RP: YES! Cram me full of handsome, bulging muscle!

(From an ad in "All Top Comics" number 2, 1946.)

META: On the road again …

Starting this morning (Tuesday, June 1) I will be traveling to my new home in Colorado. I should arrive there on Wednesday, June 2 some time, and hope to have full Internet access by Friday, June 4, at which time I'll be fully active on the site and the program once again. During all that time, however, I will be checking in via my iPhone to answer urgent emails, approve pending comments, etc. I have also scheduled daily Random Panels and Sketches of the Day through Wednesday; a Poll Position question for today; and a Bad Costume post for Wednesday.

I'll hopefully have a new Recipe from Hammerknight on Thursday, and a special guest blogger post by Ian Healy, frequent poster here and author of several super-hero novels.

If I'm a bit slow this week to respond, that's why. Be good!

SOD.153

Because, that's why.

Poll Position: More fisticuffs

In honor of the upcoming "Thor" movie, I thougth we'd give the God of Thunder the same treatment as Wolverine in our last poll. To wit:

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Verily and forsooth, mortal, we shall taketh our discussion to the ends of the jump!

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RP: Great moments in Meanwhile

(From "All Top Comics" number 2, 1946.)

Character Contest 35 Winner!

The entries for "Character Contest 35: Road Warrior" were oustanding, thank you everyone for putting up such excellent illustrations! I really think you outdid yourselves this time around, so I've got a bunch of Finalists after the jump. Even then, I left out quite a few more that I think were also great, so this is definitely a week you could go through the comments manually and check them all out.

Before we get into them all, though, I wanted to start out with one that made me both laugh and wish that there were a movie or comic in the works for the featured character. I think it will get things off on the right foot, so I turn it over to Ian Healy's "Undead Elvis of the Apocalypse":

And away we go!

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Caption Contest 77

With many and profound thanks to X-Stacy's girlfriend, we are back with another Caption Contest this week even though I already packed up all my comics! Apparently this paragon of womanly awesomeness enjoys taking the dialog out of bizarre comics panels, which in my book would make her perfect were I not married and she not taken. Alas!

Regardless, your challenge once again is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this (very!) random comics panel:

The rules are simple:

  • Leave your entry as a comment to this post;
  • You have one week, the finalists will be chosen next Monday;
  • Keep it clean, appropriate for a broadcast network late-night show.

I'll put up a poll next Monday with all the finalists for one week. The top vote-getter at the end of that time will receive his or her choice of either any one item, or a portrait, which will appear in the final HeroMachine 3 version.

Good luck everyone!

SOD.152 – Babyface

I want my binky, see! Right now, see!

RP: Wait, I mean a NUT! Hit him with your nuts!

(From "Cracked Comics" number 6, 1940.)

Comic Twart

I don't know what a Twart is, but Comic Twart is a blog featuring outstanding comic book illustrations by awesome artists around a common theme each week. Or as they say, "A different character every week drawn by a bunch of TWARTS!" It's a staple of my Daily Art Fix and should be featured in the news reader of anyone who loves the medium. For instance, here's one from the Thing week by Ramon Perez:

Browsing the archives is a great way to find inspiration and blow a couple of lazy hours on a holiday weekend.