Here we go. Sorry folks. Doing four super-sized pages in a row was just a bit more than I could handle. Especially the last three pages where I had 10+ panels per page. This one was actually a little easier than the last one, especially since I opted to not draw all of the RD and Blade faces throughout the comic. Instead, I figured that since they're addressing each other by name in every other text box, it's pretty intuitive.
Still, I probably should have just adopted the Rival Angels method of coloring the text bubbles differently. Would have saved me a lot of time.
I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to these pages. It was a real pleasure working with the characters from Rival Angels and Sidekick Girl. And let's not forget the guys at Wrestlecrap for letting me use their likenesses.
One last note about the haiku and the business about the crown. It's a very obscure joke from their podcast. What this refers to is an old action figure promo for King Haku, except that when the figure came out, I guess he wasn't the King anymore. (I think Macho Man was.) Anyhoo, the promo picture still had him with the crown, so it says, “does not come with crown as illustrated.”
And of course, Haku sounds like “haiku”, so there you go.
By the way, the wrestling haiku has been the finale for nearly every episode of the Wrestlecrap Radio podcast, which will be celebrating its 150th episode this week. Congrats, RD and Blade.
I think, since Neil didn't update till relatively late Monday, that what we'll do is run the next one this Thursday, hopefully maintaining the twice-a-week schedule for this chapter with that one week as an exception.
Dammit, that was supposed to include a link to http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg3/series.php and say that the aforementioned cereal mascots already have their hands full at the moment.
Oh, one other note I have about Fruit Brute. It hasn't been on the market for at least a couple decades, so a lot of you may not know what that is. It's actually one of the original Monster Cereals, along with Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo Berry.
With as much as the Wrestlecrap guys talk about cereal, I don't think either one of them have dropped a Fruit Brute reference on their show.
CartoonistWill at 2:16PM, Aug. 12, 2009
Awesome haiku and reference to an ancient action figure.
alschroeder at 6:09AM, July 14, 2009
I think, since Neil didn't update till relatively late Monday, that what we'll do is run the next one this Thursday, hopefully maintaining the twice-a-week schedule for this chapter with that one week as an exception.
theRedDeath at 7:57PM, July 13, 2009
I'm curious as to why the Smiling Man needs everyone alive...
DIguana at 5:59PM, July 13, 2009
Dammit, that was supposed to include a link to http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg3/series.php and say that the aforementioned cereal mascots already have their hands full at the moment.
DIguana at 5:57PM, July 13, 2009
I think Count Chocula and Fruit Brute
Xade at 4:59PM, July 13, 2009
cool!
Neilsama at 3:27PM, July 13, 2009
Oh, one other note I have about Fruit Brute. It hasn't been on the market for at least a couple decades, so a lot of you may not know what that is. It's actually one of the original Monster Cereals, along with Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo Berry. With as much as the Wrestlecrap guys talk about cereal, I don't think either one of them have dropped a Fruit Brute reference on their show.