Iron Man 2 Trailer

For those of you who have not yet seen it, the new trailer for the May 2010 "Iron Man 2" movie is out. I have only one word for it:

SCHWING!

The fall of Britain

Once the mightiest empire in the world, Great Britain's fortunes have ebbed and flowed over the centuries, so it's only appropriate that their national super hero has as well. I don't know that any character, however, has hit the extremes in terms of costume design like Captain Britain has. He started out pretty bad, with this muddle of an outfit:

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Random Panel: Unorthodox martial arts from WWII

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(From "America's Greatest Comics" number 3, 1942.)

Character Contest 23 Winners!

I think maybe the holidays have gotten everyone a bit busy, as there weren't a ton of entries this week. In light of that, I wanted to thank those who DID submit an illustration by highlighting one design by each of them. So here go our highlights!

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Random Panel: It looks like it was an “ass-teroid”

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(From "America's Greatest Comics" number 3, 1942.)

Poll Position: Space case

Personally I've been a huge space-program nut since I was a kid, but since relatively routine flights there now seem to be on the horizon, I got to wondering about you all, too:

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The answers pretty much spell out the discussion areas; rather than just a yes or no, I wanted to get a feel for why you'd want to, or not want to. My wife, for instance, thinks I am completely insane for saying I'd jump on the chance in a heartbeat. And I don't know that I have just one reason, but you so rarely get the chance to make a dream come true, I'd totally take it, risks and all.

What about you, what did you answer, and why?

Random Panel: Guest narrator John Madden does comics

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(From "America's Greatest Comics" number 2, 1942.)

META: Previews

I just installed a plug-in that allows you to preview your comments before posting if you want. Let me know if it's wonky for you.

HM3: Addressing a dress

I've just posted the Tops-Female-Dresses and Legwear-Female-Dresses sets to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. In general the Tops contain full dresses which are then broken down into just the tops in most cases, while the Legwear items are just the dress bottoms for the most part.

I included quite a few items from the requests you made in the last thread, thank you! Unfortunately a number of them were inappropriate or not suitable for this particular kind of application, but there are still a lot. Others you can craft by using a top with a different bottom. Hopefully you'll find what you were looking for, or can make it with strategic application of various other bits and masking.

Here are a few samples:

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While there are a couple of bustier-type Tops here, for the most part a full set will have to wait for the translation of the dedicated Bustiers items from 2.5 on over to the new version. Keep in mind, though, this isn't "PornMachine", so don't get your hopes -- or whatever -- up too much.

Let me know in the comments what you think of the new release, any items you want to see added to them, or any problems you find. Also let me know what you'd like me to work on next.

Thanks everyone!

Random Panel: Bold words from a guy in tights

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(From an ad on the last page of "America's Greatest Comics" number 2, 1942.)