Heat: The Space Age of Pro Wrestling

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.

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