Greetings, ladies and gents. jes_lawson here, with the first half of the amazing joint Comic Contest 224.

mmyers and I have just been speaking on #stripcreator, and we've united our comic talents (in about 5 minutes) and come up with what we hope is a good one.

He'll be replying to this post shortly with the main rules and theme for you to follow, but as a taster, my half of it is here:

[list]
[*] You've got to involve the number 26 somewhere in the strip. Some of you will know or can guess why ;-)
[/list]

That's all from me, so I hand you over to the Arnold Schwartzenegger to my Danny DeVito, mmyers...

---
Please replace the handset, and try again.

Hey, hey. This contest is all about birth, in particular, twins!

Once upon a time, two twins got seperated at birth and are going to find there way back together, with your help. You're going to tell us how they got back together.

Extra super brownie points if you get together with another SC person and write both sides of the journey. It's not mandantory (you can dance by yourself, but it looks cooler if you have a partner) but if you know someone who would like to do it with you *ahem*, give 'em a call. Or maybe make a friend out of someone you don't know. Jes_l and I are trying to bring folks together for the holidays. Have some egg nog. After we've brought you together, though, then we'll rip you apart by judging the winning team seperately (that is, if a tandem wins). If a single wins, we'll just rip you apart. It's cool.

Don't forget the number 26.
Series are welcome, but let's try to keep it under ten comics (all brand spankling new) because we do have lives and tequila and absynth to drink.

Judging for this piece is Thursday, December 18. That gives you time to get together, work out a plan, get in a fight, break up, get back together, make a comic or two, then fight again.

Now get out there and find someone's other half.

Jes, did I forget anything?

---
Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

Looks OK to me. In fact, it's like you read my mind. It's like we've got some kind of psychic Gemini Factor thing going on.

---
Please replace the handset, and try again.

I was going to try to do this in tandem with Boorite, but I was having so much fun playing with myself...

...wait, that came out wrong...

...WAIT, SO DID THAT!

CC224: Maryland Librarians Discover Shocking Secret Pt. 1 by UnknownEric 12-09-03

Gosh, Sarah, the UMBC campus sure is nice. Yes, Eric, isn't it? Hey, look! It's the library! As a librarian, I feel it is my sacred duty to check it out. Weirdo. To be continued... Hi, I'm Boorite, is there something I can... *GASP* *GASP*

CC224: Maryland Librarians Discover Shocking Secret Pt. 2 by UnknownEric 12-09-03

Holy cow! Who are you? I'm Unknown Eric. Are you Boorite? Sure am! I can't believe it! It's like we're identical twins! Sure seems like it! Of course, I'm the handsome one who gets all the pussy. Of course.

CC224: The Liberrians One, Pt. 3 by UnknownEric 12-09-03

Boorite phones his mother for information. Mom? I just met this guy named Eric who looks just like me! What's the deal? Oh, gosh, I was hoping it would never come to this. I guess I have to tell you the truth. Am I adopted? Was Eric adopted? No and no. What is the deal? Tune in next time! Do we have the same father? No.

CC224: The One About Neil Jung, Pt. 4 by UnknownEric 12-09-03

So what is it? You were both part of an experiment by the American Library Association to create the super librarian. Whoa! This is heavy! Of course, you got all of the charm and professionalism, but in return, Eric got a 15 inch penis. Well, that seems like a fair tr... HOLY CRAP! Did I mention that that refers to width?

CC224: Watch As This Series Devolves Into Dick Jokes... by UnknownEric 12-09-03

Whoa... So, what did your mom tell you, Boo? That we're clones created by the ALA... Wow, that's a lot to take in at once... ...and that my penis is bigger. Whoa, that's a lot to take in at once...

and next, the chilling conclusion...

---
I has a flavor!

CC224: The Anti-Climactic Conclusion by UnknownEric 12-09-03

So what do we do with this new found information? We could join forces and become the greatest librarian tandem known to man? Or we could join forces and drink the 26 cases of beer I have stored in the back... Yeah, that one.

---
I has a flavor!

Unknown Eric should thank me because by comparison this comic will make his series seem funnier than it already was.

Mathematicians may laugh. Then again... by ObiJo 12-09-03

26! My long lost twin! 62! How are you? Not bad! You know, things are never boring when you share a decade with 69. Looks like you're sharing things with someone else too. Who's your imaginary friend there? Oh, just some chick I picked up at the beach. She seemed to dig the way I rode the waves.

---
I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

I stole that robot as "i" idea from Big Evil Dan, by the way. So maybe that satisfies the tandem thing is some dirty, non-consensual kind of way.

---
I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

CC 224: 01. At The Bridge Of Life by umfumdisi 12-09-03

Hullo. STOP. YE SHALL NOT PASS UNTIL YE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!! Okeh. WHAT IS YOUR QUEST? I seek my long-lost twin. How long has it been since you've seen your twin?

CC 224: 02. At The Bridge Of Life by umfumdisi 12-09-03

I haven't seen my brother since 1974. DO YOU LIKE CHEESE? I love cheese. Listen, is there a point to these questions? YES, I NEED GOSSIP MATERIAL FOR MY VISIT WITH THE GATEKEEPER. I have hemorrhoids--painful, flaring, itchy hemhorrhoids. Is that enough? YOU MAY PASS!

CC 224: 03. Read From Right To Left by umfumdisi 12-09-03

Didn't I just talk to you? I'm trying to find my long-lost brother. WHAT IS YOUR QUEST? Okay. STOP. YE SHALL NOT PASS UNTIL YE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!! Howdy.

CC 224: 04. Read From Right To Left by umfumdisi 12-09-03

YOU MAY PASS...AGAIN! Grilled Cheese. WHAT KIND OF SANDWICH? I forgot my sandwich? IF I ALREADY LET YOU PASS, WHY ARE YOU BACK HERE? Uh, yeah, we did just talk, so why don't you let me cross?

CC 224: 05. Bridge Of Sighs by umfumdisi 12-09-03

I wonder how long this damn bridge is? I've been walking for 26 minutes. *Sigh*

[Click to view comic: 'CC 224: 06. Sigh Of Bridges (Right 2 Left Again)']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 224: 07. The Sighting (Read From Both Sides)']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 224: 08. They Meet!']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 224: 09. They Sing!']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 224: 10. The Long Goodbye']

---
Chicken Feather Bed Bugs Bunny Hop Sing Out Side Street Walker Texas Ranger Cookie Dough Boy Wonder Years

I would love to work on this with someone. Especially someone FUNNY. If you want to work with me, Private message me or just reply to this post.

---
The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

I will. Just don't expect high quality or fast responses.

---
"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

quote:

---

Hmm. A partner for CC224 you say? ... as the reigning champion of the FTC, id be honored to double up on this one with you.
From Kevin Keegans Perm :: 12-09-03 03:17pm ( reply :: delete )

---

Looks like a really good CC, if anybody wishes to team up with me, just PM me.

(Sorry for the shameful/whore-ish plug)

CC 224: A New Era Dawns by kaufman 12-09-03

Uncle Ken, Why aren't there any dinosaurs today? It was a fateful time 70 million years ago, when the future of life on earth hung in the balance. Dinosaurs had ruled the land for eons on end, but they were getting pretty tired of it all. How's it going, Irv? Same old same old. Mammals were beginning to sprout, lemurs and platypi and eohippies, but they had yet to solifify their grip. Oh wow, look at the stripes on that saber-toothed cat! I dig!

Simian Says: Hands on Hips! by kaufman 12-09-03

Here goes a small monkey, poised perhaps to lead the mammalian revolution. I wish I had somebody to fling poo at. I feel so empty, so alone. I know my long-lost soulmate is out there somewhere. Guess I'll just have to play with myself for the 26th time this morning. Or not. Sigh, life just ain't worth living.

Donosore by kaufman 12-09-03

But the dinosaurs are having their doubts too. ... and sex isn't even fun anymore. It just chafes me to death. So what if we die out, I don't want to reproduce. Hang in there. I hear Harry is working on something that will restore our will to procreate. Eureka! Cue irony meter In this cup I hold the salvation of the reptilian races, a lubricant derived from mammalian secretions.

The Fateful Meeting by kaufman 12-09-03

I don't believe it! That cup! I can tell! It's my long-;lost other half! Please, if you have any decency, let me have it. I need it to be whole! What? This cup of organic penile lubricant? You must be mistaken. How could that possibly be your soulmate?

End of an Era by kaufman 12-09-03

Let me get this straight: faced by the true bond of kinship, Harry got rid of our salvation and gave it to that little mammal? That's exactly what he told me. Who could buy that hogwash? Kinship between a monkey and a cup of lube? Actually, I believe in it. What could possibly be a better marriage of the diverse than a rhesus-penis butter cup? Screw all of this. Does anybody know the number for Dial-an-Asteroid?

---
ken.kaufman@gmail.com

Kaufman, I hate you. That was quite possibly the most ridiculous and ludicrous build-up to the funniest punchline I have seen yet on this site. Did I mention I hate you?

---
The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

P.S. - I hate you

---
The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

CC CCXXIV(224): Satan's biography by laughinginyourface 12-10-03

Hey, I'm Satan. You look kinda familiar. Yeah, I'm Belial...I think i know you from somewhere. 50 years earlier... 25 years earlier...Satan didn't do good in school. Whats 5x5...4x4...3x3? 666, 666, and this is just a guess, but 666.

Satan's biography...continued. by laughinginyourface 12-10-03

They never could pick up chicks, either. Will you go out with me to hell? No, you suck. Collage was a problem, as well. ...SAT score:666, worked at death metal concert, then joined the band Chaos Eternal Internal... I don't think you're really what we're looking for... Back to present... Must have been nothing. Yeah.

I got 196999! So close...

---
...and pain joined his urge to percieve...

CC 224: 26 by boinky33 12-11-03

?     ?   ... ...   !     !

Dammit, someone team with me.

---
"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

CC224: Robot Revelations by fzh 12-11-03

!   Oh my gosh! We must be, like, long lost twins or something! Umm...we were mass produced. Did you know yo were part of the NDR-26 series? You mean I've been living a lie? I don't think you can actually call what we do "living." Hey guys, whazup?

CC continued 2(tribute to IRC) by laughinginyourface 12-11-03

So I've commited 8 of them. Ok, lets have sex. Half an hour later... Now, we have to do something bad... Yo mammas so fat, she had to go to Sea World to get baptized. Yo mammas so fat, we're sitting in her right now. What the fuck are you talking about?

CC continued by laughinginyourface 12-11-03

Basically, I've been ruling for the 26th thousand years. I thought that was me! Well, technicially, since we're twins, we're both ruling right now. Is there a constitution? Yes. It says they must break all ten commandments.  :)   :)

I decided to add on. <:p

---
...and pain joined his urge to percieve...

Just pretend I put 26 days instead of 100 days in the middle panel. I messed up.

And this will be continued by Matchbook_Romance.

---
Destroying my reputation one post at a time.

CC224: Dis is like dat moovie 'Twins'!!! (2) by Matchbook_Romance 12-11-03

Soh you are my twen? We dun even look the same! We are twins Arnold. Can't you see we have the same eyes? Ahhhh and Gway Davis is our fahther! Dis can't bee happaning! Cohneelius who is our mahther doh? That's why I'm here, we have to consult Gray Davis about it. I hear our mother has a rare disease and has only a little time left. You have to cancel the parade. NO TIME FOR DA BOOBIES?! FINE FINE... ehhhnything for mahther. Anyways, if you wish, you can fondle with mines. TO THE TWIN MOBILE!

Conclusion, coming soon.

To be concluded by Matchbook_Romance.

---
Destroying my reputation one post at a time.

CC224: Dis is like dat one moovie 'Twins' (4) by Matchbook_Romance 12-13-03

Soh, whaat now? We aweddy know who our mahther is. I don't know. I'm not even really crippled, I just used this wheelchair to get the handicapped spot. We caan still do da Groping Day Pawade by tommorow. Sounds good, I'll go get my nipple clamps. Befoe you go brahther, I want to tell you one ting. I lav you Cohneelius. I love you too Arnold.

Hope you enjoyed the series... =D

woo ha! From Me and Kevin Keegan's Perm:

CC 224: The Rape of PunKing Part 1 by MikeyG 12-10-03

Hey, Kaufman! I just finished masturbating to your CC 224 entry. I saved a handful for you! Here, let me show you... Listen, slave, I don't want to talk about 'Master'-baiting. Ok, well, why don't we pretend like we're in prison, kaufman, and I'll bugger you senseless. If I was to joke while you rogered me, I'd be getting 'PUN'-ked! Ha ha! And if you were to expire during the cornholing, I'd have 'bum'-ped you off! Holy Christ, it's contagious... If you buggered everyone on Earth you'd achieve Total World Sodomination!

CC224 : O Brother Where Art Thy Moustache by Kevin_Keegans_Perm 12-10-03

I feel like theres a part of me missing. Its almost as though theres someone out there i havent met thats my equal yet complete opposite. Someone whos puns and jokes make no sense. Someone completely unfunny. Someone who doesnt like cats or facial hair. Wait. My soulmate is Boinky33?