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AWWF Wednesday Night Raw – Part 2

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Dec 052012
 

“Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday Night Raw! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with good ol’ Popkin Ross!”

“Pickles!”

It’s sad thinking that’s the last time I use that gag. Well, not really. Anyway, here are the last of the wrestling mash-ups. As always, click to embiggen.

“From Sixtus, ‘The Model’ Rich Purpel!” This is my favorite of all the heel mash-ups. It just turned out so well (at least I think so). By the way, “Purpel” is not a mistake. It’s so you pronounce it like Martel. 😉

“From Burroughs County, the Big Boss Oonch!”

“From Vawsing, the One Bear Gang!” “DERRRRRRRRRP!” “From deepest, darkest Vawsing, the Pelarian Dream, Barneem!” I couldn’t decide whether to go with Akeem or the One Man Gang for Barnaby, so I did both.

“Finally, Mama Shango!” I started working on Zoë as Papa Shango and it wasn’t working. Normally, I draw Zoë in a three-quarters view and I couldn’t get the facepaint to look right. I trashed the attempt and actually started looking at other wrestlers, but I couldn’t find anyone I wanted to go with. So I tried again, this time, drawing Zoë more head-on and it worked so much better. I’m glad I stuck with it.

So that’s it for wrestling month. Next week, will be a return to basics.

The Block

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Dec 032012
 

Recently I heard or saw a parody of Sounds of Silence that I thought was really nifty. I can’t remember any of it now, but today I offer my own inept attempt:

Writer’s Block my old friend
You’ve come to torture me again.
The ideas come so slow, they’re creeping.
Frustration’s keeping me from sleeping.
And the story, that is stuck inside my brain
Will remain
Until I nail the synopsis.

Last weekend I drew the last of the strip scripts I had written out. So before I could begin drawing this weekend’s strips, I needed to write new material. The last strip I drew goes up a week and a half before Christmas, so I figured I could try to whip up a little story around Crismus’s birthday again. Okay sure, but what happens? Well, Deema hasn’t met Crismus yet, surely there’s something to be told there. I quickly mapped something out but realized there was no way I could fit everything into four strips (the number of strips I have left between December 13th and New Year’s).

“So what?” you’re asking. Well, I had a strip I wanted to tell specifically for New Year’s Eve and I couldn’t think of a way to transition from a story taking place on December 25th to something that happens on December 31st and then go back to the events of the 25th. The only solution I could think of was to write the New Year’s strip as an interlude and continue with the story through however long it takes. I still have a little time to rework it, but the ideas aren’t coming. More as it develops.

 

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