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CREATE A HERO CONTEST: VOTE CLOSED!

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I guess myths wouldn't be that bad. I could try to think of a modern version of Spring-Heeled Jack or something.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Simple Jack?

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    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hayasa wrote: »
    My guess is again based on a potential `Penny Arcade Universe'. If thats what people are thinking/hoping will result from all this, you really want to get a couple of mainstream guys in place to set the scene, and Silver Age or Myths are probably the best categories to do that.

    "God, My Alterego is a douchebag", "B-list heroes/villains" and "Superpowers and debilitating psychosis" are hardly likely to result in the sort of hero you would want to make central in a powered universe.

    I think I created the "God, My Alterego is a douchebag" theme because I'm generally a fan of heroes that have douchey tendencies, and I thought it'd be funny if someone's alternate identity was such a dick that even they didn't like themselves. The GV universe is going to need it's share of personalities and jobbers, after all.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Silver Age and Myths are neck and neck!

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  • SlagmireSlagmire Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I voted something, but all these options and all I could think of was...
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  • Mr PinkMr Pink I got cats for youRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Awesome But Hard to Draw makes it a three way!

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  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hayasa wrote: »
    My guess is again based on a potential `Penny Arcade Universe'. If thats what people are thinking/hoping will result from all this, you really want to get a couple of mainstream guys in place to set the scene, and Silver Age or Myths are probably the best categories to do that.

    "God, My Alterego is a douchebag", "B-list heroes/villains" and "Superpowers and debilitating psychosis" are hardly likely to result in the sort of hero you would want to make central in a powered universe.
    I misread "God, my Alterego is a douchebag". For some reason it read as "God, My Alterego, is a douchebag", and all I could think of was all the douchebag gods from the assorted mythologies of the planet showing up as incarnations of super heroic assholes across the planet.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    if we do that one eventually, I'm going to have it be some guy going "HEY. GOD. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS."

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  • Devlin_DragonusDevlin_Dragonus Gorgeous Dallas, TXRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Why is hard to draw power even an option?

    I mean, how is that even motivation to want to create a character?!

    I can draw OK but for those of us who cant, damn is this contest gonna die off or what!


    PS: Just call me Captain Pessimistic!... from Pakistan!

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    I got nothing for you now. Try again later.

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I got a shitton of good ideas for numerous topics

    also a young brad garret on roseanne is creeping me out

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    man I got a good idea for silver age shenanigans why'd I gotta vote for the dang pet topic while the theme for people who can't draw is winning

    hey people that can't draw, y'all suck

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  • HayasaHayasa Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I can't believe I only just thought of "Heroes traced from porn."

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    look I voted for the douchebag character because I like writing douchebags okay

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    well, write what you know, etc. etc.

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I still don't get why everyone is doing the really hard to draw one

    Like, that is probably the least interesting out of the bunch.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    dangit geebs

    I am a fine upstanding bloke and a true gentleman

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Faynor wrote: »
    I still don't get why everyone is doing the really hard to draw one

    Like, that is probably the least interesting out of the bunch.
    Actually I think it could be pretty interesting. Coming up with a unique and useful powered hero that is hard to represent visually seems like quite a challenge to me.

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    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
    Edcrab's Exigency RPG
  • CoJoeTheLawyerCoJoeTheLawyer Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Ringo wrote: »
    Faynor wrote: »
    I still don't get why everyone is doing the really hard to draw one

    Like, that is probably the least interesting out of the bunch.
    Actually I think it could be pretty interesting. Coming up with a unique and useful powered hero that is hard to represent visually seems like quite a challenge to me.

    True, but maybe some of us would want a few softballs first before tackling the hardcore projects.

    That being said, I do have a few ideas with regards to superpowers that can't drawn period, but they're so high concept and bizzare, that I doubt they would make sense to anyone and flop.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Maybe we should have a runoff with like 4 or 5 choices. Otherwise the winning entry is, despite being the most popular, only going to have the support of less than 15% of the board.

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  • Mr PinkMr Pink I got cats for youRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Ringo wrote: »
    Faynor wrote: »
    I still don't get why everyone is doing the really hard to draw one

    Like, that is probably the least interesting out of the bunch.
    Actually I think it could be pretty interesting. Coming up with a unique and useful powered hero that is hard to represent visually seems like quite a challenge to me.

    I think it would have much more interesting results than just 'sci fi hero' or something like that.

    Maybe we could do the next runner up the next week, or something like that?

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  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    C'mon crazy silver age origin! I just know you'll be the most fun to read!

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    Looks like our first theme will be:

    Ridiculous Silver Age origin

    I'm going to put up a thread on Monday for the first contest, with rules and whatnot, so start thinking of ideas!

    Our second theme will be:

    My Power is Awesome but Really Hard to Draw

    We'll do this...maybe in two or three weeks? Depends on how long we set the deadline on challenge one.

    Our third challenge will be:

    Inspired by Folk Tales, Myths, and Legends

    After that, we'll have another poll, since we have a bunch of things tied at four votes, and we'll take more suggestions as well.

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  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Yesssss!

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    super duper top secret spoiler for what I will be doing for the myths/legends category
    come on now
    it's a big dang spoiler
    alright here goes
    EL CHUPACABRA: ACE DETECTIVE

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    my silver age idea involves a rooster and communism

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    how many cock jokes are in it geebs

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    none! well maybe one

    giblets are involved, at any rate

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    Use wattles

    Or is that just turkeys

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    how do you guys feel about special holiday themes

    like, when we get to halloween, have the special theme have to do with halloween costumes come to life or something

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    that works

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    my hero would be a sheet ghost comes to life and realizes how awful it is to be just a sheet

    his mortal enemy would be the wind

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    maybe just a halloween themed collaborative comic where all these costumes come to life

    the end of the story is that a kid in a ghostbusters costume saves the day, and is also the coolest kid on the block, obviously

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    totally

    but he has to first beat up a loser in a Filmation Ghostbusters Costume

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    nah, he has to save him from like six ghosts and maybe a werewolf

    (as an aside, at one local best buy they have this "RECCOMENDATION WALL" where people who work there put two things up there that they like, one person put filmation ghostbusters and wanted on there, I think they were trolling me)

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    the people in best buy aren't trolling you geebs

    I am

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    What is this Filmation heresy of which you speak?

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  • 143999143999 Tellin' ya not askin' ya, not pleadin' with yaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Wildcat wrote: »
    What is this Filmation heresy of which you speak?

    This'n.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8yd2xLL8s&feature=related

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  • Mr PinkMr Pink I got cats for youRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    That is not at all what I thought was going to play when I saw the Ghostbusters title.

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    143999 wrote: »
    Wildcat wrote: »
    What is this Filmation heresy of which you speak?

    This'n.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8yd2xLL8s&feature=related
    ... there are no words. There are no words.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited July 2009
    The first contest will be going up tonight. Theme is, again, Ridiculous Silver Age Origin.

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