RP: This week on “Zorro Hates Barbi”

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(From "Doll Man" number 1, 1941.)

SOD.037 – Spellcaster

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RP: What are the odds?!

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(From "Bulletman" number 4, 1941.)

SOD.036 – Coptime

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I usually try to do these sketches very quickly and without a lot of refinement, in keeping with the idea of "sketch". But something about the original version bugged me, so I went in and changed it to what you see at the beginning of this post. After the jump, I'll put the original, (more) flawed version, see if you can detect what I changed, and why it is better or worse that I did so.

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Olympian Introductions

Hammerknight has come up with what I think will be a very fun and interesting set of super-hero events which we're calling "Olympia Games" (ahem). He's put together an introductory poster describing what he has in mind (click to see it larger):

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For those of you with problems getting to or viewing the poster, I'll try to retype the verbiage. And mega THANKS to Hammerknight both for the great idea, and for running it, he IS the man!


The First Ever Comic Book Hero OLYMPIA GAMES!

Contestants:
You get to pick who you want to compete. Pick a hero from any Comic Book Publisher. Then all you have to do is post your choices in the comment section below as follows: Hero's Name, Publisher, and the event you want to see them in.

The Events:

  • Gymnastics, Combat Tactical Course
  • Track and Field, 1000 mile Race
  • Swimming, 1000 mile Freestyle
  • Target Shooting, Combat Tactical Course
  • Tug-of-War, Five Person Team

After all the suggestions are made I, Hammerknight, will gather it all up and set up the events. With Tug-of-War being a five person team event, I will make the team-ups from the more suggested heroes, so if you can't pick out five heroes for the team that you would like to see together, I am sure that other people will make some suggestions to help fill out the teams. Then we will post a Poll with the events and contestants listed. Then vote for who you would like to win the event.

Start making suggestions today and we will have the Voting start next Friday and post the winners the Friday after.


RP: Admit it, you would totally read this

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(From "Bulletman" number 4, 1941.)

Group shots

Hammerknight has put together a very comprehensive and enlightening guide to assembling group shots of your characters using photo editing software. It's good stuff, many thanks to him for undertaking it!

SOD.035 – Horsefeathers

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I've already added this one to Companions-Standard, by the way. The source for the horse part can be found here, and I actually stole the wings from the crouching gryphon in the existing HM set.

RP: Sushi FAIL

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(From "Bulletman" number 3, 1941.)

HM3: Framed, I tells ya!

I added the frame from that "elf lady" sketch of the day to the Background-Shapes set in HeroMachine 3. So ha, I DO do something, some days!

I also hid tomorrow's SOD in the Companions-Standard set somewhere, but if you don't want a spoiler don't go hunting.