Psybolt

I'll start off by nominating: Frank Miller Frank Frazetta Gene Colon Wally Wood

Good day to everyone here at NGD! As some of you may know, I run a website called Embrace Your Geekness and at that website, we have a Hall of Fame. We do a poll every year where we at EYG nominate several items, people, characters, movies etc. and the top vote getters are inducted into the EYG Hall of Fame. This is the EYG Hero Games NGD Award that we do every year (this is the eighth year for this award) How this works: I am looking for nominations from the community of NGD for the best comic book artists or comic book writers of all time. I would ask that you nominate those creators who you think have done enough work that they could be enshrined in the EYG Hall of Fame. I require that those artists/writers be nominated by one poster and seconded by another in order to make the final poll After that, I will take those nominees who have been seconded and place them into a poll. The top three creators in vote total will be inducted under the "Hero Games Forum NGD Award". We do have a few comic creators already in the EYG Hall of Fame. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Osamu Tezuka, George Perez, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Neil Gaiman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Shuster & Seigel, Sergio Aragones, Carmine Infantino, Walt Simonson, John Romita Sr., Marv Wolfman, Marie Severin, Roy Thomas, Steve Gerber, Joe Kubert, John Byrne, William Moulton Marston, Mark Gruenwald, Peter David, Jim Shooter, Alan Moore, Hayao Miyazaki, Gail Simone, Al Jaffee, Alex Ross, Neal Adams, Jolly Blackburn, Ben Edlund, Jim Starlin, and Louise Simonson are already members of the EYG Hall of Fame so I will not take any nominations for them. I am going to open the nomination and seconding process up and will allow it to run until November 17 at 6 PM Eastern. I will then put up a poll for the NGD to vote for the nominees. I appreciate your involvement in this process. The Non-Gaming Discussion board has always been an awesome place with some wonderful people. I have enjoyed my time here. That is why I wanted to get the input from you for this award for the EYG Hall of Fame, which is something that I have really been proud of doing for all these years. Thank you for your time and consideration in this process. Oh, by the way... please only nominate those individuals who made their fame in the realm of comic books, not comic strips.

Puff the Magic Dragon

Ship

Peter Loew

Madcap

Jonquil

The poll is officially closed. 2023 inductees Barbie Doll Frankenstein’s Monster Return of the Jedi (movie) time travel Loch Ness Monster Jurassic Park (movie) John Wick (character) Smokey Bear UFOs Wheel of Time book series Coelacanth

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With the movies, we started out with those mainly considered 'geek' films. I do absolutely believe something like Citizen Kane has a place. Bazza, Metropolis was on the ballot one year, but failed to receive enough votes. Perhaps what I should do is form a wing of the HoF (like I do with Comic Issues) for Movies. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of films that could be inducted. I would limit the number inducted each year and have one time a year to put in worthwhile films. In fact, I would love to have a board to make the nominations. 2-3 people along with me to induct 1-2 movies each every year. We could start right after the ballot ends this year and then set it every year around Oscar time. DT- would you be interested to be a part of the board? Maybe you too Bazza? It would give a more international flavor to the choices, potentially. Let me know if you guys are interested or if there are anyone else you might like to join me. I think I am absolutely going to create this Cinema Wing of the EYG HoF even if it is just me making the choices.

I am also a film geek and so I think any movie that could be considered successful or influential could/should be considered. Board games are available. If I remember correctly, Monopoly is in. Clue would be an excellent possibility. And don't worry about taking up the conversation. I do not think that is bad here.

I have written them all down on my list. I appreciate the ideas. Honestly, a few of them I have never heard of before (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo?) but I look forward to learning more about them. I do induct Legends three times during a year as I also do a Jan 1 group with the same category (this year was Muppets) and some of these would work for those inductions too. Thanks for your participation!

All excellent suggestions. I'll keep them in mind. We definitely have a lack of movies in the EYG HoF for whatever reason.

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I take the top vote getter. That vote count I determine 75% of it and every one that is above that gets in. So for example... Barbie has 66 votes right now. 75% of that is 50 votes. All above 50 make the cut.

Here is the 2023 ballot for the EYG Hall of Fame. Feel free to vote for as many of the nominees that you want and as often as you would like. Ballot stays active until Talk Like A Pirate Day. https://embraceyourgeeknesseyg.com/

Cybertronian

I have struggled with my final bonus interference pick. Here we go... Mister Rancor had been steaming. Ever since Alitheon had gifted the world lie detection, Rancor had been searching the depths of his dark heart for a way to overcome the so called gift. He had come up empty, which spurred on the feelings of vengeance within his mind. Then, Alitheon dared to gift him 'white, hot fury' That was all Mister Rancor could stand. "How dare he believe that he could present me with more fury? Does he not know that no one has more fury than the God of Hate! It is a slap in my face!" Was there a way he could directly deal with Alitheon? No, it did not seem he could. So the vengeance would have to take a different path. "I do not need 'WHITE HOT FURY' as I am the center of that. So... I feel the need to share the Gift of Alitheon with all!" Interference (bonus): Mister Rancor shares the WHITE HOT FURY gift from Alitheon with every living creature of the Chimney.

Bonus Mythic Monster: Cetus Mister Rancor thought that there needed to be something special in all of these living rivers floating around the chimney.

Can we do picks with the bonus picks on weekend?

Mister Rancor remained unfulfilled from his efforts in the new cylindrical world. That was probably only going to continue as the God of Hatred had never felt happy. Any time he felt a twinge of what could be considered a positive feeling, he drove them back down into his gut. He did spend more time than not watching the events of Hedonia. Those individuals were very easy to manipulate and another idea that would sew the seeds of division and hatred sprung to his mind. He had been engaged with the subtle aspects of his hatred crusade recently as Crax had taken the more direct method. When he had pulled his son out of the last conflict, Rancor was irritated... or proud. He wasn't sure which it was. Mister Rancor decided something new. Other Gods seemed focused upon insects and plants, but Rancor wanted more, no matter how entertaining it may have been. He constructed a sister-city to Hedonia, built just to the southern border of the city which he named Austere. It was a reflection of Hedonia and he encouraged easily manipulated humans and other such bio-forms to take up residence in the new city. He spread the feeling of how these people were being judgmental of those people who spent their time and wasted their lives in Hedonia. To make it even more of a play, he had these beings created temples to both Aziza, to the reflection of the hedonistic land, and Clarkent Kal, the hero with a heavy dose of righteousness. Mister Rancor knew that the followers did not always understand or out and out misinterpret the words and beliefs of their deities so having them launch such a campaign of intolerance or manipulation against the people of Hedonia in the name of these two gods was something that "almost" tickled Rancor. Geography: sister city of Austere, built beside Hedonia. Interference, pick 1: Building two temples to other gods and directing the people of Austere to carry a campaign in these Gods' names against Hedonia. I did not pick yesterday so this works together. I believe I only have the bonus Interference pick and the bonus monster pick remaining.

Mister Rancor sat upon a stone chair, uncomfortable and hard. He hated the chair and, for some reason, that felt right. He stared out at the world forming around him, held within a cylindrical tube, with rivers flowing every which way and cracks sending those unlucky to places across time. The mosquitos he had unleashed were a moderate success, but the bloodsuckers were more annoying than hate-inspiring. The excess rivers of the lands certainly helped keep that population active and thriving. Rancor still felt a distasteful feeling of optimism, of hope in the air of this land. Even with his always active son, Crax, once again pushing the envelope with the Murder Plant, Rancor could barely care. He would always say the right things to keep up his image, but many of these were just lies. He was the master of lies after all. How could he encourage the expansion of lies among the population of this world? There must be a way. A spark of an idea came to his foul mind. Something considerably more subtle than the wiping out of a continent, but something that would surely lead to division, to mistrust, to blatant lying. It would be his masterpiece. There must be more to the world than just survival. There must be leaders. Mister Rancor pulled from his head a human that he named Christopher Patron. He set Patron up with skills, oratory abilities, and charisma unlike any human to this point. He also gave him a deep hatred of anything non-human and the skill to avoid any inquiry to reveal his true nature. Rancor followed this creation with another human pulled from his head. This one was named Stanton Hannity. He was just as charismatic, but darker. His quick wit and blatant shamelessness would shock everyone and offend many. Yet he is the type who you might want to find and enjoy an intoxicant with. Just to add to the confusion, Rancor pulled up a member of the K-rac C’ho C’o and a figure from the Elven community who is able and willing to step forward as a representation. Mister Rancor sent a feeling throughout the land, piercing the hearts and minds of every living creature, encouraging them to support and congregate with these individuals. Rancor knew that was all he had to do as this would spread like a virus across this new world. Power is an aphrodisiac and those that he had brought forth would inspire others in the same manner. Lies, hatred, intolerance... would multiply with or without the multiplicity of the world. "Gift" to Civilization: Politics

Flora or Fauna or Ore: Mosquitos

Mythic Monster: Pontianak Mister Rancor moved around the lands devastated by his son's handiwork and an idea sprung forth from his head. "A little revenge..." he thought, raising a spirit of one of the dead, a woman, who had been with child. "You shall be named Pontianak" Rancor said, sending the vampiric-spirit off for vengeance against those who survived over her.

Under the Boardwalk was originally by the Drifters. My choice for the cover is Bruce Willis with the Temptations