It’s March 16, or 3/16, and for aging fans of the WWF Attitude Era, that means that it’s International Stone Cold Steve Austin Day, and in celebration, I’ve reviewed the newly released WWE Heroes #1.
You can probably figure out my feelings about the comic just from reading the headline, but for those of you who are curious about how I came to that conclusion, there are 1100 words plus visual aids waiting on the other side of the link. Suffice to say that the nicest thing I can say about it is that it does not have Kevin Nash’s sex face.
And that’s the bottom line, ’cause Chris Sims said so.
This is the same Josh Wright who commented over at Comics Alliance, and I just wanted to let you know I’ve been following your stuff for about a year now, and I think it’s genius.
Thanks!
On the plus side, that’s the best art I’ve ever seen in a wrestling comic.
Why do companies (the publisher. WWE) waste time and money putting this stuff out? Was the WWE Universe clamoring for this? I doubt it. I think the publish it cuz they know people like Chris will review it. I eargerly await the TNA Wrestling comic.
They should have had Greg Land do this book. We know he already has the tracing material… err, ‘photo references’.
I am confused by the phrasing of your headline – it seems to suggest there might have been doubt.
Why is the water behind his nose?
That’s actually an interesting kayfabe fact- Triple-H is allergic to water, so they have to simulate his water-spewing via a carefully concealed spray tube located next to his face.
Oh, yes.
Chris, I’ve waited almost a year to hear your review of this.
I was part of the team that colored this book, and the next issue as well, which is also hilarious.
Though the art is better in the next issue as far as likenesses go, there’s still a sameness to the book that’s really confusing. (Apparently the artist didn’t get the massive file full of reference that came with the script. Massive, but still only half of what we needed.)
As far as the WrestleMania logo goes, it was that pixelated in the lineart when we got it. Go figure.
There’s a truly ridiculous amount of behind-the-scenes tweaking and politicking that goes into a book like this. When the book was first drawn about a year ago, it was set in an entirely different stadium. By the time we got it, it had been moved to Phoenix, so we had to swap out the logos on each page. I recall doing about three sets of revisions to my scenes from the second issue, culminating in a directive to recolor the whole issue in a different style. Sheesh.
Long story short, I’ve been waiting to hear you take this apart for AGES. Way to go, Sims.
I can’t wait for the TNA comic.
To simulate the actual TNA watching experience, every other page will be a full page spread of either Hulk Hogan or Eric Biscoff.
It will be drawn by a competent artist, but the storyline will make no sense and the artist will have no chance to show his talent.
After 2 issues, Hogan will hire one of his buddies to draw the comic, leading to the readership dropping tremendously.
Also Jeff Hardy outta nowhere before getting arrested for drugs.
Spoiler: (like it matters)
In the second issue h}{h and Jericho get murdered by terrorists at Wrestlemania.
It’s not like they are playing different people. They are “themselves” that we watch every week.
Killing two of your top characters in the second issue is a big no no for any story.
And to think that people have to pay 60 bucks to see WM and a bunch of terrorists ruin it and they have to
witness two brutal murders on live TV.
Killing wrestlers in a sport that many wrestlers already have died in real life in just not cool. And pretty classless.
It doesn’t matter that the comic sucks. This sickens me. This goes farther than South Park has ever gone.
This is just something that should be stopped.
Owen Hart died in the ring and they have Triple H killed in the ring?
And now when there are actual terrorists around to worry about this is just wrong.
Jericho being taken to the back and killed is just something that we stay with me as one of the sickest things that has entered my mind.
Imagine how tragic that would really be. And to actually make it happen sickens me more the child porn.
This is the worst thing I ever encountered. *shakes head*
My mood is really low just thinking about this. I say some f’ed up things sometimes but this shouldn’t be joked about.
I had to e-mail them about this.