I try not to be judgmental, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that “crapping fire” is not a bona-fide super power:

At least the flaming feces are in handy pellet form, useful (presumably) for flinging at enemies. Although given the way Spidey is cringing in horror, I doubt that’s going to be happening any time soon.

It’s time once again for you to dust off the ol’ humor module and come up with the best caption for the comic book panel below. If your entry is selected, you’ll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like from professional illustrator Jeff Hebert! Here’s this week’s challenge:

As always, the rules are simple: Only three entries per person, put your dialog in the comments to this post, and keep it relatively clean (as in, appropriate for a broadcast TV sitcom).

Good luck everyone!

For the first time in HeroMachine contest history, we have a second-time winner. Congratulations to xStacy for his winning entry for Caption Contest 18!

Other honorable mentions included:

Bajonk: American Gothic, millenium edition. (again, I’m a sucker for a good fine art reference)
Bajonk: Someone call a babysitting service?
Doomed Pixel: Hi, my name is Phil, and I divided by zero.
Wild Ferret King: Worst. Vacation. EVER.
Ian: “Pestilence is home sick, so we’re just the Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse tonight.”

Many thanks to everyone who submitted one of the record-breaking number of entries this week, your good humor and creativity are much appreciated. xStacy has won a second black and white custom illustration of whatever he likes; check back in a bit for your own chance to win the same with Caption Contest 19!

Fire and steel rain from the skies in this week’s edition of the Monday Mashup, wherein I take one (and only one!) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books to make a somewhat coherent story. With that we jump right into our tale of secret government tech and drunken bar fights.

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So I’m reading through my Jack Kirby “Silver Star” compilation, and who do I see making a guest appearance as a tripped-out drug punk but Howard Stern, famous shock jock? Here’s the panel in question alongside a reference photo.

I bought a Sirius satellite radio just to hear Stern, so I’m definitely what you’d call a fan. But even I wasn’t sure at first this character was based off of his appearance, until I saw him get the snot kicked out of him by the highly patriotic and upright Silver Star, which clenched it. I bet ol’ Jack was trying to get in good with the Comics Code Authority and his publishers thought showing Howard getting smacked around would be the way to go.