Come up with the best caption for this random comics panel and you’ll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) by professional artist Jeff Hebert!

Be sure to note which balloon gets which dialog in your entry. For example:

Spock-ish guy: Now that I’ve been taken over by Eclipso, I find your emotional outbursts highly amusing.
Kirk-ish guy1: Dammit Spock, you’ve got to snap out of it!
Kirk-ish guy2: And why isn’t this Vulcan Nerve Pinch working?!
Spocki-ish guy: How can you have scored with that many females and yet still think that’s my neck?

Note that the last balloon has an ambiguous pointer (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and could be going to either character.

Anyway, as always, the rules are:

1. No more than three entries per person;
2. Keep it appropriate for a broadcast TV sitcom (i.e. no swearing);
3. Leave your entry in the comments to this post.

Good luck everyone!

The winner of Caption Contest 10 is … The Grizz!

Many thanks to all entrants, this was a pretty good bunch. Here are some of the other ones that made me laugh:

Top Balloon- Well, at first I thought Hell was going to be awful.
Bottom Balloon- However, I didn’t count on Rasputin to be such a good baker. Cyanide cookies are a lot more tasty than they sound.

top: aaw man!
BOTTOM: Is it always like this in here after burrito night?

top bubble-Odious Kamodius?
bottom bubble- Rhyming in hell? Is this, Dr. Suess’s “you only go to hell once?”

Top Balloon: “Holy Slanted Floors!”
Bottom Balloon: “Who knew Hell was constructed from old Batman TV series sets?!”

By the way, BrokenSlot never got back to me about his prize for Caption Contest 9. If anyone knows him or her, please pass the word to get in touch with me. Thanks!

I’m continuing to work on the basic functionality and code for the series of HeroMachine Minis we’d like to do. One of the neat features — not Earth-shattering or anything, just a fun little addition — I’ve installed is a color guide:

When you mouse over a color, the line of text at the upper right tells you what that color is named. It “sticks” as well, always showing you what the currently selected color is. This should be helpful for color-blind folks using the program, but I think it’ll still be a nice little addition for everyone who’s wondered “What the heck color is that, anyway?”

Most of the names are from Photoshop, so don’t blame me if they seem silly!

On the coding side, the applet is turning out to be much easier to program and much tighter. It will hopefully be much easier to “skin” and change, allowing for faster updates and additions down the line. That’s the hope, anyway. I’ve learned a lot about writing code in the past five years that I can implement in the new version to make it all work faster, better, and more easily. The next big challenge is the scaling control.

It’s time once again for me to take one (and only one) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books and try to make a story out of them. This week’s bunch included “Rocky and Bullwinkle”, which is always a challenge, so we’ll see how it goes. I’m continuing the “serious” story attempts, and the panels selected include wild teenage parties, skeleton-wearing jungle hunters, slimy prisons, and using all our brains. So here goes!
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