Random Panel: I don’t think that’s how Chameleon does it …

Posted on August 15, 2009 by | Comments Off on Random Panel: I don’t think that’s how Chameleon does it …
amazingman-19-enterlion

(From "Amazing Man" number 19, 1941.)

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META: Site back up

Posted on August 15, 2009 by | Comments Off on META: Site back up

Sorry about that, the site was down all day but should be back up now. Joy. There was some MySQL problem blah blah blah, hopefully the tech guys at UGO can make a change on the back end to make sure it doesn't happen again next time.

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META: Open thread

Posted on August 14, 2009 by | Comments Off on META: Open thread

Because I got nothin'. Talk about whatever you like folks, I'm off to an actual real-people, not-online party. Craziness! And yet, apparently this sort of thing is not only legal but encouraged. Strange.

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Random Panel: Bad gangs to fall prey to

Posted on August 14, 2009 by | Comments Off on Random Panel: Bad gangs to fall prey to
amazingman-19-1941-meat

(From "Amazing Man" number 19, 1941.)

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Hammerknight’s weapons

Posted on August 13, 2009 by | Comments Off on Hammerknight’s weapons

(Thanks once again to Hammerknight for putting together this how-to sheet. Click on the image to see it at its original full size.)

weapon-tech-recipe

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Random Panel: Hamlet and Yorrick, after the curtain falls

Posted on August 13, 2009 by | Comments Off on Random Panel: Hamlet and Yorrick, after the curtain falls
amazingman-16-1940-alaspooryorick

(From "Amazing Man" number 16, 1940.)

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Cowardly indeed

Posted on August 12, 2009 by | Comments Off on Cowardly indeed

Excuse me, Mister Starfinger sir? Black Manta called and wants his clothes back:

starfinger

You would think that with the benefit of eleven centuries of advancements, a super-villain fighting the Legion would be able to do better than ripping off a lame Aquaman foe's look. But you'd be wrong.

The shame of it is, I always loved Black Manta's costume. Dude was seriously bad-ass, with that menacing saucer-head and evil fish-eye thing goin' on ... he was so much cooler than the pumpkin-clad Aquaman, I used to root for the bad guy to win.

But so blatantly stealing another guy's mojo is just lame. According to his writeup, "Starfinger possesses no known powers of his own, and is a poor combatant." Given that, perhaps outright fashion theft is understandable.

Less clear is why he'd also steal The Michelin Man's horizontal bands of bloat, but perhaps we'd better just leave well enough alone.

(Character and image © DC Comics, Inc.)

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HM3: Sleeve questions

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I've been struggling the last couple of days trying to figure out exactly what you guys want when you say I need to work on "sleeves" next. Do you want an entire set of Tops that are the whole shebang -- a vest portion and sleeves, broken out into just the vest; just the upper sleeve; just the lower sleeve; and the whole thing assembled? Or do you literally want an entire set of just sleeves, presumably at some point to be followed by a set of just vests?

If you mean you literally want just sleeves, do you want them broken out into upper and lower sleeves? Each complete shoulder-to-wrist sleeve, then, would actually be SIX items -- upper right only, lower right only, complete right, upper left only, upper right only, complete left.

Or is that too complicated?

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Random Panel: Bad clauses in super-hero contracts

Posted on August 12, 2009 by | Comments Off on Random Panel: Bad clauses in super-hero contracts
amazingman-16-1940-bodyharm

(From "Amazing Man" number 16, 1940.)

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Character Contest 14: Sci-Fi

Posted on August 11, 2009 by | Comments Off on Character Contest 14: Sci-Fi

We've done "Fantasy" as a character design contest before, so this time let's go for the other Big Daddy category: Science Fiction! Your challenge is to come up with the coolest or best science-fiction-themed character possible, whether that's an apocalyptic death-dealing cyborg or the hardbitten starship captain or the wistfully funny green alien seductress, or anything else you can come up with.

The contest will run for one week, with the winner announced next Tuesday. The person with the best design will win the option of having either their caricature or any one item of their choosing included with the final HeroMachine 3 product. Everlasting fame, how sweet is that?!

  1. You can enter as many times as you want, but to be eligible, you must leave your entry as a comment to this post, and include a link to view the image on a public web server somewhere (i.e. ImageShack.com, PhotoBucket.com, the UGO Forums, etc.).
  2. No PhotoShopping or other image manipulation allowed with the exception of basic cropping.
  3. You must use some version of HeroMachine for your image.

Good luck!

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