Here is the next honorable mention comic submitted by Bludlemon. Remember, the comic contest will go on all year long, so don't miss your chance to win a J!NX gift certificate with an approximate retail value of $100! Keep those comics coming! You can submit a new comic each month. Check out the rest of the comics submitted for August, 2007 and browse older comics via the links at the top or bottom of the page.

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We've pored through hundreds upon hundreds of photos from BlizzCon 2007 and have assembled photo galleries sorted by subject matter for your viewing pleasure. Galleries of the costume contest, dance contest, closing-night concert, and tournaments are coming your way soon, so stay tuned!

BlizzCon Photo Galleries: Costume Contest
The level of creativity and effort displayed in BlizzCon's costume contest was truly impressive – rivaling even the high standards of the previous BlizzCon. There were too many worthy photos to cram into one huge gallery, so we've further subdivided the costume photos. View the winners' gallery, the professional-photo gallery, the general-photo gallery, and the group-photo gallery of this event.

　　The ethereal Netherwing dragons are most closely associated with the signature Nether Drake epic flying mount, the ultimate reward for high standing with this Outland faction. We've updated our World of Warcraft Guide with a new page on gaining reputation with the Netherwing dragonflight.

The first phase of our comprehensive Armory optimization is now live. The goal of this ongoing optimization is to increase performance, functionality, and intuitiveness across the board.

The first phase includes the following specific improvements:

• Smarter, faster results pagesThe Armory's various search results pages respond more quickly when changing pages or sorting within the results. The Armory's right hand panel also takes advantage of this new speed and now remembers what page you were last viewing as well.

• Faster item tooltipsThe tooltips that appear when mousing over items in a character profile or an item search results page are now much more responsive.

• Open Armory links in new windows/tabs Now you can open links from the Armory in their own tabs or windows for quick comparisons between profiles, items, search results, and more.

• New advanced item search button This button takes you to the Armory's powerful advanced item search options and is located in a prominent, convenient location under the main search field.

• And much more Many more specific improvements have been implemented, the details of which can be found on the Updates page. In addition, general performance has been greatly improved in the areas of response time, loading time, and memory usage.

You can now access the Armory via a new shortened URL, http://www.wowarmory.com. We hope you enjoy the improvements. As always, check the Updates page for details on the latest additions and refinements to the Armory.

After witnessing all the choreographed dance moves, Murloc-mimicking, and creative costume pageantry, the cream of the crop has been justly rewarded. In addition, the many colorful entrants in the Costume Contest have been captured for posterity in a special gallery. Congratulations to the winners of the dance, sound-alike, and costume contests for BlizzCon 2007!

Dance Contest brought to you by Dell

• First Place: Alexander Gross – Male Blood Elf
• Runners-up: Susan Curtis – Female Blood Elf; Fryda Wolf – Female Blood Elf

• First Place: Robert Liden – Blood Mage, Warcraft III
• Runners-up: Clayton Hales – Lysander, Diablo II; Nik Harper – Dryad, Warcraft III; Paul Barbour – Troll, World of Warcraft

• First Place: Amanda Hosler – Warlock in Tier 6, Warcraft
• Second Place: Brian Carl – Ghost, Starcraft; Kellie Stanton – Moonkin, Warcraft; Heather Otterson – Assassin, Diablo
• Runners-up: Marissa Morris – Lady Vashj; Holly Conrad – Undead Warlock in Tier 5; James Christian – Paladin in Tier 2; Hye Young Lee – Warlock in Tier 5; Lance Ikegawa – Son of Arugal; Walter Keenlyside – Paladin with Hammer of the Naaru

The results of the BlizzCon 2007 Machinima Contest have been decided in the four categories of Action/Adventure, Drama, Comedy, and Best in Show. Watch the winning entries on AT&T Blue Room's BlizzCon Machinima Theater. Congratulations to the winners!