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We got 23 24 great entries for Pop Quiz 7, which challenged you to come up with an image that incorporated this randomly selected item:
And here they all are!
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We had a ton of great entries for Caption Contest 120, featuring Batman with an M1 rifle:
So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, here are your Finalists in more or less submission order:
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Many thanks to everyone who entered the last Pop Quiz, which asked you to make an awesome melee weapon! We had some great submissions, and I wanted you to have the chance to see them all for yourself. So without further ado, here they are:
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We had a ton of great entries for Character Contest 87. Without further ado, here are the ones I thought had something extra special about them. Ladies and gentlemen, your Finalists!
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Today Christians around the world celebrate their holiest day, Easter. Americans celebrate the holiday by decorating eggs, so in that tradition our Pop Quiz for the weekend was to create an Easter egg in HeroMachine. Some folks went for the historic look while others took an approach more out of left field. Where presumably they're finding hidden eggs. Without further ado, here are all of our entrants!
While I love all the creativity, I am in a traditional mood today and so am going with an entry that took the approach of an actual dyed Easter egg. And that winner is ... FRM!
It made me feel happy and peaceful while looking at it. So congratulations to him, a sincere thanks to all of our entrants, and a Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it!
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Many thanks to everyone who entered Caption Contest 119, featuring this great panel:
I've selected the ones that made me laugh the most, and present them here for your amusement:
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Many thanks to all of the intrepid (and quick!) participants in our last Pop Quiz, which asked you to create your own gun. Here are all of the entries so you can see what a tough decision picking a winner was:
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The "Seven Deadly Sins" contests got to be a bit of a slog, so last time I combined the final two into one joint effort. I thank all of you who stuck it out to the end!
We had some really good entries, and since the overall numbers were fairly low, I thought I'd put every one into a slideshow so you can go through them all like I do each week. Afterwards I'll call out the ones I thought were particularly good and then the overall winner. Enjoy!
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Many thanks to everyone who took yesterday's Pop Quiz! I asked you to create a "Monster Manual" style creature, and boy did I get some great ones! Rather than picking and choosing, here they all are in one place. A couple of folks submitted more than one entry, so for them I just took the first one they put in.
Note that I've got a new feature installed -- just click on any image and a Lightbox style slide show will start showing you the image, the author, and the name. You can arrow through all of the entries in a row. I hope this makes it easier to view them. Let me know what you think.
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Although I'd prefer to do the old-style, all in-line images for our Character Contest 84 Finalists with commentary for each, the constraints of the day job mean I have to keep doing these galleries. I hope you'll take the time to click through these wonderful Finalists to get a sense for how awesome they are.
Without further ado, here are your Finalists from Atomic Punk, Barbario, BekK22, Cliff, Dangerfish, Diazmydiaz, Felipe S. Card, Gendonesia, Headlessgeneral, Jack Zelger, Jessica, Joel, Kaldath, Kaylin88100, Kingslaughter, MaDPac, Marquis Samedi (times three!), Myro, Papa Krok, Rhinoman, Roccopi Cuccurullo, Skybandit, Tarkabarka, TOOL, Vampyrist, and Wrinkley Walrus.
As for our winner, I had a very tough time making a decision. From Jack Zelger's Western-flavored mood piece with the great environment to Skybandit's hilarious Dwarf Vader to Rhinoman's delightfully proportioned Tinker to Papa Krok's always awesome work on Mage Mech to Myro's militant Fairy to Gendonesia's great elfin sniper (great background/rooftop on that one) to many more, I had an embarrassment of riches.
But I have to pick one and only one as the overall champion. So this week I went with ... Marquis Samedi's Mechadragon:
I love the Trekkie-style robot treatment, done beautifully here with a crazy mix of items. The anatomy looks very convincing and the energy effect totally works. The grayscale-and-green color treatment pops off the page and gives the whole composition a lot of oomph. I thought this was among the best thematic treatments of the contest concept and was a beautiful illustration in its own right.
So congratulations to Marquis Samedi and many, many thanks not only to our other outstanding Finalists but to everyone who entered for sharing with us your creativity and courage.
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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!
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