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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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Random Panel: How to tell you're fighting a super transvestite
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Overthrow him already, please!
While reading through one of the execrable “Millennium” issues the other day, I came across this character:
I drew up short for two reasons. One, I dare you to encounter a green and purple color scheme on a super-powered individual whose name is NOT “Kang” and take it in stride. And two, who the hell is Overthrow?
Look, I get it, these huge multi-book mult-issue mass crossover titles revel in throwing out completely obscure characters to titillate the hard-core fanboys, but Overthrow? Honestly? Even Blue Beetle, who’s issuing the dialog from off-panel, seems stunned that such a random person is making an appearance, and the two of them go way back.
But I bet the reason you never really heard from Overthrow before or after this issue is his costume. In a word, it blows. Or in the words of Bart Simpson, it’s achieved the seeming impossibility of both sucking and blowing at the same time. Besides the color scheme (which frankly is hard to get past, but I’ll soldier on), I find it hard to take a guy seriously who got his hairpiece by mugging and subsequently scalping Carrot Top. Granted, that was a profound act of goodness for all humankind, but slapping that mop on top of a purple Round Table Helmet is just weird. I keep looking for the big red clown nose that surely just fell off that ensemble.
Due to the perspective of the figure (and the rubber-penciled efforts of Joe Staton) it’s hard to tell what’s going on with his crotch. (And by the way, if I had a dollar for every time a teenaged Jeff got the “What’s going on with his crotch?” question I’d be a wealthy man right now.) Either that’s a knee pad on top of a padded boot front, or this guy has serious ego problems.
I sure hope it’s the latter, because a purple and green Carrot Top wannabe with a raging boner is just scary enough to get me reading further. Otherwise, it’s just another sad, sad costume.
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
Random Panel: I bet she's for transparency in government
(OK, it’s not actually a comic book panel, but come on it’s awesome! Hat tip to college friend Heather Wood and one of her Facebook commenters, but I can’t find the link.)
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Caption Contest 35: Honey, I'm home!
I’m not sure how this one will turn out, but here goes your caption contest challenge for this week:
Come up with the best dialog to fill the blank balloon and you’ll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), like these! The rules are simple: No more than three entries per person; leave yours in the comments to this post; and keep it clean (appropriate for broadcast prime time TV). That’s it!
So get your thinking caps on and win, baby win!
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Contest 34 Winner!
I am happy to announce that the winner of Caption Contest 34 is … Runt82!
This is Runt’s second win, so big congratulations for him. I had immediate flashbacks of doing the hokey-pokey at the skating rink when I was growing up, and this guy would have fit right in there. Good job! Other honorable mentions included:
- marx: That’s right! My henchmen and I shook up every can of soda in the fridge! We’re hard-core evil like that, baby.
- HalLoweEn JacK: Fear me! All will trmble before ‘The Tugger’.
- Rick: I shall have my Yahtzee. You will see!
- Fishpants: Prepare yourself for…let’s see…3d6 damage plus two! Bwa ha ha ha!
- Fishpants: You FOOLS! For the last time it’s LEFTY-LOOSEY, RIGHTY-TIGHTY!
Thanks to everyone for the great entries! Not all of them were necessarily age-appropriate or censor-ready, but they were certainly entertaining.
I am running a couple of weeks behind on my prizes, but rest assured Runt82 will win his very own custom black and white illustration of whatever he likes. Last time he chose Draco, so I’m curious to see what we come up with this time around. Stay tuned for your chance to win your own drawing from yours truly, coming up later today!
Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges
Poll Position: Real world comic tech
The question of the week (a day late) is:
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Discussion after the jump.
Posted in Versus
Random Panel: Things from comics I'd pay cash money to see in real life
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The warrior cometh …
I’m finally releasing the early Beta of the HeroMachine Warrior Mini for you all to play around with. You can find the page here; I hope you’ll let me know what you think of it, preferably in the comments to this post, but the site’s Contact Us form and my email are also fine.
It’s going to be buggy, so don’t be shy about letting me know what you find broken or what you’d like to see work better. Let me know if something is confusing, or doesn’t work how you’d expect it to, or if something strikes you as counter-intuitive, or pretty much anything else you think about it.
Hope you all like it!
Posted in News & Updates, Previews
A Tale of Two Legs
Time passes so quickly that it hardly seems to pass at all until, every once in a while, you see or hear or do something that brings you up short and makes you take stock, realizing with something of a shock that you are not, in fact, the same person you were ten years, or five years, or even three months ago. These tire strips on the road of life can be good, horrible, or anywhere in between, but they all have the same stopping power to break the chain of continuity from moment to moment to moment that ties us in our current mental state as if it were the only one that ever could, or ever has, existed.
All of which is a long and flowery way around of saying “Holy crap, I was drawing some real shit two years ago, and I’m much better now. Has it been that freaking long?!”
Specific case in point, these two “Boots”, one from the Expansion Pack and the other one I just finished for the Warrior Mini:
Jiminy Christmas, that one on the left looks like it got partially melted in a laser firefight. I mean, come on, let’s be honest — it’s crap. And yet at the time I thought it was good. Which makes me wonder, is the one on the right actually crap and I am kidding myself into thinking it’s good?
Luckily deadlines exist so we creative types can’t keep plunging knives into our own hearts, never actually completing anything. I hate to think how often I have sent out work that was just “good enough, it needs to be finished”. On the one hand, I hate that I sent out something I knew wasn’t as good as it could have been. On the other hand, it got done.
I have to say, though, I’ve learned a lot over the last two or so years of doing character illustrations for the Caption Contest and, I think, finally getting a good handle on how to draw with the digital pen. My work’s getting much, much tighter and more solid looking, which I am so happy about.
Anyway, back to work, I am still cranking to get the Mini ready for beta tomorrow. And this time, when it comes to actually launching it, it will be the best I can possibly make it. Which will make me happy until the next time my life is brought to a screeching halt by looking at the boot on the right and thinking “That sucks!”
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