Cover Contest 5/30-6/5 You Got Your Super-heroes in my sports

[CJStriker]

Ravin' Ray!

Really Love the Roller Derby Theme, Great Artwork and Great showing of some of my Favorites like Medusa and She-Hulk in such a unique element and style!

[Shalla Bal]

nx01a a classic!

[Abe]

icctrombone: a personal classic when I was a kid : that story blew my mind back then!

[Stony]

I vote Abe!

[MRP]

Ok, so it turns out I am able to do the tally, so here goes. Lots of great entries, thank you to everyone participating.

lots of folks garnering at least 1 vote...

with 1 vote each: Paul Bullion, Super-Cooper, Foxley, Major Hoy, a.non, The Dark KnightDetective, and icctrombone.

with 2 votes each: mrp, Chad H., and Abe

our runner up, with 5 votes: nx01a

and our new heavyweight champion of the contest, winning by knockout with a whopping 9 votes for his derby girls, Ravin' Ray!

Congrats oh Ravin' one.

-M

[Ravin' Ray]

Wow! Thanks all for the massive vote, I never expected to get so many.

I'm out of town doing a consultancy with teachers so I'm using someone else's laptop, but when I get back home I'll post the new contest. I already have a theme in mind.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Congrats, Ray! That was quite the slam dunk win!

[CJStriker]

Major Congrats Ravin' Ray, Excellent Find and as a bonus you Reminded us just how COOL the A-Force Covers All where, Thanks!

[The Darknight Detective]

Way to go, Ray! Thanks also to Bryan for voting for my cover.

[Ravin' Ray]

Ravin' Ray!

Really Love the Roller Derby Theme, Great Artwork and Great showing of some of my Favorites like Medusa and She-Hulk in such a unique element and style!

Thanks CJStriker! Fun fact: I was going to post that Avengers Academy cover but then remembered at the last minute that Mark Brooks drew a roller derby variant cover for A-Force and posted that instead. And speaking of the sport, as a child I never could figure out how it was actually played. I see these women skating round a rink elbowing others and I'm like, what the heck is going on? Up to now, I still haven't watched a full game. Maybe it's about time I did it on YouTube.

And, the new contest is now up here. Hope everyone has fun with it.

[Iron Maiden]

Congratulations, Ray.

You should check out some of those games. Roller Derby was sort of like wrestling. At times they played the game "straight" but then they would get more "theatrical". There were two leagues, one that held the trademark Roller Derby from the original owner of the "league" and then there was Roller Games. They kept separate for a while but eventually merged. The one that was more like pro-wrestling, with running stories about players, feuds, etc. was Roller Games and their white hat team was the Los Angeles Thunderbirds. For Roller Derby, it was the San Francisco Bombers. I preferred it when they played it straight and didn't get into the soap opera type of continuing stories, etc. or conspiracies involving crooked referees making calls against the "good guys".

[Raffi Ol D'Arcy]

Congrats RR. That cover is a real head turner.

[BLFB]

Congrats to Ray, that was quite an amount of votes!

[CaptCleghorn]

Congratulations to Ravin' Ray for a marvelous variant which mixes the power of female heroes with the excitement of a real life female sport. Shades DeVille (a fellow member of the captain's HS graduating class) would be proud.

As to the topic of what the captain has learned this week, he has realized that we need to laugh a bit. Certain juxtapositions like sports and superheroes can be funny, but also serve to knock those of us who take this stuff too seriously off our high horses. Comics are fun and if we can't relax and enjoy them, woe be unto us.

[Abe]

Congrats Ray! What a victory!

And thanks Stony and ChadH for the votes!