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10:30 pm
April 12, 2012
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This is Herr D's wall of CFLs. Welcome to my barely-par--LORE. heh. Constructive criticism welcome, but will likely only be used to improve newer installments. Browse. Maybe have your mind blown. Hopefully laugh. My thoughts will, unfortunately, always be profoundly further-uh-along, than my artistic skill.
Why do I call them CFLs? Make your guess, and look.
10:41 pm
April 12, 2012
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Ambivalence
Imagine a being who is only as powerful as the indecision found in those it encounters. Always half-in, half-out, this dual-gendered, multi-race, multispecies, old and young, primitive and tech savvy, fun and hostile . . . pandimensional being is half-coming to a poor soul near you.
I would say you shouldn't be horrified but amused at this idea--but I'm not sure.
10:47 pm
April 12, 2012
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Ok, so, you know how all those depictions of Mayan deities look like they were sick? Imagine a tour guide finds the reason in Mayan lore and includes it--
Tour
In rare circumstances, things ARE as they appear.
10:55 pm
April 12, 2012
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Is it possible for horror to become too modernized? Take the profession of vampire hunter . . .
A little blood for scent in a medkit for treatable victims, and, a stronger neck bolt.
Oh, well, back to the drawing board.
10:59 pm
January 29, 2012
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I like the idea behind Ambivalence.
11:02 pm
April 12, 2012
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There was this great folk song called "One Tin Soldier" I heard many years ago. Wonderful ironic twist at the end. I guess if you can find it on itunes or napster you could listen to it before looking at the end--but it's not what you call a popular tune.
Myro said this was a fair representation, but I'm not sure that meant he knew the song.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Herr D said
There was this great folk song called "One Tin Soldier" I heard many years ago. Wonderful ironic twist at the end. I guess if you can find it on itunes or napster you could listen to it before looking at the end--but it's not what you call a popular tune.
Myro said this was a fair representation, but I'm not sure that meant he knew the song.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Oh, I know the song. I'm pretty sure I have it on my iPod. And I know exactly how the picture relates.
4:49 am
April 12, 2012
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CFL scrapbook page:
to complete the set, this is--
Tebby, the stuffed animal that scared a group of explorers. Technically, the thought of the young one that owned a stuffie bigger than the whole party caused the fear, but--
Draga's villainous Mother's Day bouquet (heads of 6 heroes and 1 mayor) complete with the classic self-portrait.
Venom Clan Shield, where I experimented with digitally distressing metal--needs more. Dimpling didn't work.
But my work in metal shop and my experience chopping trees with an axe came in handy. . .
This is a . . . comic book hero. [checks self for fever] I'm okay--there's another story coming.
Besides a couple of items in the Custom archive and a billboard entry in HK's contest, these are all the pix I've recovered. Be sure to check out my fiction in the forums. This CFL multipack will continue to bring more 'je ne c'quoi's ASAU-EP.
2:33 pm
April 12, 2012
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To all those who have been patient with my ridiculous schedule, especially my wife and my friend 'R' who came all the way past me to a type of restaurant I like for a birthday celebration I STILL couldn't get to. . . I dedicate the following.
All heromachinists have my express consent to make their own greeting cards by duplication, approximation, or adaptation based on this concept. I reserve the right to refuse any responsibility at any time even if yours happens to be cool. Follow all site rules.
text for adaptation:
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10:07 pm
April 12, 2012
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Jeff complimented me on this piece but had to disqualify it. Don't do as I did. Be careful to remember the titling rules.
Get the DDT! The Snapbloom uprooted itself and is coming for us!
10:13 am
January 4, 2012
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I agree with Jeff that your creation is very imaginative. I like it 
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1:32 am
April 12, 2012
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Heavy frustration abounds. I'm going through swingshifting and schedule changes, so here's a couple that might spread laughter.
I don't normally do heroes, but I tried panels in the public domain reboot contest. I didn't place, but they're still funny.
first, Tigra--the idea of a feline humanoid trying to look human interested me. So, 'fur shirt,' right? The claw gave me trouble, and I forgot to smudge the compact before submission. Also, I only just figured out how to re-upload with widescreen when I can't get the pic to keep it's right tenth.
And now Fantomah--a blue skeleton with blond hair that may have come from Egypt with the power of a goddess and a love for the natural jungles of Africa. . . okay, okay--I should have taken some liberty or something.
They are funny, but I might be better off sticking to doing things this site wasn't intended for.
1:33 am
April 12, 2012
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Timing is everything, right? No. Not if you perfectly timed a bad guess. I made something for which hm is not intended for, had it all ready for OCD and it was a sharing day. *$%^$%! So you may have seen it here first, folks.
I was remembering 'never the twain shall meet,' which I still yet have forgotten to look up the source for, and came up with a bit of prose-vrs, and the following pic.
The Two Explorers lived in the same world, but one searched below her depth while the other searched above her sky. They both found much of interest but never saw each other--and so missed finding their other selves, exactly what they would most have liked to find.
I hope my depiction is as clear as it is potentially mind-blowing. Any questions?
Wow! That's quite the setup you have there. Really well done. But is that ear supposed to be outside the helmet?
7:58 pm
April 12, 2012
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Thanks!
No. I was unsatisfied with the hues I got, so I hoped it would just look like the ear was closer to the bubble's edge. It was one of many problems that I may not have successfully solved. The foreshortening and scale issues and manufacturing a matching limb--the logistical implications of re-oxygenation of water and pressure-extrusion of natural fiber plastics are interesting theories about underwater technology. Since 'Miss Tiny' was an inventor anyway, why not Beakstick and Kelp Perms and Kelp Mascara? To try to act like the odd beings above, their females' corpses are made up sometimes. In the end, I wasn't happy with the moonlight / shadows on the rocks but felt a major triumph over the 'jutting' cliffside.
I hope it's clear that the human diver is snorkeling, carrying a net and a spear gun, wearing no tanks. The flowing hair I chose may have cast those things further into doubt.
12:47 am
April 12, 2012
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Please, sir; I want some MORE!
More time, more energy, more . . . HEROMACHINE! Because of freakish storms in the No Va / DC area, I was webless from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. So I completely missed the pop quiz about Teddy. When I saw it, I restrained myself from making a teddy out of Teddys (cue chorus of 'awwww' from guys who love Victoria's Secret) and several other ideas that would have taken longer to formulate than I usually have on Saturdays. But I couldn't help but make this panel:
Sometimes messages to ambassadors, hurried and last-minute, DO prevent wars, like the following.
I noticed no one went much smaller, just bigger. Pity I didn't have time to enter.
This next one didn't make it to finalist. I imagine it was too much story and not enough cool in the pic.
Of course, three laughs in one panel may be a record for me. Did you notice all three?
1. The story. 2. The 'travel mug with no-tip base mounted on halter' fake unicorn to befuddle passersby. Warm ale only pls. 3. Druic had dentured his fake unicorn, because a unicorn would NEVER have bad teeth. It bit his hat--when Druic notices it, he's going to 'invent the new design' that we're used to…
5:49 am
April 12, 2012
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It's time for another folk song ending pic.
"The Battle of New Orleans" as a folk song probably doesn't have many more-uh-instances of poetic license-than most other folk songs. . . [prepares to duck into a muse's skirts from angry mob of history buffs.] If you haven't heard it, THIS one is famous and easy to find. The last verse in particular. I took part in an extensive discussion of it in fourth grade. That idiom, with sufficient license always struck me as hilarious. Yeeeeees, I know this pic is probably impossible for reasons related to munitions, anatomy, ballistics, geography AND general history, but I waited three decades to do it. So now I deserve YOUR patience.
The uniforms were also a problem. What research I could do led me to conflicting answers as to what they would look like. To make matters worse, the captions on the pix available keep saying that the uniforms depicted are the wrong ones. I have two things on my side: war makes records and behaviors less consistent, and the ability to crop heavily. Which is not working consistently. Photobucket is giving me problems.
11:27 am
April 12, 2012
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Thank you--I am relieved to report no one has besieged me with reasons that panel is impossible. I guess mentioning most of them myself first did it.
I submitted this panel for the pop quiz on being funny. It was a finalist, but it could only have beat out visual puns and physics references if the judge was a lot more into rpg mechanics.
Speaking for myself, I don't think I'd mind if, in REAL life, I could solve all problems so easily--even if it was sort of like the good guys could cheat. I've seen too much of the real world to believe that justice or fairness is well-distributed. I can see why it would be tempting to believe in trial by challenge. Anyone who was more in the right could automatically win? If I had to go delusional, I might pick that one. Then I could keep my head in the sand till it was time to be cured, and believe all was actually right with the world. At least I'd be one of the serene, sedate, and sedentary psychotics.
1:45 am
April 12, 2012
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This is the national hero page.
Finalist: my wife thought this was too goofy to win -- well, she was right. Gutesmaschine wasn't even made as well--I ran out of time. You never know how the funnybone will strike.
I figure the .12DM was for the lantern wick.
Miss Panama was my favorite -- well, she WAS the most fun for ME to look at. [ducks reflexively]
I didn't flesh out exactly what the 'iron footathon' was, I just knew it involved a big hammer.
The Prussian Eagle was an honest-to-goodness dedication to people who, like me, have been let down by employers being less reliable than they were and undervalued by job interviewers. My wife wanted me to have him saying that he just overslept ONCE. But that tack was taken by an Australian entry.
**I cannot remember whether his misspelling was on purpose or not! Yeesh.
Mr. Tura Lura's verse came out a bit awkward--but so's his pose, about to stomp one of the thieves' phones.
And Baron de Liechtenstein? I wound up being more proud of the flagstone walkway even though the hero looked the most like a comic book cover of anything I've done recently.
I also almost submitted a pic called 'Stalin's Heroes' but that was just the graveyard background--it felt cheap and morose, despite being an interesting historical point. Oh, and the flag: more appropriate here than anywhere else--the flag of the museum of laughs.
Because only those possessing should be oppressed!
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