Category Archives: Challenges

We're all familiar with the way characters are "revamped" from time to time, with their original costumes and character backgrounds being radically revised to suit a more modern audience. The most classic cases came when DC took its stable of pre-existing "Golden Age" characters and ushered in a new "Silver Age":

Your challenge for this week -- and it is going to be a challenge, I readily admit that -- will to be the same. Give us two designs for the same character concept, one that was (supposedly) introduced in the Golden Age and then its modern reinterpretation. 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!

You have a mission -- replace the blank dialog in this comic book panel with your own funnitude and win the right to choose any item you like (within reason) or a caricature of your head to be included in HeroMachine 3!

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 and characters ©2009, DC Comics, Inc., from "Wednesday Comics" number 8, "Metal Men" chapter, by Dan Didio and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.)

Call him a tank, call him a barbarian, call him a noble plate-clad defender of all that is virtuous, or just call him Bob, whatever his class or character, he's a Fighter. Spells are for weenies, guns for cowards, and faces are made to be kicked, so strap on your Man Pants and design the baddest, toughest, rootinest tootinest Fighter type character you can imagine.

That's right, it's Character Design Contest time again, kids! Come up with the best submission that matches the theme of a Fighter and you'll win everlasting fame and glory. Or at least, the option to have any item you like (within reason) or a caricature of your head included in HeroMachine 3. The rules are simple:

1. You can enter as many times as you want, but to be eligible, you must leave your entry as a comment to this post, and include a link to view the image on a public web server somewhere (i.e. ImageShack.com, PhotoBucket.com, the UGO Forums, etc.).
2. No PhotoShopping or other image manipulation allowed with the exception of basic cropping.
3. You must use some version of HeroMachine for your image.

Good luck! The contest will end next Tuesday, with the winner announced on HeroMachine.com.

Put on your Funny Cap boys and girls, because it's time for another edition of the HeroMachine Caption Contest! Come up with the funniest replacement dialog for this comic book panel and you'll win either any custom item you like or a caricature of your face to be included in the final version of HeroMachine 3!

This week we're going for something a little different. Instead of slavering heavily-muscled spittle-festooned uber-monsters firing all manner of projectile weapons, we have a pleasant little domestic scene:

Or is it? Who knows who's off panel speaking, or what he/she/it is saying? That's up to you! As usual, 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 on this here spot on the intertubes.

Good luck everyone!

We've done "Fantasy" as a character design contest before, so this time let's go for the other Big Daddy category: Science Fiction! Your challenge is to come up with the coolest or best science-fiction-themed character possible, whether that's an apocalyptic death-dealing cyborg or the hardbitten starship captain or the wistfully funny green alien seductress, or anything else you can come up with.

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?!

1. You can enter as many times as you want, but to be eligible, you must leave your entry as a comment to this post, and include a link to view the image on a public web server somewhere (i.e. ImageShack.com, PhotoBucket.com, the UGO Forums, etc.).
2. No PhotoShopping or other image manipulation allowed with the exception of basic cropping.
3. You must use some version of HeroMachine for your image.

Good luck!