As voted on by you, the astute and powerful HeroMachine users, I am starting work on the first set of the second round of Replacment Prizes. The following contest winners’ prizes are now forfeit to the larger community. Their loss is your gain!
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges
Borntobealoser requested a creeper or some other “Minecraft” item as his prize for winning Character Contest 66. Rather than doing the big pixellated version you see in the actual game, I decided to do something more interpretive, inspired by this Scifer take. Hope you like it, BTBAL! It is now live in Companions-Standard.
I am enjoying the debates around these “Versus” fights, so here’s another one for you:
To help you in your decision-making process, here’s a quick run-down of the two characters (powers not shown):
| Deadpool | Deathstroke |
| Uses multiple samurai swords. | Uses multiple samurai swords. |
| Full mask with sinister eye hole cutouts. | Full mask with sinister eye hole cutouts. |
| Modern body armor. | Chainmail. |
| Mercenary. | Mercenary. |
| Many many pouches. | Many many pouches. |
| Slightly baggy hood. | Flyaway mask ties. |
| Breaks the fourth wall to talk directly to the audience. | Breaks the fourth wall … of the building his target is hiding in. |
| Created second by “legendary” Rob Liefeld. | Created first by genuine legends Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. |
| Played in one of the worst super hero movies of all time by none other than — wait for it — Ryan Reynolds. | Mercifully free (so far) from exploitation by Hollywood. |
For me, the last two points are the difference maker. I don’t care how bad-ass either of these guys is, the fact that Deadpool was both created by Rob Liefeld and played by Ryan Reynolds — a twin bill of titanic suckage — means I gotta go with Terminator. Plus, come on, how awesome a name is “Deathstroke the Terminator”?! That’s like TWO killer monikers rolled into one!
I leave the technical details of who would win in an ACTUAL fight to you better informed folks.
Posted in Versus
Kytana requested a “profile head” for her Character Contest 68 prize. I’ve put up three versions in Head-Male-Standard as a test — let me know what you think. It didn’t make sense to me to leave off the nose, mouth, and eyes, since there aren’t any profile-view versions of those.
(From “Samson” number 3, 1941.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Greetings, HeroMachinists! Guest Judge John Hartwell here with the results for Character Contest 72 – The Power COSMIC! My thanks to Jeff for the opportunity to be a part of HeroMachine Nation in this capacity, and my thanks to everyone who took the time to submit your work for consideration. Kudos to all!
A quick housekeeping note: please know that if you A) did not name your file as directed in the contest rules, or B) did not provide a correct working link (some links downloaded a .php or .html file), then your submissions were unfortunately not reviewed (or, in some cases, seen).
Now, on to the best of show! (Edited to Add: most of these can be seen at a larger size just by clicking the image. — Jeff)
Your challenge this week is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this comics panel:
I imagine the missing narration would be whatever the note was supposed to say, but you could go in a different direction entirely if you like.
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!
Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenges
I’ve just uploaded the following kimono to Tops-Female-Dresses in HeroMachine 3 as Chasca’s prize for winning Character Contest 69.
While we’re waiting on John’s big contest decision, here’s a companion to the galley galleon ship I did the other day for Frevoli, now live in Companion-Vehicles:
As before, color1 is the sail, which is where items masked to the ship will appear. Enjoy!
Posted in HeroMachine 3
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