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The winner of Caption Contest 35 is ... Meg!

Meg will receive a free custom black and white illustration of whatever he or she likes (within reason). Look for your chance to win your own professional drawing every Tuesday right here at HeroMachine.com!

The other honorable mentions from this week were:

• TheNate:
  1) Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy Jeans you’re wearing?
  2) Ding dong! Avon calling!
• Rick: Yancy Street Makeover my ass!!!
• Meg: Honey? Does this crusty greenish skin make me look fat?
• C. Yusuf Mumaz: Those people at Maybelliene… I’ll give’em a real challenge!
• The Doomed Pixel: “Dad, I think I’m allergic to bees!”
• John D: I…want….MIDOL!!!!!!!!

I almost went with Meg's other entry, because I like to use the word "crusty" whenever possible, but I thought maybe the internet one had broader appeal. I also liked the unspoken assumption that Ben Grimm would go out on a blind date wearing a mask, as if to hide his identity without noticing his giant orange rock hands poking out the ends of his coat.

Finally, as I said in the comments, Rick gets bonus points for the old-school Yancy Street Irregulars shout-out.

Nice job everyone, many thanks for your creativity!

I am happy to announce that the winner of Caption Contest 34 is ... Runt82!

This is Runt's second win, so big congratulations for him. I had immediate flashbacks of doing the hokey-pokey at the skating rink when I was growing up, and this guy would have fit right in there. Good job! Other honorable mentions included:

• marx: That’s right! My henchmen and I shook up every can of soda in the fridge! We’re hard-core evil like that, baby.
• HalLoweEn JacK: Fear me! All will trmble before ‘The Tugger’.
• Rick: I shall have my Yahtzee. You will see!
• Fishpants: Prepare yourself for…let’s see…3d6 damage plus two! Bwa ha ha ha!
• Fishpants: You FOOLS! For the last time it’s LEFTY-LOOSEY, RIGHTY-TIGHTY!

Thanks to everyone for the great entries! Not all of them were necessarily age-appropriate or censor-ready, but they were certainly entertaining.

I am running a couple of weeks behind on my prizes, but rest assured Runt82 will win his very own custom black and white illustration of whatever he likes. Last time he chose Draco, so I'm curious to see what we come up with this time around. Stay tuned for your chance to win your own drawing from yours truly, coming up later today!

The winner of Caption Contest 33 is ... MLS!

MLS wins a custom black and white illustration of whatever they like (within reason), which I'll post to the blog when completed.

There were a lot of really good entries this time, I guess everyone gets inspired by floating wienies. I know I do. Here were the ones I thought were particularly funny:

• Meg: Unidentified frying objects!
• Vengeance: Cry havoc! And let slip the pies of war!
• Will: Oh no! My “dinerkinesis” manifests itself at the worst times!
• Niall Mor: This is the second weirdest breakfast buffet I’ve ever seen.
• Kaldath: I know I said I wanted my order to go but this is ridiculous!
• Rick: I said I like the same thing every day not everything the same day!
• Danny Beaty: I’ll never eat at Chez San Andreas again!
• Yusuf Mumtaz: The Telekinetic Waiters union is getting too powerful.
• Whit: This isn’t what I meant when I ordered a float!

It was a real toss-up for me between MLS's entry and Meg's, Vengeance's, Will's, and Niall Mor's. All of them I thought were especially creative and funny and I had a really hard time deciding. I particularly tip my hat to Will for coining a wonderful new term; I look forward to Marvel's upcoming "Dinerkinesis Man", I think we can all agree that would rawk. I think what finally decided me in MLS's favor was the whole concept of a guy deliberately setting out to create -- on purpose -- lenses whose whole purpose was to levitate food. That's just awesome. And then imagining what kind of outfit that kind of guy would come up, that just cracks me up and tickles my brain in just the right way.

Many thanks to everyone's awesome entries this week, they are truly inspired. Congratulations to MLS, and to all of the honorable mentions as well. Great job everyone!

Your chance to win your own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like is coming up in just a bit, so be sure to check the site often!

For the first time in the history of the Caption Contest, we have a back-to-back winner, as Caption Contest 32 goes once again to Whit!

I still haven't gotten him his first prize illustration, so I guess I might as well be in to him for two of them! Congratulations to Whit and everyone else who entered. The honorable mentions were:

• Yusuf Mumtaz: Long story short, this is what happens when you mix booze and super glue…
• Fishpants: Let’s see ya track me on radar this year, NORAD!
• Will: Well, I know a couple of drinking buddies who are going straight to the naughty list!

Keep an eye out for Caption Contest 33 and your chance to win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like, every Tuesday at HeroMachine.com!