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Yearly Archives: 2012
Pop Quiz 27 Results!
Thanks to everyone who was willing to take a swing at the new items for our last Pop Quiz. Without further ado (and with thanks to the free Wi-Fi at the Denver Airport), here they are:
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Posted in Challenge Favorites
Constructing a Legacy
Constructing a Legacy
By: Andrew Hines
I haven't been much of a Guy Gardner fan in the past, but with the New 52, I've gotten a better look at him and he seems more stable than in years past. Less arrogant and selfish than he was in the old DCU, he started out the year by helping rescue his long-time friend John Stewart escape the Alpha Lanterns. For the last few years, he's been one of the Corps' Honor Guard, which is a huge leap past just being the (sorry) red-headed stepchild of the Guardians.
This issue, penned by Peter J. Tomasi, gives us a better insight into Gardner. We see the obviously screwed up family life that he led prior to being brought into the Corps and the selflessness that propelled him into being one of the greatest GLs. The dialogue and police lingo that Tomasi uses are pretty much spot-on and don't feel forced, as it typically does on many police dramas on television. The scripting here works very well for Gardner without seeming to try too hard to humanize him. Instead of trying to build on his relationship with Stewart, this issue is just completely about Guy, and that works beautifully.
The artistic team of Fernando Pasarin, Scott Hanna and Gabe Eltaeb has done a splendid job from the get-go on this title. Joined in the last few issue by Marc Deering, GL Corps is full of awesome artwork. While it may not be as instantly recognizable as some other art teams, they've been making a name for themselves this past year. From the smallest shadow to the most in-your-face action panel, this is full of quality artwork.
The team deserves major props for this one. I give it an "A" which is something i never thought I'd do for a title with Guy Gardner as a main character.
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Posted in Super-Hero Stuff
HeroMachine 2 Companions
A request was made to import the Companions from HeroMachine 2 into HeroMachine 3. I'll be honest, I'd forgotten how many items there were in the old one that don't have an analogue. But before I go whole-hog into this, I want to check in and make sure this is a) something you want, and b) how you would want it.
The reason I didn't import these wholesale is that the art style is so drastically different between the two iterations. I can redraw them all, but in the process they're going to look a lot different. Here's a sample:
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
Cops and Crowds
The Companion-Humanoids set has just been updated with the following items:
Let me know if you like the way the silhouetted group turned out. I wasn't sure what to do with Color2, so I drew in the skin areas. If it works well, I have probably four more silhouette groups I could give the same treatment to.
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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
Pop Quiz: Fun with New Items
Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge today is to create an awesome image using one of the new items I posted this morning from either Background-Cityscapes or ItemRight-Pistols. To refresh your memory, those items are:
Edited to Add: You can also use the new Companions:
You can use one item, or all of them, or anything in between. You can use an item once or a thousand times, so long as there's at least one of the new ones in there somewhere.
You only get one entry -- that's right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular challenge, but instead of a whole week I'll announce my favorites either tonight or tomorrow morning. Elaborate backgrounds aren't necessary, though if you've got one it's fine.
- All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the HeroMachine Forums, whatever);
- Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
- Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
- Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). Here's a quick-start guide on how to do that for various image hosting services.
I'll pick one entry as my personal favorite, which will get to be featured in the side bar to the right for ultimate glory! As a bonus you're allowed to say you won the Internet for a few days.
Good luck!
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Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz
New pistol fronts and cityscapes
I've just updated Background-Cityscapes and ItemRight-Pistols with the following items:
Hopefully those will help with some of the more creative poses you all are trying to do.
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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
I guess that's one way to go about it …
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Barbario in "De-Pixelated – Borderlands"
Our very own Barbario is in another game-inspired video! Check him out, it's pretty cool:
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Posted in Movies and TV
Bruce Wayne and the Red Hood Gang
Bruce Wayne and the Red Hood Gang
By: Andrew Hines
So clearly, this is no longer a rule. The 0 issue is pretty good, considering after last week's Detective Comics, there wasn't much left to cover. In this one, we see the original Red Hood before Jason Todd took over the mantle. We see Alfred, of course, Jim Gordon and even a Dark Knight-ish Bat Cave. The only thing is, we never see Wayne Manor, which Gordon makes mention of. It feels very much like the first half of Year One.
Scott Snyder has done a great job for the last year on this title, giving us great stories in Court of Owls, Night of the Owls and now the origin issue. From start to finish it's very much a Batman book. He may be relatively green, but still Batman. Bruce even mentions something that fans have long known, Bruce Wayne is the real facade. I can't wait for the next few months of this title. My only problem is the cliffhanger ending, which left me on the edge of my seat.
Greg Capullo is an amazing artist, simply in the way that he is consistent. There are no bad angles in here. Every motion is captured as if it were stills from the latest, greatest action movie. We never see the Batsuit, but moves are unmistakably Batman. Jonathan Galpion's inks and Fco Plascencia's colors work as the perfect complement to Capullo's pencils. Theses issues are beginning to rival the art of Bruce Timm from Batman: The Animated Series in just how iconic they are. They fit the character wonderfully.
The ending was the only thing keeping this from being top of the class for this week. The creative team gets an "A-."
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Posted in Super-Hero Stuff
