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Nov 282012
“Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday Night Raw! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with Popkin “The King” Lawler!”
“Pickles!”
If you repeat a lame joke often enough it becomes funny. My whole comedic career is based on this premise. Anyhoo, it’s time for new mash-ups. More wrestling this week (don’t worry, there’s only one week left after this one). Let’s send it back to our ring announcer shall we? As always, click to embiggen.
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” “From Calix’s Cross, ‘The Nature Girl’ Nek Flair!” Originally I was only going to do two weeks of wrestling mash-ups and Ric Flair was going to be in that set. Then I decided that I was going to do good guys and bad guys. Ric Flair was going to be in the first set, but Flair only became a good guy in the later part of his career. In my golden period of wrestling, he was “the dirtiest player in the game” so I moved him over to the bad guy set which is how Warrior made the cut in the first set. I didn’t know which robe to use. This wasn’t my first choice, and I even started drawing a different one, but I didn’t like how I was drawing the patterns on it, so I switched to this one which was easier to draw.
“From Bree, the Honkytinker Fur!” Don’t you just love his ear sideburns? Again, this track suit wasn’t the one I originally had in mind. To me, the classic Honkytonk Man track suit is his blue one with the floral patterns, but I really didn’t like how it turned out. I moved on to the next mash-up, but I couldn’t get over how bad the blue suit turned out so I did something I rarely do and went back to a finished drawing. I erased the colour layer and started over with this notes and records suit. It looks a whole lot better trust me.
“Shinies Shinies Shinies Shinies Shiniiiiiiiiies!” “From her summer home in Northend, the Million Shiny Fur, Sass Dibisassy!” The Million Dollar Belt wasn’t fun to draw. The rest was fairly easy.
“It’s time for the Sister Love Show!” I really struggled finding a heel for Deema. I feel the love theme works for her, but in her case, she would have been sincere.
“From Verdant, Mr. Perfect, Tod Hennig!” Mr. Perfect never had elaborate wrestling gear, but he was too cool to pass up. His trademarks were the towel he always carried with him to the ring and how he could spit out his gum and swat it in mid-air with his hand, so that’s what I tried to depict here.
That’s all for this week. Come back next week for the final wrestling installment.
Nov 212012
“Hello everyone and welcome to AWWF Superstars! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with Popkin “The Body” Ventura.”
“Pickles!”
Okay, so it’s the same joke I opened with last week, but I still like it, so sue me. This week, we continue with the wrestling mash-ups by concluding our look at the faces (good guys). In reality, every single one of these wrestlers (and those from last week) has been a bad guy at some point in their career…wait maybe not Warrior, but they transcended being bad guys by being so good at being bad that people started cheering for them, requiring the company to turn them into good guys. Let’s get back to our ring announcer, shall we? As ever, click to embiggen.
“Oooooh yeah!” “Approaching the ring, accompanied by the Lovely *mumblemumble*, the Intercontinental champion, Oonchy “Macho Fur” Savage!” The 80s Intercontinental title belt is my favorite title belt ever. There’s something about the design I really like which is why I’m glad WWE went back to it this year. I had to include it with someone and Macho Man was the titleholder when I started watching, so he gets the belt here (even though he was a bad guy at the time). There was nobody else to play him than Big Oonch (it helps that he always wore those sunglasses to cover his eyes) because really, who’s the most macho of all the Animus cast members?
“‘The Heartbreak Kid’ Nek Michaels!” I drew Nektara before I drew Zoë and I ran into the same problem with them as I did with the other girls…male wrestlers often go around bare-chested. Here I cheated (like I did with Zoë) and gave Nektara a t-shirt under her vest.
“From Parts Unknown, the Sassiest Warrior!” Sass was not originally going to play the Warrior. But I booted who she was going to play to the bad guy roster, so I needed another idea. Ultimately (see what I did there) I chose Warrior. He was one of my favorites for a time (until he started believing his own hype and went a little loopy). He did wear singlets once or twice, so I felt justified in putting Sass in one, even if hers doesn’t feature any airbrushed artwork.
“The best there is (in his mind), the best there was (in his mind) and the best there ever will be (in his mind), Pink “Hitfur” Rich!” I was going to stay away from the leather jacket, but in the one picture I found of Bret in the pose I wanted he was wearing it so I went for it. I like the buckle.
That’s all for now. Next week, we introduce the heels (bad guys). Seeya then!
125 – Epilogue
Nov 162012
