HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Caption Contest 10: A Hell of a challenge

Posted on May 6, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

Come up withe the best, funniest dialog for this panel, and you’ll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) from professional illustrator Jeff Hebert!

For instance:

Top Balloon: Note to self:
Bottom Balloon: Next time you go to Hell (literally), remember to bring your own toilet paper.

The rules are: 1) No more than three entries per person; 2) Keep it appropriate for a broadcast TV sitcom (i.e. no swearing); 3) leave your entry in the comments to this post.

Good luck everyone!

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Caption Contest 9 Winner!

Posted on May 6, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

The winner of Caption Contest 9 is ... BrokenSlot!

Many thanks to everyone who entered, I think this was probably the most challenging one to come up with something creative for so far. I think it was the mention of "Scrabble" that did it for me, I love that game. Other honorable mentions include:

Panel 1: “Legs”, what is this supposed to mean?!
Panel 2: The dog wanted to let you know that Angelina Jolie is behind you, but there was only so much room on the paper.

First Balloon: “Sweet suffering sherbert slices of sick psychopaths!!! Is that what I think it is?!”
Second Balloon: Yes! what Duke is holding IS the secret ingredient to my world famous baked beans! LEGS! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!

1: hey look spots found the wining lotto ticket !
2: Sqweeeeeeeee !!! we can buy faces now!

Keep an eye out for the next caption contest, and your chance to win your very own custom black and white illustration!

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Random Panel: Why Montessori doesn't hire Green Berets as teachers

Posted on May 6, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

Daddy, Tsunami’s been teaching me secret ninja hand signals!

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Monday Mashup 10: The Plague!

Posted on May 5, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

Each week I take one (and only one) panel from each of ten randomly selected comic books, attempting to make a coherent story out of them. Our adventure this week features a plague-carrier, Batgirl, and the Dynamic Duo flinging someone off a building, so let's jump right in!

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Random Panel: No need to slap the monkey

Posted on May 5, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

That does it, when we get out of here the monkey dies

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HeroMachine Desktop 2.5 Now Available!

Posted on May 5, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

We are pleased to announced that you can now download the full HeroMachine 2.5 application for use on your local computer, freeing you from needing an Internet connection (once it's downloaded and installed the first time, of course). You can access the HeroMachine Desktop Edition 2.5 here. Be forewarned, the new version is literally twice the size of the old one, clocking in at almost 60MB.

This release is the culmination of a year of hard work, and we're very proud to have it finished and in your hands. The Expansion features hundreds of new items and doubles the overall size of the application. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we've enjoyed putting it together for you.

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Random Panel: Like gators on a bloated dog? Really?

Posted on May 4, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

The cult of the manhunter congregates, like gators on a bloated dog!

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Iron Man brief review

Posted on May 4, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

When asked if she wanted to go see "Iron Man", my wife said "Who's he?", immediately disqualifying her from attending. So it was up to me and my pal Dave to pass geek judgment on the film. Dave and I are pretty hard to please when it comes to movies, and very hard to please when it comes to super-hero movies. Having said that, here are the three things you need to know about "Iron Man":

"Iron Man" is the best super-hero movie ever made.
Stay all the way -- ALL THE WAY -- to the end, past the credits. You'll thank me. And bring a wet-wipe, you'll need it.
I'm so blown away by this movie that I am up at 1:40 in the morning, too keyed up to sleep, writing this review.

The longer version, containing random jumps from topic to topic, is after the jump.

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"A Sound of Thunder" in Two Versions

Posted on May 3, 2008 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

In 1993, Topps Comics published "Ray Bradbury Comics No. 1", featuring two different versions of the classic Ray Bradbury short story "A Sound of Thunder". One dates from 1952 by Al Williamson and the other from 1993 by Richard Corben (produced specifically for this comic). After the jump I'll reproduce a page from each version at roughly the same point in the story; it's a fascinating look into how different the same script can turn out in the hands of various artists. You can read the original story in its entirety here if you like, it's excellent.

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Posted in Fantasy & Sci-fi