Chapter 5-Page-14-argy-bargy
Happy Halloween! Back and forth action! Just when one has the upper hand, the other takes it away.
Sun and Sabrina Cosplay Voting Incentive!
I took an informal poll and Sun and Sabrina cosplaying as a gone but not forgotten BFF team of Huntress and Black Canary! Vote to see them in their costumes!
Commenting Guidelines
To clear up any confusion about what is and what isn’t cool when it comes to posting, I’ve written up a quick outline.
First off, I love the community here and that people comment! We have a fun group and it’s awesome to have you interact here, twitter, facebook, forum, etc. This is the reason that I can print books, get invited to comic conventions, and host panels on making webcomics, so thanks to everyone that supports, comments, votes, cries, laughs, etc. and makes this a fun place to hangout.
Second, I read every comment, forum post, FB post, etc., but I don’t always get to reply. Sometimes there’s not enough time, but more often than not, there’s either nothing to say, or I can’t say as it has to do with potential spoilers. (Sorry jpiv. XD)
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A look into Callie’s thoughts during this comic.
Panel 1: Here she comes…take the hit and…
Panel 2: COUNTER!
Panel 3: That worked a treat. Time to finish her off.
Panel 4: Throw her to the ropes and…
Panel 5: F***!
Panel 6: …why am I smelling Yoshi’s aftershave?
Why? Are you allergic to Yoshi’s aftershave? If so, that would explain that look on your face.
Chuckles slightly at the Aftershave comment. 😀
ohhh !! come on Callie..
drop Sabrina down to the canvas.. HARD
Good grief, MGC. Why read the comic if you hate the heroines?
Splendid. It’s like behind-the-scenes! XD
I’m mum on panel 6. XD
If I was in Callie’s position in that last panel, TRUST ME! That is NOT the look that would be on my face.
I guess it would depend if you like Yoshi’s aftershave or not. lol jk
Sun and Sabrina make almost as good a Huntress and Black Canaray as Regeneration X. Almost.
It’s hard to compare *anyone* with RE-X. 😉
If she does not reverse that into a sitdown powerbomb I will be most unammused.
Sitout powerbombs do seem to work very well on Sabrina.
Whoa, quite a bit of back-and-forth there. That last panel could go any way, but I’m not sure Callie has the… erm, mass to catch Brina and reverse it. With the momentum from that bounce, I think she’s goin’ down.
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for the moment.
We’ll know for sure in just a few days. 😉
Sabrina is rather quick to recover from that I know that I’m in tears from a blow to the stomach or chest and I’m stacked. But boobs doesn’t make as good of airbags as some think. LoL
The only thing I see wrong is the way Sabrina’s hair is during that flip. It flies and has movement throughout everything else but then it goes still.
Nothing against your girls, but Callie and Sabrina are trained wrestlers and have a different sort of pain threshold. That being said, in panel 1, Callie took a similarly tough blow to the chest. In panel 2, the clothesline hits more of the collerbone area.
I see what you mean about the flipping, especially the apex of the flip.
Oh that’s okay, I might not recover from hit like that without having tears in my eyes but my pain threshold is high and I have a rather impressive amount of natural strength in my legs and upper body. But genetics gave me some intense internal pains to bear with on par with labor pains. Each woman is strong in their own unique way ^^.
Anyhow I misread the change in the panels I’m not seeing it as a trade of blows but more like her getting caught in midair with the clotheslines transitioning into the next. But I noticed that the audience only seems to applaud when Sabrina has the upper hand.
I really liked how panel 1 and panel 2 came out, but the transition’s not the smoothest, so apologies for that! If this were America, Callie would’ve gotten a ‘WOAH’ from the crowd in panel 2. 😉
Great idea for Halloween costumes. 🙂
Also, it’s great to see Sabrina put the squeeze on her opponents once and a while. 🙂
Thanks! But all of you voted for the costumes so feel free to take a bow. 🙂
Awesome episode, boss! I never expected the last. More to the point – neither did Callie. (Lolz the aftershave too :P)
But check the color of Brina’s outfit during the flip. It looks red to me. (Could be me, granted. ) And the chest band in Callie’s top in the last panel is too wide. Now some of us might think she needs a belly band, but that’s a dif issue – meow!
Yay, Champ!
Your color sight is true! I put Sabrina’s flipping with a red tint to show that she’s in motion.
XD @ belly band.
YAY!!
I totally showed ‘Brina how to do that…
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I did!!
You and Drew are very good teachers. lol
You never! Oh wait, really? Way-Cool xD
You mean she didn’t show you?
I have my moments!
*preen*
X3
No doubt!
I like your Halloween pic, I think Sun’s torso is too long, but aside from that, I think it’s probably one of the best pics you’ve drawn.
Thanks! I like it so much I might re-do the background and offer it as a print. !!
I think that’s a good idea. It’s fun to see how you’ve progressed artistically. Sense of action as well.
lordy is sabrina going as spiderman for this halloween!? i guess this shows her green side.. cool and amazing move but a good way to blow out a knee or bust out some teeth if you dont get caught right.. and i smell a powet bomb on the way lol happy halloween all 🙂
Happy Halloween!
You know Sabrina; she never met a risk she didn’t take. If she doesn’t lose teeth, or blow out her mcl, she’s looking at a potential powerbomb…or worse. O_o
I just got WWE ’13 and seeing all of these reversals is reminding me how frustrating the game is. LOL
Yeah, these two are going back and forth like a volleyball game. So, in WWE 13, is there a lot of reversals or hardly any that makes it frustrating?
lots of reversals, at least for me. Its fun and definitely better than wwe 12, I can see the tweaks to the engine.
I’m getting ready to make my ultragirl CAW for WWE13
Be sure to share pics!
hmm hurricanrana? (please no Helli-kelly spinning move of annoyance where the other wrestler does all the actual work in her “offense” and even has to make the flip at the end of it) powerbomb reversal would be interesting. but i’m going with Brina tries for the hurri, but wait Callie is actually stronger than she looks…STYLES CLASH!
i also expect Callie to try and give brina a wedgie during one of these covers.
signed,
spoilersbane ;P
No Helli-Kelly? Well, you just ruined your surprise. XD
Styles Clash… 😉
The Styles Clash reminds me of AJ Styles obviously, which reminds me of his real life BFF Christopher Daniels, which reminds me that I’m an enormous mark for Daniels, which makes me want to beg for you to include one of Daniels’ signature moves in a future match between anybody and anybody else.
So Albone, could you show us a Koji Clutch one of these days? Pretty please?
I’ve never seen or heard of that move til now, but it’s pretty cool. I could easily see Cocoa doing something like that.
Why bring that up? I was living blissfully ever since I saw the news that Kelly had quit and I’d never have to see a botched up match of better wrestlers carrying her through >3 minutes of action.
So often I had wished for someone to powerbomb her, swing her into the turnbuckle and so much more. It’s insane how little that was countered, same goes for Melina’s sunset flip face busters and so many Gory bombs should have been done.
Oh a styles clash would be interesting to see on here.
Or missing that horrible wailing she did while she was helicoptering? 😛
that was her making engine noises cause no one had the heart to tell her she wasn;t a real helicopter.
and yeah Daniels is a great heel. maybe a BME (though of course it’d be a SBME- second best moonsault ever) or someone walking around with an appletini all the time ;P
Dude, you made me LOL at my desk at work. XD
“victory is mine” (TM Stewie Griffin)
I wonder why?
there will be a guidelines on commenting..
what happen?
so Boooing Sabrina is no good now?
hatng Sabrina can’t used now?
i think you can still boo sabrina MGC you just can’t be mean to the other posters and albone… like i can say body spot X in pannel Y looks odd..because albone knows i think hes an amazing artist and one of us.. his fans.. may have caught something he missed.. but we cant be like HUR HUR THIS IS EW…amd have no reasons and be posting in a mean spirit. I would like to know what happened too though.. i may not always ppst buy i read all of them and i think ive seen onr trolly posy
I’m just tired of all the heroine destruction/torture porn comments. It’s been like five years and I haven’t done it and I don’t plan on starting. Enough’s enough.
MGC, as for hating Sabrina (and me rubbing my temples right now) do you recall an email we had in late 2008? It referred to ‘poisoning our relationship?’ It still holds, man.
Very nice counter, Brina. Seems she’s been taking my seminar in “Holy Sh*T! Counter moves”
You and Sammie are very good teachers. 😉
Thanks man. Now in this situation, I personally would have went for the handspring-to-backflip-to-spinging headscissors counter, but that’s just me, Sabby has her own way of doing things
Ahahaha! That’s pretty tight. Well, to be fair, Callie’s been leaning on Sabrina for a while so she went with the easy counter.
Now for some reason, I have Santanna G on the brain…
Sabby’s taking the punishment, but it seems like she still has some steam left in her.
Bring the pain, Sabby! Bring the PAIN!
She’s bringing it like a bucket of chicken! That is, if Callie likes chicken and doesn’t powerbomb her…
BLAM! On the clothesline! Wow! Mo Chen very surprised Brina’s heads still attached! And more girls need to learn against Brina, you don’t sling this girl into the ropes – she always seem to catch air when you do.
LOL, that’s a good point. In panel 3, Sabrina seems resigned. Panel 5, huh, ropes? 😛
Yeah, that can’t be classed as anything other than a blunder on my part.
But just think if you would’ve hit, what you were going to hit, eh? 😉
Boot to the head 😀
CLASSIC.
First mistake this year, huh? Well that’s not tooooo tooooo bad xD
I do usually make one or two a year. End of October, I was due. 🙂
Alright, one of two things is going to happen here. We are either getting a frankensteiner. Or a powerbomb. It will all depend on how quickly Sabrina’s opponent can shake the cobwebs. She looks stunned right now, that should favor Sabrina. Only two pages in and it’s already been a crazy fun match….Oh, and happy Halloween everyone! lol
Glad you’re enjoying the match! There’s more where that came from. 😉
What if it’s a hurricanrana? There IS a subtle difference between hurricanrana and Frankensteiner, right? Other than Big Poppa Pump, I mean. 😛
Never believe it when a baddie says you’re done.
In perfect fashion, Kellie Skater kept saying, ‘I got this,’ last weekend during her matches. Though, I think she did win one of them. 😉
But yeah, the classic lines are great for a reason.
More like Wolverine or V: “My turn.”
🙂
Get her, Sabrina!
She’s trying…! XD
It’ always nice when you catch your oppenent un awareslike that in the last panel
As you can see, knowing your (and your opponents’) strengths and weaknesses is very crucial in being a good wrestler.
Wannabe Jane of all trades Sabrina Mancini tries a corner splash, a move reserved for wrestlers with the heft to do some damage. Since Sabrina lacks such heft, she thought more air would do the same damage only for Swansea Joe to prove her wrong.
But in a rush to capitalize on the situation, Joe makes a mental mistake: she threw Sabrina to the ropes. Throwing a “tightrope artist” against the ropes is like throwing Brer Rabbit down the briar patch. Joe’s advantage is gone and in a few seconds, she’s about to eat (and try to get out of) a Dragonrana.
The feeling out process was long over in this match, but to see lapses in logic from both sides this late in tells me these wrestlers have a long way to go.
I don’t really know about that second statement about the corner splash being reserved for bigger wrestlers. If I remember correctly, Shelton Benjamin used to use it with a good deal of success, and he wasn’t exactly the biggest wrestler around
Build up enough momentum and take flight, and I imagine you’d hit pretty hard. It’s 135 lbs of Mancini slamming into Callie there, and Callie doesn’t seem to be significantly bigger than Sabrina, so I don’t get the argument either.
Beg to differ. Callie’s a long established pro. She’s beat the best – yes even me LoL. So she hardly has a long way to go. She’d fall off then edge if she tried. You do have a point about Brina here. But I think what we’re seeing from both of them is frustration and exhaustion setting in to affect the mental game.
The top exchange was my Sting/Lex Luger spot, for better or worse. And wrestling (and most competitive sports) is always a bit of a chess match. Concede one move now to improve your position later.
Of course, lest us all forget – this is Callie. She’s not quite Kat Smith’s size but she’s a power player. I can see reversing this flying tactic into a spinning power bomb.