Author Archives: AFDStudios

RP: Let’s start with not calling me a dope …

Posted on January 6, 2011 | Comments Off

(From "New Romances", 1951.)

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Safety first

Posted on January 5, 2011 | Comments Off

I think the questionable costuming choices in this "Exciting Comics" cover from 1940 pretty much speak for themselves, but you have to credit the guy in purple for remembering to include a reservoir tip:

And I'm not sure whose pleasure that robot is ribbed for, but no matter what I'm glad to see that even in 1940 they put safety first. You can have your Y2K era leather-clad Bat-heroes; for my money, latex is always your best bet.

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Posted in Bad Super Costumes

RP: A thin line between hero and peeper

Posted on January 5, 2011 | Comments Off

(From "Keen Detective Funnies" number 19, 1941.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

RP: Not actually a comics panel, but awesome nonetheless

Posted on January 4, 2011 | Comments Off

(Hat tip to "Why Evolution is True" of all places.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

Alternate Wolverines

Posted on January 4, 2011 | Comments Off

I would wager that some of these have already been done, but I love both alternate historical settings for "what if" style stories, and Wolverine, so I wanted to combine them both:

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Discussion to follow!
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Posted in Versus

RP: Mutants make terrible customers

Posted on January 3, 2011 | Comments Off

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Character Contest 54: Bounty Hunter

Posted on January 3, 2011 | Comments Off

Your character design challenge for this week is to create the coolest looking, most interesting character using HeroMachine 3 that fits the concept of a "bounty hunter". The person I judge as submitting the best entry will win his or her choice of a) any item or b) any portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO 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;
The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest
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). If you see "preview" or "rotate" somewhere in the link you're probably doing it wrong.
All entries must be in by next Monday, when I'll choose a winner, who will receive his or her choice of any item or a portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program, or a "Sketch of the Week" style black and white illustration.

No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Just make them good!

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Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges

Character Contest 53 Winner!

Posted on January 3, 2011 | Comments Off

Having slowly dug out of the big snow storm that hit Durango on Move Day, and having stolen my wife's laptop and USB cellular internet doohickey pending the delayed installation of the permanent Internet hardware, I am happy to finally present the best of the entries for Character Contest 53! I'll list all the Finalists in alphabetical order, before announcing which of them is the overall winner.

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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges, Character Design Challenges