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On HeroMachine, that captions check in, but they don't check out! Come up with the best caption for the comic book panel below and, if your entry is selected, you’ll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) by yours truly.
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!
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The winner of Caption Contest 23 is ... Danny Beaty!
For that great entry Danny wins a custom black and white illustration by yours truly of whatever he likes. Other honorable mentions from this round in my opinion were:
Syzyx:
Balloon 1: With the might of the Lens of Opti-Max I will never be mocked again!
Balloon 2: I’m still your hat and you are still talking to me.Xstacy:
Balloon1: Dude, I can’t believe how many Jager bombs we–
Balloon2: What’s this thing on my head?Dude:
Balloon 1: Talk about your custom frames from Lenscrafters!
Balloon 2: Talk about your custom head from Headcrafters!Runt82:
1. Balloon 1: Okay, everybody stop what you’re doing…
Balloon 2: I’ve lost my contact lens.LiveWyre14:
First bubble: They will all scream for…
Second bubble: EYE-SCREAM!!!
Many thanks to everyone who entered, they were fun to read! And I think Marvel or DC ought to seriously think about putting out an EYE-SCREAM action figure. That would rock.
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I knew the weekly Random Comics Mashup this week would be a tough one when I saw three issues each of Marvel's Airplane-like book of silliness "What the --?!"; the Jackson Guice soft-core-porn-inspired "Doctor Strange"; and the "John Byrne is on acid" run of "She-Hulk". Add in the fact that one of the guest stars in one issue was Santa Claus, another was perennial "Bad Super Costume" favorite Razorback, and yet a third featured zombies fighting vampires, and I sat down at the scanner with a really bad feeling.
Hopefully this will all hang together, and by taking one (and only one!) panel from each of the ten randomly selected issues I can bring you an entertaining tale!
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Not all fathers are super, but not all supers are good fathers. I'm not sure what brought it up this week, but I got to thinking about what makes a good father, and what makes a good super-hero, and whether there was much overlap between the two. The fact is, we don't have a lot of examples of comic book characters who are also parents, the notable exception being Reed and Sue Richards and their son Franklin. So here's our question of the week:
I included some villains in there too because hey, some people want to inherit the Evil Empire, you know? And I added a caveat that you won't inherit their powers because otherwise the question becomes basically "Whose powers do you want", which I've done before. I wanted to instead get you thinking about the qualities of fathers and supers and where the intermix.
From a purely mercenary perspective, of course, there are some people who would answer based on financial considerations -- why get Peter Parker's kitty full of nothin' when you could be the King of Latvia, after all? But then, you have to consider what Victor Von Doom would be like as a day-to-day dad.
I look forward to hearing what you all think about the choices, and why you choose what you do.
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DJ and I have finished the prize for winning Caption Contest 22! It's a drawing of DJ and niece Sarah:
Don't forget, your chance to win your own custom illustration of whatever you like is going on now with Caption Contest 23: Maximum Haberdashery!
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Like a great Zen koan, "What is the sound of a three-toed hyper-strong blond-wig-wearing green-skinned Abominatrix jumping?" tickles your brain and sprains your consciousness into a higher plane of existence. Because let's face it, the fact is that there is no sound when you jump, only when you land. Fortunately "She-Hulk" characters are exempt from the stodgy and boring old rules of physics and acoustics, as we see here:
What's really neat is that there are two sounds to her normally soundless take-off, KIKA and BOOMP. I can almost sort of see how you'd get KIKA, assuming her three toes have really long nails that are clacking on the cement, even though that would be KLIKA if you think about it. Which I don't recommend you do, to be honest.
But they really lose me with the BOOMP. Again, if it were BOOM I could kind of squint my ears and imagine it's a sonic boom perhaps, the sound of her breaking the sound barrier at the beginning of her leap. But then, you wouldn't be able to hear her witty repartee about missing a soap opera. Or it could be the sound of air rushing in to fill the void she's suddenly vacated by hauling her enormous gamma-radiated carcass off the tarmac.
But BOOMP? No, that I completely don't understand unless it's a veiled reference to the fact that what Abominatrix is really missing on TV is an X-rated Betty Boop tribute of some sort. But that doesn't bear thinking about.
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Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com