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: The horror … the HORROR!
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Super-hero theme songs
Every hero needs a good theme song, and thanks to this web page, you can hear the music and read the words as you go. Which for people like me, who can neither sing nor remember lyrics, is a Good Thing.
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Posted in Randomosity
Comic book idea
I had an idea the other day for a comic book while watching "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly." You never get any kind of backstory for the victims in any of these stories, whether it's sombrero-wearing banditos in spaghetti Westerns or red-shirted security guys in Star Trek. They're just cannon fodder. But they've got friends, loved ones, and stories of their own. Someone somewhere is probably going to cry just as hard for them as we will when our hero gets it.
So I thought it might be interesting to have a comics series where every issue features a different story of someone who gets killed on the last page. Sometimes it may be a gladiator losing in the pits of Rome, sometimes it might be a Hydra henchman getting blasted by Iron Fist, sometimes it might be one of Brainiac's cyborg assistants getting evacuated into space by Superman because hey, it's just robots.
Clearly the meds are working today, because the ideas just keep flying!
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Posted in Randomosity
Poll Position: Batman vs. the Big Baddies
Since the Dark Knight proved so popular in our last question, let's raise the bar a notch by getting rid of all those pesky constraints the latest movie franchise puts on us, and get down to some real power-game silliness:
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Discussion to follow.
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Posted in Versus
HeroMachine 3.0 begins
Today I am officially starting on HeroMachine 3.0; I even created a folder for it on my hard drive, so you know it's serious!
It will be built on the same code base as the recent Warrior and Horror Minis, meaning it will have all of those features (scalability, custom colors, line colors, movable items, rotation, transparency, multiple items in a slot) and more. During the discussion of those minis, I kept a list of feature requests that seemed like particularly good ideas, and I am listing them below. Take a look and let me know any other stuff you'd like to see HM3 have.
- Magnifying glass zoom feature
- Pre-set pose/body style buttons to recreate classic builds.
- Preview mode.
- "clone" button
- On the scaling tool, a button "keep proportion" would be useful.
- Pop up asking if you really want to delete ALL items.
I've still got some work to finish on both the Zombie Mini and the general Horror Mini but hopefully that'll be done in the next two weeks, and can go on concurrently with the HM3 stuff.
I'm very excited, and I have high hopes that this will all come together very quickly!
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
Contest 41 Winner: Thunder
John D and I have finished his commission for winning Caption Contest 41, of his character "Thunder":
You can get your own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like by winning Caption Contest 44, going on right now!
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges
Random Panel: I'll take "Subtle racial slurs" for $1000, Alex
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Tell me how to spend my money
My lovely and wonderful wife got a gift certificate to MyComicsShop.com for Christmas, and I have a bit of a problem -- I'm not sure what to spend it on. Two thirds of it I am generously donating to you, good blog reader. Sort of. I'm getting the complete run of the 1985 "Who's Who in the DC Universe" and subsequent updates so I can hunt down more ridiculous and mock-worthy characters for your belittlement and enjoyment.
But that leaves me with about thirty bucks to spend, and I can't figure out what I ought to do with it. I don't want to just get the current issues I get from my regular store, but I already have most of the "big" sets I'd want.
So I thought I'd ask you all -- if you were recommending a "must have" graphic novel or trade paperback to someone who loves comics, what would you recommend? Here are a few sets I have and love, if that helps:
- Watchmen
- Kingdom Come
- Marvels
- The Complete Frank Miller Batman
- Blankets
- Daredevil: Born Again
- Concrete
- The Complete Bone Adventures
(Edited to add: Those are ones I already own, not ones I am thinking of buying. Just to give you an idea of the kind of thing I like.)
Lay it on me, intelligentsia! Tell me what I need to buy with my remaining monies. Otherwise I might just say "Screw the blog readers and their 'Who's Who', I'm dumping all that and instead getting the 'Complete Calvin and Hobbes'"!
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Posted in Uncategorized
KARRUNT
I'm not saying Adam Warlock is getting smushed by a giant stone vagina here:
I'm just saying, if you're NOT getting smushed by a giant stone vagina, you've got no business going "KARRUNT" with those kinds of visual effects on it.
Also, I would pay cash money for a comic book featuring as its main character a Thing-like ambulatory pile of hard-hitting stone genitalia. Because that would be awesome.
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Posted in OnomontoPOWia
