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An epic fail weekend as I did not post a Sketch of the Day on either Saturday or Sunday. But, better late than never -- here's the one for Saturday.
If you couldn't tell, it's Friar Tuck sitting on a Sheriff soldier.
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I could not have been more pleased with the excellent turnout for the "Dinomarines" contest, you all really outdid yourselves. And I appreciate Jack Zegler reminding me of one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes panels, proving some ideas are timeless:
One of the challenges when I came up with this idea was that I didn't have any particular origin or overall theme in mind for just what in the heck a "Dinomarine" was. It was immensely gratifying, therefore, to see a number of great ideas along those lines, but one in particular stood out and I think should be the "official" backstory to our team. It's from Galactic Ketchup and explains who these guys are and why they exist:
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I've been working on the backlog of contest prizes for the last week or so, and have a couple that I completed but forgot to post about. So here goes! These items are all now available in the HeroMachine 3 Alpha.
First, MartianBlue's great concept for a dragon helm, located in Headgear-Standard (Character Contest 34 - Cavalier!):
SpiderCow2010 requested a "generic city skyline" for the Background-Sky set for Character Contest 31 - Weapon:
I never heard back from TopHat about approving his prize for Caption Contest 70, so I am unilaterally declaring it done! For the life of me, I can't remember why I have the first glove you see but regardless, it's in now. Bonus! These are both in GloveLeft/Right-Standard:
Finally, Meg wanted a Kalidah from the "Wizard of Oz" books for her Caption Contest 35 victory, now in Companions-Standard:
For the next couple of days I will continue to work on prizes while Mark is fleshing out the Rifles set, and then I'll have to move on to the Mech Edition.
Congratulations again to all the winners, and thanks as well for coming up with these neat prize ideas in the first place, then waiting so patiently for me to get to them.
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Caption Contest 79 was won by one vote, and the winner is ... Jack Zegler!
Jack wins his choice of either an item or a portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3. Congratulations!
For the curious, the runner-up by one vote was the also very funny SteveM:
DinoMarine finalists coming up later today, and another Caption Contest as well. Thanks for playing along, everyone!
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(From "Prize Comics" number 1, 1940.)
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Short Version: A thoroughly enjoyable, light, animated summer family story that doesn't break any new ground, but does provide an amusing hour and a half of harmless diversion.
Long(er) Version (spoilers ahead!): Continue reading
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(From "National Comics" number 2, 1940.)
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(From "Prize Comics" number 1, 1940.)
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Mr. Hartwell is back with his Sketches of the Week, and this week it's Loki!
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Riffing off the RPG Corner topic today, I give you Clark Kent, Paladin:
Note that the armor design is a direct rip-off of this AD&D illustration. Apologies to WotC!
Edited to Add: And here it is in color, by request in the comments.
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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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