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Ok guys, time for another caption contest, sorry this wasn't up yesterday, got kinda sidetracked with other things. Anyway, this week you have to replace all of the dialogue for this panel:
Everyone can have a maximum of 3 entries, entries must be in by next Wednesday (March 29th) and All Entries Must Be PG-13.
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To commemorate the first day of spring, your Character Design Challenge this week is to design a mythical being that personifies the spirit of spring. Could be a sprite, faerie, or elf or perhaps an orc or troll is more your style. Please keep a text version of your character as we may revisit it later.
Save the text string of your character to a file using the "Save as Text" option in HM3 and pasting the results into Notepad or Text Edit or Word or an email or whatever you like.
You must include examples of masking, highlighting and shading. In addition there should be no background included…just the character.
There is no limit on number of entries this week. Please follow the instructions below for naming your files.
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. 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 in 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 form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close on Sunday, March 26th at 9:00am Eastern.
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Sadly, no movie reviews this time around. I hope to change that for next week, but for now, let’s look at some of the news around the internets. There's actually quite a lot to talk about; we've got superheroes, adaptations, rumors, anime, trailers and more! So let's get to it!
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Note to self...vehicular contests?...not so popular...
Not a lot of entries this week, but I have never been this conflicted between two contest entries before.
On one hand there is Kellkin's car.
Creative use of items, nice colouring, solid, literal appoach to the brief.
And then there is SprocketSauce's Colossus.
Also creative in item use and beautifully coloured, this is a less literal approach, but there is something very powerful in this image.
So after much thought the win goes to SprocketSauce, with a huge high five to Kellkin for these great examples of what HM3 can do.
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So, here on What Were They Thinking? (the place where we look at all of the stupidest, most ill-advised things in the history of comics) we don't tend to look at current storylines (so storylines published with in the last year, currently being published or to be published soon), we mostly look at storylines from at least 5 years ago and, more often than not, earlier. However, there has been one occassion where we have looked at a more recent storyline, when we looked at Spider-Man's Clone Conspiracy crossover. That was what Marvel were doing last year, but what about DC. They were doing Rebirth at the time, which was their way of fixing the dumpster fire that was the New 52. It's not like they would do anything to ruin their legacy whilst trying to salvage it right? They'd never bring back classic characters from classic storylines that should be left well alone right?
Oh wait
Riiight... Ok.
Sorry, this weeks What Were They Thinking is going to be a bit shorter than usual. I urgently need to go out and buy a large whole tuna and a plane ticket to California.
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So, last week I asked you guys to come up with the best replacement dialogue for this panel:
And here are our top 5:
Treasure Hunter
Vader: "Is that Jar Jar down in the Sarlac Pit?"
Jabba: "Yes. Happy Birthday"
Rekulhs Nathe
Vader: "Why is he laughing?"
Jabba: "Hmm. I think he remembered how much you hate sand."
Tuldabar
Vader: "I’ll take a large, stuffed crust with pepperoni and black olives and a side order of cinnamon breadsticks."
Jabba: "Hey, just because Pizza the Hutt is my cousin doesn’t make this any less awkward. Would you like a soda?"
Herman Smellville
Vader: "Yeah, so, this isn’t a pet-friendly office. It’s not my choice, but the building’s owner is tired of cleaning up Kowakian monkey-lizard scat. It’s a violation of our lease so…"
Jabba: "I have a disability and Salacious is a certified emotional support animal."
Calvary Red
Vader: "Doesn’t that annoy you?"
Jabba: "No. Not as much as this squirt that used to say “yippee.”
However, unlike the sith, there can only ever be one winner and that is...
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So, Spider-Man. He does whatever a spider can, which apparently includes swinging overhead, spinning a web any size and catching thieves like flies. However, it seems that what spiders are best at is accruing enemies (just ask the worlds approximately 427 million Arachnophobes), and seen as our favourite wall-crawler has all the abilities of a spider it should come as no surprise that he has made his fair share of enemies during his 55 years in publication. Indeed, he has one of the greatest rogues galleries in all of comics, but who are his best villains, the elite of arachnid adversaries? Well, I guess we need a list.
Honourable Mentions: Rhino (Alexi Sytsevich), Sandman (Flink Marko), Scorpion (Mac Gargan)
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Your Character Design Challenge this week is to design a post apocalyptic method of transportation. It can be a plane, train or automobile, or anything else that gets you from here to there. It should also include examples of masking, highlighting and shading.
There is no limit on number of entries this week. Please follow the instructions below for naming your files.
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. 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 in 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 form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close on Sunday, March 19th at 9:00am Eastern.
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Well, everyone here we are back again with another movie review! Today we’re going to talk about Kong: Skull Island, the latest incarnation of the classic character from Legendary in the same vein as 2014’s Godzilla, and in fact paving the way for an eventual rematch between the two characters. So let’s get right to it and see how it is!
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Tagged 2017, movie review, movies, reviews
Great job this week folks!
Honourable mention goes to HermanSmellville
And the win this week goes to Christi S for this remarkable entry.
The pose is amazing, and the colours/highlighting and shading are top notch.
Please join me in congratulating Christi S on the win, and thanks to all who entered.
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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!
Nerdmudgeon.com
