The winner of Caption Contest 19 is … HeroComplex!

HeroComplex wins a custom black and white illustration of whatever he or she likes (within reason) as a prize for creativity. I’ll be posting Caption Contest 20 in a few minutes, so be sure to check back for your chance to win!

The Honorable Mentions from this week were:

• DJ: LOOK AT ME! CARTWHEEL IN SPACE!
• EnderX: Eat that, Broadway! I’m finally a STAR!
• John D: “RICOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
• Nombo: I can see my house form here!
• Free2Ryhme: Houston we have a problem
• Joe: “Screw you, Danny at tech support. Screw you.”
• jonnydemon: IIIII’m sailing awayyyy!!

I descend into the crypt for this week’s Mashup, where I take one (and only one) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books and attempt to create a coherent story. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy putting it together for you!

And now I feel the cold hand of Death reaching for me as I type, spinning out this tale of woe and evil …
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xStacy’s prize for winning Caption Contest 18 is complete! Here’s the summary he sent me:

A buff girl in a wifebeater, jeans, armored boots, and heavy gloves with some armor on the forearms and elbows. A pair of welding goggles (either worn or slung around the neck) completes the outfit. Carries either a smith’s hammer or a big wrench–whichever you think looks better.

And here’s the image we came up with:

Overall I think it turned out quite well. If I were doing it over again, I’d probably give her a different haircut (I thought maybe a pony tail would be more practical for forge work) and maybe dirty up her face with a clean space around the eyes where the goggles would go. But, aside from that, I’m very happy with it.

Also, note fellows that xStacy has a girlfriend who games. So now you can be super-duper envious of him!

When a lithe, muscular, bald-pated outer-space super-powered individual goes through a pane of glass, it sounds like this:

But when a fat guy goes through an almost identical pane of glass in the very same comic, it sounds like this:

I am sure some fancy-pants acoustic engineer will saunter in here and make some mathematical arguments about sound waves and refractions through different cell types and whatnot, but at the end of the day I think we can all agree that what we need to settle this controversy once and for all is to throw more guys through windows.

Niall Mor and I have finished his winning prize for Caption Contest 17, “Celtica”:

(Click for a larger version.)

Niall also has a web site, “It’s All Straw“, where he talks about a variety of topics, including super-hero stuff, so you might check it out when you get a chance. Odds are he’ll post this image there too, along with a description of the character. For grins, here’s the HeroMachine version of Celtica he sent me for reference:

Your chance to win your own custom illustration by yours truly is going on now in Caption Contest 19, so head on over and try out your creativity!