I love using coconut noises for heads knocking together. I think it’s at least partially related to Matt Groening’s shows using coconut noises as at least part of every head injury sound. I learned that because I listened to every audio commentary on the Futurama DVDs (S1-4) MULTIPLE times. I’ve got MAD social skills, yo.
Next Week: Tagging is optional in Lucha Libre de la Muerte. Read it now on Patreon!
Have I mentioned I don’t know Spanish, and half of it is made up? That applies to titles too.
WrestleMania is in like two weeks! I’m looking forward to the party surrounding it, but I don’t know if I’m into the card at this point. I think the show will probably be better than the card looks on paper, though. That might just be blind optimism, but if you remove the poor storytelling there are some interesting combinations of wrestlers that could produce memorable matches. Or attendance will be like 60,000 and Vince McMahon will yell at the audience for not buying more tickets, which means we’ll get to see his head explode on PPV. What do you guys think? Hyped for WrestleMania?
Next Week: Two coconuts being smashed together is the best sound effect ever. Read it now on Patreon!
I have returned from Otafest! Just in time to update the comic and head out to VanCAF next weekend! If you’re in Vancouver, you should drop by, it’s free to attend, and there will be roughly twelve thousand cartoonists exhibiting. Naturally, I will be one of them, which means you should say hi and then give me money in exchange for comic books. Deal? Deal.
I’m writing the next chunk of HEAT right now, which reminded me that I haven’t written any HEAT strips in like four months. Which means I haven’t written a script with the word “fuck” in it in four months! Time to write a looooot of swear words.
Also, Elimination Chamber as a bonus PPV? Why yes, that sounds delightful, WWE Network. A TAG TEAM Elimination Chamber? Well now you’re just insisting that I go to my friend Dan’s house to watch it.
Next Week: El Bell! Ring it now, on Patreon!
I haven’t used the commentary captions in the comic since the last match, which was like a month ago, so just a reminder that the “H” is for play-by-play man Hugh Jameson and the “J” is for colour guy John Bradley.
Up until page 37, which I completed recently, this page had the dubious distinction of being the one that I pointed at and said “I really shouldn’t have tried to fit that much on this page”. The way I had pictured the Sunset Flip in my head, it would have been three vertical panels with Bully spanning all three of them and Dick in different stages of the move in each (starting the flip, passing over Bully, and then on the mat trying to pull him over). I still might use that at some point in the future, maybe if I use a Sunset Flip powerbomb at some point. For the purposes of this page, though, it just took up too much room, since the most important thing that needed to happen was the Bully setting up the China Shop. I think the multi-image motion Sunset Flip worked out just as well, in the end.
I also started rendering the transparent cube thing surrounding the ring a little differently. And the match I’m working on now has it rendered differently than this page. I figure I’ll nail down how to render the dome background shortly before I no longer need to be able to draw it.
Also, HEAT on Twitter. @HEATcomic. I have 6 followers right now. If I hit ten, bonus art! Twenty? Bonus update! Yes, I’m bribing you. I’m okay with that.
On Saturday: Edmonton Collectible Comic and Toy Show, featuring the convention debut of Hell, Inc. And Dick the Bastard takes a trip to the China Shop. Check @HEATcomic on Twitter for the preview image, which should go up a little later.
