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(From "Daredevil" number 10, 1940 something.)
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Since it's going to be a few weeks before I can resume work on HM3 and the polearms, Hammerknight has graciously put together some guides on how you can make your own in the meantime. He also wanted to know if you'd like some instructions on how to save a weapon so you don't have to recreate it over and over, so by all means let him know in comments what you think of that.
Enjoy! As usual, you can click on the images to make them bigger and more legible.
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(From "Daredevil" number 10, 1940 something.)
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We all remember our "first", and for me that "first" involved a muscular young man with a magnetic personality wearing a black corset and little else:
I'm talking, of course, about my first "bad super hero costume", courtesy of the Legion of Super-Heroes' Cosmic Boy. It was the first time I remember consciously thinking "Wow, that's ugly." And I lived through The Creeper, folks.
The ambiguous skin-tone color is bad enough, but it's compounded by the lack of a neck seam to separate out the nekkid super bits from the costume super-bits, and in a family comic that's a no-no. But to make it all worse -- cosmically worse, if you will -- is the pattern the black parts of the outfit make.
Specifically, the pattern of a push-up bustier that the black parts of the outfit make.
Now, maybe in the future it's cool for men to run around looking like half-naked ladies of the night. And I'm down with whatever gets your jollies, at any point in our timeline, but that's just flat-out bizarre. In a group that has Giant Bondage Lad, a guy whose super power is to eat stuff, and a chick in bell bottoms, it's really saying something when you draw the biggest laugh when entering a room.
Cosmic Boy, putting the "skin" in "skin tight" since the 31st centry.
(Image and character copyright DC Comics, Inc.)
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(From "Daredevil" number 10, 1940 something)
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I had a lot of fun seeing the side-by-side heroes from last time's "Golden Age / Modern Age" theme, so I want to do something similar this week by introducing a time-honored trope of the genre: the "Mirror Universe / Evil Twin" contest!
Your challenge is to design two versions of the same character, one "good" and one "evil". They might be from mirror universes (like the classic Star Trek episode) or they might be twins of the one-good, one-evil variety (like every soap opera series ever written), or one might be an evil clone of the other (calling the extended Parker clone family), or whatever else you like. You can choose any genre and any sort of hero, but you have to have two versions, one good and one evil. You can either post the images separately, or put them together like I did above.
You have one week, starting today and ending next Tuesday. All entries must be left as links to an image or images in the comments to this post, and all images must be 100% HeroMachine-generated. The winner will get to choose either any item he or she wants, or their caricature, put into HeroMachine 3 for all to see and love.
Good luck everyone, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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With many thanks to the other entrants, the winner of Caption Contest 61 (and the right to choose either one item or a caricature of their head to be included in HeroMachine 3) is ... Loki!
Sick, but funny. I am still laughing at it which is, frankly, a little disturbing in its own right.
Also funny were the Honorable Mentions for the week:
Thanks for entering, everyone! I'll post the new contest in a bit, though I do want Loki and the others to have their moment in the sun, so it won't be TOO soon.
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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges
(From "Star Comics" number 5, 1937.)
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Your Poll Position question this week deals with one of Marvel's most-beloved characters and the things that make him go *POP*:
Discussion after the jump.
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Good news and bad news -- we got another paying client for a HeroMachine Mini version! Wahoo! That's good news because a) it continues to make the program valuable to UGO in a monetary sense (sales is what drives them) and b) it gives us a new toy to play with when it's done.
However, it's also bad news because it means work on HM3 will grind to a halt for the next 3-4 weeks while I crank non-stop on this very short deadline. So Polearms are going to be on hold, as will much of anything else except this new thing until further notice.
I'll still be updating the blog on the regular schedule so by all means keep checking in, making suggestions, generating hilarity, etc, but I wanted you to know the latest status, and to not be too surprised as new releases come to a halt for the next little bit.
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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!
Nerdmudgeon.com