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Desktop Avengers, Assemble!

Joining the illustrious ranks of villains like “Calendar Man” and “The Calculator” inspired by objects lying around the creator’s home office as his deadline loomed is Mr. A. G. Bell, aka “Phone Ranger”: He started out as a bit of … Continue reading

Great moments in dirty-sounding dialog

(From “Atomic Bomb” number 1, 1942.)

Poll Position: Your favorite

We’ve been spending a lot of time talking about “Greatest Evers” in the course of the superhero genre. But we all have a soft spot for a character that we know might not be “The Greatest”, yet whom we love … Continue reading

*Face palm*

(From “Atomic Bomb” number 1, 1942.)

Character Contest 61: Aries!

Your character design challenge for this week is to come up with an image with HeroMachine based on the idea of the Zodiac sign “Ares”. To help you out, here’s a bit on the history of the name from Wikipedia: … Continue reading

HM3: Text save testing

If you’re feeling brave, mosey on over to the HeroMachine 3 Working version and give the new “Load/Save as Text” feature a whirl. After the jump I’ll post some screen shots and explanations.

Caption Contest 96 Winners!

Thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 96! I picked out the ones I thought were the funniest to tickle your funnybone on this fine Monday morning, so here goes:

Bitten by a radioactive envelope, perhaps?

(From “Atomic Bomb” number 1, 1942.)

Power User Profile: Blue Blazer

This week’s “Power User Profile” features frequent contest winner Blue Blazer, whose portrait in the “Head-Winners” set has already adorned a number of fantastic creations from other folks. Herein we learn that his success is actually due to his being … Continue reading

Also, Kleenex.

(From “The Thing” number 1, 1952.)