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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Random Panel: How not to visit Graceland
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Maybe Black Shoulder Wings would be a better name
I’ve always liked Yellowjacket’s costume, but one part of it in particular has always driven me nuts:
Try to ignore the Flying Squat he’s got going on in the illustration and focus on those shoulder pads. Er, wings. Imagine how this would work in real life. You’ve got gigantic black blinders on either side of your noggin, meaning you can only see what’s directly ahead of you. Maybe that’s why he’s always teaming up with the android Avenger, Peripheral Vision.
So just from an optical physics point of view, this costume doesn’t make much sense. But then I’m asked to believe that he uses these vision-blocking shoulder flaps to fly.
Wha-hunh?!
Look, I’m no ornithologist, but I’m pretty sure that you ain’t gettin’ off the ground by wrapping wings around your shoulders. Maybe Henry Pym should check with his wife Janet for proper flight-appendage placement, because my bet is that he built this costume while in one of his trademark drunken stupors.
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
Mini wireframe
Here’s a screen grab of the interface I am proposing for the upcoming “Modern Warrior” style HeroMachine Mini:
More explanation after the jump.
Posted in News & Updates, Previews
Patriot Contest Finalists
I’m happy to announce the ten finalists for the Patriot Contest, the winner of which receives a free custom color character illustration by yours truly. There were some great entries, I want to thank everyone who participated.
In no particular order, the finalists are:
- Greenpeace
- Manadian
- Capitan de Libertad
- Melisa Flag
- Dauntless
- Steel Patriot
- Candace Mountain
- Condottiero
- Super fly All-American Guy
- Brittanica
Vote for your favorite! The winner will be the entry that gets the most votes by Tuesday morning, October 7, so vote early and vote often. I’ve reset the polling to allow you to vote once per day, and don’t be shy about sending out notices to your friends and families to come and vote for yours if you like. What’s more American than stuffing the ballot box, after all?!
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Good luck to all ten finalists, and thanks again for all the great entries everyone!
Posted in Challenges
Patriotism means feedback
I’m going to announce the finalists for the Patriot Contest later today, but I wanted to give people a few hours to look at the submissions and leave feedback here regarding any standouts they see. So head on over to the PhotoBucket slideshow, and let me know which one(s) you think should make the finals.
Posted in Challenges
Mini figure
I spent a big chunk of the weekend working on the template for the upcoming HM Mini, and wanted to get your thoughts on it:
At this point I’m thinking the entire head will be one slot, consisting of the outline of the skull, the jawline, and the chin. Hair, facial hair, and the face would be separate slots as well inside the head slot. This means that when you scale (resize) or move the head, the face and beard will transform right along with it.
The hands also will probably be their own separate slot. That hasn’t gotten a lot of traction in HM2.5, but I think partly that’s because it was an add-on rather than being a core part of the program from the beginning. I really think having the ability to change out the way they’re posed will help make the figures more distinctive.
Flash now lets you dynamically declare one movie clip (which is what the “slots” are) as a mask for another. So what I’ll probably do is have one slot for “Hand-held items” with a drop-down box for you to choose another slot to mask it out with or not. That way if there’s a cool sword you like, for instance, you could either drag it over the belt to make it look sheathed behind a sash, or you could drag it over to a hand and mask it so it looks like it’s being held, or you could drag it over to the back and mask it out with the body so it looks like it’s in a back sheath.
Posted in News & Updates, Previews
The difference between corporate and creative
This week’s pile o’ randomness was an interesting batch of butt-kicking, living-island-of-Japan, Robot Fighting madness. It started out with this rather disturbing Barry Windsor-Smith cover illustration of X-O Manowar #5, and I challenge you to tell me just what that … um … “doo-hickey” is on his left pectoral:
All I’m saying is, I sure hope it doesn’t end up sliding further down as the suit finishes forming, ifyouknowhatimean.
Anyway, this batch of random comics was full of contrasting styles and imperatives which I’ll go into after the jump.
Posted in Retroviews
