Ever wonder where Calendar Man, The Calculator, Captain Morgan Fear, and Prince Ra-Man would find the female member of their super-villain team “The Household Items Gang”? Well wonder no more, as you behold the terror of office secretaries everywhere, Whiteout!

I bet Office Depot just found their first corporate-sponsored super character. Take that, Stark Industries! Of course they’ll have to change her slogan — “Oops” just isn’t going to cut it — but otherwise I think she’s a natural. Just look at how they even got the little curlicue on top, just like happens with a real dollop of whiteout! Clearly, someone lavished a lot of time on this character. I mean, after the initial tequila-fueled panic attack five minutes before deadline when they hit upon the idea after digging wildly around in their desk for inspiration, that is.

Come up with the best caption for this random comic book panel and win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason)!

Rule number 1 will be a challenge this week but I’m sure you all can pull it off. To recap, the rules are:

1. Keep it clean — submissions should be appropriate for a broadcast TV sitcom.
2. No more than three entries per person.
3. Leave your entry in the comments to this post.

Good luck everyone!

A bit later in the day, but I am happy to announce that the winner of Caption Contest 14 is … Jester!

It’s always a good sign when I laugh out loud again while posting the winner, even though I’ve already read it six times. Nice job, Jester! I’ll be in touch shortly to start work on your prize.

Other honorable mentions were:

“DECAF!” - Doomed Pixel

“I got your nose!” Ashton Thomas

“No, really, I’m a licensed chiropractor! All you need is a slight adjust–Oops!” - Niall Mor

If you want a chance to win your own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like, keep your eyes on this site for Caption Contest 15, coming up momentarily!

Each week I boldly delve into a bag of ten random comic books, choosing one (and only one) panel from each to get the raw materials for crafting a comics story requiring no illustration ability whatsoever on my part. Just the power to make bad puns.

For our new adventure, we explore a side of comics you rarely see — what happens in the aftermath of one of these big giant super-hero fights? Our story begins in the present:

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I now officially have an unsavory love for my new Macintosh, as I discovered in the process of trying to create the following screencast of the early beta FaceMaker applet. When I tried to do this on my PC, it took a good day or so of downloading and reading and tinkering, and I never did end up with a decent movie. With the Mac, it took about half an hour, start to finish.

The end result is this clip, showing how the FaceMaker is coming along:

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