s arguable whether or not brass knuckles qualify as brick-like, I think we can all agree that they have a similar level of “I’d rather not get hit in the head with that.” That’s right, that’s a level on which people think about things. In my imagination.

This page ended up being reeeeally hard to lay out, because the dialogue-to-space-in-which-I-can-fit-said-dialogue ratio was pretty terrible. Especially when I started laying it out and realized I needed a lot more panels than I had initially anticipated. The panels in the middle of the page took a lot of pondering to figure out how to get everyone in the shots who needed to be in the shots AND fit in all the crap they needed to say.

In other news, I started my Education after-degree program this week, which will result in me becoming a social studies teacher upon completion. This will only matter to you guys if my workload gets in the way of drawing updates. Which it might, because I start student teaching in November, so I have four months worth of course work crammed into two months before that. Oof.

On Wednesday: Things happen! Specifically, ring entrances and some jokes and stuff.

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HEAT #156 – Evening the Odds the Bastard Way

by Jeff on September 7, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #156 – Evening the Odds the Bastard Way

You know who loves transition pages? Everybody, that’s who.

Today’s update is much earlier in the day than usual, because I’m currently in the middle of a three hour break in my University schedule (I started my Education degree today) and will probably hate the thought of being on a computer by the end of the day, so I might as well post the comic now before the screen makes me go blind. Well, my vision’s already kinda shitty, so blind-er.

If you look back at some of the older comics that took place in this hallway, you’ll notice that I actually referred back to those to make sure the posters were the same and in the same places, because I love that kind of continuity, even if I’m the only one who notice (I’d have to, since I’m the one who, y’know, drew it).

On Saturday: The music means it’s time for men in stretchy pants to do violence.

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HEAT #155 – Arguably Unnecessary Roughness

by Jeff on September 3, 2011 at 8:56 pm
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HEAT #155 – Arguably Unnecessary Roughness

Hitting people with a metal helmet: it’s what you do when you’ve got a metal helmet and people that need hitting. If Vinny’s nose wasn’t busted before, it definitely is now, if what’s left of it can still be considered a nose.

The balance between quality and file size in digital comics is irrirating the crap out of me right now. I’m working on getting digital version of my print series, Hell, Inc., prepared for digital sale, but the files are either a good size and look awful or they look great and are stupidly large. I have no idea how Archaia gets issues of Mouse Guard down to 4-5 MB each without ruining the art, but they do, and I need to figure out how.

On Wednesday: It’s a good thing the music starts before Dick the Bastard maims anymore people backstage. If he doesn’t maim them where people can see, who will buy tickets!? WHO!?

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HEAT #154 – Bazooka Knee

by Jeff on August 31, 2011 at 9:12 pm
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HEAT #154 – Bazooka Knee

Like John Bradley, I’m no doctor, but I’m fairly sure that one’s jaw bone touching one’s brain would, in fact, be enough to keep them down for three seconds. I think Rod Black’s pin on Wildman Harris in the third panel might be my favourite drawing of a pin so far, and I don’t think I even used reference for it. Or I did and can’t remember where it came from now. Both are equally plausible. The Bazooka Knee was referenced from a New Japan Pro Wrestling image of two guys whose names I don’t know, and the name comes from Street Fighter II (it was one of Guile’s moves).

On Saturday: We’re on our way to the match that will decide the Super Max Challenge Cup finals!

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HEAT #153 – Flying Knee Injury

by Jeff on August 27, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #153 – Flying Knee Injury

The script for this page could pretty much be summarized as “Rod Black misses a knee drop.” So basically that one sentence took about six hours to draw and ink. That’s what happens when you get into comics, kids; you spend hours and hours creating pages that take less than a minute to read. At least it’s not as bad as being a CG animator, where it takes two weeks to do a shot that lasts a second. I thought I’d have more to talk about for this page, since I had a lot of fun working on it, but apparently fun doesn’t always translate into interesting anecdotes.

In other news, HEAT is now available for sale online both digitally and in print, thanks to our friends at DriveThru Comics and Happy Harbor Comics, respectively. Go here to buy things.

On Wednesday: Can Rod Black’s Bazooka Knee put away Wildman Harris, or will the fact that his knee now barely works make that a problem?

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HEAT #152 – Meanwhile, Violence

by Jeff on August 24, 2011 at 8:57 pm
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HEAT #152 – Meanwhile, Violence

I have watched a whooole lotta live wrestling in since the last update, readers. On Saturday I was in Morinville with FORCE Pro Wrestling’s inaugural card, which turned out very well, then on Monday I was in attendance for WWE RAW in Edmonton. CM Punk and John Cena main eventing RAW may have been great on TV, but live it was fucking mind-blowing. I can only imagine what it would have been like to be in the crowd for their matches at Money In The Bank or SummerSlam. I was also surprised how poorly the crowd noise translated from the arena to television.

Simple moves that are difficult to draw part ten thousand: suplexes. The landing was a lot more difficult than the lifting part. But we’re finally back to the second round of the Super Max Challenge, in which Vinny LaGrazo and Rod Black are taking on Wildman Harris and “Pretty Boy” Paul Meyers.

On Saturday: Rod Black tags in and attempts to put the “Pretty Boy” away.

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HEAT #151 – Title-Winning Wisdom

by Jeff on August 19, 2011 at 8:42 pm
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HEAT #151 – Title-Winning Wisdom

THIS is the page that has my favourite background joke in the series so far. I want to see if anyone actually catches it, so I won’t say what it is, but I will say that it’s in the panel with Doc putting some schmuck in a hold. If you think you know what it is, leave a comment! Doc being patted on the head made me chuckle while I was drawing it, although I don’t really consider it a background joke so much as just a joke.

This update is a day early because I’ll be working for FORCE Pro Wrestling tomorrow in Morinville. I have no idea what I’ll actually be doing, since so far I’ve just been in charge of the production design for the program, but it will probably be something.

On Wednesday: The update schedule returns to normal, and also Bors Lund comes up with a useful motivational tool.

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HEAT #150 – Disssappointment

by Jeff on August 17, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #150 – Disssappointment

Holy crap, I’ve drawn 150 of these things! Actually I’ve drawn 163 of these things, plus 9 Classic Wrestling Moments, but everyone just looks at you and wonders where the helmet you’re supposed to be wearing is if you celebrate the 150th strip on number 141 (plus 9 classic wrestling moments = 150! Math is fun. No it isn’t, that was a lie).

I actually thought the strip that comes after this one was going up today, and was really excited to point out my favourite background joke so far in the entire series… which I will, of course, not be doing right now, because it’s not on this page. Speaking of the next page, it’s going to be posted a day early this week! I’ll be out of town all day Saturday with FORCE Pro Wrestling, so HEAT 151 will go up on Friday this week.

On Friday: My favourite background joke in the entire series! And some other stuff also happens, I guess.

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