(From “Blue Bolt” number 2, 1940.)
“Pisces” by Kytana 
“Cancer” by Kytana 
“Onati Tansis” by Jenna 
“Kes Nal” by Jack Zelger 
“Gadget” by Jack Zelger 
“Twister Sisters” by Imp 
“Lady Winter” by Iago Valentine 
“Mystery Swamp Woman” by Haz 
“Elizabeth ‘Bug’ Daleski” by Haz 
“Athena” by Hammerknight 
“Leebra” by Gendonesia 
“Geisha” by Gargoyle323 
“Helios Cloak” by Eric 
“Halo” by Doomed Pixel 
“Clerical Raptor” by Doomed Pixel 
“Santulana” by DiCicatriz 
“Ishmerai” by DiCicatriz 
“Fever Conjuress” by DiCicatriz 
“Cowboy Sorcerer” by DiCicatriz 
“Arida” by DiCicatriz 
Sharing Day, Creative Elevator Pitch Day
An “elevator pitch” is a very short, very quick-to-deliver creative pitch, something you would have ready to use if you found yourself in an elevator with an influential person who could help your project get off the ground.
For this Sharing Day, your mission (if you choose to accept it) is:
Give us the elevator pitch for your best geeky creative vision, the project you would try to sell someone on who had the power to make it come to fruition.
Note that it doesn’t have to be related to super-heroes. You might want to pitch your fantasy novel, or your sci-fi television show pilot, or your idea for a business cranking out Star Wars headgear in yarn. It’s your vision! In return:
You can ask me any question you like about whatever you like, which I will answer either completely truthfully or not at all (in which case you can ask something else). I say that because, come on, there are some things no one should have to know! You’re not obligated to ask me anything, but if you don’t share your answer to the question of the day, you can’t ask anything in return.
Since you are currently on the successful results of my elevator pitch, I exempt myself from answering this one.
I look forward to hearing your visions!
And to be clear, posting it here does not give me or anyone else the rights to steal it for our own. It’s still your idea.
META: Open Thread
Today’s shaping up to be pretty busy on the Main Job, so I wanted to open this up for you all to talk about whatever you like.
Have you seen the new Avengers and Spider-Man movie trailers? They look pretty awesome!
But hey, whatever you all want to discuss, go for it.
The baddest Big Brother yet
Courtesy of “Gone and Forgotten“, I’ve learned that Luke Cage might have the worst-dressed Rogues’ Gallery of all time. Take “Big Brother” for instance:
You have to wonder what kind of nefarious criminal enterprise requires sucking all the nipple-power out of both man boobs, channeling it back into the body via an invasive metal tube, and re-outputting through a single massive chest-eye-meganipple orifice. I do know this, however — I don’t want to be there when whatever it is comes shooting out of that thing.
Apparently recapturing his own body’s effluvium is what Big Brother is all about (no wonder he’s watching you, he wants to know if you’re watching him!), as he’s also got that nifty Mark V FlatusVac strapped to his abdomen. Again, you do not want to be present at the moment of discharge.
I’m guessing that the FlatusVac doesn’t come with a noise dampener, though, requiring the use of huge 1970s headphones. So massive are his discharges that said headgear has to be strapped down with a metal bar to prevent it from flying off his head upon release. Now that’s announcing your presence with authority, folks.
I’ll overlook the purple and green color scheme, as his eyes are probably watering so badly he can’t see straight. But his buddy the Cheshire Cat has no such excuse. It’s like he took a look through Prison Fashion Weekly Magazine and thought he could really dress up the black bar look by throwing in some cat-puke orange and a red beret.
I haven’t read a lot of Luke Cage comics, but I’m going to guess that most of his super villain troubles are direct karmic blowback for that popped yellow collar and bare-pecs look he’s sporting. Can’t we all just dress well and get along?!
Lobo vs Thor
All right, cross-continuity comics fans, I have a doozy for you this week:
That’s right, it’s the Ultimate Bastich himself, the motorcycle-riding tough guy Lobo against the God of Thunder himself.
Make your case as to who wins and why!
Character Contest 82: Pride
Next up in our Seven Deadly Sins series of character design contests is Pride!
Your design challenge for this week is to create a character or characters based on something related to the second of the Deadly Sins, “pride”. Your character could be named Pride; or you could build a were-lion, a starship named “The Pride of Earth”, a mighty warrior who’s the pride of her village, or anything else you could think of related to the pride going before the fall.
But really, it’s up to you. Just make a great illustration based on the concept of “pride”.
The rules are the same as usual:
- All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, whatever);
- Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
- The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest;
- Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
- Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). If you see “preview” or “rotate” somewhere in the link you’re probably doing it wrong.
- All entries must be in by next Monday, when I’ll choose a winner.
The person with the winning entry as selected by our expert panel (i.e. me) will win their choice of a) a portrait to go in HeroMachine 3, b) an item to go in HeroMachine 3, or c) a custom black and white “Sketch of the Day” style drawing (also by me).
No limit again this week, knock yourselves out.
Good luck, everyone!