EDIT: Big thanks to everyone who took time out to vote for me, I made it to the final four! Mark Millar and Tony Harris will choose 1 of us to grace the cover of War Heroes #4 as a variant. Wish me luck... [link]

I figured I'd give you all an update on the voting for the War Heroes Variant Cover Contest.


First off, I'd like to thank the many of you that voted for me in the current and previous rounds, it's really making a difference.

The first round of voting seemed to be going great until a "glitch" was found in the polls which allowed the internet savvy to vote thousands of times. Wizard was made aware of this and they quickly shut down the polls and erected a new first round that appeared to be safe and fair to all. As most of you know, this is the internet we are talking about. If an individual has enough time on their hands they can get past anything, and needless to say, it was obvious that the polls had a "glitch" once again. A few heats were obviously skewed sending many talented artists to the end of their journey.

I emailed the editor, Jim Gibbons, to make him aware of this new exploit. Jim wrote me back and said...

"This is really just the beast of the internet: there is almost always a way around things. We've done the best we could to make it difficult for people to get around this, but those who are extremely determined might always find a way (if we did voting by email, people could just keep making new email addresses if they really wanted to take that time). ~ I'd recommend you just try to lobby as best you can for yourself by making sure all your friends and relatives are helping you out (facebook could do wonders) and even lobbying on message boards and the like is of course completely allowed." ...and so I did.

Currently, we are in the final round of voting, all eight of us. The four top voted will be submitted to Millar and Harris to make the final pick of who they feel will best represent their War Heroes cover as a variant for issue #4. Short of going door-to-door, I have exhausted every possible means of pimping myself out for a vote. Facebook, Myspace, Family & Friends, Gaming Forums, Deviant Art Forums and so on. So far it's paying off, but the voting ends Sunday, June 29 at Noon EST and I fear, as in previous rounds, I will fall to the back of the line, fighting for the last place to advance.

To end this post, I simply ask you for "1" final vote. It only takes 3 seconds, no need to sign-up or do anything except to follow the link below, check the box left of my name (Frank Rapoza), and hit vote. You will only be allowed to vote once per IP address, so PLEASE! Do not vote for me multiple times, I'm only asking for "1". If you would like to pass this information on to your friends, by all means, do so...

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Thanks for your time and support. Rock the Vote!
-Frank