(From “Amazing Man” number 10, 1940.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
(Hammerknight has been kind enough to assemble another set of recipes for cool stuff you can do with the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. Thanks big guy! Click on any image to embiggen it.)1
Posted in Recipes, Tips & Tricks
(From “Amazing Man” number 10, 1946.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
I won’t go so far as Randy Neuman did and claim that “short people got no reason to live”, but I am willing to say that people who wear purple shorts with purple shirts and purple pointy-topped boots got no reason to be super-heroes:
Look, if you’re wearing an outfit that would fit right in at a McDonaldland Playscape Junior Play Date and you’re over the age of ten, you probably shouldn’t even be outside, much less adventuring. My hope here is that somehow Mr. Tomorrow badly misread the corporate “Casual Friday” policy and, since he’s packing heat, everyone was too scared to say anything.
I could almost live with this ridiculous get-up if it weren’t for the pointy-topped skin-tight boots. If he were gadding about space in, say, some fashionable yellow or purple flip-flops, we’d be getting somewhere, like he’s “Tommy Tomorrow the Space Cabana Boy” or something. I’d even be willing to spot him a pair of low-slung pointy-toed floppy Robin booties, but those things he’s got on now have got to go.
And why, in the name of all that’s sartorial, would you wear a long-sleeved shirt with your shorts? Do they not have thermostats in the future?
I do, though, feel happy that in the World of Tomorrow they at least they recognize that anyone willing to go out dressed like that isn’t to be trusted to hold on to their gun, and so is forced to wear a tether.
At least someone up-time has some sense.
(Image and character © DC Comics, Inc.)
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
(From “Day of Vengeance” number 1, ©2005 DC Comics, Inc.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Apparently I am on a sidekick kick, because your character design contest for this week is to create a sidekick for some well-established, but currently solo, character! You can pick any character you like, so long as they don’t currently have a sidekick and so long as your attempt is not a re-do of some other previously existing creation. In other words, you can’t re-make Robin, since there’s already a Robin, and you can’t make a new sidekick for Batman called Aquaman who swims around and talks to fish.
The contest will run for one week, with the winner announced next Tuesday. The person with the best design will win the option of having either their caricature or any one item of their choosing included with the final HeroMachine 3 product. Everlasting fame, how sweet is that?!
Also:
Just to get the ball rolling, here are a few off-the-top-of-my-head ideas:
In other words, part of the fun is figuring out why a given character would have a sidekick now, after all this time, and how their new compatriot would fit into the main narrative.
Good luck everyone, I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Posted in Challenges
I am happy to present the winner of Caption Contest 57, and the guy who gets to choose either his own custom item or a caricature of his head for inclusion in HeroMachine 3, Cory!
The other Honorable Mentions were:
Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to Cory and our Honorable Mentions. Some time this afternoon I’ll put up the next contest, let me know in comments if you want another Caption Contest or to go back to a Character Design Contest instead.
Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges
(From “Amazing Man” number 10, 1940.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Apologies for the slow posting, the site’s been at a crawl all day and I got distracted drawing. The “Sky” set has morphed into general backgrounds and buildings, because once you get past clouds and stars and the sun, you’re pretty much done as far as skies go. Who knew?
Anyway, our Poll Position this week puts you in the position of super-hero-in-training, as you get the chance to apprentice with one currently side-kickless character:
Discussion to follow!
Posted in Versus
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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