Category Archives: Things I Like

Jack Kirby Museum Videos

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

The Jack Kirby Museum’s YouTube page has some great footage of the King discussing his various creations. In light of the upcoming film, I thought you might enjoy hearing from the man who helped create him had to say about … Continue reading →

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Ben Grimm, Chamberlain

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

I haven’t read it yet, but from “Again With the Comics” comes this great alternate-history Fantastic Four bit: “Milady, ’tis the clobbering hour” may be my new favorite tag line.

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Sunday Bonus – Enceladus

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Confession time — when I was at Dragon*Con, I attended a talk in the Science section about the latest findings from NASA’s Saturn orbiter, Cassini, which was pretty amazing. And while technically science stuff is not really what I do … Continue reading →

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Kirby Villains, Hartwell Style

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Another fun entry in Mr. Hartwell’s ongoing “Kirby Villains” sketch of the week series: If you’ve not seen it yet, you definitely owe it to yourself to check out the whole album, it’s a lot of fun. Great work, sir!

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Panel transitions

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

For anyone interested in the mechanics of telling a story in comics, Scott Eric Kaufman has a great post up on “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” (the rest of the site is all about politics, so be warned!) from his freshman … Continue reading →

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Nuevo Nova

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Superhero Coco recently had an invitation for people to submit illustrations of mythology-themed redesigns of the Nova character, and I really liked the way some of them turned out. I thought this one in particular was really cool: The site … Continue reading →

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Possible new HM3 layout

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Out of the blue, I got a fantastic set of potential layouts for the HeroMachine 3 interface from all around awesome UI Guy Jim Marcus. You can see some of his other stuff at LiquidCrack.com. Here’s what he had to … Continue reading →

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Comically Vintage

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

If you enjoy the Daily Random Panel here at HeroMachine.com, you’ll love Comically Vintage, a Tumblr feed featuring similar out-of-context panels from various comic books. As they say on their site, “a virtual wellspring of sex, drugs, violence and poor … Continue reading →

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Pantsless no more!

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Imagine my surprise when I checked “Project: Rooftop” today and saw a retrofit of our very own pantsless Unknown Soldier! Head on over and check it out, it’s pretty awesome.

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Sketch blogs

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

I wanted to highlight a couple of the “daily sketch” type blogs that inspired me to start my own “Sketch of the Day. Or Every Other Day. Week. Whatever, Quit Hassling Me!” category. Shockingly they’re even less consistent about publishing … Continue reading →

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