Filed under: Fun, Internet, Time-Wasters, Web
Create your own Marvel superhero online - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Jan 12th 2009
What better way to blow an afternoon at work than doodling cool superheros on your post it notes?
How about a wicked, Flash-based web app from Marvel that does the same thing?
Choose a hero pack for fast creations, or roll your own from scratch using hundreds of design elements - from skin types to facial hair to tails. There are three base characters: the thin but cut male hero (Cyclops, Spiderman), the brutish male (Thing, Hulk), and, of course, the stereotypical curvaceous female (every female hero ever).
How about a wicked, Flash-based web app from Marvel that does the same thing?
Choose a hero pack for fast creations, or roll your own from scratch using hundreds of design elements - from skin types to facial hair to tails. There are three base characters: the thin but cut male hero (Cyclops, Spiderman), the brutish male (Thing, Hulk), and, of course, the stereotypical curvaceous female (every female hero ever).
It's actually kind of scary how close I was able to get to Bill Clinton using Marvel's hero parts.
Quickly, X-President! We've got to help that poor, young intern before the evil Baracktopus compromises her morals!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
