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Part 1 of 4 in Imp's Friday Night Fights victory prize request is up and available for your use in HandRight-Standard (clear your browser's cache if you don't see it):
The bandage part is color1, and the area that receives any Patterning. I figured you'd probably want to be applying dirt or blood or leopard spots (I don't ask) to the bandagy part since the skin is mostly hidden. If you'd rather I reverse it, just let me know. Color2 is the skin portion.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
The time has come once again to embark on an exciting Choose Your Own Adventure! This time we are braving the classic "Return to The Cave of Time", only in its updated and expanded iPhone edition. So even if you've run it before, prepare yourself for more adventure, more challenges, more harrowing excitement than you remember. Once more, into the breach!
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Posted in Return to the Cave of Time
(Lifted from "Comically Vintage".)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Me, Myself, and I ... um, and I ... have finished his prizes for a couple of contest wins, now available in Insignia-Nature:
He requested a strand of Celtic knots to use as a facial tattoo, but after chatting about it, we thought it would be more versatile to break the string into individual bits that can be manually strung together so you can get just the effect you're going for. Here's an example, showing one of each of the knots all lined up:
Because of the way the strands run, to get the colors to work exactly right you might have to flip alternating instances, and then rotate them 180 degrees, to line up properly. Hopefully you'll find them useful.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates, Previews
As you'd expect, the 1940s saw a multitude of patriotic-themed super heroes hitting the comics newsstands even as real war raged across the globe. Few realize that in the same venue, another deadly conflict burned out of control -- a war on fashion, led by Yankee Doodle Jones:
Who says you can't combine striped pants, a leather wrestling belt, purple star-spangled vest, and a light blue puffy pirate shirt and make it look good! Oh, right -- this guy.
As jarring as it is to see purple and aqua on an outfit that's ostensibly based on the flag of the USA (which, need I remind you, contains neither purple nor aqua, nor wrestling), even worse to my bleeding eyes is the jaunty red flight-attendant cap he's sporting. I can just imagine him leaping into this heated battle with the heinous Nazis screaming "Coffee, tea, or ME!"
The bad costume is what brought us here today, but I can't close without saying a word or two about the name. "Yankee Doodle Jones"? Really? There's nothing like an implied "Dandy" to make your enemies tremble in fear. Or possibly titillation, depending on their proclivities. But perhaps this was just the forerunner of a whole clan of Yankee Doodles, like Yankee Doodle Sam and Yankee Doodle Fred and of course, cousin Yankee Doodle Betty.
"Darling, the Yankee Doodles are coming over for dinner tonight, so be sure to break out the good star-spangled purple and aqua table cloth, won't you?"
(From "Yankee Comics" number 4, 1942.)
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(From "Wonder Boy" number 18, 1955.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion in last week's Poll Position regarding the greatest comic-book villain of all time (you voted for The Joker by a wide margin), so I wanted to continue it this week, albeit in a lighter vein:
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Posted in Versus
(Image courtesy of Comically Vintage.)
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You may recall that last year I exercised my executive privilege to revert a bunch of unclaimed contest prizes back to the community. You all came up with a ton of suggestions for those unused prizes, and voted on the ones you most wanted to see happen. Since then, some of those items have been done and some remain, while others have been chosen as prizes by new winners. I wanted to update everyone on the status of that ongoing effort, so here's the current list:
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3
Watson Bradshaw requested a set of legs that would terminate at the knees, as if the character were kneeling. Since that's been requested by lots of folks, I thought it would be wise to go ahead and publish the first pass at it for general comment, though since it's Watson's prize he gets the final word. Here's the screen grab of it:
It's now live in "Body-Male-Standard" and once we get it finalized (i.e. Watson says he likes it), I'll do a set for the female body as well. Let me know what you think, changes you think it needs to be fully functional, etc. I put in one for the left and one for the right leg.
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Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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