The votes are 7 - 3 Kaufman, and that's it for this round... looks like he has earned another shot at the semifinals!

Round 4 skagg vs evil_d

The originiator of the Comic Cup takes on the host of Comic Cup II in this final preliminary round. We shall see what comes of this battle of the hosts!

1) Birthdays... I had one recently. Make a strip centered around a birthday.

2) Use either the term "Avogadro's Number," or the actual notation of 6.02x10^23 in the strip somehow, but do not make a strip about chemistry.

3) Also, take a well-known historical event, and change one of the circumstances surrounding it. Write what happens instead. DO NOT make this historical event birthday related. (So as not to make things too difficult, your comic need not actually depict the altered event itself. But we definitely have to see some of the ramifications of the change. We need to know what happened differently, and how the world turned out differently because of it.)

Avocado's Number by gabe_billings 8-16-01

Happy Birthday, Dumbass! I got you a cake with a mole of candles! And a ride on the Challenger, which incidentally, didn't blow up. Wow, you used up those constraints pretty quickly. What are we gonna do for the rest of the strip? Wirthling sucks! Wirthling sucks!

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Comic Cup III - Crappy's crabby birthday by skagg 8-17-01

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?? I am your birthday mole NOT A BUG THINGY and im here to give you your mole-o-gram. o/'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOO YOUOUOUUUU, YOU DO NOT SUCK DIIICKo/' THIS PLACE HAS GONE DOWNHILL SINCE THE WAR HASN'T IT? Well you couldnt honestly expect the place to be run well after the Germans won could you? WHY OH WHY? WHY DID THIS HAPPEN? WHY MUST I SUCK DICK? Hey when some guy offers you $602000000000000000000000 to see his plan through what are you gonna do? Jeez, damn rightous humans! I hate this place!

i wasnt happy about the last line but then i wasnt sure if my mole reference would be allowed so i left it in there

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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.

An apple a day keeps the Reaper away by evil_d 8-17-01

Great party, Pete. Happy birthday, by the way. I got you a six-pack of that new "Detonade" stuff; they say it actually explodes in your stomach. So how old are you now, anyway? You know Avogadro's Number? Well, I knew Avogadro. Went to school with him. Ugly kid. Man, sometimes I wish Isaac Newton hadn't discovered immortality. Yeah, that would have its good side. John Wilkes Booth would have died years before Andrew Lloyd Webber was even born, and no one would ever have had to see him in a catsuit. Very true. And Freud might not have lived long enough to get bored with psychology and turn to writing crappy romance novels. "Oedipus Sex", my ass. No Michael Collins in Riverdance... no "Jeff Davis and the Rebels" on country music stations... and the Three Stooges would probably never even have dreamed about conquering Bolivia. It's a fucked-up planet we've got here, Phillip... I just wonder why I stay on it.

Avogadro really was an ugly mofo, too. I wonder if we can get that picture into the Strip Creator. It's the right proportions, just need to shrink it a bit. Hell, we could have a whole category of famous dead European males.

I should take this opportunity to note that I'll be out of state this weekend, and may not be able to do any voting or whatnot until Monday. If I can get online, I will.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

I vote for evil d. great comic!!

As for getting Avagadro into strip creator, that would kick ass. I don't know why. It just would.

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"Fascist Clay was my most favorite totalitarian boxer!" - Indie Rock Pete from Diesel Sweeties

Wow. Tough luck, skagg.

evil_d kicked ass with that one.

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

I vote for the evil one this go around - nicely warped entries from both.

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

Skagg, simply because... I dunno. Was damn close otherwise.

-DH1 (does not suck dick)

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Needs more sodomy.

1) Shouldn't that read "dead European moles"?

2) Why restrict it? Let's add some Africans and Asians and Abos and females too.

3) He looks a bit like Munch's model for The Scream.

That said, even though I may be sealing my fate in the next round, I'm not hesitating in my vote for evil_d.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

I cast my vote for evil_d. He got it at "You know Avogadro's Number? Well, I knew Avogradro."

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Graehe (graehe@meow.org) | Graehe's Comics | Go to hell

European males of previous centuries are, from what I can tell, notorious for allowing hideous portraits of themselves to be circulated. Nowadays, if you paid all that money to a painter and sat still for hours and ended up with that picture, you could probably successfully sue the guy straight out of his boots. But look through an encyclopedia and you'll find pictures like that by the dozen.

But let it never be said that I'm prejudiced towards mocking certain demographics. If there are equally bad pictures of people of other races or genders, by all means, let's get them into the Strip Creator too. I just don't think anyone else would stand for that sort of thing.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

my vote is for evil_d. It just seemed to flow much better. A greater sence of continuity.

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At least im still funny .....looking. http://www.carrionfields.com

My vote is for evil_d.

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FPD is the foremost plague on discussion boards. Do your part to stomp out FPD.

And with seven votes to one, evil_d gives our resident heroin adict a severe thrashing, and advances to the semifinal rounds of the contest. Don't worry evil_d, we'll hold off on Round 6 until you get back from your trip.

And now for the rematch of the century!

Round 5 Spankling vs NastyPope

Spankling puts his newly garnered win on the line against former finalist NastyPope, both of whom just barely scraped out of their preliminary matches! Will this mach be as close?

1) Write a comic lambasting your opponent, but leave the ending open in the thrid panel for more to happen. Now, once each of you has a comic fitting this description, take your opponent's comic, and continue it into a second strip where you turn the tables on them.

2) Each of these comics must include a reference to a tea party.

3) Your first strip must have a cast of females outnumbering males, and the second strip must have males outnumbering females.

4) Your second comic must have a crabby reference.

The judges are to vote based on who came out ahead when it's all said and done.

You have your missions... now let's get to it!

Not bloody likely.

Say what?

So I write a first comic with two frames filled in and the final panel blank, riding NP's ass in the process. Then I take NP's comic and fill in his last panel, turning what he had on me against him? Or do I use his thrid panel plus another three panels to do that?

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

No, you and he will use all three panels. Then in your second comic you will take the situation set up from NastyPope's first one to turn his attempts at degrading you back on his ass, and he will do the same to you.

NastyPope Steps Out with the Ladies by Spankling 8-17-01

Reality is the tapestry of conformity we drape across the seething chaos that is the truth... uh-huh, but... ...for Entropy is not the destruction of Order, merely the machination of its rebirth. Look, I don't care how you put it. If it aint stiff I can't stuff it in, but you still owe me the $20! Hey, NP. Lookin' for some action... that is if you're well rested? *snicker* I have GOT to get my hands on some vitamin E.

I am not looking forward to payback time on this one.
*flinch*

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

Crap! forgot the Tea party! (And I hope the FemsX2 manX1 formula I used counts.) Can I submit this?

Mind you this is unfamiliar territory for me. Nothing like giving NP ammo...

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

That's fine. 2 girls in the strip and just one guy works... I gotta hand it to you, that's a pretty damn good start. *laughs!*

I have to withdraw from Comic Cup. I find the first rule of this round highly offensive. I will not insult a specific person with a comic. Not knowing spankling at all I cannot in good conscience write anything deragatory about him. You may notice that my comics never insult particular people except celebrities and even then I am careful in how I treat them. It's a shame really, this cup was going good and I am very disappointed. I have on occassion taken little jabs at people on the forum but not to this extreme. People reading this may think I am over reacting. Perhaps I am but I have a certain sense that I will treat people with dignity and this rule offends that sensibility.

--NastyPope.

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At least im still funny .....looking. http://www.carrionfields.com

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I have to withdraw from Comic Cup. I find the first rule of this round highly offensive. I will not insult a specific person with a comic. Not knowing spankling at all I cannot in good conscience write anything deragatory about him. You may notice that my comics never insult particular people except celebrities and even then I am careful in how I treat them. It's a shame really, this cup was going good and I am very disappointed. I have on occassion taken little jabs at people on the forum but not to this extreme. People reading this may think I am over reacting. Perhaps I am but I have a certain sense that I will treat people with dignity and this rule offends that sensibility.

--NastyPope.

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I have to withdraw from Comic Cup. I find the first rule of this round highly offensive. I will not insult a specific person with a comic. Not knowing spankling at all I cannot in good conscience write anything deragatory about him. You may notice that my comics never insult particular people except celebrities and even then I am careful in how I treat them. It's a shame really, this cup was going good and I am very disappointed. I have on occassion taken little jabs at people on the forum but not to this extreme. People reading this may think I am over reacting. Perhaps I am but I have a certain sense that I will treat people with dignity and this rule offends that sensibility.

--NastyPope.

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Okay, in light of the early morning protestations of NastyPope I decided to change a part of rule 1 in this round.

Instead of lambasting one another, set up a *strange* situation for the character "Jon" from Goats to try to get himself out of. I'll leave the definition of *strange* up to each of you. Then once one of you has a comic fitting this description, take you opponent's comic and find a way for Jon to get himself out of the strange situation, but preferably in a funny way. Makes sure all the strips reference a tea party.

And to clarify, the 4th rule doesn't mean to insult crabby, but as long as he's at least mentioned in the comic you've done enough to satisfy the rule.

I hope this is satisfactory, and that no other such mishaps happen for the rest of the torunament. I would ask those of you who were defeated to remember this particular round in the event that NastyPope advances to the finals when you're submiting your rule for the two finalists to operate under.

I'll just be standing over here with excrement on my head for having created those unjust comics depicting NastyPope. I was prepared to take as bad as I dished, but he raises a point. There may be some who take such things personally. If I could delete them, I would.

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

I'll just be standing over here with excrement on my head for having created those unjust comics depicting NastyPope. I was prepared to take as bad as I dished, but he raises a point. There may be some who take such things personally. If I could delete them, I would.

Yeah, I feel pretty bad about it myself. I guess I just thought it was common that people just don't take things like that personally on here. You could write up an appology strip if you'd like... certainly not the same as a deletion, but still something.