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Random Panel: File under “Hunches, bad.”

Posted on July 14, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Whiz Comics" number 2, 1940. Because what Hospital HR Director in their right mind is going to hire someone named "Dr. Death"?)

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META: I need your bloggy feedback

Posted on July 13, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

What do you like or dislike about the blogging side of HeroMachine.com? Do you have any ideas for a regular feature to replace "Liefeldian Friday"? Are there any other regular features you'd like to see added, or current ones replaced, or changed? Is the posting frequency right, too much, or too little? Do you have any ideas for future contests or poll position questions?

Consider this an open thread to talk about anything you want regarding the HM blog, and to throw out any ideas or suggestions you have pertaining thereto. Thanks for your feedback!

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Poll Position: Batman versus …

Posted on July 13, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

This week's Poll Position is an unabashed dive head-first into giddy, gibbering fan-boi fantasy:

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Discussion after the jump!

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Random Panel: Welp, back to whittlin’.

Posted on July 13, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Whiz Comics" number 2, 1940.)

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Random Panel: “Her name’s Bambi.”

Posted on July 12, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Whiz Comics" number 2, 1940.)

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Random Panel: A transformation we’d all rather not see

Posted on July 11, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Transformers" number 24, ©Marvel Comics. Hat tip to Chris' Invincible Super Blog.)

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Reason 12c: Yet more bad swiping

Posted on July 10, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

I'd like to take a look at another Rob Liefeld swipe (with thanks to the Adlo blog), this time from the incomparable Frank Miller, to show why I hate Rob Liefeld's art. Again, I don't have a problem with "swiping" (using someone else's previously published layout as a template for your own), I have a problem with bad swiping.

Which, given that it's Rob Liefeld we're talking about, is pretty much the only kind we're going to get.

He makes it all the worse when he uses such titans of the craft as Frank Miller, and his iconic "Ronin". But, never one to pass on a Level Five Suck Challenge, Rob went for it.

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Random Panel: “Well my fists say we play Parcheesi instead!”

Posted on July 10, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Blue Beetle" number 18, 1955.)

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Hammerknight Recipe 3: Sit on it

Posted on July 9, 2009 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(Hammerknight has once again been kind enough with his time and talent to put together a stellar set of "recipes" or instructions for how to do some pretty neat tricks with the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. With no further ado, I'll turn it on over to him! -- Jeff)

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