Chapter 5-Page-15-Up and Over
Hurricanrana! (or Springboard Hurricanrana, if you like!) Callie goes up and over. Can Sabrina keep the strong brit down for the three count? Find out on Monday!
Guest Art!
Attached with with the Voting Incentive today is a really fun piece that my friend Meg did of herself and Chloe DeSade! There’s no mistake how she feels about the queen of mean. Be sure to check out Meg’s awesome page as she’s got several comic projects as well as a beautiful gallery.
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Hiatus
I will be taking a brief break from updating Rival Angels between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. It’s the first break ever in five years but I need it. And keep in mind that while I might not be updating the comic, I’ll still be working on Rival Angels. How could I not? 😛 I will try and post some stuff during that time, for sneak peeks and to keep you updated.
Ack! That lousy little…ok, keep calm and carry on. I’m not that tired, she’s not that heavy, and she’s leaning way forward on the pin. Get my hands on her arse, ignore the whistling, and give her a shove forward. You’ve got this, Callie….(I hope!)
There are a lot of guys here that would swap with you Callie.
Well, understandable, but being I spend more time in contact with the relevant bits than most of them, I’m not so easily swayed.
Upon re-reading, that so doesn’t sound right…
Sabrina IS leaning over pretty far…
Looks like Sabrina just about threw her out of her bikini!
I didn’t see that but with the way she landed she is lucky she didn’t hurt Callie’s neck.
Callie’s tougher than a $2 steak. Remember her forum match with Brenda? 😉
She’s quick like that!
Dude, I *love* your action shots!
Looks like Callie ate some serious canvas there. And Brina is learning how to keep her game on.
I can see Yoshi saying, Yes! out midnight training paid off.
I’d facepalm if my face weren’t otherwise occupied just now…
It never occurred to me until just now what Yoshi might think of this match/pin/etc…. 😛
Thanks! Glad you liked the actiony action.
*pssst* there’s more where that came from. 😉
ouchies i bet that crached the ole spinfor ya hun but i’m pretty sure bree has this one locked up kinda hard to kick out of that one neck is going to be sore in the monring ontop of a huge headache
Yes Callie with be sore for a very long time.
*searches Snowy’s post with a suspicious eye, looking for double meaning…*
I can’t find it either! Swerve!!
Aches and pains are part of the game, but those aches hurt a lot less after a win. Of course, the sports medicine department with their healing hands never hurt.
I really ought to show them more. Hmmm…
oya the lens flare you use for the crowd reaction to the matches is really great.. having been to a couple ppvs, raws, and smackdowns.. it gets this multicolored wave of flashes.. plus all the fun super expensive glowy things in the crowd help.. but that is spot on. Since sabrina has been working on her joint locks, id love to see callie push brina off only for sabrina to hold onto the ankle and hit the ankle lock.. or a clover.. i think brinas bag o tricks has grown by leaps and bounds. In pannel 1 though callies bottom went to a string steap then back to a thicker strap in the next scene
Pfft. If Mancini wants to bring the matwork, she’s more than welcome to. She had one segment of a training montage’s worth of work on joint locks, and she was preparing for Widow, not me. I know more counters than “BITSY SMASH!”
I now I’m thinking of a Bitsy/Callie match…
Oy, you’re right about those bottoms, enough so that i need to go back and fix them. Thanks!
Sabrina has learned a lot in her time in Japan, but she’s still getting the experience to really know when to use it. More on Monday!
Darn You!
DARN YOU AND YOU’RE FRIDAY CLIFFHANGERS!!
*shakes fist o` moderate fury!*
…I do like Callies boots thought X3“`
We like her boots and the guy like her booty.
Man, you’re right about them Friday cliffhangers…but it’s coincidental, I swear! XD
Callie has sweet taste. Seriously, that’s not me patting myself on the back, she picked those out herself. 😛
I think we all can agree on a good booty is a good booty, guys and gals.
I did pick the boots out, yes.
The rest is genetics and hard work 😀
What do you chalk the scintillating wit to? Genetics, hard work, or ? XD
Proper English breeding, of course! XD
Well, that gotta hurt for both wrestlers after a move like that. 🙁
Most definitely, but they’re tough. 😉
That’s a pretty well done action page.
Also, HIATUS?!
Thanks, Chris!
Whoops! I thought I told you about the hiatus last Saturday night. 😛
Sabrina got her ass kick? in the voting incentives?
That would be Meg’s alter-ego kicking Chloe in the butt. She did that drawing around the time that Sabrina was fighting Chloe.
NO!! NO!! NO!! NO!! NO!!NO!!
HOW DARE THAT… DONKEY KICK CHLOE!!
NO!! NO!!
PLAIN DISRESPECTFUL!!
DISRESPECTFUL!!
RESPECT CHLOE!!
COME ON!!
bwahahaha
remember Callie..
I;m cheering you for the win…
wait..
I know what Callie’s entrance song is..
lyrics.. as Callie sing on her entrace
‘HEY I just met you..
and this is crazy..
here’s my number
and call me callie..’
HAHAHAHAHa
I’m English. Seeing a French girl get booted in the arse will never not be funny.
Also you’re weird.
why? I’m weird?
Entrance themes can make the crowd love you, hate you, fear you, but above all they MUST make the crowd REMEMBER you. The point is to make that first impression a lasting one. Poppy, trendy shite that people will have forgotten about by the time you’re slipping between the ropes doesn’t fit that bill.
And seriously, “Call me Callie”? Weird….
Actually, she’s a water dragon.
looks like this is all she wrote for Callie- but also looks like someone else has shown up to interrupt Brina’s moment of triumph judging by the VI.
the hurricanrana there was almost Mysterio-esque except Brina did the grab the legs and lean forward part after while Rey would usually get it in one motion.
and meanwhile some guy off to the right of the final panel is taking pictures
We’ll know more for sure on Monday about this match but as you see, the drama’s only going to get higher.
And you noticed Sabrina’s newness with the move, as opposed to Rey Rey’s experience with the move. 😀
The place is lighting up with all of the flashes going off. 😛
I thought…
you’ll ban or do anything.. against who disrespect someone..
come on…
have justice in this…
you should do that to Chloe..
plain injustice
MGC, let me tell you a quick story:
Last weekend I took a friend of mine to her first wrestling show, to SHIMMER! She really enjoyed it, but she found that she really liked the heels, like Nikki St. John. She liked their outfits and their attitudes but since everyone was still booing them, she was a little confused. I told her that if you really like a heel, you *should* boo them because that’s what they’re trying to get across. You booing them is letting them know that they’re doing a good job.
True that. I remember an interview with Jim Cornette who said that while it was well and good if people found his comments funny, what he was really trying to do was make the fans absolutely hate his guts and get beaten within an inch of his life. Likewise, Chris Jericho when he was ‘fired’ dragged out kicking and screaming, later said that that was how he wanted it as a heel — for him, the biggest compliment for being a heel was to have people saying ‘wow, what a jerk, I’m glad he’s gone’. There will always be heel supporters, but remember for the most part they are actively trying to make the fans dislike them. Why? To quote Roddy Piper “They loved you so much because they hated ME so much.”
Yeah, but Corny’s old-school, there. The fans are a bit different, these days. When Jericho was “fired”, fans went online and complained about his shoddy treatment. When Daniel Bryan lost the world title in an 18 second “match”, fans chanted “YES!” the whole next night on Raw. WWE had to invent a “you’re mocking me with those chants” reasoning. And CM Punk will never be booed in Chicago again, no matter how many times he calls them a bunch of fat drunks sucking down Old Styles with their Italian beef sandwiches. Face/heel dynamics aren’t dead, but today’s fans are less willing to be bound by them. Give them a cool heel and a boring face, and they’ll cheer the heel, no matter how many signs they rip up and announcers they smack around. Heels can try to up the ante on the heeling, or they can run with it and just act like smarmy jerks who can get away with anything because the crowd’s behind them, but it’s up to the business to adapt to what the fans want.
Adon, it sounds like what Jericho’s describing there is X-Pac Heat. Way I see it, the fans should at least want you around so that their favourite face has a worthy opponent to feud with.
It was my roundabout way of saying that it was okay for my friend to draw her dragon-self kicking Chloe in the butt. XD
You all raise good points, though the basic point I’m trying to make is that at its roots, the heel is the designated bad guy. Their goal is to make the fans hate them in the sense that they want to see the face soundly defeat them. Now, it doesn’t always work that way. People will always respect someone who is a great wrestler no matter how vile they’re supposed to be. And there is even the artistic appeal of a well-done heel. Edge comes to mind… for a long time without a doubt he was my favorite wrestler BECAUSE he was so good at being a villain. A successful heel is someone you love to hate (unlike X-Pac heat, where the fans just hate them and want them to go away).
Regarding Jericho, I’m just paraphrasing the man’s own words. The kicking and screaming was his own idea, and he wanted to stay in character as an entitled jerk to the end.
But in the end, you are correct. It’s the fans who decide who the heels and faces are. That’s why, say, Kane is a heel or a face depending on the day of the week. His character doesn’t ever really change, it’s just whether the fans sympathize with whoever he’s facing or not.
It might vary from person to person; when Kevin Steen was feuding with El Generico as the heel and there were people in the crowd chanting for him, I’m guessing he didn’t mind. I mean, so long as they get a reaction it shows that they’re over, right?
Damn. My neck hurts now…
Front and back too I bet, eh? lol
You deserve a break, mister. Just don’t let it turn into a break like mine ^.^
Okay! 😛
not bad by Sabrina, though a senton Rey Mysterio style might have been a better choice. Better chance to knock the wind out of your opponent and pick up the 3 while they’re trying to catch their breath.
BTW, Nice butt, Caliie.
Thank you, Donny, for giving voice to what all heterosexual men, homosexual women, and bisexual everybody reading this comic were thinking. (Those with taste, anyway.)
Oh, to clarify, I was referring to what you said about the senton. Not what you said about Callie’s butt.
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Nah, just kidding. I’m talking about Callie’s butt. 😀
I have no response for this.
Other than to say that my butt is AWESOME! XD
Indeed so. 🙂
The Senton visual would’ve been cool too. XD
It seems like whenever Albone brings up the possibility of something backfiring (rana attempt, Ultrasplash attempt, w/e), the chances of it actually backfiring in the next strip are close to nil. (At least until I made that observation, and possibly gave him the idea of telling us something will backfire so that we won’t suspect it and then surprising us by having it backfire.)
That was one crazy-ass move I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen ever. Usually a springboard ‘rana starts on the apron, with the wrestler facing their opponent in the ring, then leaping to the top rope, and then leaping from there onto the opponent’s shoulders. But this one started out like an Asai moonsault/Lionsault, then saw ‘Brina spin around 180 degrees in midair, and then land on Callie’s shoulders.
Sabrina’s a trailblazer like that. XD
As to the backfire surprise, I find that the possibility of it outweighs whether it actually happens. That, and what *is* going to happen next?-sort of cliffhanger.
nice use of motion but I don’t like Sabrina’s faces in panels 1. Her head looks detached, because the full jawline is drawn in. I would consider using a partial definition line instead. Granted, I can’t draw that well myself, but I like to think I’m a fair critic.
Callie’s foot in panel 2 looks like it was pasted on, which contrasts to the great pinning picture by Sabrina.
I like panel 3, especially Callie’s arm on Sabrina’s leg, hinting at the effort to kick out, even if it doesn’t happen.
Also, I like the ‘fireworks’ style background, considering how live events are, this is accurate, and fits the theme really well! That extra touch really makes this update into something better.
Keep it up and I’ll share the site on FB again soon! ^_^
Zero, those are all some fair points. Her foot in panel 2 has a thicker outline to show that it’s in front of Sabrina but it was a little hard to gauge as it’s not the closest thing to the viewer. 😛
Thanks for the comments. 🙂
I try to be fair!
Did Sabrina take gymnastics or maybe swimming/diving?
The hurricanranna especially of the springboard variety always baffles me to no end. In my mind my knowledge of physics and momentum keeps telling me that in a surprise move like that the opponent would rarely be braced and ready to support the person pulling off the move. In a non-scripted unrehearsed situation I keep thinking that it should result in a sort of Senton depending on size and or weight of both opponents.
I guess physics and wrestling physics differ.
At some point you have to just say “It’s wrestling”. I mean, the Irish whip doesn’t make sense if you think about it in shoot terms.
It’s funny you mention diving. I’ve used that as reference far more than actual wrestling moves for some of Sabrina and Sun’s moves.
As for physics…I think Callie’s got it right. That tends to be the rule with comic books too. However, if you don’t like that explanation, maybe do a google/youtube search for Lita’s hurricanrana. The way she twisted and swung her bodyweight might be more in line with what your thinking.
This is going to sound rude of me but I said unscripted and unrehearsed. I don’t think it’s quite right to use a scripted show as an example for a comic where all of this is suppose to be real, it seems to be a contradiction.
Transference of energy and momentum, physics, and other variables…
As you can see I think and analyze things too much and aced the hell out of science way back when. I can accept the ‘that’s just the way it is’ sort of explanation for fictional settings.
The diving I could tell thanks to the tucking and form. I see a few luchadors pulling it off but rarely regular wrestlers, their flips aren’t that compact and quick, quite the opposite (Cody Rhode’s Moonsault comes to mind, that is one of the most beautiful moonsaults I’ve ever seen).
Great action sequence! Your art is top notch! I’m just recently out of hibernation, so I have a lot of catching up to do…
So great to have you back! 🙂
I dunno, I kinda miss the pants.
You’re not the only one! XD
Simply wanna input that you have a very decent website , I enjoy the design and style it actually stands out.