Monthly Archives: November 2011

Caption Contest 111: Extremely Fishy Violence!

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With hearty thanks once again to Glenn3's "Say What? Pictures" for the panel, your challenge this week is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this comics panel:

We haven't had a hyper-violent one in a while, so I thought we should get back to our roots.

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 week we have a cap of no more than five (5) entries per person, so make 'em your best!

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Character Design Contest 76 Winners!

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We had some excellent entries for our Animalia II contest! So without further ado, here are the ones that had a little something extra special about them.

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Flip a German the bird and they LIKE it

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(From "Airboy" number 11, 1945.)

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Power User Profile: Asder

Posted on November 12, 2011 by | Comments Off on Power User Profile: Asder

Our Power User to profile this week is the winner of Character Design Contest 49 (Scorpio) and the producer of consistently outstanding work: Asder! I love how many of our active and awesome users come from outside of the U.S., that's truly amazing to me, and I'm profoundly grateful that you all struggle through a foreign language to not only create, but participate. Thank you!

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Being a travel blogger is hard

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(From "Airboy", volume 2, number 11, 1945.)

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Highway Holocaust Happy Adventure Time GO!

Posted on November 11, 2011 by | Comments Off on Highway Holocaust Happy Adventure Time GO!

Last week we spent some time deciding what skills and gear our "Freeway Warrior" would sport. We decided to put two points into Shooting, one point into Perception, and one point into Fieldcraft. Being on the wimpy side of the Endurance scale, apparently we thought that it would be better to stay far away from danger by toting a rifle, being smart enough to see trouble coming before it gets close, and wilderness savvy enough to hide if it comes down to it.

To that end we settled on a compass so we know which way to run, binoculars so we can see our enemies at even longer distances, three square meals (running burns calories, folks!), and a geiger counter. Here's how our character sheet looks:

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New Trojan brand torpedoes for couples!

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(From "Weird Comics" number 19, 1941.)

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Sharing Day, Fanverse edition

Posted on November 10, 2011 by | Comments Off on Sharing Day, Fanverse edition

We haven't done a "Sharing Day" in a while due to Friday Night Fights, and since I really enjoy getting to hear from all of you, I think it's about time we got back to it. Ordinarily I'd do that on Friday and our RPG adventure installment today, but since there's a chance I'll be away from the computer most of the day tomorrow I'm switching things around a bit.

Here's the deal:

You can ask me any question you like about whatever you like, which I will answer either completely truthfully or not at all (in which case you can ask something else). I say that because, come on, there are some things no one should have to know!

But you can only do so if you answer the following question about yourself:

What fictional character (from any media and genre) do you think you are most like?

I am going to go way out in left field for this one, and say I'm most like Robert Townsend's main character Bobby Taylor from the epic 1987 film "Hollywood Shuffle". Like Bobby, I daydream a lot and imagine crazy scenarios. I make up voices as I drive on the highway, I imagine nutty stuff happening while I'm on line at the bank, and reality constantly froths around me with possibilities. And irony, with a side of sarcasm. But at the end of the day, I can work at the Post Office and be happy, too.

Now it's your turn! Picking just one character from any movie, book, comic, TV show, or what have you is a challenge because it's so broad, but I think it'll be interesting to see what you go with. Thanks in advance for sharing!

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Dealing with "The Help", Old Testament style

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(From "Spectacular Feature" number 11, 1950.)

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The right to bear arms … lots and lots of arms

Posted on November 9, 2011 by | Comments Off on The right to bear arms … lots and lots of arms

You'd think with fifty pairs of arms, at least one would be left-handed. But no:

How the hell do you even put on a costume like that?! And if you say "One leg at a time ... a hundred times in a row" I'll throw my bracelets of submission at you!

Given the recent discussion over a certain disgusting movie involving humans and centipedes, and given the sordid S&M nature of Wonder Woman's past, I can't help but feel icky and like I need a shower. But I bet the guy who came up with the movie read this comic. If so, whatever else you say about the guy, he at least had the good sense not to have a costume involving fifty pairs of footy PJs, overlapping gun holsters, and what appear to be suckers on the bottom of the feet.

On the other hand, even the Crimson Centipede, lame as he is, knows better than to leave the house in star-spangled Granny panties. So there's that.

(With thanks to "Again With the Comics".)

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