Posts Tagged ‘Yakuza Kick’

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HEAT #223 – Strong Style. It’s Like Gangnam Style, Except With Injuries

by Jeff on October 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #223 – Strong Style. It’s Like Gangnam Style, Except With Injuries

Actually, based on the “Gangnam Style” music video, I wouldn’t be surprised if some people got hurt in the process.

The Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo this weekend was a success, and welcome to all of the folks who are here as a result of the bookmarks I was handing out. Incidentally, apparently most con-goers are not aware of back drop drivers, because most of them had to turn the bookmark around a few times to figure out where the bottom was. Clearly popular culture needs more head drops to properly educate con-goers.

The second-last panel’s entire description was, effectively, “strong style hulk-up.” I much prefer the way that Japanese wrestling handles wrestlers “powering up” in response to taking damage, where guys still sell being injured but get surges of adrenaline that allow them to hit a big moves before having to recover their strength to deliver another blow. I think it works a lot better within the dramatic formula of wrestling than the WWE style, which is “I am hulking up and will now ignore all of the damage I have sustained up until this point.”

This week will also be the first time I’ve drawn more HEAT pages since mid-September, since I just finished a thing for Chikara that I don’t know if I’m allowed to talk about.

Next Week: Cheating, facial injuries, and The Blorg does his best indignant Jim Ross impression.

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HEAT #207 – Yakuza Kick: The Onomatopoeia

by Jeff on July 2, 2012 at 9:06 pm
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HEAT #207 – Yakuza Kick: The Onomatopoeia

I very much enjoy sound effects that aren’t even attempting to mimic a sound, they’re just stating what is happening. Hence why every sound effect on this page is just describing what is happening… unless a kick to the face actually makes the sound “Yakuza kick!” I don’t listen closely to the sounds made by face-kicking. I definitely don’t know what sound stepping on the back of somebody’s leg to make them kneel would make, so I went with the well-thought-out sound effect “leg stomp.”

Also, Ron Gould may have more blood outside of him than inside. I’d say “take that” to WWE’s current no blood ever policy, but if they had a guy bleed this much in real life I’m pretty sure he’d die. And if WWE did that, then hardcore indies like CZW would end up with morgues instead of locker rooms to seem more extreme.

Next Week: Does Ron Gould even have blood left? Seriously, somebody should get a medical professional out here. He’s grossing up the ring.

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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 #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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