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Hell has frozen over! The results of the Weta Collectibles SUPERMAN RETURNS contest are here!!!

first by henrydalton	May 17th, 2007 06:34:59 AM
wtf is going on in the first one then? :S
Damn You! by ThisLifeArtificial	May 17th, 2007 06:36:55 AM
I was so close!
That one with Darksied is the clear winner by Mr Cairo	May 17th, 2007 06:39:09 AM
no idea what that first one is about at all
All 3 by phaedrus007	May 17th, 2007 06:42:49 AM
...actually have a better story the Superman Returns itself.
STILL NOT LOST TALKBACK by kingoflight	May 17th, 2007 06:47:34 AM
nice prize
Quint is clearly insane. by stones_throw	May 17th, 2007 07:01:42 AM
How the hell did that winner, um, win?
No Lost tb? by Dazzler69	May 17th, 2007 07:01:53 AM
I don't care really but that is the theme this morning. I can't wait for the finale next week.
This TB was more exciting than "Superman Returns" by Abin Sur	May 17th, 2007 07:09:34 AM
Sad but true.
Superman Returns is excellent. by Smashing	May 17th, 2007 07:21:23 AM
The winning entry not so much, the first runner up is clearly the better picture. I may be a little bitter as I never won, though seeing the prize I may not be that bothered, when in the film was there white Crystals like that?, never is the answer.
All the contests have the wrong winners. by brokentusk	May 17th, 2007 07:23:59 AM
Happens every time.
Abin Sur by kwisatzhaderach	May 17th, 2007 07:24:22 AM
I agree. Superman Returns was the least exciting superhero movie ive seen in my life.
I had to dig this out... by Shermdawg	May 17th, 2007 07:27:16 AM
Here's something I was gonna post like a year ago... The basic premise for my comic was I somehow got ahold of one of those magic movie tickets from Last Action Hero, and blabbed about taking down Routh's Supes in Returns. Herc informs Harry of my plan and they come across another ticket. (Apparently, photocopies of the ticket work also, and some dude is sellin' them on Ebay.) Anways, heres the rough draft of the script for my comic, the comic I never ended up doing for the contest. I always overshoot, and never follow through on anything. And if I had tried something else, it wouldn't have stood up against this. Oh well. Maybe one day I will put forth the effort to actually enter one of these things. Also, if I had done this, I would have gave away my secret identity, so maybe it's a good thing I didn't. I need to keep my anonymity ;) Here we go... [If you don't know what happened in the previous issue, a.It was really cool, and b.it sucks to be you for missing it! Nuff said.] panelHarry: (far back) What's in the box? Supes: (foreground) I don't know Harry: You know you have X-ray... Supes: Yeah, I know, I tried, it seems to be encased in lead. Harry: Well, why don't you open it. panel* Supes: (background) Do you wanna open it? Harry(foreground): Um...No, I'll pass Supes: I thought so. panel Supes (hesitant) Here goes nuthin. panel Supes(head turned away looking out corner of eye, opens the box) panel Supes(looking shocked) Harry: What's in the box? Aawww Whats in the BOX? panel(Lex's head in the box) Harry: What's in the bo-ox??? panel (Supes holding box, looking back at Harry) Now, you stay there. (small beep) panel (beeps continue, louder, Supes looks at it strongly) panel (Green explosion with Supes skeletal shadow) panel (Harry picking himself up) panel (Harry seeing the remains of Supes, him in the background, Supes arm in foreground) panel (Harry crying) Voice: Kryptonite based acid grenade. Let's see him come back from that. panel (Harry turning around to shadow) panel Real art (Harry saying omg in three mini panels, while Sherm, owl, and hammer are introduced) Let it be known, that the Shermdawg was the man that brought the last son of Krypton's doomsday! Muhahaha... panel (back to comic strip art, Sherm gathering himself) Sorry, I get a little carried away at times. panel (Harry mad) YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!!! panel (Sherm smiling) Bring it. panel (Harry running) panel (A banana peel is tossed) panel (Harry slips on it and lands face first) Sherm: Too easy. panel (Sherm grabs the back of Harry's pants) panel (Sherm pulls down his pants exposing butt) panel (Harry looks quizically) Harry, you remember that tagline I used to use? What was it? panel (Sherm looking at a branding iron, smiling) Oh yeah... panel (brands Harry) SMALLVILLE WILL OWN YOUR ASS!!! panel (Harry reacting) panel (butt with "Property of Smallville mark) panel (Sherm leans in to inspect) Look's like my work here is done. panel (Harry mad) I don't think so. panel (Sherm looking quizically) panel Harry: (close up) Don't you know who I am? I'M THE HEADGEEK BITCH!!! panel (Harry farts and the explosion sends Sherm flying into the wall.) panel (Harry gathering himself) Harry: You should have known not to get so close to a texans ass. Aren't you aware of the near atomic shit we eat? panel (Harry pulls out a ban button) Harry: Now, it's time to say goodbye Shermdawg! panel Harry smiling about to press it) Sherm: WAIT!!! panel Sherm:I don't think you want to do that. (reaching in his pocket) panel (Sherm pulls out two tickets) panel (Sherm sticks them in his mouth) panel (Harry looking shocked) Sherm:Yes, I managed to swipe your ticket while we we're tusslin'. You delete me, you're stuck here. panel (Harry mad) Harry: You son of a bitch. panel (Sherm smiling) Sherm: Toss me the button, and I'll give you the ticket. panel (the toss) panel Sherm: Looks like I've won, Knowles. I've outsmarted you all. Superman is no more!!! panel Harry: You're more psychotic than I thought. Didn't you realize you just altered this reel? To officially kill off Superman you'd a.have to do this in every single copy of the film. panel (Sherm shocked) Harry:or b.destroy all of the copies and make sure this was the master they use for the dvd panel (Harry standing over a fallen Sherm) Harry:It is you who have failed. panel (same as last, but Harry's walking off) panel (same, but Harry turns around) Harry:But you know, we could still change history, what do you say we use these tickets on the film playing down the hall? panel (Harry closeup smiling) Harry:It could use a alternate ending. panel (Harry and Sherm being tossed out of movie screen landing in front of little girl in the front row) panel (Sherm looking at her, Harry brushing his self off) Harry: Herc, I know it's passed your curfew, but we've got important business to tend to. Herc: Sure thing boss Sherm: (thought) HERC!? panel (All three walking) Harry:We've got to save Cyclops! THE END Actually this a unfinished script, I was going to add Harry dressed up as Lois on the roof waiting for Supes. Supes would question "Lois' appearance", and Harry was gonna say that the weight was a side effect of having a kid, and the facial hair was from smoking. He was gonna going to get a bit emotional to sell it. Harry asks Supes for a flight, Supes reluctantly agrees and using two hands holding onto Harry's arm, takes him on that flight, and they eventually end up in a Smallville cornfield where he uses his X-ray vision and finds out, Lois is actually a dude. And this is when the delivery guy shows up with the box. I just threw in that "In our last issue" line incase I didn't finish the main part of the art. Of course, I never got around to doing any of it.
why now? by bowtiehoon	May 17th, 2007 07:28:30 AM
err...this comp closed july last year and the winner is only decided now? does anyone care if they won by now? keke...just fooling, i know you're busy quint ;-p
Truce on the LOST hijacking by smellmycheese	May 17th, 2007 07:37:45 AM
Moriarty speaks: http://tinyurl.com/2hsfhd
And that's the last time I post that (promise) by smellmycheese	May 17th, 2007 07:41:01 AM
Though I don't have much to say about this... only... congratulations to the winner and I like Pielich's work the most.
That Darkseid pic by FarSky	May 17th, 2007 08:13:07 AM
The level of artistry in that Darkseid pic is fan-fucking-tastic. I want that guy to be the illustrator on a major monthly comic. I don't really rationalize the choice of the winner, but were it me, and I came down to those three as my final choices, that Darkseid pic's taking the title, hands down.
ego trip = pics of Mori, Harry etc. by warp11	May 17th, 2007 08:24:22 AM
Interesting article with more posts of pictures of the authors than what the article is about.
A-ha! by Abin Sur	May 17th, 2007 08:25:20 AM
So that's where the melting hammer/unsociable owl come from! Sherm, that has been bothering me for ages.
I agree the darkseid one should have won... by wolvenom	May 17th, 2007 08:39:25 AM
tis bullshit that it didn't. So clearly what we've learned here is that the person who can suck up to the fucking swollen egos of aicn crew the best wins any contest.
Ugh, I give up. by SkidMarkedUndies	May 17th, 2007 08:39:34 AM
These contests are always f'd up.
Abin Sur by Shermdawg	May 17th, 2007 09:23:00 AM
Nope.
Abin Sur by Regicidal_Maniac	May 17th, 2007 09:42:40 AM
are you any good with anagrams? MELTING OWL & UNSOCIABLE HAMMER Think about it.
Can't wait for the Spidey contest winner to be ....... by beeboop	May 17th, 2007 09:53:31 AM
Announced in 2074
Do you think Harold by Chiziola79	May 17th, 2007 10:01:13 AM
Just keeps the prizes and this one caught peoples attention so he had to actually give away the pieces of silver the studios give him ;-)What a joke waiting a year for a prize, and the winner is clearly the fucking worst entry, the guy must man the glory hole and the drafthouse to have won with that
Oh, those pesky rules. by DrakeVan	May 17th, 2007 10:09:16 AM
There's no "sucking up" going on here, besides the sucking up that was specifically requested in the rules of the contest. Which, as I recall, was to create some artwork that was a crossover of Superman canon (movie, comics, cartoons, whatever) and the AICN crew. As for what's going on in #1? Mori bored the piss out of Bizzaro Mori, who says "hello" as he goes back through the portal from whence he came because he's, well, a bizarro clone. It stops making sense there, but it ends soon thereafter, so that's alright. And I prefer #2 as well.
Stupid Contest, Questionable Results by Saluki	May 17th, 2007 10:11:23 AM
Reminds me of On The Lot. 12,000 people, and they only bother to interview around 200. What a waste.
Dammit, Sherm! by Abin Sur	May 17th, 2007 10:12:32 AM
Are you sure it's not a Sniglet?
OK, I got it now... by Abin Sur	May 17th, 2007 10:16:35 AM
I'm so weak...I had to google it.
Nice prize... by rubberfish	May 17th, 2007 11:02:03 AM
....not!
Transformers trailer in less than an hour !!! by ludmir88	May 17th, 2007 11:17:18 AM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our entry by beeboop	May 17th, 2007 12:12:20 PM
Check it out, this was our 3 page entry. Me and a friend of mine worked on it. I'd love to hear what you all think of it since we've been waiting a year for any sort of feedback. ya, 'thanks a lot Quint' http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s3/Jerkmeister/super1.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s3/Jerkmeister/super2.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s3/Jerkmeister/super3.jpg
The Darkseid one is the best. by jrbarker	May 17th, 2007 12:56:49 PM
no doubt
SR by P2Rock	May 17th, 2007 04:32:55 PM
was a complete and utter abortion. I wish they would reboot the Superman franchise completely. Werent WB dissapointed with this? As I said the Box office should have been Spierman like (should be bigger actually) not FF proportions. The only thing I liked about SR was the casting of Routh, though imaintain that he did not trainihard enough or have the physical presence. A few more months in Gym would cure that. Go ask Batman for advice on that. But a ncompletely different take is required, they need to take Superman seriously. Aaaarrghhh Damn you Singer!
You Superman Haters are Funny by MST3KPIMP	May 17th, 2007 07:38:35 PM
Superman Returns is the best hero film of recent years and will be embraced with each passing year where less substantial fare like the Spidey films will only fade out as they have little to come back to. SR with all it's faults is an actual well made movie with character development unlike others which are more product than movie with some dynamic video game fighting to satisfy meatheads who are initially entertained but ultimatley reject it once they've had theyre fill. Superman is in a much healthier place than virtually every other misfire of a comicbook movie and can only get better as I'm sure Singer will deliver a superior sequel.
So He's Not Perfect... by MST3KPIMP	May 18th, 2007 12:47:03 AM
I think the idea these films communicate is that his abilities do not not give him social superiority and he is as vulnerable as anyone if not more so. Superman 2 explored this when he gave it all up for Lois. I mean he turned back time going against everything dad taught him in the first film so we see he has a tendancy to make questionable choices because of his love for Lois. So his behavior in SR is a continuation of his dilema balancing his obligation as earths protector and his own life and desires which I find to be compelling. The costume is neither here nor there but I always felt that the kryptonite island was a diluted growth so it did'nt have the same effects as Luthor's kypto-shiv which was the real deal. Of course we can debate the logistics till sunrise but I honestly feel SR while far from perfect is a solid restart and a well made film that didnt pander to an MTV asthetic. After the dissapointing crop of recent comic films I see many realizing that it's not so bad after all and I expect a good sequel with more action to please the masses will only win more fans.
Debate the logistics??? by Kenny8	May 18th, 2007 05:04:13 AM
Returns was dull, dull, dull. As if people in the future are going to look back with appreciation at the woeful casting, the dull story, the off kilter characterizations, the "updated" costume, the rubbery CGI, the bastard son of Superman addition, etc, etc..... The best hero film of recent years.....whose star can be found in the UK selling his autograph. Puh-lease!
MST3KPIMP by BRUTICUS	May 18th, 2007 07:06:11 AM
i loved the superman movies but this last one was burnt.... Superman at the end was all gung ho about getting back his piece of crystal from luthor.. "you have something of mine." next thing you know he throws it off into space with the rest of the black continent?
How the hell did SR have character development? by Lighthouse	May 22nd, 2007 01:05:43 AM
The guy barely has any lines in the movie. He just stood there most of the time looking sad.
All totally awful. The second one less so. by Daddylonghead	May 24th, 2007 05:03:00 PM
no "nigger-and-watermelon" humor in this contest? Surely someone submitted something racist you could give a prize to, Quint.
SR WAS GREAT by supercowbell 4 cant stop the cowbell	Jun 25th, 2007 08:31:18 PM
the first and third drawings are not

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