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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Random Panel: Softer Side of the Thing, chapter 2
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Warrior Mini Beta 2
I've put up a second version of the beta, with a major layout changes and 11 new Body parts for a bit of pose-customization. Let me know your thoughts in the comments to this post; I'm headed out of town in a bit but will be back on Sunday."> another iteration of the Warrior Mini. The two big changes are, first, a new layout to accomodate a 300x250 ad. I fought this, but it's a client demand and there's not much I can do about it. I tried to put the ad at the lower right, so the workflow wouldn't be as disturbed, but was rebuffed. C'est la vie.
The second is the addition of eleven new Body items, including arms, legs, feet, chest muscles, etc. so you can hopefully repose the figure a bit. It's kind of clunky, but it definitely expands the range of possibilities significantly. Let me know what you think. I hate dumping this on you and then leaving town for a day, but at least if you hate it you still have the old one to tinker with 🙂
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Posted in News & Updates, Previews
Random Panel: Softer Side of the Thing, chapter 1
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A super-power I'd frankly rather not have. Or smell.
So ... many ... juvenile jokes ... from this panel:
I'm all froze up -- do I go for the (doubtlessly rocky and gritty) oral pleasure innuendo of the first thought balloon? The implicit fart joke of the second? The look of shock and horror on Ben Grimm's face at his apparently complete lack of control over his own bodily functions? Or the fact that when you've been turned into an ambulatory pile of orange rocks by cosmic rays, your gaseous emissions go "Rrrrooosh!", which frankly I did not know, despite a college-level geology course?
The mind boggles.
But in honor of OnomontoPOWia Friday, I will go with the last joke. Plus, it's educational. I just wish we had a complete compilation of all the sounds your various heroes make when passing gas, each with its own evocative name like Ben's given us here with his "Screamin' Wind". I bet Superman's could blow down a building if he's not careful ("Smellier than a foetid swamp! More noxious than a landfill!" "Look, up in the sky! It's a cloud! It's nuclear fallout! No, it's ... OH MY GOD!!!). Iron Man doubtlessly has some sort of self-contained air filtration unit; if not, talk about repulsor beams! I bet the Scarlet Witch's arrive with a bewildering array of hex-powered unfortunate consequences ("Wanda, my Perrier seems to have transmogrified into biodiesel again, could you please lay off the garlic?"). And they don't call Thor "The God of Thunder" for nothing, I'm telling you.
And yes, I just spent a whole paragraph speculating on the flatulence of super-powered individuals, marking an all-new nadir for this blog. Wahoo!
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Posted in OnomontoPOWia
Contest 31 Prize: Steam
Whittier and I have finally finished his prize for winning Caption Contest 31, and I thank him very much for his patience while I worked on it through the Warrior Mini onslaught. But here at last is his character, "Steam":
You can win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) in Caption Contest 35, going on right now!
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, Cool Characters
Random Panel: How to tell you're fighting a super transvestite
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Overthrow him already, please!
While reading through one of the execrable "Millennium" issues the other day, I came across this character:
I drew up short for two reasons. One, I dare you to encounter a green and purple color scheme on a super-powered individual whose name is NOT "Kang" and take it in stride. And two, who the hell is Overthrow?
Look, I get it, these huge multi-book mult-issue mass crossover titles revel in throwing out completely obscure characters to titillate the hard-core fanboys, but Overthrow? Honestly? Even Blue Beetle, who's issuing the dialog from off-panel, seems stunned that such a random person is making an appearance, and the two of them go way back.
But I bet the reason you never really heard from Overthrow before or after this issue is his costume. In a word, it blows. Or in the words of Bart Simpson, it's achieved the seeming impossibility of both sucking and blowing at the same time. Besides the color scheme (which frankly is hard to get past, but I'll soldier on), I find it hard to take a guy seriously who got his hairpiece by mugging and subsequently scalping Carrot Top. Granted, that was a profound act of goodness for all humankind, but slapping that mop on top of a purple Round Table Helmet is just weird. I keep looking for the big red clown nose that surely just fell off that ensemble.
Due to the perspective of the figure (and the rubber-penciled efforts of Joe Staton) it's hard to tell what's going on with his crotch. (And by the way, if I had a dollar for every time a teenaged Jeff got the "What's going on with his crotch?" question I'd be a wealthy man right now.) Either that's a knee pad on top of a padded boot front, or this guy has serious ego problems.
I sure hope it's the latter, because a purple and green Carrot Top wannabe with a raging boner is just scary enough to get me reading further. Otherwise, it's just another sad, sad costume.
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Random Panel: I bet she's for transparency in government
(OK, it's not actually a comic book panel, but come on it's awesome! Hat tip to college friend Heather Wood and one of her Facebook commenters, but I can't find the link.)
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Caption Contest 35: Honey, I'm home!
I'm not sure how this one will turn out, but here goes your caption contest challenge for this week:
Come up with the best dialog to fill the blank balloon and you'll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), like these! The rules are simple: No more than three entries per person; leave yours in the comments to this post; and keep it clean (appropriate for broadcast prime time TV). That's it!
So get your thinking caps on and win, baby win!
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