Category Archives: Challenges

Usually when I do these caption contests, I have at least some idea of what I would put if I were entering, but not so this week:

Definitely some interesting bits to work with there, though, you have to give me that! Anyway, your challenge is to fill in the missing dialog with your own invention. Funniest entry wins either any item of their choice or a caricature of themselves to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program!

All entries must be made in the comments to this post, and you can only enter up to three times. Also, please keep it relatively clean. I’ll choose a winner next Tuesday, so until then, good luck!

The history of comics is replete with duos, two characters linked by name and concept as a single unit, like Hawk and Dove:

(Characters and image ©DC Comics, Inc.)

Or Cloak and Dagger:

(Characters and image ©Marvel Entertainment Group.)

That's your challenge for this week: Come up with two characters who are tied together through their names, like the examples above. You can use any pairing you like, and it's certainly possible (and permissible) for multiple people to use the same pairing of words (War and Peace, I imagine, will be popular for instance). The usual contest rules apply with an extra one at the end:

• You have one week, starting today and ending next Tuesday.
• All entries must be left as links to an image or images in the comments to this post, and all images must be 100% HeroMachine-generated (any version).
• No more than three total entries (pairings in this case) per person.

The winner will get to choose either any item he or she wants, or their caricature, put into HeroMachine 3 for all to see and love.

Good luck everyone, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

If you don't know how to do a screen capture, and for some reason are not happy with or can't use the "Save as JPG/PNG" button in HeroMachine 3, Hammerknight put together a how-to for you.

It's that time again, kids, for another Caption Contest! Come up with the best replacement dialog to fill the blank balloon in the panel below and you'll win the chance to choose either a caricature of your face (or someone else you know), or any item you choose, to be included in HeroMachine 3.

All entries must be made in the comments to this post, and you can only enter up to three times. Also, please keep it relatively clean. I'll choose a winner next Tuesday, so until then, good luck! Here's your panel:

Thanks to Friend of HeroMachine John for the initial panel suggestion. Now make with the funny!

(Image and character © DC Comics, Inc.)

I had a lot of fun seeing the side-by-side heroes from last time's "Golden Age / Modern Age" theme, so I want to do something similar this week by introducing a time-honored trope of the genre: the "Mirror Universe / Evil Twin" contest!

(Image copyright Marvel Comics. You can tell the Kirk on the left is evil because no SANE man would wear his uniform OPEN like that! Don't tell Picard.)

Your challenge is to design two versions of the same character, one "good" and one "evil". They might be from mirror universes (like the classic Star Trek episode) or they might be twins of the one-good, one-evil variety (like every soap opera series ever written), or one might be an evil clone of the other (calling the extended Parker clone family), or whatever else you like. You can choose any genre and any sort of hero, but you have to have two versions, one good and one evil. You can either post the images separately, or put them together like I did above.

You have one week, starting today and ending next Tuesday. All entries must be left as links to an image or images in the comments to this post, and all images must be 100% HeroMachine-generated. The winner will get to choose either any item he or she wants, or their caricature, put into HeroMachine 3 for all to see and love.

Good luck everyone, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Folks, your challenge for this week's caption contest (for which the winner will receive his or her choice of either any item they want OR a caricature of themselves to be included with HeroMachine 3) is not so much coming up with the funniest line to replace the missing dialog. No, the challenge is to come up with the funniest CLEAN line to replace the missing dialog that won't get your comment insta-banned!

The rules are simple:

1. Keep it clean, appropriate for a prime-time broadcast network program;
2. Only three entries per person;
3. All entries must be left as a comment to this post.

That's it! You have one week -- next Tuesday I'll announce the winner right here at HeroMachine.com.

Good luck!

(Image © DC Comics, Inc.)