It’s time once again for you to put on the Funny Cap and come up with the best caption for the comic book panel below. If your entry is selected, you’ll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason, I ain’t redoing the Sistene Chapel Ceiling with super-heroes!) from professional illustrator Jeff Hebert! Here’s this week’s challenge:

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!

The winner of the “EvilDM” Pulp Caption Contest is … Rob Rogers!

Honorable Mentions were:

Bixlord: Without the lamentations of the women, it’s just not the same.
HalLoweEn JacK: I’d light a match before going in there, if I were you.
Bixlord: Taking over California will be easier than I thought.
Charles Gramlich: Not having to say you’re sorry? Priceless!
Radioactive Giant Robots: Suck it, Trebeck.

Many thanks to everyone who entered, it was quite a turnout! And one more huge tip-o-the-hat to co-host/judge Jeff Mejia of EvilDM and the “Legends of Steel” role playing game. Great job, Jeff, and thanks for playing along!

This week’s Mashup, wherein I take one (and only one!) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books in an effort to make some sort of coherent story, deals with women overcoming stereotypes to kick butt, a horned-helmet space pirate, and sexually ambiguous references from the Black Canary. How can you not read it?!

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Jester and I completed his prize for winning Caption Contest 14! Here is the description he sent me:

He’s about ten feet tall, and has a slightly broader chest and shoulders than the Heromachine image. The helmet he’s wearing was surprisingly close to my initial vision of him, but it would be nice if you could shave off that… tower-looking thing on the top, remove the spikes and shorten the “tusks” coming off of his cheeks. Also, I’d like to change the spikes on the shoulderpads into studs, and get rid of the chain connecting them.

I’d like the insignia tweaked abit if possible; it would be really neat if you could make it look like the design was etched into his chestplate, rather than having a picture of a castle on his chest.

His right gauntlet is a little tricky… His giant ball-and-chain mace-thing is actually attached to it, and it contains a forearm-mounted mechanism that can “reel” the chain back in if his whirls the chain or tosses the ball. So his right gauntlet should be kind of bulky and mechanical, if you can kind of picture what I’m trying to describe.

As for his pose… It would be neat if he was sort of sideways to the veiwer, his shoulder thrown back as if he was going to swing foward and stab someone with the giant spikes on his sheild (which, coincidentally, is strapped on to his armored left arm). The “mace’s” chain should kind of be dangling and twirling, as if he had just released the mechanism in his gauntlet, allowing the chain to drop. He should aslo be gripping a length of the chain, to keep the mace from hitting the floor. Her sould be glaring at the veiwer, his eyes (which are dark; ignore the white-eye look in the HM image) barely visible beyond the eye-holes in his helmet.

And here’s the HeroMachine character he created as a guide:

Finally, after the jump is the illustration we settled on as his prize.

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Good onomontoPOWia should be like a strong spice in a main course — present, but not overpowering, punchy without being dominating. In other words, the complete opposite of this panel from “Silver Star”:

On one hand, you definitely get the sense of an overwhelming amount of noise, which may be what the team was going for. But it just ends up looking like visual word salad, conveying little impact at the expense of way too much real estate.