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HM3: Next on the agenda

By a narrow margin, it looks like Blunts have beaten Firearms, so I’ll be working on that next. Then I’ll go immediately into Firearms, as I do think that’s a glaring omission.

Feel free to post specific Blunt requests. Next week I’ll do the same for Firearms but for now, please keep it to hand-held blunt-trauma weapons. Comments with links to an actual image of the requested item will get preferential treatment because, let’s be honest, I’m lazy.

Edited To Add: Guys, as usual, all items (or close to it) from 2.5 will be included, so you can lay off those.

Random Panel: Great moments in bad answers

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(From “The Blue Beetle” number 13, 1942.)

Random Panel: Epic retcon fail

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(With thanks to FailBlog.)

HM3: Coats soothe, relieve

I’ve just added the complete “TopsMaleCoats” to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. I’ve broken each item down into four parts — the complete item, just the chest portion, just the upper sleeve, and just the lower sleeve, as you can see in the samples below:

tops-coats

You can use the “multiples” setting and the “Flip” button to get matching sleeves on the other side. Some of the HM2.x items aren’t here yet, as they were just vests, and I’ll have a separate “TopsVests” set at some point.

At the end, I added in four elbow pieces that hopefully are generic enough to serve as “bridges” between sleeve portions for when you want to have a character with bent arms. Similarly, in the middle portion I added a few separated trenchcoat bits (one pulled back at the waist as if tucked behind a gun, one long vest portion just on the right, etc.) sine those seem like popular choices and mix well with the existing trenchcoat sleeves.

Let me know any bugs you find, missing items you hoped for but don’t see, or anything else you want to say about the new bunch of stuff. Also, what would you like me to work on next? Popular suggestions in the past have been more hand-held items (probably either guns or Blunts), more Tops (vests, probably), more Legwear sets, etc.

Hope you like the new stuff!

Random Panel: Worst. Ninja. Ever.

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(From “The Blue Beetle” number 13, 1942.)

Open Thread: Super weekend!

So what do super-heroes do on the weekend, anyway? Your thoughts in the comments …

Random Panel: Only druids are true neutrals, pal

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(From “The Blue Beetle” number 13, 1942.)

Hammerknight’s Screen Captures

(Back with another helpful edition of his Recipes series is Hammerknight, this time with a pictorial essay on how to do screen captures and put your character into MS Paint. Thanks for the help, Hammerknight! Feel free to consider this an open help thread, and post whatever you like in comments.)

Doing a printscreen in Windows to capture your character image:

How to open MS Paint in Windows:

Random Panel: Low points in law enforcement

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(From “The Blue Beetle” number 13, 1942.)

The thong is strong on this one

What we have with Polaris Spanner from DC’s “Spanner’s Galaxy” is a fundamentally decent costume horribly betrayed by one small but crucial element:

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Although I hesitate to say it considering the location of the area in question, this is definitely a case of a small thing making a huge difference. I am talking, of course, about his crotch, which for some reason is bound to the open-flap tunic top like some kind of cosmic onesie. The urge to check underneath that thing for quick-release snaps is almost irresistible, and may in fact be why he was the most-hunted criminal in the galaxy. They took their fashion seriously back then, folks.

The other elements are mostly blah (with the exception of that white-fur collar which ought to be illegal in any century), but that simple decision to continue the tunic down to his hoo-hoo just ruins the entire thing. The headband transforms from a semi-neato sci-fi doodad to a hippie doofus accessory, the boots look like he’s smuggling baby hippos, and let’s not even get started with the bizarre galactic howler monkey.

Just remember kids, when it comes to fashion, particularly in your nether regions, just say “no” if any seamstress asks you if you want to span anything. Maybe if Polaris Spanner had learned that lesson, he’d be a free man today. Or at least, not in a canceled book.

(Image and character © DC Comics, Inc.)