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META: Artists

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off on META: Artists

As you can tell, UGO has become interested in what more they can do to get people excited about HeroMachine, which is great in all kinds of ways. One of the ideas we're floating (still very much just an idea at this point) is to have "Artist Collections", item sets designed and drawn by specific comic book illustrators. So for instance, you might get a bunch of sets designed by "Invincible" artist Ryan Ottley, or Rob Liefeld (ha!), or Bryan Hitch of the Ultimates, etc.

Would that be interesting to you? If so, what current comics artists would you most want to see put together their own HM sets?

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SOD.104

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off on SOD.104
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RP: I'll take "Blatant Ripoffs" for $1000, Alex

Posted on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off on RP: I'll take "Blatant Ripoffs" for $1000, Alex
out-of-this-world-1-1950-crom

(From "Out of This World Comics" number 1, 1950. And people wonder why Robert E. Howard was depressed.)

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META: Show me the money

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off on META: Show me the money

If it turned out that I had a (very!) modest amount of money available via the nice folks at UGO to award as prizes for the weekly contests, would you be interested in that? And if so, what sorts of things would you like as prizes? Just some possibilities off the top of my head would be things like a $10 certificate to iTunes, or a discount on merchandise from Amazon.com, a signed copy of a comic book by the author and or artist, that kind of thing.

I'd love to hear your input on that -- are monetary prizes a good thing, would they make you more excited about the contests, if so what would you want, etc. etc.

Thanks!

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Poll Position: Membership drive

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off on Poll Position: Membership drive

We all probably think we could do a better job than the Powers That Be, so let's imagine you had Ultimate Super-Hero Authority and could put any characters wherever you wanted. Given Marvel's recent teaser campaign about the Avengers, I thought it would be worthwhile to ask:

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Discussion after the jump.

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SOD.103

Posted on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off on SOD.103

Never bring your fists to a bat fight. Or something. Here I was mostly going for something quicker, looser, and more dynamic than the set pieces I've been doing lately.

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RP: Where gravity ends, and stupid begins

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(From "The Saint" number 1, 1947.)

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Caption Contest 74 – Invincilicious

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Caption Contest 74 – Invincilicious

I'm throwing you a bit of a curve ball with this week's Caption Contest, as you'll have to complete the dialog started by a different character in the frame. So yeah, good luck with that! But, if you can come up with the funniest replacement dialog to complete this random comic book panel, you'll win either your portrait or any item you like to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program.

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You have one week, as many entries as you like (for now -- if it gets ridiculous like it did a time or two in the past I'll have to ramp it back down to just three) so long as they're left as a comment or comments to this post, and the very hounds of hell breathing down your neck. OK, that's actually just the other commenters who might beat you to a joke, but you get the idea.

Good luck everyone!

Oh yeah, and keep it clean!

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SOD.102 – Wonder Woman riding a dinosaur

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Comments Off on SOD.102 – Wonder Woman riding a dinosaur

Because, that's why.

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Character Contest 31 Winners

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Character Contest 31 Winners

I've chosen the Finalists for Character Contest 31, which challenged you to build a great weapon using HeroMachine 3. I've got quite a few of them, so follow me after the jump to see them in all their glory!

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