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(From "Captain Courageous" number 6, 1942.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
If you haven't heard, they're remaking "Robocop", the classic Eighties movie about a policeman cyborg with pouty lips and a literal chrome dome. Why, except for the robot parts and the penchant for violence, they could be talking about me!
Anyway, it got me thinking about the old character, and combined with the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" stuff at Dragon*Con, I came up with this concept for a versus:
Now, Data's not inherently a warrior, but he can hold his own, while Robocop's not exactly an intellectual. I'm not saying he's dumb or anything, but they just hustled him out of Home Depot for hitting on a toaster oven.
We'll set aside the technological advantage Data would have from his century with the phasers and the transporters. We'll give them both Robocop-era weaponry, then set them down in the rocky desert, all Gorn-style. Who would win?
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Posted in Versus
(From "Captain Courageous" number 6, 1942.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
We had some great entries for our last Caption Challenge, thanks everyone! You were tasked with coming up with a funny caption for this random comics panel:
Without further ado, my personal favorites were:
My overall top line, however, has to be from JWMan, "This week on Undercover Boss ..." I do like that show, and I think Darkseid going undercover at the Apokolips McDonald's is hilarious.
Thanks again for entering, everyone!
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Posted in Challenge Favorites
The very first Character Design Challenge/Contest was held on April 21, 2009, more than three years ago; it's a little stunning to me that it's been going on for three years. Wow. The theme on that initial foray was the randomly chosen word "Capstan", and the winner was the legendary Imp:
I bring it up now because after all this time, we are at the One Hundredth Edition of this bi-weekly exercise in creativity! That's right, 100 times I've thrown out an idea and you all have owned it, coming up with awesome image after awesome image.
I wanted to do something special to commemorate this centennial edition, so here goes:
I want to see your best HeroMachine work of all time.
Every person gets one, and only one, entry, with the exception that it cannot have won a challenge before (to keep it fair). You can have entered in a contest in the past, though, it just can't have been the overall winner.
I want this to be as much a gallery of your awesome work as it is a contest, a celebration, if you will, of your creativity and artistic vision. I am sure I will be blown away as always.
Next Monday I will put all submissions into a big huge poll that everyone can vote on. The following Monday, the top five vote-getters will each win a custom character sketch, drawn by me, of the winning character. That's five, five, FIVE winners, people!
The usual guidelines for submitting entries apply, of course:
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Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
Thanks to everyone who was willing to take a swing at the new items for our last Pop Quiz. Without further ado (and with thanks to the free Wi-Fi at the Denver Airport), here they are:
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Posted in Challenge Favorites
By: Andrew Hines
I haven't been much of a Guy Gardner fan in the past, but with the New 52, I've gotten a better look at him and he seems more stable than in years past. Less arrogant and selfish than he was in the old DCU, he started out the year by helping rescue his long-time friend John Stewart escape the Alpha Lanterns. For the last few years, he's been one of the Corps' Honor Guard, which is a huge leap past just being the (sorry) red-headed stepchild of the Guardians.
This issue, penned by Peter J. Tomasi, gives us a better insight into Gardner. We see the obviously screwed up family life that he led prior to being brought into the Corps and the selflessness that propelled him into being one of the greatest GLs. The dialogue and police lingo that Tomasi uses are pretty much spot-on and don't feel forced, as it typically does on many police dramas on television. The scripting here works very well for Gardner without seeming to try too hard to humanize him. Instead of trying to build on his relationship with Stewart, this issue is just completely about Guy, and that works beautifully.
The artistic team of Fernando Pasarin, Scott Hanna and Gabe Eltaeb has done a splendid job from the get-go on this title. Joined in the last few issue by Marc Deering, GL Corps is full of awesome artwork. While it may not be as instantly recognizable as some other art teams, they've been making a name for themselves this past year. From the smallest shadow to the most in-your-face action panel, this is full of quality artwork.
The team deserves major props for this one. I give it an "A" which is something i never thought I'd do for a title with Guy Gardner as a main character.
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Posted in Super-Hero Stuff
A request was made to import the Companions from HeroMachine 2 into HeroMachine 3. I'll be honest, I'd forgotten how many items there were in the old one that don't have an analogue. But before I go whole-hog into this, I want to check in and make sure this is a) something you want, and b) how you would want it.
The reason I didn't import these wholesale is that the art style is so drastically different between the two iterations. I can redraw them all, but in the process they're going to look a lot different. Here's a sample:
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
The Companion-Humanoids set has just been updated with the following items:
Let me know if you like the way the silhouetted group turned out. I wasn't sure what to do with Color2, so I drew in the skin areas. If it works well, I have probably four more silhouette groups I could give the same treatment to.
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Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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