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Due to some recent unpleasantness at Heavy Ink, folks without local comic book shops are looking around for a good, reliable comic book vendor retailer online. For instance, I am in the middle of nowhere and at least 2-3 hours away from the nearest shop, so I need to get my fix through the mail. The Marvel Digital Comics are nice, but they’re only Marvel and they’re only digital.

Do any of you have recommendations on a good online store to manage subscriptions to a variety of titles?

I need some ideas for an ongoing series of posts for Fridays. Or Thursdays. I’ll be doing Open Critique Days on one of the two starting next week again, when the hardwire internet at the new place is done, but that still leaves one of the two days without a “theme”.

Any suggestions?

In the past, Hammerknight suggested RPG Day, where we would talk about anything related to role-playing games, and from time to time we do Friday Night Fights, and I’ve done “Why I Hate Rob Liefeld’s Art”. But now I’m out of ideas. Help!

I am moving yet again, so posting will be spotty till Saturday at the earliest. Sorry folks.

Hope you’re having a good holiday season though!

I’m teaching my first-ever “How to Draw Super-Heroes” class at the library today (community service type event, not an actual school or anything) and I’m a little freaked out. So if my posting today is a little scattershot, my apologies.

I’ll try to get the contest judged and done asap. If you have an idea for the next character contest, or if you’d prefer I stick to the schedule of alternating character designs with caption contests, please chime in below.

Otherwise I will stick to the schedule for this week, including Open Critique Day on Thursday.

Finally, don’t forget you can vote in Friday Night Fights every day! So if your favorites aren’t winning, head back in and toss another vote on the pile!

Full disclosure time: I’m actually in Arizona and have been for a couple of days, taking a sick donkey to the vet. Thus my posting schedule has been a bit messed up, and I apologize for that.

The long and short of it is that I am going to be driving nine hours towing a trailer today, so I won’t be able to do Open Critique Day as planned; I’ll be moving that to Saturday in all likelihood.

In a few minutes I’ll be putting up a Bad Costume post that should have gone up yesterday, which got bumped because I missed Poll Position Tuesday due to the drive.

One day I’ll get back on schedule and then you’ll all be sorry!

Also, don’t forget you only have till midnight tonight to vote on who should advance in Friday Night Fights!

For the duration of Friday Night Fights, I’ll be moving Open Critique Day from Fridays to Thursdays. Unfortunately that means no OCD today, but we’ll see you next Thursday.

I just updated the FAQ with the following:

Can I transfer saved HM3 characters from one computer to another?
HeroMachine 3 saves your character as a “shared object library file” (.sol for you Windows users), which are like browser cookies, only not: They are not stored in the shared internet data files and will not be deleted if you erase all your cookies. You can only remove them by right-clicking on the movie, going to Flash Settings, and removing them there.

In Windows, you can find the .sol files in your Windows installation at %AppData%MacromediaFlash Player#SharedObjects\www.heromachine.comhm3 You can copy those and move them to another computer in the same directory where they will be accessible via the HeroMachine 3 “load” function.

On a Mac they are in HD / User / / Library / Preferences / Macromedia / Flash Player / #SharedObjects / / https://www.heromachine.com / hm3 / heromachine3.swf / hmcharacters.sol where again they can be copied and pasted to other computers in the same directory.

Hope having the answer published and always available will help.

Due to horrible Internet access all weekend and continuing today, all posting will be delayed till I can get to the library. I’m investigating alternate solutions for access so I don’t go insane, but for today this is as good as it gets.

I know most of you aren’t habitual users of the UGO Forums, but today UGO announced they were turning off all the non-HeroMachine boards and that I am taking over the general administration of the site.

My first act as Evil Overlord was, at Kaldath’s suggestion, to enable Guests (meaning anyone either not registered at all, or just not signed in at the moment) to see attachments.

That means that even if you’re not registered on the forums, you can now see all those contest entries people have been making from their Forum accounts.

Enjoy!

Just a heads-up, I’ll be doing an “Open Critique Day” tomorrow (Friday) instead of today, as I have two very good “recipes” to post today and don’t want to take away the spotlight from them. So if you have a HeroMachine creation or another drawing you’ve done and would like constructive feedback on (one per person, please!), get them ready for posting tomorrow and I, along with anyone else interested in providing the same, will give you our thoughts on it.