The Nerdmudgeon Podcast
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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Poll Position: Super stopper
Posted in Versus
Random Panel: What political bloggers are doing now that the election's over
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Retroview: The Life of Captain Marvel
These random comic book baggies are strange. Sometimes I can go through all ten and I get nothing worthy of comment, just a big pile of meh. Other times, one issue is so chock full of great, mockable items I almost can’t believe it. A case in point is “The Life of Captain Marvel”, a 1985 reprinting of Jim Starlin’s 1968 “Captain Marvel” run:
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Posted in Retroviews, Super-Hero Stuff
Random Panel: Softer Side of the Thing, chapter 2
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Warrior Mini Beta 2
I’ve put up a second version of the beta, with a major layout changes and 11 new Body parts for a bit of pose-customization. Let me know your thoughts in the comments to this post; I’m headed out of town in a bit but will be back on Sunday.”> another iteration of the Warrior Mini. The two big changes are, first, a new layout to accomodate a 300×250 ad. I fought this, but it’s a client demand and there’s not much I can do about it. I tried to put the ad at the lower right, so the workflow wouldn’t be as disturbed, but was rebuffed. C’est la vie.
The second is the addition of eleven new Body items, including arms, legs, feet, chest muscles, etc. so you can hopefully repose the figure a bit. It’s kind of clunky, but it definitely expands the range of possibilities significantly. Let me know what you think. I hate dumping this on you and then leaving town for a day, but at least if you hate it you still have the old one to tinker with 🙂
Posted in News & Updates, Previews
A super-power I'd frankly rather not have. Or smell.
So … many … juvenile jokes … from this panel:
I’m all froze up — do I go for the (doubtlessly rocky and gritty) oral pleasure innuendo of the first thought balloon? The implicit fart joke of the second? The look of shock and horror on Ben Grimm’s face at his apparently complete lack of control over his own bodily functions? Or the fact that when you’ve been turned into an ambulatory pile of orange rocks by cosmic rays, your gaseous emissions go “Rrrrooosh!”, which frankly I did not know, despite a college-level geology course?
The mind boggles.
But in honor of OnomontoPOWia Friday, I will go with the last joke. Plus, it’s educational. I just wish we had a complete compilation of all the sounds your various heroes make when passing gas, each with its own evocative name like Ben’s given us here with his “Screamin’ Wind”. I bet Superman’s could blow down a building if he’s not careful (“Smellier than a foetid swamp! More noxious than a landfill!” “Look, up in the sky! It’s a cloud! It’s nuclear fallout! No, it’s … OH MY GOD!!!). Iron Man doubtlessly has some sort of self-contained air filtration unit; if not, talk about repulsor beams! I bet the Scarlet Witch’s arrive with a bewildering array of hex-powered unfortunate consequences (“Wanda, my Perrier seems to have transmogrified into biodiesel again, could you please lay off the garlic?”). And they don’t call Thor “The God of Thunder” for nothing, I’m telling you.
And yes, I just spent a whole paragraph speculating on the flatulence of super-powered individuals, marking an all-new nadir for this blog. Wahoo!
Posted in OnomontoPOWia
Contest 31 Prize: Steam
Whittier and I have finally finished his prize for winning Caption Contest 31, and I thank him very much for his patience while I worked on it through the Warrior Mini onslaught. But here at last is his character, “Steam”:
You can win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) in Caption Contest 35, going on right now!
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, Cool Characters
