Thanks to everyone who voiced their opinion in the Olympian Games’ Tug of War Competition! On behalf of Game-master Hammerknight, I am happy to report the following characters are our winners:

Gold Medal: Team Marvel 1 (The Hulk, Thor, The Thing, She-Hulk, Colossus)
Silver Medal: Team DC 1 (Superman, Superboy Prime, Batman, Wonder Woman, & Captain Marvel)
Bronze Medal: Team Marvel 2 (Galactus, Annihilus, Thanos, Juggernaut, Sentry)

After this, the sixth and final event, the overall medal winner of the First Olympian Games is Marvel with 8, then DC with 6, and Dark Horse with 1.

This concludes this edition of the Games, I want to again thank Hammerknight for coming up with the idea, putting together the contests, and then helping chivvy it all along.

Great job HK, and many thanks to all of you for commenting and voting! If you have ideas for other Big Event contest polls like these, by all means let ‘em rip.

Come up with the funniest — while still being clean, that’s important this week, as you’ll see — replacement dialog for the balloon in this panel and you’ll win the chance to include any item you like, or a portrait of yourself, in HeroMachine 3!

The rules are simple:

• No more than three entries per person;
• All entries must be left as a comment (all in one comment or separate ones, doesn’t matter) to this post;
• Must be relatively clean, appropriate for broadcast on late-night network TV, for instance.

That’s it! Good luck everyone, we’ll post the Finalists for voting next Monday.

(Image from “Action Comics” number 1, © DC Comics, Inc. Yes, this is the one with Superman in it, so you can see why he’d be afraid of magic for the rest of his career.)

Many thanks to all the great entries for Character Contest 29 – Armorium! I’ve picked a handful of illustrations I thought were exceptionally good to serve as Honorable Mentions and whet your appetite before getting to the big winner.

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Congratulations to Spidercow2010 for winning Caption Contest 71, and his or her choice of either any item or a portrait to be included with HeroMachine3, with this great entry:

It was a narrow victory of just three votes, with the second runner-up being JWMan:

Thanks to all who entered and congratulations both to Spidercow2010 and all the Finalists!

Gero has approved his Exceptionally Large Ornate Key item, the prize for winning Caption Contest 65, and it is now live in HeroMachine 3 in the ItemRightBlunts set. I’ll probably move it to Miscellaneous once I get around to that, but since it doesn’t exist yet I figured this would be the best place for now. Enjoy!

This one is fun! The idea is that some group of extra-dimensional omnipotent beings has pulled characters from across all the various publishing universes to compete in team-on-team tug of war contests. Here are the teams (Marvel and DC get multiple teams because, come on, Marvel and DC):

I don’t want to prejudice the vote, but you have to think the only thing Batman is contributing to DC Team One is some Bat Lubricant for the rope, because he’s got no business hanging out with those heavy hitters. As for their Team Two, the biggest question is who disintegrates whom before the starting gun sounds for the first match.

Anyway, have fun, and by all means let ‘er rip in the comments about which group you think has the edge, and which is going to get turned into paste by the opposition.

Thanks to everyone who voiced their opinion in the Olympian Games’ Target Shooting Competition! On behalf of Game-master Hammerknight, I am happy to report the following characters are our winners:

Gold Medal: Bullseye (Marvel)
Silver Medal: Green Arrow (DC)
Bronze Medal: Deadpool (Marvel)

I have to say, I’m a bit surprised to see Green Arrow take the silver. I just never thought of him as supernaturally gifted, or as having paranormal abilities like some of the others on the list, but apparently there’s a lot of love for normal humans out there. Go Team Homo Sapiens!

After four events, Marvel takes the lead with six medals, DC has five, and Dark Horse still gets the one token medal.

Thanks to everyone who voted! Now you know what to do if you see any of these guys in the middle of a fight — duck. Not that it’ll do you any good.

Jake and I have finished his HM3 prize for winning Character Contest 26 (Golden Oldies), a kobold body in Companions-Standard so Jake can outfit him like a regular character:

I finally completed Blue Blazer’s prize for winning Caption Contest 54, and have posted his Stretchy Arms to BodyMaleStandard in HeroMachine 3. You can place most gloves on them with a bit of manipulation, and if you use the Masking feature you can get a spandex look pretty easily. Enjoy!

I’m not sure what I have going on there in that image, sort of a Michael Jackson meets “When I Think Of You I Touch Myself” by way of Reed Richards. Or something. But you get the general idea.

Kaldath was in the right place at the right time, and I was able to get his HeroMachine 3 prize for the just-concluded Character Contest 28 (Child Of …) done:

It’s shown here colored, obviously, and in its default size and position. For longer fire-hair, you can use the Multiples setting, move one of the items all the way to the bottom of the stack, then scale it way up on the y-axis, like so:

Hopefully this will help make your fire-related characters easier to bring to life. Thanks to Kaldath for picking a great item for his prize!