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You're Going to Die IV

If you're just tuning in, our goal is to write our own Choose Your Own Adventure where every choice is twofold, with one leading to further adventure and the other to a gruesome death. Last week featured:

B: Shrug and continue eating:

Meh. Whoever this guy was, he didn’t have a great taste in tattoos, but he did have a GREAT TASTE. You finish the bag off, and lick you fingers. You scrumple up the Jack’s Links packet into a ball, and proceed to throw it into the waste paper bin on the other side of the office. It runs along the ridge of the paper bin twice before finally falling in. Hey, this is great! You think you’ve just invented the latest sport: waste paper golf. You’re surprised nobody has ever done this before. God, you’re an absolute genius. You’re about to scrumple all of your important legal documents into balls to continue your newfound sport, when Angeline walks into the room and sits in her cubicle. You know Angeline is like, really into you, because she was totally checking you out at the last Christmas shindig. Well, either you, or the tall, handsome guy standing next to you. Nah, it was definitely you.

You’re now conflicted. Do you:

A: Continue honing your paper ball throwing skills.

OR

B: Walk over to Angeline, and give her your best pick up line.

All five entries were very fun, and I encourage you to go take a look when you get the chance. But the official continuance comes to us by BenK22! But first, here's what would have happened had we gone with trying to give Angeline a pick up line:

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You should've thought of that before you left the house in a rubber suit and spiked belt

(From "Daredevil Battles Hitler", 1941.)

META: Thoughts and perambulations

So I'm just thinking off the top of my head here ... wait, that can't possibly be the right metaphor.

ANYWAY, I had a crazy idea. What if we did a challenge every single day? Like the Pop Quizzes, you'd only be able to enter each contest once. I could reinstitute the "thumbs up" functionality, and instead of a winner or a "Jeff's favorite", it's just a way for everyone to participate and get their work out there.

Reddit has a "Daily Sketch" challenge that works like this. Take a look and see what you think, and please share your thoughts in the comments below.

It's an ill wind

If your super power is generating powerful winds, you might want to rethink your costume concept to not include a skirt:


Also, underwear. I'm just sayin'.

The best way to do that is for us to GTFO!

(From "Daredevil Battles Hitler", 1941.)

Deadpool vs. General Grievous. Who wins?

Deadpool versus a guy with FOUR light sabers. Count them, FOUR! Lay out your case for who would win this battle between the epically unserious Deadpool and the depressingly serious Grievous in the comments.

For my money, I bet Deadpool would break the fourth wall to cut down the robotic general with a scathing critique of all things Lucas, ensuring the victory.

On a more "serious" note, the Force is a powerful ally. Deadpool has fought lots of people with super powers before, though, so I think he stands a good chance of avoiding evisceration long enough to get close. Ultimately it would come down to whether Grievous' light sabers could make contact first.

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Great moments in bad plans

META: Layout tweaks and ads

Hopefully it won't be noticeable at all, but I increased the width of the right column to 300 pixels wide to accommodate the better-performing Google AdWords 300x250 ad instead of the previous 200x200 ad.

I also started running an ad in the HeroMachine 2.5 application.

Finally, I'm working on a method for running an ad in the designated HeroMachine 3 space, so be forewarned. I tried this before, but had trouble getting the ad to not show when you're in widescreen mode. But I'm working on it.

Character Design Challenge 98: Electrifying!

Your Character Design Challenge this week is to create the most awesome illustration possible featuring a redesign of an electrical character from the Electrical Heroes section of Public Domain Super Heroes.

You have 23 characters from which to choose. You can either stick with their original story and concept, or completely revamp it for a modern audience. You can change genders and more if you like, but the "essence" of the character should stay.

I'll pick my personal favorites when the week is over, with the one I like best being featured in the right column for the week. The rules otherwise are the same as always:

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine forums, ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine challenge;
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
  • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.
  • All entries must be in by next Monday, when I'll choose my personal favorites.

No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Just make them good!

Caption Challenge 127 Results

We had a ton of very funny entries for our last Caption Challenge, thank you! And I just realized that I neglected to credit the always awesome Glenn3's "Say What?" PhotoBucket site for the original image:

Some entries tickled my funny bone a little more than others, and I gladly present them to you forthwith:

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