I’m going to just throw this out there — who can come up with the best “deep space” background illustration? You know, with the stars and the nebulae and the hoo-hoo and the ha-ha, all colored up all pretty? The winner gets a valuable “No Prize”!
Posted in Challenges
Folks, it’s time for another Open Critique Day!
If you have a HeroMachine illustration or another piece of artwork you’ve done that you’d like some help with, post a link to it in comments along with your thoughts on it — what you think is working, what you’re struggling with, etc. I will post my critique of the piece, hopefully giving some tips on how to improve it.
Of course everyone is welcome to post their critiques as well, keeping in mind the following rules:
That’s it! Hopefully we can get some good interaction going here and help everyone (me included!) learn a little bit today.
Posted in Daily Random Panel
(From “V-Comics” number 1, 1942.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Apparently you still have to know math even after the Apocalypse, which frankly is a big time bummer. Luckily we have borntobealoser on our side, as he utterly dominated the keypad puzzle facing us in front of the Big Steel Door at the local university. Here was his solution:
Right, I’ve literally only looked at the puzzle for a few seconds, and I’m shouting the first thought that came into my head. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but don’t you get the last number of each row if you add the first 2 numbers of each row and take away the third number in the row?
Like this:
2 + 12 = 14, 14 – 5 = 9.
4 + 20 = 24, 24 – 7 = 17.So, going on that, surely it’s:
12 + 12 = 24, 24 – 4 = 20.If that’s wrong, I’m going to look like a total idiot…
Guess what? You do not look like an idiot, you look like a genius!
This solution was a lot better than my “Click randomly on every possible number” approach, the legacy of a university education much heavier on English and Art than was probably good for me.
We already have a Geiger counter, fortunately, but I went ahead and loaded up on the rest of the stuff.
(From “V Comics” number 1, 1942.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
The next entry from the Replacement Prize List is now available in “Foot-Right-Female”:
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
Our latest “Bad Super Costume” comes from the pages of 1943’s “The Wizard“, namely his super-sidekick “Roy the Super Boy”. Witness the horror:
Beyond the pose and the granny-panties, the real trainwreck of this outfit is the standalone popped collar. It’s so standalone that it looks more like an orphaned cape top, like maybe one time when Roy was forced to rush from the salon he got his cape caught in the door, yanking it off and leaving just this bit.
In the history of awkward relationships between grown men in tights and their underage male sidekicks, I think Roy is a real low point. I bet when Robin’s starting to feel too picked on at school, he turns to his hidden autographed copy of this Roy photo to make himself feel better. Sadly, it’s just as likely that Batman also has an autographed copy of this photo, also hidden away for the odd private moment …
Maybe Dr. Wertham didn’t do such a bad thing after all.
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
(From “The Green Mask” volume 2, number 3.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
I’ve just updated the core HeroMachine 3 app to support a new set of items. They’re in the “Background” slot, and the set is named “Cityscapes”. Here they are:
The first one is the “Dark Alley” from Replacement Prize List 2. Since I didn’t want a whole set of items with just one thing in it, I went ahead and did the rest. Hopefully you’ll find them useful when making settings for urban characters.
I’ve just double-checked and the updates are live. If you don’t see the new set in the list, you’ll have to flush your cache.
Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates, Previews
Before posting the poll, for those of you who don’t know, Roy Batty is the bad-ass android/replicant from “Blade Runner”, played by Rutger Hauer. Data is a milk-skinned emo-seeking android from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Here, it’s these guys:
It’s tempting to just declare Roy the winner here because he came from a darker, more dangerous universe than the sunny Lieutenant Commander Data. However, Roy faced off against a regular human and lost, and Data’s stronger, faster, and smarter than Harrison Ford any day of the week and twice on any day he plays an Amish character. Nothing against the Amish, you understand, but they’re not going to be reading this anyway so why not engage in totally made-up discrimination with no basis in reality? After all, it IS the holiday season!
On the other hand, Data has been shown to be susceptible to psychological manipulation, something this particular replicant excels at.
Personally I’d still stick with the replicant, because Data had to prove he was “fully functional” with Tasha Yar, and for that he deserves a swift mercy killing. But which would you choose?
Posted in Versus
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!
Nerdmudgeon.com