Random Panel: Quick, to the armpit phone!

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(From "Exciting Comics" number 8, 1941.)

Random Panel: Words to live by

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(Hat-tip to Chris Sims, from Jack Kirby's Black Panther collection.)

Character contest 3: You, Robot

Your character creation challenge for this week is to craft the best, coolest, most innovative robot the world has ever seen! You might opt for a rolling centauroid tank of mechanized death, or a chipper helper kitchenbot, or a deranged hippie cyborg, but whatever you choose has to somehow fit the concept of "robot". The winner will get to choose either any one item they wish or a caricature of their head, to be immortalized forever in HeroMachine 3.

The rules are simple:

  1. You must use HeroMachine 3 Alpha to create your entry. No other versions of the program, and no Photoshopping, just pure unadulterated HM3 output.
  2. All entries must be left in the comments of this post, as a link to the actual image file for your creation. You can use any image hosting location you like so long as it does not require an account to view.
  3. You can enter as many times as you like but each creation must not have been used as an entry for another contest before.
  4. No previous entries -- it has to be a new creation.

That's it! Good luck everyone; judging will be next Tuesday, May 19.

Inhuman character contest winner

By far, this week's contest proved the most difficult to judge. There were so many great entries, showing an amazing amount of creativity and versatility, I was honestly blown away. The images of the Finalists after the jump are fairly large, but I hope you'll review them all because they're really quite spectacular.

Many thanks to everyone's hard work who entered, I sincerely appreciate your taking the time not only to create your character, but to share it with the rest of us. Bravo, one and all!

And now, to your Finalists, with the winner to come at the end.

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META: He's baaaaack

I just wanted to let you know that I am back in Texas and working on the HeroMachine 3 Alpha save code once again. The old way I thought was working is, in fact, not working. So it's back to the drawing board, but the new approach is promising in its early stages. We'll see.

I should have the last contest results posted this afternoon.

Random Panel: Wrong on so many levels

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(From "Exciting Comics" number 8, 1941.)

Poll Position: There can be only one … ok, two. At least.

I've noticed that when it comes to geek movies, sequels are often better than the original. Sometimes WAY better. Which brings us to this week's question:

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Discussion after the jump.

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Random Panel: I've never heard it called a rugged luck before …

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Random Panel: Attack of the Fishwangs!

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(From "Wonder Comics" number 17, 1948.)

Random Panel: What subtext?

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