Monthly Archives: May 2010

RP: Great low-rent super villains

(From "The Fighting Yank" number 5.)

Poll Position: Evil!

Our Poll Position question this week is pretty basic:

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On to the completely fruitless, yet nonetheless entertaining, speculation!

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SOD.124 – Things

Just some studies of Ben Grimm. As you can see, I haven't quite got it figured out yet, especially the profile view. Fitting the brows in to the head, and understanding how the mouth opening works, are particular challenges, as is the general placement of the brick lines. It's fun figuring it out, though.

RP: Absolut Comics

(From "Amazing Mystery Comics" number 3, 1939.)

HM3: Fantasy armor 3

I've just updated the Tops-MaleFantasyArmor set for HeroMachine 3, to include the following sixteen new items:

Let me know if you see any weirdness. These are all from user-submitted suggestions, which I am still working my way through. These were just the ones that started with a number, I haven't even gotten to the "A"s yet :-/

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Not feeling it today.

Character Contest 33 – Twins

Wonder Twin powers, activate! Form of ... well, twins. Because your challenge for this week is to put together the best Twins Team (not in the Major League Baseball franchise sense) you can. If your pair is judged the best, you'll win your choice of any item you like, or a portrait of yourself, to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 release!

The rules are simple:

  • All entries must be links in a comment (or comments) to this post to an image hosted on a publicly accessible web site (ImageShack, PhotBucket, the UGO Forms, whatever);
  • No more than three total entries per person (each one entry consisting of twins);
  • Contest ends next Monday when I will announce the winners.

Unlike the "Duo Name" contest, the twins don't have to be a name pair like "Peanut Butter and Jelly" or "Hawk and Dove", although you could do something like that if you wanted.

That's it! Good luck everyone, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Caption Contest 75 VOTE!

Many thanks to the very funny entries in Caption Contest 75, and particular congratulations to our Finalists for this week! Pick all the ones you think are deserving of a win, and the overall top vote getter as of next Monday will win the author's choice of any item they like, or a portrait of themselves, to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 release.

As usual, click on an image to see it in a larger, more legible size.

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Good luck everyone!

RP: Smooth

(From "Love Diary" number 43, 1966, courtesy of "Mike's Progressive Ruin".)

Electron Boy

I missed my "Things I Like" Saturday post, my apologies, but luckily "The Seattle Times" (via long time reader Ian on Facebook) published a story today that's a perfect blend of super heroes, the Make A Wish Foundation, and two of the guys from "Deadliest Catch", all three of which are Things I (very much!) Like.

Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day

Erik Martin, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.

It's a great, heart-warming story that I think you'll really enjoy. Happy Weekend everyone!