The HeroMachine Caption Contest 8 has now begun! If you come up with the funniest caption for this comic book panel, you’ll win a custom black and white drawing by professional (and startlingly bald) illustrator Jeff Hebert, creator of HeroMachine:

A sample entry might be:

Balloon1: Bosun, this periscope only has a RIGHT-eye socket, you idiot, I can’t use this!
Balloon2: I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!

Here are the rules:

1. Enter by leaving your caption in the comments to this post, and no more than three entries per person.
2. Clearly indicate what dialog goes in which balloon.
3. Keep it clean — anything that would fly on your average broadcast television sitcom is fine.

Good luck to everyone, it’s going to be hard to beat last week in terms of either quantity or quality!

The winner of Caption Contest 7 is … Ashton Jakobson’s not-so-jolly Green Giant!

I think what really sold this one was how much the guy over the green dude’s shoulder really does look like he’s taking a bite. Ashton will win a custom black and white illustration of his choice by yours truly. Many thanks to all of the entrants, it was an impressive showing. Some of the Honorable Mentions that made me laugh were:

1. “This isn’t like the Axe commercials at all!!”
2. Green Guy: Go to the Emerald City they said. See the wizard they said. Damn munchkins…
3. Barbarian repellent my keister!

Great work everyone!

We plunge once again into the fathomless depths of the Great Random Comic Book Pile for the weekly Mashup. As usual, I will try to create an entertaining story by using one (and only one) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books. This week, half of the books featured Dr. Strange, which is appropriate as this little exercise tends to the bizarre. So without further ado, we’re off!
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