Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event – Big Boss Man

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Apr 072018
 

Saturday Night’s Main Event used to start at 11:30 on Saturday night’s, so it’s only fitting that I remembered to post just in time for that. NXT Takeover was truly spectacular.

The Big Boss Man was an honest to goodness prison guard before becoming a wrestler. The best gimmicks are drawn from real life. He was a dastardly heel who became a charismatic face. Then he left the company and when he came back he was back to being a heel. He remained that way for the rest of his career.

Here’s Big Oonch as the Big Boss Man. Are you ready to serve some hard time?

Here’s a comparison to the original. The lines of the original were too thin and they look especially shaky.

That’s all for this week. One more flashback before two new wrestling pieces.

Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event – Ted DiBiase

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Apr 012018
 

Welcome everyone to Saturday Night’s Main Flashback Event! I’m Carja. Let’s get down to ringside.

The story goes that Vince McMahon chose DiBiase to use the gimmick that McMahon himself would have used if ever he had become a wrestler. With it, DiBiase became one of the most iconic heels of the late 80s. And what a laugh! Everybody had a price, for The Million Dollar Man!

Who else to play the richest wrestler in the world, than Sass?

Here’s a comparison to the original.

That’s all for this week. More wrestling action next week!

Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event – The Honky Tonk Man

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Mar 242018
 

Hello everyone and welcome to Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event, coming to you live on a Saturday night! I’m your host Carja and here are some musings before we get to ringside action.

A heel that I hated. Where have I heard that one before? Surprisingly the WWF tried to bring the Honky Tonk Man in as a face but he was getting such vicious heel heat that they had to turn him heel. Oh, if only they still did that today! *cough* Roman Reigns *cough* But back to the Honky Tonk Man. He’s the champion they just couldn’t get the belt off of for lack of a suitable face to win it from him. Rumor has it that he only won the belt from Ricky Steamboat because the guy who was supposed to win that night didn’t show. It started a great heel run for the Honky Tonk Man that culminated in him getting beaten in less than a minute by the Ultimate Warrior two years later. I’ve grown to appreciate his work now and find him to be very entertaining looking back, but gosh how you just wanted to see him get his butt whooped back then.

Here’s Cyran dressed up as the Honky Tonk Man. I still don’t feel like I could do Honky Tonk Man’s blue jumpsuit justice, which is why I stuck with the red one with its easier to draw records and musical notes.

Here’s a comparison to the original.

And that’s all! Good night everybody!

Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event – Bobby Heenan

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Mar 172018
 

Hello everyone! It’s still time for a flashback. I can’t believe I almost forgot again! Saturdays aren’t good memory days it would appear.

Oh how I couldn’t stand Bobby Heenan back in the day. As with many heels, now I appreciate how good he was. In Bobby’s case, it’s even more pronounced. He was just so entertaining and he knew how to make you hate him, but still be vulnerable enough to get his. This is something I feel the heels of today just don’t have. It’s like they’re afraid to look weak.

So yeah, the mouse character is dressed up as the Brain. A nice little unplanned touch.

In the original set, Zoë was dressed as Papa Shango. I didn’t want to do Shango again, so I went with a more classic heel. Here’s a comparison anyway.

That’s all for this week. See you next week for more fun!

Monday Night Raw (Flashback) – Akeem

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Mar 122018
 

Greetings Programs! It’s time for a blog…and a flashback’s overdue. So let’s do the two together.

I very specifically remember telling myself on Saturday that it was time to post a flashback, and then I didn’t do it for whatever reason. Oh well. I can now talk about the process a bit as a blog.

I’ve been using MyPaint to draw my mash-ups since the very beginning. For some reason, about a month or so ago, the software started glitching when I try to save. I couldn’t figure out what was going on and it was getting kind of maddening. The forums weren’t of any use. I thought it might be time to change software, but I didn’t want to spend any money. MyPaint was free and it did me fine for so long, I wanted to find another free alternative, so I tried Krita.

Krita looks to be more powerful than MyPaint, but it didn’t work out for me. I’m sure with time I could have gotten used to the different controls, but I took to MyPaint right away so again, if I’m going to change, I want it to be for something I feel better about using NOW.

I went back to MyPaint and tried fiddling around some more. I think it has something to do with where I’m saving the files. If I save them in the MyPaint directory, it doesn’t seem to have any issue. I’ll have to keep testing.

Now about the subject of this week’s mash-up. For some reason, the WWF decided that the One Man Gang gimmick wasn’t working, so they repackaged George Gray as Akeem, the African Dream. Basically, it boiled down to a white guy who thought he was black. Not the most progressive of gimmicks, but he looked goofy when he was dancing around. I liked it way better than the One Man Gang gimmick, so it was an improvement for me.

Here’s Barnaby as Akeem. First, is the version I did with Krita. Second, is the version I did with MyPaint off the same pencil sketch. Which do you prefer? You might need to click on each to really see the details.

Here’s a comparison to the original.

That’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do the mash-up part again on Saturday and the blog part again on Monday. Carja V.

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