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I saw "The Amazing Spider-Man" yesterday. Here's my One Sentence Review:
While TASM doesn't really give us anything "new", it does provide a fun moviegoing experience full of big-screen super heroics and spidey-sense-tingling excitement.
For more, see me after the jump. Warning, though, here there be spoilers!
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Posted in Movies and TV
Many thanks to those who took the challenge yesterday to come up with a funny image from HeroMachine. I'm bummed about having to leave home for a business trip today so I needed the laugh. Here are all of the qualifying entries; click on any one to start the slideshow.
Among my favorites were Myro's (always up for a good nerd science pun!), Gendonesia, Iscarioto (it took a moment but I LOLed when I got it), AMS (unfortunately it wasn't named properly so isn't eligible for the win, but it was funny), Sir Awesome, Skybandit, and Watson Bradshaw.
And the winner is ... Iscarioto!
First of all it's a clever visual pun, which is an ideal way to use an image maker like this. Secondly, the chameleon is beautifully colored. And finally, the overall composition, both in terms of placing the elements and the coloring (white commas against the purple background), is excellent.
Congratulations to Iscarioto and thank you all for giving us some laughs!
Edited to Add: Since several folks don't get the joke, here goes. Read out loud, it’s “Comma comma comma comma Chameleon”, a visual pun on the lyrics from the 1984 classic Culture Club song, “Karma Chameleon“. It’s dated, but it just so happens the date fits with my own life. That was one of the first songs to break through to my teenaged awareness on MTV, when Boy George was confounding Middle America with his gender blurring.
It was one of those irritating songs that you couldn’t decide if you really liked or not, but which you couldn’t get out of your head.
I picked this one not only because it’s beautiful, but because it is a true visual pun. That’s a great use of something like HM.
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Posted in Challenge Favorites
Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge is to make me laugh. That's it. Just make something funny.
You only get one entry -- that's right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular contest, but instead of a whole week I'll announce the winner either tonight or tomorrow morning. Elaborate backgrounds aren't necessary, though if you've got one it's fine.
The winner will receive their choice of either one item or one portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 release, or one Sketch of the Day style drawing where you pick the subject and I draw it how I like.
Good luck!
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Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz
(From "Target Comics" volume 2, number 5, 1941.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
As his prize for winning Caption Contest 123, Ian requested:
A giant junkyard-built mech, with a body formed from two semi-truck cabs, four legs made from beat-up construction equipment armatures, two arms - one giant grasping/tearing claw, one with a huge circular sawblade. Oh, and a flamethrower! And homemade machine guns! MAJOR BADASS DESTRUCTION!
And this is what I came up with:
Enjoy! I didn't manage to squeeze in the machine guns but otherwise I think it's pretty close. I like how junky it came out. Although now that I look at it, maybe this is Crab-tor the Junk Mech Crustacean.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Sketch of the Day
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Your Sharing Day question for this outing is:
If you could have one personal vehicle in real life from all of speculative fiction (comics, movies, novels, what have you), which one would you choose and why?
I included the image just for inspiration, you're not limited to just those ten, by the way.
In terms of what qualifies as a "personal vehicle", I think probably the Death Star wouldn't count (since it takes a whole crew to run), but a TIE Fighter would. I want to say Iron Man's armor wouldn't count because I don't really think of a suit as something you "ride", while a big Battle Tech mech would. But I am not 100% on that.
Some other examples might be Wonder Woman's invisible plane, the Batmobile, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a TARDIS, and many more than I can possibly list.
I suspect the TARDIS will get a lot of loving, but for me, I want something that can zip around and which would be fun to drive or pilot. The idea of visiting other eras is very cool, but I'm not much of an adventurer and would likely end up broke, lost, and/or in a mental institution in fairly short order.
Instead, I think I'd pick Silver Surfer's surfboard. It provides protection for the rider(s), it can go at Faster Than Light speeds, and it looks wicked fun to ride.
Let me know in the comments what personal vehicle you'd choose for your own in real life. If you like, in return for answering my question to you, you may ask a question of me on any topic and I'll do my best to answer honestly and completely. Just leave your reply (and question, if any) as a comment. The goal is to learn a little more about our community!
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Posted in Sharing Day
(From "Target Comics" volume 2, number 5, 1941.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
MSCat requested a Sketch of the Day involving his character, Jade:
And here's what I came up with:
Hope you like it, MSCat!
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Posted in Challenge Prizes
When last we left our Thrust of Justice (that sounds awful), we were deciding whether to follow Dale's plan on attacking the super cockroach duplicate guy or not. We opted to go with it, and thus:
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Posted in RPG Corner, Thrusts of Justice
(From "Target Comics" volume 2, number 4, 1941.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
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!
Nerdmudgeon.com
