(From “Bulletman” number 2, 1941.)
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(From “Bulletman” number 2, 1941.)
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All righty, assuming this radical change in course for the mini works out, this is the kind of thing you’ll have to look forward to:
Originally this was going to all be separate pieces — left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, torso, head, and the random background element. I still have everything all separated, so some of that would be usable in HM3. But now it looks like it is going to essentially turn into a series of static pictures like this one, pre-assembled, that you can color. If I can manage it, I’ll try to have many (many) more than three colorable areas, so you’d click the paint bucket and fill each discreet area however you want. Like a coloring book. Mostly.
Is that cool, stupid, or somewhere in between?
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(From “Bulletman” number 2, 1941.)
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I haven’t done an “onomontoPOWia” post in quite a while, but I can’t pass this up:
Don’t let yourself get distracted by the seething mass of pus-filled bulges that constitute his “muscles” or his grotesque anatomical proportions or the pathetic inking or the lackluster color or the lingering questions of where his other hand is and what happened to the handle of that gun. Because that would be a rookie mistake.
No no, the real star of this little tableaux is the onomontoPOWia. Specifically, look how big his shouted “ME!” is compared to the BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA of the gun’s discharge.
If a guy brings a gun that big to a fight and it’s quiet enough to not even be shushed by a librarian, something is definitely amiss. Image characters of the Nineties were all about the macho, and clearly this guy’s trying, but he’s never going to make the big leagues with a wimpy weapon like that. I mean, a flying headband and skintight faceless ski mask and obnoxious musculature and bad attitude and gravity-defying shoulder pads will only get you so far, you know? At some point you have to fire that boomstick and when you do, you’d better be able to bring it, bucko!
Although, if guys with “Little Man Syndrome” buy big flashy cars to overcompensate, maybe he’s buying a teeny tiny sounding gun to … undercompensate?
Nah. No one in the Image Nineties would be able to resist showing off an … asset … as big as that would imply. On the contrary, they’d be hanging a dozen pouches off of it and giving it its own title.
(From “Bloodstrike” number 13, ©1994, Image Comics.)
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(Image and characters © Marvel Comics.)
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I’ve just added the Companion-Vehicles set to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha, including the following:
Most of these were drawn by using Flash’s automatic “Trace” feature and then patching, so they’re a little different stylistically than most of what is in the program. The very last car (not shown above), the 1920’s style roadster, was hand-drawn, I’m curious what you think of the difference between the tracing and the drawing styles. Auto-tracing (no pun intended) is a LOT faster than hand-drawing, I did about six of these in the time it took to draw the one roadster. But, if the quality is different enough, I’ll do what I have to do.
Let me know any other vehicles you’d like to see, and while we’re at it, any Polearm bits Mark didn’t include but that you want to see added in.
It looks like the Mini I was working on has been canceled after three weeks of hard work. Such is life. On the upside, most of these vehicles were drawn for it, so you’ll get some spillover benefit. Most of the rest of it is probably not applicable to the main HM but we’ll see.
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Hammerknight has put together a set of very cool Halloween-themed item recipes for your enjoyment this spooky season. He’s also got a nice new layout for these recipe cards that I think looks great. As always, many thanks to him for being willing to put in the time and creativity to assemble these.
Click on any of the images to get a bigger, more legible version for viewing or printing.
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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!
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