well, here goes:

[Click to view comic: 'Cup 5.2 - Strip Trek']

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

[Click to view comic: 'DWB']

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

I enjoyed seeing a-chicka drunk, but I'm going to have to give my vote to the hamsterman for slightly better use of the quiet frame.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

This is one thing I like about the cups - throwing together some rules, and having two people both produce really funny strips. Sort of a Comic Contest distillation... Essence of CC...

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Hmm...that's the second time in this cup that I've portrayed Data. Fascinating.

On that note (coupled with the fact that I found the comic slightly funnier), I have to vote for menbah.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

The 'is this where I take my pants off?' line clinched it for me. menbah

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Kaufman. Both really good, I just liked the whole setup for Kaufman's.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Damn those power newbies!

habnem

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

I like kaufman's drunk white borg a little better. The idea of seven of nine getting drunk and regressing to her prior assimilating self is gold.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

kaufman

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MENBAH!

The power of menbah is a sight to behold...

dan--is your typecasting as data better or worse than chicka's use as two separate star trek characters? damn that red vest...

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

definately menbah

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Who knows what fear lurks in the hearts of men? MIKE BOBSICO KNOWS! And if you give him a decent tip when he delivers your mail , he might tell you.

That's seven votes for HabNem. One more and he has a clear majority. Compared the Kaufman's three...

I'll be back in a few hours to see how it's going.

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It looks like menbah's going to win, then. But kaufman deserves more votes than he has, so for him I vote!

For the genuine guffaw, I give my vote to kaufman!

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Hmmm.... that's 7-5 to Habnem, and I let the voting go on way too long. I have now closed the voting, and that means Habnem is the winner. Oh my God! He beat Kenny! Another scalp to the feared PowerNewbie. Ken, could you email a round three rule to me, please. Okay, standings...

Gabe
vs - - - - - - Bunner wins.
Bunnerabb

Habnem
vs - - - - - - Habnem wins.
Kaufman

Drexle
vs - - - - - - wins.
Chicka

LadyJ vs Wirthling (with rules from Flickguy and Skagg)

Okay, confession time - I had a wrestling match with Office XP today, and I won, but not without losses. All email I have received for the past two or three weeks has been deleted, along with the buggy piece of shit that I call "Outta'luck". I have been trying to remember what rules Dan and Andy sent me, but... *sigh* As such, I have to decide whether to ask for them to be sent again and slow down the cup, or just make up three of my own. Apologies guys, but I am going with the latter. FlickGuy, Skagg, and Gabe - I will need you two to resend your rules, as well. Sorry for the fuckup, everyone.

So, since I am grumpy and wanting to strangle the Microsoft crew, here are some non-embellished rules:

1) The general theme of your strip should be a mechanical or electronic fault or error.

2) The strip must be "clean", ie. contain no swearing, sexual references, or anything like that.

3) Every panel must contain the same character or characters, though they can be in alternative poses and may swap sides and turn to face the opposite direction if you like.

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Actually, I just had an idea - Andy and Dan, if you email me new rules, I will put them into the third round in place of my own rules. Third round is supposed to be four rules - two from the defeated, two from me. Since there will two matches in the third round, I can put one from each of you in the two matches, making two from the defeated, one from me, and one from either of you two in each match.

Again, really sorry I lost your rules. :(

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...and now i'm batting .500 lifetime versus kaufman. woo! i look forward to the rubber match, doc.

and no, that's not a gay reference. (:

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

This almost wasn't clean. True story. Happened Friday. I'm worn out from working two jobs for the past week, so this is the best I could do.

[Click to view comic: 'My Other Job: The Haunted House']

By the way, Kaufie and menbah, I loved your strips. Too bad I didn't get to vote.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

If I had one complaint about some of the forumuser characters, it'd be that their forward-leaningness makes it look like something behind them is talking.
That'd be if I had a complaint. But I don't.

We'll see when we wind up meeting again -- both matches involved some pretty good comicing on both parts in my opinion. Meanwhile, I think I'll send DexX a challenging rule -- something like "make a comic cup kaufman can win" :-?

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[Click to view comic: 'Tech Support']

I have to vote for the Chicka, because I'm pretty sure I saw Drexle's premise before on userfriendly or some such.

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