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Thanks to everyone for the outstanding entries in Caption Contest 105! There were a lot of great ones, so the Finalist list this week is pretty long, including a couple of HM-memes-in-the-making courtesy of Danny Beaty's wrist-blasters and TopHat's evocation of everyone's architecture-smashing "hero", Samson:

• Worf: Damn these mitts!
• Wulf: “WHERE THE ROBOT WOMEN AT?!”
• TopHat: ”I’ve come to preach the word of Samson!”
• Joel: “Hello? I’m supposed to be on trial for destruction of public property, is this the right court room?”
• Myro: “Robot God needs booze.”
• Danny Beaty: I should have used my wrist-mounted blasters!
• Blue Blazer: Ha! Chalk up one more shifty-eyed door!
• Gregg: Good afternoon. Might I interest you in some fine replacement doors?
• McKnight57: Bite my shiny metal adult diaper!!
• MartianBlue: Everyone stay calm, I’ve just recieved information over the com of a very dangerous looking large, white robot entering this building.
• Wierdrocks: “NOW it’s a party!”
• Watson Bradshaw: DRAMATIC ENTRANCE INITIATED!
• TheNate: Hulk smash, ROM Kavoom!
• Jester: Hi.
• Jessica: Jocasta, what the HELL is going on here?!
• Knighthawk: I put the ROM in romance!
• Kyle Hilsee: Is Lucy here? Cause’ I’m home.
• X-stacy: Why are you marrying him? I’ve got five speeds and three attachments!

But as you know, there can be only one. And that one is ... Worf!

I liked that it both provided an explanation for why he was smashing the doors in, and referenced those never-to-be-understood mitts ROM parades around in. Good job, Worf!

Many thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 104. For your edification and enjoyment, here are the ones I thought were the funniest replacement lines for the missing dialog in this panel:

• Joel: “You win the staring contest again. Damn your empty eye sockets!”
• McKnight57: Whaddaya mean I don’t get to wear a Batman cape?!
• Blue Blazer: Be honest. Does this shroud make me look fat?
• Knighthawk: My GOD man! I don’t have a nose and that stinks!
• Watson Bradshaw: No, my eyes are red because I AM part medical marijuana!
• TheNate: It’s curtains for you – and drapes for me!
• Joel: “A Legion of Doom meeting? But I haven’t a thing to wear!”
• Myro: “Toga! Toga! Toga!”
• Twiggyseed: What did the Joker do to me? Oh well, at least Robin’s oka-…Robin?
• Watson Bradshaw: FOR GOD SAKE, CLOSE YOUR ROBE MAN!

And your overall winner is ... Waston Bradshaw!

I thought the dialog perfectly fit the look of horror on Swamp Thing's face and the casual, open stance of the random zombie swamp dweller. I almost went with Joel's "Legion of Doom" line instead, but ultimately decided that since Swamp Thing was never in the Legion of Doom I had to pass.

Good job everyone, and congratulations again to Watson! Let me know what you'd like for your prize and I'll get it on The List.

Many thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 103, which challenged you to come up with the best replacement dialog for this awesome random comics panel:

The funniest lines in my opinion were:

• Watson Bradshaw: Evolve your way out of a body-bag mammals!
• MScat: “Say hello to my little arms!!”
• Pandademic: Do it! Bomb ‘em forward to the Stone Age!
• The Atomic Punk: “Cold blood and hot lead, baby!”
• Moognation: Dammit! I asked for a scatta gun, not a chatta gun!
• MartianBlue: LeRooaaarrrr jeannkinnsss!
• TheNate: Welcome to Kick Yourassick Park!
• X-stacy: Of course I’m gonna shoot you in cold blood! I’m a REPTILE.
• dblade: “Tombstones! Meet the Tombstones!”

As the overall winner, I chose the very last one submitted, proving once again it's (almost) never too late if your idea is funny! For making me laugh right out loud on a morning when I felt like dinosaur poop, the win goes to ... dblade!

You have to admit, that's a darn catchy tune with which to meet your doom.

Congrats to dblade and all our Finalists!

With thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 102, I've gone through the submissions and picked out the ones I thought were funniest:

• Frevoli : Honey, when I said you could drop in anytime – this wasn’t what I had in mind...
• TopHat: Worst. Stripper. Ever.
• Rick: I guess Ol’Archie chose Betty!
• Nick Hentschel: Wow, ya really DO have women throwin’ themselves at ya!
• skybandit: It works! Now, for my other two wishes!
• punkjay: What is wrong with your wife Joe?! Every time we play poker she wants to practice her break-dancing!
• P.F. Bruns: I toldja gold was a chick magnet.
• Scorpidius: Harold, go get the puncture repair kit and the foot pump . . . . Blow up Betty has sprung a leak again!
• Dudemeister: Oh Jeez! Seriously Joe, that hat just don’t hide her no more. You gotta get that Siamese twin sister REMOVED!
• Bael: I fold. Too rich for my blood.!

And the winner of either any item they like to be included in HM3 or their own Sketch of the Day style illustration is ... Frevoli, with his first Caption or Character Design victory! Which is pretty surprising, because he (or she!) does some fantastic work.

Congratulations to Frevoli and all our Finalists!

With thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 101, I've gone through the submissions and picked out the ones I thought were funniest:

• ajw: Reagan, it’s Gorbachev, what are you wearing right now?
• TopHat: “SUDDEN METHANE ERUPTION DETECTED”
• Joshua: With my ventriloquism powers, I shall seduce this clown!
• Myro: “Evacuating bladder now.”
• Rick: “Now I’m doin’ the thinkin’ AND the talkin’!”
• Dan Gonzalez: “Sentient Belt no longer wishes to be affiliated with Loserman and Clownboy.”
• von Bek: Electrifying chasity belt active! Step away from the clown!

And the winner of either any item they like to be included in HM3 or their own Sketch of the Day style illustration is ... ajw, with his first Caption or Character Design victory!

I like that he noticed a resemblance that had completely escaped me, and I love the idea that Reagan and Gorbachev routinely engaged in telephonic cosplay. That's probably why the Soviet Union collapsed.

Congratulations to AJW and all our Finalists!