Tag Tournament 2003: Finals / Caesar and Dan vs. Estrella D' Muerte and Kantai Hikari

Tag Tournament 2003: Finals — Caesar and Dan vs. Estrella D' Muerte and Kantai Hikari

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PONBIKI
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185 comments
# 34  
thanks, ike, dan. spike, gryphon,and anybody i missed. this has been a crazy month for me.

ike awesome fight, nice inking. estrella was cool ans so was kantai
i like the zipper with the exclamation on it genious.
i belive all that i saw wrong is the lack of perspective.
but you got a cool style keep it up.

dan well you know.sorry about killing dan in the beggining, but im still glad you like the fight.

spike thanks for the props. i would ink my art but im lousy inker. it would take me a whole week to ink a page. so thats why i leave em penciled. but im starting to practice inking.

thanks WU, TOAST for this awesome experince. and there patience. thanks to void. later. but this is the last tourney
estrella will be in. she will be retiring shortly.

DarknessRising
29 comments
# 33  
TOAST! AAAHHHH!!!

Kantai.... i don't get the end.....

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 32  
What was the surgery man?
And yeah, I accept what I did... And I will most likely pay the price for it. But I intend to make up with it. and when it comes to print, you guys will be believers too.

PONBIKI
Artist
185 comments
# 31  
ha. thanks for the complament folks. ceasar cricket told me ytou drew his dude super kick ass he was very happy on your desings.
i cant belived you thought about breaking the tear. thats crazy!!
i think criket AKA kantai. he did a great job. he never had followed a script before, i think he did a  pretty good job on it.
there is a lot of thing we had to pull out of the script.
there was a scene were james was all cut up on the desk.
and dan was using him as a talking dummie. but that almost took up like a hole page cause it was soppused to be funny.

also caesar was supposed to be holding fenix by neck outsite the window and he just let him fall. that woyuld had taking  like 2 pages, reason was caeser was asking him questions about his past.

all of that would not work too long, the james on the table was soppus to look like a android, clone thingy. but then dan would had figured out that james was still around. so at the end thats was what estrella was talkignabout. clone. there was a soppused to be a flash back of her fightting james.,and how she knows whats james really fights. and that every body who had fought him and he was just joking around was a clone, and every body was decived by him, cause the real james was a totall bad ass.
and she had underestimated his power. and thats why she fell to him in that street fight.

she also knows every bodies life force. so she can tel people apart. but that how my storie was going. so i finshed my storie in this tag match. estrella is now finshed until i coild come up with something new for her.

so my critics are as follows. Dan well you know what you did.
im just very dissapointed. oh and sorry for killing dan in the first page. hahah there was a joke about that one too, but i cut it out
estrella throws the sword and dan is all like a sword ill catch that with my teeth, but he ends up diying. it was a funny thing but i cut it out too.

to ike, very satisfied with your fight, excellnt it was inked all cool your older looking caesar rocks, more of a seriuos look makes him a more serious fighter. well atleast in my book.
im just kinda dissapointed that estrella was hardly in it. but i cant complain you did a kick ass fight.

well ill post on my fight later.
thanks for this awesome expirence, and i bet the next one will be even better.

ps thanks for understanding. about the surgery it went well but im still bruised around the cut so im kinda watching what i do.
painkillers rule. but dont abuse them like i do....just kidding
thanks alot for the support and patience. later folks.






DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 30  
True true. I actually wouldnt mind seeing another one sometime soon. Depending on what other things will be starting.... I would like to see a singles tourney first though, like the one from EARLY last year or whatever.... like, a HUGE one. Would ALMOST be cool to see EVERY active memeber of void in one single HUGE tourney. No death or scars or shit.... just one huge win or lose elimination tourney.

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 29  
haha, very true, man.  glad you catch my drift.  I\'m sure next tag tourney should be rocked out now that we know what to expect both in organization and in getting the fights done ourselves.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 28  
Damn Pon... everytime I read the comments here, and I see that Caesar thumbnail where hes going apeshit powerful.... Damn. I like it mroe and more. Like... I dont know what it is, but that frame was NAILED man.
And more props to Ike for making caesar look that much more badass.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 27  
oh, I totally agree.... I know mine was suppost to be first. Its cool man. I mean, like... I know mines by far the worst (if any of these are truely bad, its mine) But like, Im just saying that where people are attacking mine, the same issues could be brough up in others as well. Maybe its me being too defensive, or being too picky.... or maybe I'm becoming Marley (no offense, nothing wrong with that). Who knows. It just seems to me that a lot of the people who are chosing to comment are doing so sort of biased.... like

Dan, (insert paragraph of whats wrong here)

(pon or Kantai) yours totally rocked, nothing wrong with it.

Thats just what Ive been seeing at least. Nothing EXACTLY like that, but you know what I mean.

Its cool though. I dont know Kantai, but I know Pon had lots going on, including the surgery (speedy recovery, man.) and you had lots going on too, and so did I. Best I can come up with is that if this tourney had been completely on schedule from the start, no breaks no nothing, the ending woulda been BANGIN, NO STOPS, NO HOLDS BARRED.... but because it happened when it did.... lol, NO one was truely prepared.... oh well... I guess this was kind of a practice tournament of sorts... the next one, now that we've seen how they work, will be run a lot smoother and have less bumps in the road. I actually would like to see a new one now that it costs to enter matches and crap like that. There could actually be some competition in a future one.... rememeber round one???? like EVERYONE defaulted..... *sigh*

Peace

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 26  
PS, I hope that I don\'t seem to be attacking Dan in this by any stretch of the imagination.  I\'m simply addressing a certain discussion that\'s gone on about how or how not to critique each others work, using the matter at hand.  For the most part I believe that both Dan and Spike (when he does comment) offer very insightful and useful points.  So I hope I\'m not stepping on anyone\'s toes.

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 25  
To be fair, Dan, yours was originally intended to be the first half.  I know you had other stuff going on, so I totally understand where you\'re coming from.  However, please remember that so did the rest of us.  We all had plenty of time to work on this fight, not including work that had to be done on the computer.  Kantai\'s and Ponbiki\'s stuff wasn\'t inked and in some places, whether stylisticly or not, looked a bit incomplete, but it was turned in on time.  Pon, whose entry I believe was the best this round, I heard even had to undergo some surgery or something, and I know I\'ve got a full time job, church commitments, and a whole slew of other projects that I\'m working on, not to mention whatever I\'ve got going on in my personal life and relationships with others.  So I feel your concerns, but in all honesty I feel that as an overall unit, our opponent\'s entries were more entertaining, more creative, and better presented then our own.  Much of this is my own opinion, but I certainly agree with Spikes on this.  Many of your critiques are valid, however, so are those of others.  In light of your critique on your own work, I appreciate the humor in it, but I don\'t think it sucked. Even if it didn\'t have fighting in it, and it was short, it still shows your competency as an artist, and got done what you wanted it to. Whether or not it was suited to the end of a tag tournament.  So, all that being said, let\'s all let bygones be bygones (whatever the heck a bygone is) and just learn from each other so that not only will our next fight be better than the last, but we will all be one step closer to achieving quality fitting of the professional industry.  My thanks goes out to all those, who like Dan and Spikes, speak their minds in polite and civil manner. Peace!

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 24  
Spikes.  Thanks for the input, I\'m deff. working on it.  Thanks to guys like you and Ponbiki for the encouragement and inspiration your art has been in that.  Peace!

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 23  
and dude.... the whole \"FOUGHT AND WON...\" that was the FIRST HALF! STEVE DREW IT...... called CONTINUITY. his half ENDED the fight.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 22  
Spikes..... notice that Kantais doesnt have dan in it at ALL? not EVEN on a billboard? I was killed in the first page of the first half.... thats also kinda weak... funny, but week. In my mond, I figured, this shits been going on for SO long it aint funny.... why not have it lead into something else? to have it just END would be kinda goofy. And as this wasnt a death match, even if they win, Im still going with that story.
Like I said, James, I know mine wasnt cake. believe me I do. With all the technical and job related difficulties I had the last few weeks, that could be helped. But I dont need to crit my own comic man, but I guess I will for you.
"dan, your comic was too short, didnt have enough fighting, and sucked."

Hey, I COULD have just defaulted. now wouldnt THAT have been assly?

James
Artist
90 comments
# 21  
pon you are a fucking BEAST. im so in love with your style and dynamics, everythings so SHARP and just wow. i think inking would REALLY bring your work out

ike not bad. some of the poses were really static and i think you should stretch your dynamics a bit more, but still good show

James
Artist
90 comments
# 20  
um dan, hate to be the ass but, your entry wasnt exactly CAKE either. as you criticized in jars last tag fight, this is a TAG TOURNEY, not a PROMO TOURNEY, the LAST MATCH OF THE TAG TOURNEY even. like im interested in seeing where youre going with this whole EPIC TOAST SAGA thing, but you shouldve done this for beyond battles, or at least a regular match. your fight didnt even HAVE estrella or kantai in it (well there faces on a billboard but thats pretty weak). and the whole OOO WE FOUGHT AND WON without actually showing it? thats kind of a turn off for me. as you said again, this was the END ALL BE ALL MATCH OF THE TAG TOURNEY. i was expecting FIREWORKS, MASSIVE PYROTECHNICS and a KILLER DANCE OFF, but yeah. just a little disappointed so im gonna go with kantai on this one

kantai: yours was kinda difficult to follow, but you had some interesting panels non the less. putting the whole james leaving thing kinda threw me off, like it was an afterthought, but its nice to get props anyways. i wish you wouldve at least inked it too, but what can you do

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 19  
Pon, awesome colors, especially in the scene depicted on the page 5 thumbnail of Caesar.... damn good stuff..... but I was a bit unimpressed with the continuity and overall flow..... like... once dan was dead, and the fighting began, I didnt know what the hell was going on anymore.... it was like a bunch of snap shots of a battle all strewn about on a table, left for me to piece together. And the ending either... I didnt get that (in kantais...) ... i commented more on it in that battle. Over all, good stuff man, but with this being the final... I was expecting something more along the lines of what we saw in like say, the toolio tag match, or the.... gulp... Kyosho one.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 18  
Im not saying this just because they are my opponents, but did anyone else find BOTH estrellas and kantais entries pretty hard to follow? I mean, the dialogue in the beginning od Estrellas made no sense to me? who is dan talking to... whys estrella there? whos SHE talking to? whats caesar saying, and to whom? I mean, I got the whole killing dan thing, that I understood... but then after that, even though each panel was drawn well, as a whole... it made little sense to me. The placing was sparatic, and the dialouge seemed kind of random... there wasnt much fluidity to it...just like.... estrella hits caesar... suddenly they are in another room, and caesars shirt is gone, and hes hitting Kantai, who has red hair now.... And then kantais, yeah, I agree the placement of the text was kind of cluttered...... was very distracting from the images in the long run.... details werent very congruent either... i mean..... Talion looked cool.... but he also kind of didnt look like talion... and his sword was wrong.... and I didnt get the ending at ALL.... the James stuff? James\' clones? now his statues gone and Dans the mayor?..... made no sense to me. I mean, I know Im being a little picky here..... and hell I know theres shit wrong with mine too, Gabe pointed it out. Also..... (and this is the last thing, I swear)... I would have liked to see, after all the time we had..... a finished fight... not pencil drawn sketches wher I can still see the guide lines through em. I mean, after the other battles, the one where you faught Toolio especially.... and Kyos.... he who shall not be named.... I was expecting like...Armageddon.......and all I got was maybe a cheaply made sequal to Deep Impact. Sorry... I mean, much love to both you dudes, you guys turn out amazing stuff.... I just wasnt impressed as much....

gryphon
Artist
69 comments
# 17  
DAMN!!!!This is one of the best (quality wise) fights ive ever seen on VOID.  Hail to the both of you, my new favorites.

but...props to ponbiki for the color, had to give'm the higher grade.still, both were insanely badass............zen


zombi
Artist
334 comments
# 16  
epic.

kantari/estrella, you guys rocked.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 15  
LOL, sorry dude. thought you were another one of those goofs that just comes here to give us all grief.

Good Times!

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 14  
thanks for the words though, I\'ve really been trying to get Caesar to look the age he is in my head.  He\'s FINALLY getting there.  

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 13  
heh heh...heh

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 12  
hey Dan, that last comment was me.  :]

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 11  
Great job guys.  Both had some pretty unique twists in there.  It's ALWAYS good to see Toast guest star in a fight, and throwing in that bit with Talion was deffinetly some great writing bringing a nice open ended sence of closure to this whole tournament.  It's funny, cause I had thought of both involving Talion and breaking the Devil's Tear in my fight, but didn't do either due to time constraints and not wanting to ruin any future story ideas you guys may have had.  

Story wise, the two of your guys' entries seemed to me to be a better ending tournament wise.  Good luck on making it the official one!  Great work.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 10  
dude whoever made that last comment needs to be jacked in the face. This is a site for mature people over the age of 3... not immature little doofuses who post stupid crap like the above. Dude, learn to read, then come back when you have something intelligent to say.
Pon- Loved your renditions of Dan and Caesar. Don't worry about the killing dan thing. I understand. Kinda not fun to fight the same person right in a row. Its cool. The way Caesar whooped ass was awesome. Also loved the part where Caesar grabbed Estrella's leg and like Whomped her through the ceiling or wall or whatever. That panel rocked. Reminded me of Smith vs Neo, Revolutions. Very good stuff.

Steve, as usual, your art looks almost cartoon like to me. Like I could see you doing a folow up to like the Star Wars cartoon on Cartoon Network... or Jackie Chan or even the Batman/ Superman cartoon.  I especially like how you drew Caesar in this one. He looks very mature, and less like a little kid. Seems little Caesar has finally grown up and learned to control and use his great power.

Kamicheetah
Artist
30 comments
# 9  
Good job guys. One thing kind of stood out to me though. It was how you had the words over the pictures, Kantai. Made it hard to see what was going on at first. Otherwise, good stuff.

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 8  
Iketruguy........URstuff smlls like me olDsox ndl ooks lik myh poooop!!!!!!!!!111111111

Iketeruguy
Artist
220 comments
# 7  
DUDE!!!!!!!!  Ponbiki, not only did you make Caesar out to be a monster, but this just furthers my opinion that you are one of my favorite artists on VOID.  Your stuff just smacks of style and flare.  From the way you handle character designs, to the angles you pick to convey the action everything is absolute quality.  Though there are a few angles where things got a little confusing like on page 4, the majority are very clear, and VERY dynamic.  Great work man.  I love it.  Thank you.  We\'ll have to do this again someday.

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 6  
Whew... that was a close one. Steve, hopefully I deliver for ya. I mean shit, its been hard after getting my computer back... wiped clean of ANYTHING I ever had on it.... and having to get all the progs and shit from scratch...... still not sure if the scanners functioning right, but I will do my best for ya man.

This tournaments gotta end with a BANG!

Especially after the whole death tournament. We need to have more of these things... but they need to be CLOSELY monitored and the Schedule TIGHTLY kept. Shit.... like.... I dont know... just gotta be more orderly than these last 2, know what I mean?

WuLongTi
Artist
90 comments
# 5  
Gah! I jumped the gun sorry.  They were granted extention so the fight has been recalled and a new deadline set.  Ike will get to keep his 6 pages for himself.

WuLongTi
Artist
90 comments
# 4  
ok, nevermind. I jumped the gun on this one and it ends up they have been granted extention. Fight recalled and new deadline set.

WuLongTi
Artist
90 comments
# 3  
so that Dan would not recieve a default loss, IketeruGuy has asked that the first 3 pages of his 6 page submission be entered on behalf of SkullcapComix.  Damn, now that's a TEAM PLAYER.

I really liked the teamwork in Estrella and Kantai's matches, the styles and tag team fighting was really top notch throughout this tourney.  Very interesting twist at the end there.  Good Stuff.  I also found it very interesting that in the Estrella/Kantai pages it was basicly them vs Caesar with Dan being taken out super early.  Then in Caesar's version it was him vs the both of them with Dan on the side not doing much...  and then Dan wasnt able to get an entry in... very interesting... almost conspiracy like...  Oh, and Steve, good stuff man.  Shame you couldnt get this colored.  Good stuff man, good stuff.

WuLongTi
Artist
90 comments
# 2  
Rather than allow Dan to take a default, IketeruGuy has asked to have the first half of his 6 page entry be submitted for Dan.  <sniff> now that\'s a TEAM PLAYER!

DEDieckmann (SkullcapComix)
Artist
463 comments
# 1  
We meet again, Estrella d'Muerte......

this tournament has been a lot of old memories for me... lol

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