As you can see, there are some fantastic Mentalists whose teams unfortunately did not make it into the Final Four. But never fear, you can still see and vote for your favorites! No stories in the consolation rounds due to time and space constraints, but the images speak for themselves.
Good luck everyone! You can vote for your top five, but only once. Click on an image to see it at its largest size.
Posted in Challenges, Friday Night Fights
With great pleasure, I present Round Three of Friday Night Fights 3, featuring the following fantastic fights:
As a quick review, there are two head-to-head contests this week. You can vote once in each matchup for your favorite. The winner of each fight will duke it out head-to-head next week for the Championship.
Good luck to our Final Four! Note that you can click on the image in the poll to see it full-size, and that once again results will be hidden until the polls close next Friday at 1 a.m. Mountain Time.
Posted in Challenges, Friday Night Fights
The second round of Friday Night Fights 3 has ended and I now proudly present the results! Congratulations to all of our winners, condolences to those who are not advancing, and many thanks to everyone who took the time to enter in the first place. Winners are in bold.
So advancing to the next round are headlessgeneral, Martian Blue, AMS, and DiCicatriz. Congratulations! And since they are all quarter-finalists, each of them has already won their choice of a custom HM3 item, a portrait of themselves, or their choice of a general subject for me to do a “Sketch of the Day” drawing of.
Here’s how the brackets look:
Our Consolation Round 2 champion, who wins their choice of a new HM3 item, a custom portrait of their face, or a black and white illustration on a theme of their choice, is … Vampyrist – Supernova of “The Exemplars”! Congratulations to him, and thanks again to all of the contenders in this round. Here’s the complete list of results:
Round 3 will be going up in a couple of hours as I set up the polls, upload the characters, and format the post. Thank you for patience, and good luck to everyone going forward!
Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges, Friday Night Fights
(From “Weird Comics” number 9, 1941.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
For this week’s “Bad Super Hero Costume” edition, I thought I’d turn it over to you all to provide the critique. Our subject was suggested by Kaldath, and I think it’s a great example. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Black Condor!
In the comments to this post, take your best shot at explaining why this is (or isn’t!) a bad super hero costume. It’s going to be hard to pass up the “jazz hands” look of this specific drawing, but that’s why we’re paying you the big bucks.
Have at it, intrepid fashion reporters!
P.S. It isn’t relevant to the costume necessarily, but it probably bears mentioning that in this guy’s original origin story, he learned how to fly because he hung out with condors. Not magic condors, or alien condors, just regular old endangered species condors. Apparently just living close enough to living beings that have an ability is enough to grant you that ability, although that fails to explain Pauly Shore.
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
I thought we’d take a break from “Who can beat the crap out of whom” series of Versus Poll Positions and instead focus on one of our favorite subjects — super-hero fashion! Thus:
Here are the major differences as I see them (actors aside):
For me personally, I think I prefer the Cavill version for one reason — it tells a story. The problem with the “Superman Returns” costume was that it was just a redesign, but it didn’t really tell you anything about the man (or alien) wearing it. When I look at the costume from the upcoming “Man of Steel”, I get at least a general “Kryptonian” vibe from it, which tells me that this is someone trying to retain some vestige of their history, their culture, their heritage. I don’t know in what way or how it will translate into the story, but I get the feeling there’s thought and story behind the choices that were made, and not just “Let’s modern this baby up some”.
But that’s just me, I’d love to hear how you voted and why!
Posted in Versus
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!
Nerdmudgeon.com
