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(From "Police Comics" number 26, 1944.)
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Because I want to be sure everyone has time to work on their Friday Night Fight entries (reminder, they're due by this Friday! That's THIS FRIDAY!), I'm going to do a second Caption Contest week in a row. Now you've got no excuse for not entering FNF2!
This week's a bit different, though. Usually there's a pre-existing dialog balloon that I erase, leaving it to you to complete. This week, though, I wanted to go with a balloon-less image that you can add dialog to however you like, so you have a bit more freedom. And for our subject, what better than Ultimate Wolverine and Hulk duking it out? Or checking each other's teeth for broccoli stains, whichever. Here's your base image:
Be sure to indicate in your entry who's saying what. So for instance, you might submit something like:
Wolverine: Your breath stinks!
Hulk: Are you sure?! Take a REAL good whiff!
You can have one character saying something, or both, or neither, choosing instead for one of those bottom-line commentary captions you sometimes see on the funny pages. Like:
Commentary: And that was the last time Bruce Banner asked Logan for help picking meat out of his teeth.
Otherwise, the rules are simple -- as many entries as you like (within the bounds of good personal editing), appropriate for no worse than a late-night broadcast TV show, by next Monday. The winner receives their choice of a) any item they like to be included in HeroMachine 3; b) any portrait they like to be included in HM3; or c) any subject (within reason) for a Sketch of the Day style custom black and white drawing.
Good luck everyone!
(Hulk, Wolverine, this specific image, the term "super-hero", and any ideas you have ever had or might have in the future, along with the contents of your sock drawer, are all © Marvel Comics.)
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Thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 85, our Halloween Dress-up Edition! Some of the entries I thought were particularly funny were:
But I could only pick one winner, so I went with the one that I thought was a) the funniest, that also b) conveyed some sense of a larger story beyond just the one panel. And that caption was submitted by none other than ... Bael!
Bael wins his (or her, heck, I dunno, that's what internet anonymity is all about!) choice of a) any item they like to be included in HeroMachine 3; b) any portrait to be included in HM3; or c) any subject they like (within reason) for a Sketch of the Week style black and white custom illustration.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone for participating!
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(From "Police Comics" number 26, 1944.)
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My thanks to those who participated in our Halloween Pop Quiz, and my apologies for the results coming in so slowly. I blame my new zippy Internet access for luring me into its siren call, resulting in many lost hours.
Unfortunately I couldn't give a passing grade to very many of the entrants, as most failed to read one of the most important elements, rule 3:
In a comment to this post, give us your critique of the original ...
Only Rozenstal, Cliff's Tigger Boy, MMI, Myro, and Danny provided critiques of the original costume (however brief they might have been, as in Cliff's "He didn't go far enough" epic tome), so only they qualified. Which is too bad, because I honestly thought Marie did the best job with rule 2:
... redesign a better one ...
Most of the qualified entries more or less just recreated the costume in HeroMachine, which wasn't the goal at all -- you were supposed to improve it with the original as the inspiration. I'm sorry if I didn't make that more clear. It does mean, however, that I didn't have a lot of choice, and have given the prize to "Me, Myself, and I" for his cooler and well-explained update of this unfortunate Prom reject:
To this suave, two-faceted international man-about-town:
Congratulations to MMI, who wins his choice of a) any item he likes to be included in HM3; b) a portrait of himself to be included in HM3; or c) a custom black and white "Sketch of the Day" style illustration of any subject he likes (within reason), and thanks to those who entered!
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In honor of this silliest of American traditions, and with thanks to SpiderCow2010 for choosing it as his contest prize, I give you ... PunkinHead!
This nightmarish visage can be found haunting the pages of "Head-Zombies" in HeroMachine 3 even as we speak, in both a blank pumpkin and face-carved version. Enjoy!
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(From "Heroic Comics" number 1, 1940.)
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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!
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