I wanted to try a small scene with non-people stuff in it.
Posted in Sketch of the Day
We have a pretty simple question this week, which this young lady would like to influence:
And that question is:
Just to clarify, those ladies are Lois Lane (Superman); Lana Lang (also Superman); Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man); Jean Gray (Ms. Marvel, Phoenix, dates either Wolverine or Cyclops depending); Betty Ross (Bruce Banner / Hulk); Carol Ferris (Hal Jordan / Green Lantern, she’s also the super villain Star Sapphire); and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow, dates Iron Man off and on, and Daredevil I think, and maybe Cap?).
Rather than me prejudicing the responses with a long drawn-out discussion, this week I thought I’d leave that to you guys. So have at it in the comments, run through the choices and give the strengths and weaknesses of each, and why you’d choose the one you did. I look forward to seeing how this shakes out, so to speak!
Posted in Versus
One of my early Champions rules-lawyer characters. I wanted to see what it would be like to play a Speed 12 guy, sue me. This is the first serious attempt at a costume. He’s an on-the-streets type of guy, and clearly loves his Chicago Cubs. I wanted his costume to be made up of actual clothing parts you could see a regular guy assembling, even stashed in a handy gym bag for when he needs a quick change. Thus the cap, the mask (which he forgets more often than not, preferring just to keep the cap pulled low and moving so fast people don’t get a good look at him), modified leather sports jacket, Underarmour stretch shirt with the lightning logo on it, jeans, and sneakers.
Posted in Sketch of the Day
It’s Caption Contest time again! Come up with the funniest replacement dialog for this random comic book panel and you’ll win your choice of either any item you like, or a portrait of yourself, to appear in the final HeroMachine 3 program!
The rules are very simple:
Good luck everyone!
Posted in Challenges
We had a ton of great entries for Character Contest 32, although probably a third of the total were ineligible (mostly because they showed an actual D&D character rather than a modern super-hero by that name). Nonetheless, we have a rich bounty of awesome images I wanted to highlight as Finalists, and I appreciate all the hard work everyone put into their submissions.
First up, I loved the spell effects on Oquies’ character, particularly the fantastic look of the glow globe and background streaks surrounding the staff head here. It’s one of the best “energy” treatments I’ve seen.
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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges, Cool Characters
Congratulations to DiCicatriz, the winner of Caption Contest 74 with this Facebook-themed submission:
As a prize, DiCicatriz wins either any item or a portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3. Congratulations!
Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges
(From “Amazing Man” number 8.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
ETA: All right, for all you haters out there, here’s the same image with those idiotic wings:
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
(From “Nature Boy” number 2, 1956.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
I love fantasy and science-fiction books, and since I’ve been interested in art since I was a kid, I often spend more time than your average bear (or Hebert, for that matter) staring at the cover art. Which explains why I love “Good Show, Sir!” so much; they profile particularly obnoxious book jacket art with good-natured ribbing. Right up my alley, and hopefully yours too! Here’s a quick sample of one from the first page that made me laugh:
Eron Comments: The third in this utterly original series. Which features “Magick” with the added “k” which must mean serious fantasy is about to be had! In addition, we get a phenomenal rendering of the back of some random knight and a severely constipated dragon trying desperately to crap himself in terror at the War of the Worlds spaceship blowing the hell our [sic] of it’s [sic] castle with a laser that comes from nowhere.
I’ve added it to my RSS feed and it’s always good for a laugh or two on lazy weekends like these, when you should probably be outside but aren’t.
Posted in Things I Like
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