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Great moments in bad pickup lines

(From “Captain Courageous” number 6, 1942.)

All HeroMachine Versions Now Online!

Remember the Modern Warrior app, the first taste of the HeroMachine 3 engine? Now you can play with it again! Along with the Pinup Edition, Zombies, and more.

That’s right, after much work and code wrangling, I am happy to announce that you can now get to all of the old HeroMachine Mini versions! I’ve put together a page with links to all of them, and also added a link in the header so you’re never more than a click away from the full list.

I’ve tried to test them as well as I could, so hopefully you won’t run into any major problems. Please let me know if you do. And have a good time strolling down memory lane!

Caption Challenge 129

It’s time for another new Caption Challenge! This week you’re tasked with coming up with the best caption for this comics panel:

This one is a little different in that you’re not filling in a dialog balloon, but rather coming up with a caption that might appear above or below the image. I’ll pick out some as my personal favorites to highlight in a post next Monday, and then I’ll choose one of those to bear the standard as the “Featured Creator of the Week” atop the right tool bar.

All entries must be left as a comment (or comments) to this post. Keep ‘em clean (appropriate for a late-night broadcast TV show), but most importantly, keep ‘em funny!

No limit to entries, but please, self-edit and only put up ones you genuinely think are good!

Character Design Challenge 99 Results!

We had lots of great entries for Character Design Challenge 99! Thank you all for sharing your creativity with us.

Unfortunately, the following folks are disqualified for not naming their files properly: StrangerousRex, Maniacmick, Jawsabi, sivad96, Mr. Chowderhead, DarkWarrior076, Overseer, Fennec Bob, BloodlessRose, Josh, ka5zr, jeremythurlow, zdog101, and tackin. If I can’t tell who created it from the file name once it’s downloaded onto my computer, there’s no way for me to give you credit.

Moving on, here are a few of the entries that were my personal favorites:

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Pop Quiz 26 – Horny Results

Thanks to everyone who entered Saturday’s Pop Quiz! Unfortunately, Jawsabi, Overseer, and jeremythurlow’s entries were disqualified as their files were named improperly and I couldn’t tell who made what without going back and manually checking the comment. I included them here for your viewing pleasure, however, along with all of the other great entries:

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Overly Attached Girlfriend joins the singalong

(From “Captain Courageous” number 6, 1942.)

Racial politics in 1942 were rough

(From “Captain Courageous” number 6, 1942.)

Pop Quiz: Horny

Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge today is to create an awesome image that uses the following item from Ears-Standard:

What ELSE would you think the contest title would mean?!

You must use the horn at least once in the illustration (and not necessarily AS a horn), but you can then use it as many times after that as you like.

You only get one entry — that’s right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular challenge, but instead of a whole week I’ll announce my favorites either tonight or tomorrow morning. Elaborate backgrounds aren’t necessary, though if you’ve got one it’s fine.

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the HeroMachine 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;
  • 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). Here’s a quick-start guide on how to do that for various image hosting services.

I’ll pick one entry as my personal favorite, which will get to be featured in the side bar to the right for ultimate glory! As a bonus you’re allowed to say you won the Internet for a few days.

Good luck!

How it could sense me while I'm talking out loud is indeed a baffling mystery.

(From “Baffling Mysteries” number 9, 1952.)

Free Draw Friday

Today I just want to take time to enjoy awesome looking images. So take this as a “Free Draw Friday” to post an image that you love. It could be one of your favorite HeroMachine creations (your own or someone else’s), or something you drew yourself, or just a really cool picture you found on the Internet. All day long you can come back here to see what others have put up and get a little lift.

Here’s mine (via Reddit):