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Description It's another pic from the Crazy Lizard archives, featuring a pair of orcs you may recognise from here: [link] and also from here: [link] .

As has been mentioned previously, Mozgrog (on the left) and Ogrokh (on the right) once had part-time careers as professional wrestlers, making a bit of extra cash at weekends by taking part in various regional grunt-and-grapple shows. They fought as a tag-team known as the Beer Monsters (a name inspired by their shared fondness for all things alcoholic), and they were surprisingly successful, gaining popularity with the fans and defeating numerous other teams by fighting so shambolically that all of their opponents' cunning strategies were rendered totally useless.

Of course, just like any other self-respecting orcish wrestling tag-team, Ogrokh and Mozgrog needed some outlandish outfits to fight in - and the illustration above shows them sporting the clobber in which they did their clobbering, hence the recurring grog barrel motif and the wholly unnecessary warpaint. (Orcs generally prefer to apply warpaint to their bodies rather than their faces, because it takes so long to work round the ears and the fangs.)

Incidentally, you might like to note that when orcish pro wrestlers hit each other - unlike their human equivalents on modern-day Earth - they really do hit each other. This is something worth bearing in mind before you try to make fun of their costumes.
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Comments: 24

Archon89 [2011-04-02 13:23:11 +0000 UTC]

They have a very cool look!! I like Ogrokh Nice work!

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alienruler [2008-05-20 15:30:36 +0000 UTC]

do they want one of mrs. Lovett's meat pies

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MatthewSmith In reply to alienruler [2008-05-23 14:24:31 +0000 UTC]

Actually, despite appearances, Ogrokh and Mozgrog (and indeed all the other orcs of the First Worlde) never eat humans. Quite apart from the fact that humans don't taste that great, it takes forever to fillet them and there's always the risk of chipping a fang on a stray bit of jewellery.

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alienruler In reply to MatthewSmith [2008-05-23 15:15:34 +0000 UTC]

mrs. lovett was able to get people in fleet street to eat them if not one of mrs. lovett people meatpies how about a pussy cat meatpie

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trashpandadeluxe [2008-02-07 11:42:15 +0000 UTC]

Very funny, love em!

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MatthewSmith In reply to trashpandadeluxe [2008-05-23 14:20:20 +0000 UTC]

Ta!

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Sonic000 [2008-01-29 01:50:57 +0000 UTC]

Why did they decide to become wrestlers? Just a question to throw out there.

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MatthewSmith In reply to Sonic000 [2008-05-23 14:20:00 +0000 UTC]

Sorry for not replying sooner - I hadn't spotted your question. Anyway, the answer is that it was an ideal way to turn a hobby into a (part-time) profession. Ogrokh and Mozgrog always enjoyed a good fight after a pint or 12 down the pub, so they figured they might as well get paid for beating people up.

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Balron [2007-12-11 19:58:26 +0000 UTC]

OMG I haven't seen any of your art in a few years:3

FAVFAVFAV+++

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MatthewSmith In reply to Balron [2008-05-23 14:13:40 +0000 UTC]

Delighted you like the pic! (And apologies for the veeeeery late reply.)

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RustyNormandale [2007-10-04 18:48:37 +0000 UTC]

Nicely done! Good biceps, good faces, and good bellies.

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MatthewSmith In reply to RustyNormandale [2007-10-26 12:43:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks lots!

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Letdragon [2007-09-28 02:37:18 +0000 UTC]

Quite a pair man

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MatthewSmith In reply to Letdragon [2007-10-26 12:43:19 +0000 UTC]

They make for a pretty good team, I reckon - they're equally strong, they share the same fighting style and they can belch the orcish national anthem in two-part harmony.

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Letdragon In reply to MatthewSmith [2007-10-26 16:55:00 +0000 UTC]

Nice

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EHKiba [2007-09-27 23:25:04 +0000 UTC]

I saw this pic some time ago on the Crazy Lizard website and I have to say that it's one of the best pics of the two!

Instant fav of course, and wonderful work on the "Grog barrel" wrestling outfit design, but I'm not sure I get the hat-helmet on Mozgrog head but never mind that!

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MatthewSmith In reply to EHKiba [2007-10-26 12:37:40 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like the pic so much! And to be perfectly honest, Moz's little spiky hat doesn't really go with the rest of their ensemble at all - I just thought it looked funny.

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Sibeling [2007-09-27 19:01:22 +0000 UTC]

Wow. That's awesome X)

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MatthewSmith In reply to Sibeling [2007-10-26 12:35:30 +0000 UTC]

Cheers!

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TheCaptainFoxx [2007-09-27 18:34:54 +0000 UTC]

Interesting style of decoration

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MatthewSmith In reply to TheCaptainFoxx [2007-10-26 12:35:20 +0000 UTC]

Since they mostly honed their fighting skills in bar-room brawls (which orcs usually arrange by appointment, so anyone who just wants to enjoy a nice quiet drink knows when not to visit the pub), the whole beer barrel thing seemed kind of appropriate. Plus they're not very good with warpaint, and it's one of the only things they knew how to draw...

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eclipsegirl [2007-09-27 18:27:33 +0000 UTC]

looks funny
awesome drawing

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MatthewSmith In reply to eclipsegirl [2007-10-26 12:29:45 +0000 UTC]

Ta muchly!

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eclipsegirl In reply to MatthewSmith [2007-10-26 15:37:09 +0000 UTC]

yw

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