Caption Contest 121

Your challenge this week is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this comics panel:


The best entry (as judged by yours truly) wins the author's choice of either any item they like or any portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3′s final release, or a custom black and white “Sketch of the Day” style illustration (you pick the subject, I draw it however I like).

All entries must be left as a comment (or comments) to this post. Keep ‘em clean (appropriate for a late-night broadcast TV show), but most importantly, keep ‘em funny!

This one should be a bit more challenging than usual, both because you're coming up with an editorial caption instead of dialog and because, let's face it, keeping them clean enough for late-night television won't be easy.

No limit to entries, but please, self-edit and only put up ones you genuinely think are good!

One week left for Super Omega Deathbattle Warzone Apocalypse Contest!

Don't forget, you only have one more week to get your submissions for the Super Omega Deathbattle Warzone Apocalypse Contest! The winners will get their characters painted in full color in a promotional piece for this new awesome game by professional artist Livio Ramondelli of “Transformers: Autocracy” and “DC Universe Online” fame.

If I were you (and be thankful I'm not, because none of those Oreos in your house would still be around if I were) I'd pick out the nine most outstanding characters I've ever designed with HeroMachine and send them in as my entry. You're not limited to new characters only, folks, so go with your best. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!

Back when he was just "The Gosh-darned Batman"

(From "Target Comics" number 5, 1940.)

Power User Profile: TOOL

I'm happy to bring back the Power User Profiles for at least one week, featuring longtime contributor TOOL!

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Not as bad as the Creeping Death From Uranus, but close

(From "Target Comics" number 5, 1940.)

Sharing Day, Nergasm Management Strategies


The big news in my small circle of geeky friends is, of course, the upcoming "Avengers" movie. Whenever a major film like this comes out that I know I am going to want to see, the months and weeks leading up to it are pure torture as I twist and turn in my efforts to dodge spoilers. I want to experience the movie in as pure a form as possible, unsullied by the expectations or experiences of other people.

Friend of HeroMachine John and I go into the "Cone of Silence", a sensory deprivation chamber where all previews, promos, ads, spoilers, speculative articles, and celebrity interviews are avoided even more vigorously than girls avoided US in high school.

But that's not the only way to approach these kinds of mega projects. So my question for you on this Sharing Day is basically:

How do you handle "big" geek events like major movies or big novel releases? Do you go whole-hog and consume everything humanly possible about it before it comes out, or do you go into your own "Cone of Silence" and try your best to be surprised?

If you like, in return for answering my question to you, you may ask a question of me on any topic and I'll do my best to answer honestly and completely. Just leave your reply (and question, if any) as a comment. The goal is to learn a little more about our community!

Worst. Invention. Ever.

(From "Target Comics" number 5, 1940.)

To Pontificate or Incarcerate, that is the question

Our little stuffed bunny buddy was last seen in an alley behind the police station with zombie guts in his eye, dithering over whether to get it out OUT OUT or just nut up and head on in to the precinct. Which raises two questions:

  • First, who among us has not been, at some point in our fragile human lives, staggering around in an alley behind the police station in some sort of distress over goo in our eyes?
  • And second, does a stuffed bunny have nuts with which to nut up? Since he was on a date and hoping to score, I assume so.

After due process and careful deliberation, we in our infinite wisdom have gone the velveteen nut route, screwed up our courage, and bolted for the hard, safe arms of the local constabulary without washing our eyes first. Hopefully our tears of joy when Daddy saves us will wash out the zombie goo sufficiently:

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So wrong. So, so wrong.

(From "Target Comics" number 5, 1940.)

I was Disco Indian when Disco Indian wasn't cool

Crazy cross-genre combinations are the norm in today's comics world, with zombie super-heroes and dinosaur nazis and "what if super villains ran the world" sorts of high concepts. High being the operative word.

Have you ever wondered, however, why no one has ever done a Native American Cowboy Disco Rebel book before? I know I have! Well thanks to ReaderKate, we learn the answer: Because it's already been done before! Ladies and gentlemen, meet the sartorially challenged genre-busting fashion spectacle that is ... HAWK, Son of Tomahawk!

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