Picard Trailer!!

So a trailer dropped yesterday that I have to talk about. I'm talking of course, about Picard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPoGrTmO_nM

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CDC #433 – WatchMen is coming – Results

Not a bad turnout this week, and lots of imagination on display.

In second place we have a tie between Kellkin's Lonewolf ...

...and AtomicPunk's Bigtop. Great job AP! I particularly like the catch phrase.

And the win this week goes to...

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CDC #432 – Intergalactic Congress – Prize for ForgivenMonster

FM's Intergalactic Delegate...

My take inspired by this design...

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The List: Top 10 DC Superheroes

So, in our last poll we asked the question: "who is DC's greatest superhero" and I made some predictions as to what the line up would be. Unfortunately Aquaman let me down, getting bumped into 11th place and thus ruining my clean sweep, but that's ok, it saves you all from the numerous sea based puns I had planned for his entry. Also, I'm going to put the surprisingly large gap in voter participation between this and the Marvel version (over 100 votes less for DC than Marvel) down to the predictability of the result, but we still have a list, so let's get to it.

Hon Mentions: Aquaman (Arthur Curry), The Flash (Wally West), Rorschach (Walter Joseph Kovacs)

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CDC #433 – WatchMen is coming!

View the 2019 Comic-Con trailer posted below. WARNING – Coarse Language.

It describes a world in which the police are hunted down by criminals and how they are adopting ā€œmaskedā€ personas to protect themselves and their loved ones.

Your challenge this week is to create an original and intimidating masked police character.

The winner this week will receive my design of their winning entry.

Please follow the instructions below regarding the naming of entries.

Enter as often as you like!

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered inĀ a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG formĀ (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (likeĀ the HeroMachine :,ImageShack,Ā Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension]Ā before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his ā€œBayou Belleā€ character image asĀ DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link goĀ directly to the imageĀ (likeĀ this) andĀ not to a hosting jump pageĀ (likeĀ this).

This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, October 6th.

CDC #432 – Intergalactic Congress – Results

Great turn out this week which resulted in an amazing Intergalactic Congress and a difficult job for me in choosing a winner.

Honourable mentions go out to...

Scott Weyers and...

Atomic Punk. This is such a quirky little character. Love him!

Runner up this week goes to AMS.

Really creative use of items and the colour work is outstanding.

And the win this week goes to...

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Flash Support is Ending but HeroMachine Is NOT!

Hi folks! It's been a while since I posted anything, but since hardly a day goes by without someone asking me what the future of HeroMachine is given that support for Flash (the software HeroMachine is built with) will be ending in 2020, I thought I should give you an update.

This year I have been working with Ben, the developer who helped with the site migration a number of years ago, on a non-Flash version of HeroMachine 3 built with Javascript and PHP instead of Flash. Once complete, this version should work on all devices and browsers without needing Flash at all, including (in theory) iOS so you can Machine on the go.

We have a ways to go yet, but Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I hope to have something to show you all next month.

As for what will happen with older HeroMachine versions, I honestly don't have an answer yet. I don't plan on making a non-Flash version of those, though my hope is that someone will have a "non official" Flash player plugin available at some point that you can use in a browser so they'll just keep working. We'll see.

Thanks for sticking with me and best of luck in all your creative endeavors!

CDC #431 – Forged In Fire – Prize for AMS

AMS' Sceptre of Power...

The Sceptre's first owner: an ancient priestess known as Scarab...

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CDC #432 – Intergalactic Congress

Your challenge this week is to create an original and unique Alien Delegate for the First Annual Heromachine Intergalactic Congress

The winner this week will receive my design of the spouse of the winning delegate.

Please follow the instructions below regarding the naming of entries.

Enter as often as you like!

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered inĀ a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG formĀ (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (likeĀ the HeroMachine :,ImageShack,Ā Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension]Ā before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his ā€œBayou Belleā€ character image asĀ DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link goĀ directly to the imageĀ (likeĀ this) andĀ not to a hosting jump pageĀ (likeĀ this).

This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, September 29th.

CDC #430 – Keeping Up With The Krustaceans – Prize for Kellkin

Kellkin's original...

My version...

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