Yes, I realize this was a hard contest. I was interested who would rise to the challenge.
I see most people chose to avoid this rule. Unfortunately, none of the non-compliant strips were really side-splittingly funny enough to make me want to ignore it, although there were some good ones.
Some of the non-compliant strips I liked were
Bargaintuan: "A Letter from Satan"
boinky33: "something you wouldn't want to see out your window"
boinky33: "Don't stare at boobies too long or......"
boinky33: "UNDER WATER COWBOYS"
shlimple: "Old man and bench"
shlimple: "explode"
Kajun Firefly: "Monopoly"
Zegota: "Staring Contest"
And yes, boinky, I did recognize that "!!!!!......!!!!!!......!!!!!!!" is ripped off from "CCIX # 5"
Bargaintuan: I did a comic just like "Just Drink, Already!". We actually started a thread in RMDC where people expanded on the idea here.
There were six compliant entries that I considered for winning, and they were:
"Speechless" by Big Evil Dan
"Department of Haiku Security" by kaufman
"Hell's Work: vr 0000006 for cc 176" by LordVido
The last three were really hard to decide on, since they were all really good.
[Click to view comic: 'CC176:Mad Cow Disease']
[Click to view comic: 'The Scream']
..but in the end, I had to go with my gut reaction which was to declare this comic the
WINNER
[Click to view comic: 'The melodramatic piano music always brings a tear to my eye']
ahrange, the next contest is all yours.
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"Old" is the old new.