THE RETURN OF THE RETURN OF EL MALEFICO HYPE

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A short PSA regarding to the new ML! comic coming out this year:

In light of The Return of The Return of el Malefico releasing sometime this year (be very patient please) have something very important to say; please, please, PLEASE remember to tag your spoilers once the whole comic is released! i know we’re super mega hyped for this comic (including me) but please before you post the images, tag them properly (// spoilers) there are some important events happening in the upcoming comic.

Thank you for listening, have a lucha day.

LUNAPASTEL- I mean… ML-APPRECIATION HAS SPOKEN

*dissapears in smoke bomb*

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Today’s Random Clip - S1E01a: Back to School

Do not interrupt her.

Also, Why was el guapo (to not be confused by a Jorge R. Gutierrez character of the same name) in the headmistress office??

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Random Thought

In 2004 there was talk about submitting some long form ideas to WB Home video. Throwing ideas around, a variety show format came up...

Or...one of our characters ('Late Nite with Senor Hasbeena') interviewing a combination of animated and live characters, with crazy stunts, and diversions.  A la Pee Wee's Playhouse..

Okay, so it's a bit Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast-ish, but I liked the idea of bringing Hasbeena to the fore, so I worked up a springboard premise based on this...

*Note: remember this is 2004. there was no youtube, Netflix was a dvd rental company, and streaming was something that needed a supply of water. Okay, let's proceed...

It all starts with a migratory swarm of cicadas from Hawaii which is blown off course and deposits into the town where our story is set. Meanwhile Senor Hasbeena has a late night community access TV show that no-one watches...except maybe Kid Upandcoming who regularly calls in to crank call Hasbeena.

Because of the late night chirping of the cicadas, no one can sleep. Suddenly, Hasbeena's viewership is soaring: Because everyone is awake, Hasbeena's show becomes the default program to watch. After years of lucha obscurity, Hasbeena suddenly finds himself back in the spotlight - maybe he has that one last golden chance to immortalize himself as one of the greats? But first he needs an epic match and an epic opponent...

So..I floated this by someone close to me (who up until this I had been in total sync with)...and they hated it!!! :D

Needless to say it didn't happen. While all this was going on we were still getting assurances season 4 was going to happen...well you know the rest, and that pretty much ended any discussion with Home Video.

Still...time, space and creativity is a strange thing. I'm thinking Senor H. will still get his moment to shine...

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❤️🤎💚The Three Mascaritas parents profiles, taken from the archived kids’ wb website of the show❤️🤎💚

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oop, caught these in a milisecond heheh

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I adored these backgrounds and shots, so here are some of the best shots from The Return of El Maléfico movie! (1/5)

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(2/5)

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(3/5)

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(4/5)

These shots go hard and I love it!

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(5/5)

The last batch!

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Tonight’s Random Clip - The Return of el Malefico

Aaaaaaaaaaand yea, it takes places on rikochet’s house, and bugs bunny is there for some reason hahahhahahahah (+ a scene of the adults in Las Vegas)

(About the short scene of the adults, including mama and lonestar in las vegas) - y’know… ever since i’ve watched the return of el malefico since 2017 (9 years? whoa) i have always thought of something… were the adults (parents, teachers, other adult luchadores that were featured in this particular scene after rikochet’s party) actually drunk?? i mean, it wasn’t shown explicitly but, I always assumed that they were drunk in that scene because of the animations of each adult (including a cameo of Kid Upandcoming) because MY GOODNESS, it’s even more fun to imagine lol and I wonder what other misadventures they did in Las Vegas before battling el malefico lolololol.

Oh, btw I’m gonna post a few more clips in anticipation of the upcoming sequel comic that’s coming in a few months.

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Golden Girl

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Today i thought of something interesting, when i re-watch mucha lucha on my free time, i always thought that the teachers’ (headmistress, midcarda & hasbeena) relationship are similar to the three mascaritas’ type of friendship they have.

i have an hc that the three (along with fundador, kurtz and custodio) would always hang out at some place to catch up (at The effective karaoke bar from rudo by night jsksjjsjk) and interacting as ONE, and they could be singing off key (and kinda loudly), drinking and then falling asleep and waking up with a slight headache xD. or that’s what i thought at least.

Wow, what a concept. Actually, here is the wideshot you didn't see ;)

Hasbeena showing a LOT of restraint waiting for his turn to belt out a medley of Boogie Wonderland/Boogie Fever/Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

Seriously I LOVE this idea. A karaoke bar where luchadores hang out after hours. Somebody do this series of vignettes!

There used to be (maybe still is) a bar in LA around First and Fairfax called El Carmen that was lucha-libre themed with El Santo movie posters and black velvet paintings of luchadores behind the bar. Many a happy hour was spent with animation colleagues and fellow lucha fans there!

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Some silly headcanon

// Brief Drinking & Alcohol Mention

I’m soon to rewatch the movie after i finish season 3, but tonight, while checking thru the gallery of the movie on the ml! wiki i’ve stumbled upon these scenes.

y’know… ever since i’ve watched the return of el malefico since 2017 (9 years? whoa) i have always thought of something… were the adults (parents, teachers, other adult luchadores that were featured in this particular scene after rikochet’s party) actually drunk?? i mean, it wasn’t shown explicitly but, I always assumed that they were drunk in that scene because of the animations of each adult (including a cameo of Kid Upandcoming) because MY GOODNESS, it’s even more fun to imagine lol and I wonder what other misadventures they did in Las Vegas before battling el malefico lolololol, like for example……. sr. hasbeena kissing kid upandcoming while drunk or the three mascaritas parents drinking tons of beer or dancing and singing off key!!!

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Yeahp, that’s what I imagined, sorry about that guys lol, might draw hypothetical pictures of the parents, teachers and other adults yadayadayada in Las Vegas someday.

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Sorry about that guys, had to get it out of my brain but it’s kinda fun to imagine lol

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Me trying to look like I know what I'm doing in the storyboard room during production of Mucha Lucha! (circa 2003). The episode is 'Party Animal'. You can easily spot which section of the board I did.

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an animation bit of penny plutonium can be seen on an old Kids’ WB New Episode Saturday promo from Sep. 14th 2002, i’ve assumed that this comes from the “Bring Your Dad to Lucha Day” episode from season 1, but it was possibly cut from the episode, i don’t know, i think it was cut from the episode maybe. (btw it’s a very funny expression lol, we need more angry penny)

The promo below! (at the 38:08 mark)

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i was thinking of doing mini-comics for this blog, sorta like the sole comic i did back in 2020 (when the blog was called ml-comics), and i was considering to do a series of mini-comics named “Flea Bites”, I’m still thinking of some things to write on, but all I know that these comic strips would be focused on the flea + other characters.

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Sooooooooooo….. about El Fundador and El Custodio

I wonder if el fundador and el custodio would reconcile and set their differences aside in the upcoming return of the return of el malefico comic that’s coming soon, If they did set their differences aside, they would both talk about about their lives and why education is important to their fellow teachers & also students, and custodio would maybe, MAYBE open up to fundador (even though he’s the janitor of the school AND owner of his own store, Chez Custodio) and would talk about a bit of his past and what was he was doing before the events of the “Our Founder” episode and all that stuff… (and custodio he deserves a customer on his store too, which is sr. hasbeena)

i don’t know, it’s just a what-if scenario I just had recently while talking to a mutual, I mean… c’mon, they both haven’t appeared asides from season 1, so I think they deserve something and a supporting role in the comic.

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The gang are ready...let's push for a positive collective consciousness to make it happen...

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Two characters who are one of my favorite people :) Page 8 of 'El Malefico'.

I caught up with the wonderful Candi Milo yesterday. "Eddie, we need to do Mucha Lucha! again..."

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Hola Eddie!! I hope you’re having a lucha day as always, soooo i have a question regarding to the character arc around the teachers in the upcoming malefico comic.

Since for a long time I’ve wanted to see some of the characters to have some development, including the teachers (headmistress, hasbeena, midcarda, kurtz, custodio & fundador), and ever since the announcement about the teachers’ development arc i haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since, and I’m very happy about that :D

And I was wondering if the teachers will have a development arc (both in character and personality, since they are the school staff), or an arc that consists of diving deeper into them, for example, such as their interactions with other characters (such as the parents or students) and all that stuff.

Thank you!

All I can say is that they will be featured in the story. As I've mentioned, I have a beginning, middle and end. I know in my head where the characters will be featured, but until I start drawing and reach the stages where I want them involved, it's all just ideas. I don't actually write scripts for projects like this and prefer just to keep building on the original one-sentence-premise idea. I will say though, that they will be 'active' :)

Love, Eddie