You might think that having a bad costume like this is the worst thing facing the super-hero “Aviax”:

But you’d be wrong. I grant you, having to walk around looking like someone’s mushroom-induced Native American dreamcatcher / rotating baby mobile would be painful. And any outfit combining shirtlessness with elbow-high society-ball gloves would definitely be difficult.

But worse than looking like a loon — far, far worse — is being forced to use your powers to mate with a dinosaur in the hopes of one day creating loons!

You know you’ve lost the super-hero team sweepstakes when, in a motley crew like that, you’re the one getting pitying looks for something other than your hideous costume.

(Images copyright DC Comics, Inc. and courtesy of Cracked.com. Thanks to reader PCFDPGrey for sending me the link. OK, maybe thanks isn’t the right word, because now I have been exposed to super-bestiality, but you get the idea.)

(From “Bulletman” number 15, 1946.)

Come up with the best replacement dialog for this Bulletman panel and you’ll win either a caricature of your gorgeous mug OR an item of your choice to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 version!

The rules are simple:

• Leave your entry or entries in the comments to this post;
• No more than three entries per person;
• Keep it clean (appropriate for late-night broadcast TV).

That’s even easier than falling down! I’ll announce the winner next Tuesday. Make sure in your entry you indicate who is saying what, like so:

Bulletman: I think I might’ve crushed Bulletroach!
Bulletgirl: No, I think I snorted him in this nostril — gross!

Good luck!

Lots of great entries this week, thanks to everyone who entered! I’ve selected a few after the jump to feature as Honorable Mentions before getting to the overall winner, but I think the level of performance this week across the board was very high. Just to recap, this was the contest where you had to produce an illustration based on a randomly generated character name.

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Remember, your deadline for e-mailing me your four entries for the Friday Night Fights Tournament is tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18, so if you haven’t done so already, be sure to get your submissions in!

(From “Bulletman” number 15, 1946.)

A question for what kind of fantasy life you’d most like to be in:

Note that this isn’t the kind of story you like the most necessarily, but which sort of world you’d actually want to live in. Discussion to follow …

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(From “The Green Mask” number 3, 1940.)

(From “Mystery Men” number 3.)

I’m happy to announce the release of the first set of items for the female template in HeroMachine 3, “Tops-Female-Standard”, which is a duplicate of the Tops-Male-Standard set only, you know, for girls. The items are a one-for-one match to the Male set, so don’t expect to see anything new yet. Here’s a look at some of them:

Hope you like them! I will likely next be moving on to “Legwear-Female-Standard” so that you have at least some options for properly outfitting a basic woman character. After that, we’ll see — probably either the Spandex stuff, female hair, or something new like Tops-Female-Halters.