Come up with the best caption for this comic book panel and you could win your very own custom black and white illustration from professional artist Jeff Hebert!
The rules are simple:
Good luck everyone! If you want to see some examples of previous winners’ prizes, click here.
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The winner of Caption Contest 13 is … DerKork! Here’s the panel with that bit of wittery included:
Many thanks for all the fine entries, this was one of the best sets yet! Among the honorable mentions were:
Niall Mor:
Balloon 1: “Floyd, when we said you should relax a little and let it all hang out, this is NOT what we meant!”
Balloon 2: “Seriously!”
Frankie:
Lady one: “Oh, him? That’s just my brother. He has the ability to hover about five feet or so over the ground. But he says he can only do it while naked and meditating.”
Lady two: “I see…He dosn’t go out and try to fight crime, does he?”
Elder:
Balloon 1: “Where did you get him?”
Balloon 2: “I made him in Heromachine 11.4″
Thanks to everyone who entered! I’ll be trying to get with DerKork to work out the prize. And keep an eye out for Caption Contest 14, coming up later today, for your chance to win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason)!
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By taking one (and only one) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books, I will now spin for you a tale of love, hope, and sordid physical violence!
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xStacy and I have completed the prize for the Caption Contest 12 winner. The description was:
Female, light hair, in standard gunslinger gear–boots, jeans, shirt, tied-down revolver, duster, a Confederate cavalry hat–with a fan of five cards in her left hand. Maybe facing off with a giant tarantula or two somewhere in the Arizona desert.
I wasn’t able to work in the giant tarantulas, but here’s what I did come up with:
Thanks to Stace for coming up with a cool concept. And don’t forget, if you want to win your very own custom illustration, you can try your hand with Caption Contest 13: Naked Guy Edition going on right now!
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Thanks to several alert readers, HeroMachine 2.5 Online has been updated so that the entire character, including the name box if visible, will print out on one sheet. Previously the new “ad” format had chopped the character off at the ankles when printed.
The solution was inelegant, at best. I introduced a dialog box in the app when the print button is pressed. The character area is shrunk down while it’s up and processing the print request. Whenever the character is done printing (i.e. when you’ve clicked the OK button on your system print dialog box), you can clear the HeroMachine dialog box and the character resizes correctly.
Kludgey, but it works.
This is actually an improvement over the original release in terms of the actual printing, as the bottom edge of the name box was always chopped off before. So that’s nice.
Let me know if you see any problems with it.
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A good onomontoPOWia doesn’t have to be flashy or obnoxious; sometimes subtle works better, as in this example from “Hitman” number 9 (DC Comics):
This panel encapsulates a lot of what makes comics as a medium so powerful and unique. It captures the moment of maximum effect incredibly well, by which I mean that you see everything at its most dramatic possible instant. Look at the policeman in the back — if he leans any further to his left he’d fall over. He’s been captured at the very moment of maximum movement.
So is the female detective’s punch. In the very next moment the arm will begin to swing back away from the reader, momentum slowed and its power completely spent. Were she drawn with the fist earlier in the punch, there would still be too much energy to come, spent on potential rather than kinetic visual impact.
And of course, the tooth. Captured just as it’s about to leave the panel completely, trailing blood making for motion lines, almost leaping from the page.
In this context, of a timeless moment of intense drama with every movement captured at maximum intensity, the “KRAK!” in intense red, filled with sharp angles and an aggressively pointed “A” is the perfect cherry on top, the extra garnish on the plate that makes the meal. Anything more would be too much, anything less would be disappointment. Sound can only exist in time, and yet it’s been captured here in static form. When you put that time-dependent element into a tableaux that is frozen time, the contrast is uniquely “comics”.
And uniquely onomontoPOWia.
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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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