Posts Tagged ‘Vinny LaGrazo’

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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 #105 – The Towel

by Jeff on February 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #105 – The Towel

This page refers to two instances in wrestling where a manager threw in the towel to save his charge, who was too brave/stupid to give up and live to fight another day. It’s probably happened more than twice, but the two instances that influenced this scene were Bob Backlund losing the WWF title to the Iron Sheik after Arnold Skaaland threw in the towel and Sabu refusing to tap out when Rob Van Dam put him in a sickle hold on ECW TV, resulting in Bill Alfonzo throwing in the towel. Incidentally, neither of those cases involved a squid-man as a referee.

Today’s early update is brought to you by the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, who are in action tonight at the Century Casino in Edmonton.

On Wednesday: Dick responds rather poorly to losing.

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HEAT #104 – Quit!

by Jeff on February 17, 2011 at 2:32 am
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #104 – Quit!

I’m an idiot. I’ve spent the bulk of tonight (and technically this morning) working on HEAT stuff, and I forgot to post the comic. Seriously, I just finished page 110 and Vinny LaGrazo’s roster picture. Some sort of arting frenzy may need to happen.

I’m also getting ready to start production on the HEAT volume 1 print collection, my ambitions for which are very quickly outstripping my competence to achieve them. It’s going to include HEAT #1-93, Classic Wrestling Moments #1-7, bonus commentary, and I’m thinking a bonus match or two (which will almost certainly be drawn by people other than me). That’s a few months away at best, though. Relatedly, however, if any of you folks are book designers willing to work on the cheap, I may have a job for you.

On Saturday: Mad Doc Crockett tries to convince Dick to give up, but does he succeed?

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HEAT #103 – A Chiropractor’s Wet Dream

by Jeff on February 9, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #103 – A Chiropractor’s Wet Dream

Oh god sick. Commentary later when my body is no longer in revolt.

EDIT: Okay, my body seems to be in something resembling working order today, so commentary time!

This is my favourite page so far. I had to watch YouTube videos of the Indian Deathlock a whole bunch of times to figure out how all the legs interacted, though. That’s kinda the downside of including intricate submission holds in the comic; they look good in real-time but can be tough to break down so that I can draw a snap-shot of it. I learned about the Sickle Hold from the old Game Boy Advance Fire Pro Wrestling game, which had a lot of really cool Japanese moves that don’t get seen a lot in North America. I think I saw Rob Van Dam use it once in the original ECW, on Sabu, but it’s definitely not the kind of move you’re going to see the new generation of WWE developmental clones pull out. Based on most of their physiques I’d also wager any other move involving a bridge is out, too.

On Saturday: Can Dick break out of the Sickle Hold?

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HEAT #102 – Back Breaker’d

by Jeff on February 5, 2011 at 4:38 pm
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HEAT #102 – Back Breaker’d

This was my favourite HEAT page so far until I drew page 103. I don’t really like how the first panel turned out, but the rest of it I’m pretty happy with, especially the backbreaker. I actually have a work-in-progress shot of the pencils for this page on my new camera, but I haven’t loaded the camera software onto my computer yet, so the WIP stuff isn’t super relevant now that the final page is done.

Also, speed lines done with a ruler look way, way better. Need to keep that in mind for later.

This update is early because I’m on my way to go see some E-Ville roller derby action. The fact that a sport featuring cute girls in tiny skirts elbow-smashing each other at high speeds isn’t the most popular athletic contest in the world is mind-boggling.

On Wednesday: Vinny LaGrazo tries to end things with his patented Sickle Hold.

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HEAT #101 – Introduced to the Floor

by Jeff on February 2, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #101 – Introduced to the Floor

It was a last-minute adjustment, but I kind of dig how the multi-image motion works in panel two. After finishing the first two panels, the transition between the lock-up and Dick throwing Vinny over the top rope didn’t really gel like I wanted it to, so I added the multi-image-motion to in-between it a bit.

The Super Max Challenge being a new event, I switched up the commentary team a little bit and replaced Hugh Jameson with The Blorg. Who somehow has a pompadour despite being some sort of man-shaped blob-creature.

Oh, and because I forgot to post this with the last comic, here’s Vinny LaGrazo’s entrance music.

And if you missed it, scroll down to the blog post underneath this one to see CZW put the WWE’s awful dance-offs to shame.

On Saturday: The match continues!

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HEAT #100 – I Will Break You

by Jeff on January 29, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #100 – I Will Break You

Page 100! Well, technically page 93 was the 100th page, since there were 7 Classic Wrestling Moment comics, but this is the 100th page of the narrative, so it’s close enough. I also forgot about it, but the 1 Year Anniversary of the comic was two weeks ago.

The last panel in this page is easily amongst my favourite visual jokes in the entire series so far. Mad Doc Crockett had a fun one a couple of pages ago that was similarly dirty in tone.

The WWE Royal Rumble is tomorrow night, and I’ll be watching it live on Pay-Per-View with friends. The Royal Rumble drinking game will be in effect, so I assume somebody will either die or throw up on themselves, since there are 40 guys in the Rumble this year. Adjustments to the rules may need to be made for survival purposes. I’ll be writing another recap of the shenanigans in the blog, but I’m also going to attempt to live-tweet the proceedings on my twitter, @HEATcomic. Until I get too drunk to type on my phone, at least.

On Wednesday: Round 1, FIGHT!

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HEAT #96 – I Wish Every Press Conference Was Like This

by Jeff on January 15, 2011 at 7:58 pm
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HEAT #96 – I Wish Every Press Conference Was Like This

I suspect reporters that have to cover press conferences would agree that they would be improved with wild brawls that need to be broken up by security. At least then they’d have more than the one good quote that everyone ends up using to write about.

On Wednesday: It turns out that prison league wrestlers are still considered to be, y’know, in prison.

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HEAT #95 – ‘At’sa Spicey Meataball!

by Jeff on January 12, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Heat Comics
HEAT #95 – ‘At’sa Spicey Meataball!

It’sa Vinny LaGrazo! He talka likea stereotypea. And picks fights with old people. And is on a page where I was uncharacteristically lazy with the backgrounds. Also, athletes threatening violence on each other would make press conferences a lot more interesting.

I forgot to mention it, but there’s a Fan Art section on the site now. The inaugural piece is by Rudi Gunther, creator of the long-running comic Dead//Life. Word on the street is there’s some more on the way. If you want your art featured there, email it to jeff@rentathugcomics.com with your name and, if you have a website, a link to it.

On Saturday: Vinny LaGrazo vs. Mad Doc Crockett… for roughly four seconds.

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