My wife rules

With thanks to everyone who made suggestions about my Christmas gift, I today received from MyComicShop.com my order of the complete "Who's Who in the DC Universe" run AND the trade paperback edition of "The Perhapanauts: First Blood" AND the first trade paperback of All-Star Superman. Which I just read and loved.

My wife rules!

Plus, hopefully you'll be seeing even more ridiculous super-heroes from the Eighties showing up on the "Bad Super Costumes" Wednesdays in the weeks ahead thanks to this bounty.

Caption Contest 46: NOOOOOOO!!

I love this panel. Love love love love it. It's from Image's "Prophet" number 5, and while I had to edit out two editor-text boxes in the lower right, it's totally worth it because surely there can be no more cliched image in all of comicdom. I cannot wait to see what you all come with for captions on this bad boy:

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If you come up with the best/funniest dialog to for the balloon, you'll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) from me, Jeff Hebert, professional illustrator and full-time bald guy. You can't beat that with a stick, folks!

As always, no more than three entries per person, left in the comments to this post, with said entries not to exceed the bounds of what would commonly be seen on broadcast television.

Good luck everyone!

Edited to Add: OK, I can't let this go. Let me count the Image-y goodness in this panel. Gross, bulbous thighs. Bizarre padded wrestling helmet. Massive gun across the back. Massive ammunition belts across ... well, everything. Huge, bulging, vein-filled arms. Strange, tiny fists. Lots an dlots of grenades. Shuriken belt buckle. Sitting in flames and yet not burned. Bald head with tubes sticking out. No feet. Unbelievably wrinkled and massive crotch. Blood everywhere. Phlegmings in the mouth. Massive grimace. No pupils (time is money here, people, if we leave out the pupils we save a hundred man-hours in the course of one year!). NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Upside-down mini-machete sheath with bullet loops on top, because every square inch must be taken up with ammo. Leg shadows that are filled with both color and lines.

Ok, now I'm done.

Contest 45 Winner

Congratulations to the winner of Caption Contest 45, and recipient of a custom black and white illustration of whatever he likes -- Lyogi!

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Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations as well to the following Honorable Mentions:

  • Skiriki: “Remember boys, pouches out, grimace a lot and don’t show your feet no matter what!”
  • Runt82: I told you kids to get off my lawn!
  • Lyogi: “We are the NEW members of the lollipop guild.”
  • Loki: POINT AND GASP!!!
  • Fishpants: The arrow goes THAT WAY. And next time bring like 2 or 3.
  • jim: “ok team, show them yer GRRRR faces”

Check back later today for the next Caption Contest and your chance to win your own professional illustration!

Random Panel: Great moments in bad entomology

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Poll Position: The Crying Game

Loki was recently resurrected as a woman. What other male super-hero would you like to see get gender-bent and turned into a female? Discussion after the jump.

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Your video game fame chance ends Saturday!

Don't forget, you've only got until January 31, 2009 at 11:59 PM (ET) -- that's this Saturday! -- to enter the UGO Modern Warrior Video Game Contest! The best character submitted will star in his own online video game, cementing your place in the pantheon of Creative Geniuses.

So click here to get busy already, you don't have much time!

Random Panel: Please say the other one isn't "Rosy"

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Random Panel: Great moments in good ideas

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Super-hero comics and originality

Frequent commenter Jose had some interesting points regarding the "Sons of Scissorhands" post that I wanted to address at more length. He said:

Granted, fanboys (I’m one) get the urge to outshine Superman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman (remember the 90’s ‘Bad-Girl’ fiasco?), but when someone wants to create a unique superhero Super-Skrulls and Amalgam Comics is a good place to start.
Is Badger really a Wolverine ripoff anymore than Black Cat or Ms Fury or Tigra or Cheetah (take your pick, DC or Gold Digger) or Vixen or Red Fox or Silver Fox or Hepzibah …etcetera are to… Catwoman?
Just a thought.

I do seem to obsess over 90's-era Image and I've been trying to define exactly why that is.

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Random Panel: I know one — cancer!

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