Behind the scenes here at HeroMachine Central, I am writing this post on my “new to me” Macintosh Pro, just received a couple of hours ago. So far it’s going well — nothing has exploded and, even better, I have not yet turned into the dorky “Mac Guy” from the commercials.

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Come up with the best caption for this comic book panel and you could win your very own custom black and white illustration from professional artist Jeff Hebert!

The rules are simple:

1. Keep it clean — think “appropriate for a prime time broadcast sitcom” here.
2. No more than three entries.
3. Make your entry in the comments to this post, below.

Good luck everyone! If you want to see some examples of previous winners’ prizes, click here.

The winner of Caption Contest 13 is … DerKork! Here’s the panel with that bit of wittery included:

Many thanks for all the fine entries, this was one of the best sets yet! Among the honorable mentions were:

Niall Mor:

Balloon 1: “Floyd, when we said you should relax a little and let it all hang out, this is NOT what we meant!”
Balloon 2: “Seriously!”

Frankie:

Lady one: “Oh, him? That’s just my brother. He has the ability to hover about five feet or so over the ground. But he says he can only do it while naked and meditating.”
Lady two: “I see…He dosn’t go out and try to fight crime, does he?”

Elder:

Balloon 1: “Where did you get him?”
Balloon 2: “I made him in Heromachine 11.4″

Thanks to everyone who entered! I’ll be trying to get with DerKork to work out the prize. And keep an eye out for Caption Contest 14, coming up later today, for your chance to win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason)!

By taking one (and only one) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books, I will now spin for you a tale of love, hope, and sordid physical violence!

xStacy and I have completed the prize for the Caption Contest 12 winner. The description was:

Female, light hair, in standard gunslinger gear–boots, jeans, shirt, tied-down revolver, duster, a Confederate cavalry hat–with a fan of five cards in her left hand. Maybe facing off with a giant tarantula or two somewhere in the Arizona desert.

I wasn’t able to work in the giant tarantulas, but here’s what I did come up with:

Thanks to Stace for coming up with a cool concept. And don’t forget, if you want to win your very own custom illustration, you can try your hand with Caption Contest 13: Naked Guy Edition going on right now!