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Caption Contest 100 Winners!
We got some great submissions for the centennial edition of the Caption Contest, so a hearty THANK YOU to everyone who entered! I got some good laughs out of them, starting the week out on a perfect note.
With great pleasure, therefore, I present your Finalists, the ones I thought were the funniest or cleverest:
- Joel: “Oh wait, it’s not? Sorry, could someone please tell me how I can get to Tokyo, sorry.”
- nakiato: This is the last time i travel though Arizona without my birth certificate !
- ajw: Extinct my ass!
- Mr.Chris: “Seriously. I just ate a blowpop, what color is my tongue?”
- HairWhip: “I’m the Hunchback of NotreDIE!!!!!!!!!!”
- Ian Thomas Healy: “I asked my doctor about Celebrex, and look at me now!”
- X-stacy: You can’t shoot me! I’m endangered!
- Malfar: Everybody stand still, I dropped a lens!
- Hunter-Hunted: “I put the ‘DIe’ in ‘DInosaur’!”
- Hunter-Hunted: “Opposable thumbs, Baby! Now how do you like that??”
- Patriot_Missile: Fin! Fang! BOOOOM!!
- Knighthawk: I’m a Tyrannosaurs Rex, I CAN’T put my hands on top of my head!
- frankie: “Vait! Don’t shoot. It’s me, Hitler.”
- JWTx: Say hello to my little arms!
Those are all strong contenders, but like Highlander there can be only one. And so without chopping off anyone's head with a samurai sword, I hereby choose as your overall winner ... Knighthawk!
As the centennial winner, Knighthawk will receive a custom black and white character sketch of one of their creations. Congratulations!
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Great moments in horrible pickup lines
(From "Mystery Comics" number 4, 1944.)
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Hence the name “Flame Gun”
(From "Big 3" number 1, 1940.)
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SOD.241 – Saturn Girl
One of Saturn Girl's several costume changes.
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Um, I don’t think that’s a super power
(Via ComicallyVintage.com.)
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SOD.240 – Saturn Girl
Apparently I'm on a Legion kick, but pseudo-retro-Sixties style. I must've been unduly influenced by "X-Men: First Class".
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Reason #13: He’s a hack
The upcoming "Hawk & Dove" relaunch features a cover by none other than Rob Liefeld, whose art (as you know) I hate with the white-hot intensity of the sun. Here's the cover:
Apparently DC, having already decided to grant an entire line to two characters no one has cared about since the Nineties, went all-in by having the cover drawn by an artist no one has cared about since the Nineties.
Rob Liefeld is a hack. That means he never got the necessary grounding in the fundamentals of professional illustration (or human anatomy), the absolutely essential scaffolding upon which good art is built. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing hacks in general. I consider myself one in many ways, certainly when it comes to programming (I'm totally self-taught, so there are embarrassing gaps in the fundamentals anyone having gone through a structured program would have received). Sometimes, the only way to get clear of the choking jungle is to hack your way through.
But he's a bad hack. Whose hackery inspired twenty years of insipid imitation that gutted the artistic integrity of a medium I love.
Thus, after a long absence I bring you another installment in the "I Hate Rob Liefeld's Art" series!
Rather than type out my review of why this cover is a classic example of Liefeldian Hackery, I give it to you in image format. Enjoy! And if I missed anything, please chime in to let me know.
(Image and characters ©2011, DC Comics, Inc. If they choose to claim ownership of either, that is.)
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Great moments in collateral damage
(From "Big 3" number 1, 1940.)
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