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Random Panel: Revert in the name of de-evolution!
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Random Panel: Get this kumquat outta here
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Caption Contest 5 Prize — Creature:Blackout
Cameron and I have finished work on his prize for winning Caption Contest 5, the dual-aspect character Creature:Blackout. Here's Cameron's description:
The characters name is "Creature: Blackout", and he's a super-powered mercenary in the world of Aberrant. Costume wise, he wears a featureless white lycra bodysuit that also coveres his face, removing all facial featurs but his eyes (egg-face is also an appropriate name). When he uses his powers, six shadowy, black tentacles manifest from his back, and his whole image changes from a featureless humanoid to a horrific creature whose image is so terrifying as to be capable of driving people permenantly mad (especially his face). His other main power is the ability to generate a large inky blacknesss that can envelope large areas and induce a state of sensory deprivation in which only his horrific imaghe is visible, allowing him to ensnare and affect large numbers of people and this has also lead to his name.
I'd like an image of his leaping towards the viewer in his horrific visage (I always visualised it as a kind of flayed-human kind of image) with tentacles writhing.
And here's what we came up with for the illustration:
If you want to win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), you can enter Caption Contest 6:Hicks and Chicks, going on now! But you'd better bring your A game, because the entries there already are pretty stellar.
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My name is CHUK!
Now here's a neat science fact -- if you kick a man (like camo-clad terrorist Chuk here) in the junk, said junk will shout his name:
I tried this myself, learning that my name is actually pronounced "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" and should be said in a very, very high voice.
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Random Panel: Nice knockers
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Devil's Cape Review
I should note before starting this review that Rob Rogers, the author of "Devil's Cape" (the recent release from Wizards of the Coast's Discovery line), is a friend of mine. Plus, he used my 
last name for one of the companies briefly mentioned in the background, which clearly is the mark of a genius. Or perhaps just someone who knows that Hebert is one of the most common surnames in the book's setting of Louisiana, take your pick.
Now that I'm fully disclosed (in violation of several restraining orders, let me add), here's your short-version review:
This book is awesome.
And I don't mean in the "Guy Gardner was an awesome Green Lantern" kind of not-really-that-awesome, but "Batman kicking the crap out of Superman in Dark Knight Returns" awesome. In other words, it's really, really good. What I do with HeroMachine is to help bring super-heroes to life visually. Rob Rogers does the same thing with "Devil's Cape" using nothing but words, and yet his characters pulse just as vividly in my mind as anything I've ever drawn. This is a hugely satisfying, truly mature, profoundly good book, which just happens to revolve around the lives of super-powered individuals. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Read on for a much more complete (and much longer) bout of gushing.
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Random Panel: I'll be back when I get hungry …
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Is that a microphone you're holding or are you just happy to see me?
From the pages of "Jack Kirby's Secret City" comes the ferocious General Ordiz and his ... tape recorder?
Seriously, his shtick is that has a tape recorder strapped to his chest with a long wired microphone thingie in his hand. At least I sure hope that's a microphone, because the other thing it looks like, well, it's not really appropriate for a family-oriented blog. It would, however, be very scary to see one wielded by your opponent.
I don't have any issues of the saga wherein General Ordiz takes any sort of direct action, but I'll bet his trademark Witty Repartee is something like "Any last words?" right before he beats the snot out of his enemy with his club/microphone/deviant toy.
(Image ©1993, Jack Kirby.)
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Caption Contest 6: Hicks and Chicks
Here's your weekly Caption Contest challenge:
I'm starting a new rule this week -- no more than three entries per person per contest.
The prize for the winning entry is a free custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason). To enter, make a comment below containing the dialog you would put in this scene. For example:
Top Word Balloon: Welcome back to "Dancing With the Undead Stars!" I'm your hostess, Draculette. Before the break,
Middle Word Balloon:poor Clark here gave quite a tasty performance, but he's just been voted off.
Bottom Word Balloon: Permanently.
Put on those thinking caps and come up with your best funny line and you too could win your very own professional illustration!
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