I regularly read a variety of online comics, and for this contest, I will pick a few of my favorites and ask you to write strips that use characters from them. The three strips are Diesel Sweeties, Sinfest, and Pearls Before Swine. The first one has provided artwork for this site, the second one includes characters that are actually depicted on stripcreator by other artists, and the last one features a variety of animal characters, some of whom match animal images available in stripcreator. Here are the rules:

1) Your strip should portray actual characters from one or more of these three strips. It is alright to mix characters from different strips.

2) Any Diesel Sweeties images should portray the actual Diesel Sweeties characters. So, for example, you can use Red Robot C-63 but not Tobor.

3) You may include characters stripcreator doesn't provide images of, using your best judgment to select them.

Since these strips are all heavily satirical, bonus points for good satire. I will give this contest about two weeks, so that you have time to read these strips if you aren't familiar with them already. The first two are web comics, whose entire runs can be read on their respective web sites. The third is syndicated.

Here are some examples I have done in the past for other contests:

[Click to view comic: 'WW66: Pearly Gates Before Swine']

[Click to view comic: 'CC400: Man vs. Machine']

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[Click to view comic: 'RCL no. 2097']

[Click to view comic: 'CC 440: With Apologies to The Craw']

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

[Click to view comic: 'Pearls Before Swine Flu']

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"Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer." ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

[Click to view comic: 'Pearls Before Swine Flu']

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"Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer." ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

[Click to view comic: 'Pearls Before Swine Flu']

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"Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer." ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Presents: Diesel Sweaties']

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Presents: Diesel Sweaties']

[Click to view comic: 'CC 440 - Let's jump some sharks']

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troelsea at gmail dot com

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Presents: Diesel Sweaties']

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Presents: Diesel Sweaties']

[Click to view comic: 'CC#440 sell sell sell!']

[Click to view comic: 'CC 440 - Squigley bares it all']

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troelsea at gmail dot com

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Presents: Diesel Sweaties']

[Click to view comic: 'CC 440 - Hearts']

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troelsea at gmail dot com

[Click to view comic: 'RCL no. 2107']

[Click to view comic: 'Resemblancelesbian']

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"There's no point in beating a dead horse ... except, of course, for the pure joy of it." - A. Whitney Brown

[Click to view comic: 'Clango's Dilemma']

[Click to view comic: 'Helmut and Rube (Guest-starring: Neal)']

[Click to view comic: 'Pants Provokes Deuce']

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

There's enough good ones here that it makes judging harder. First, here are some of the best for each strip:

Diesel Sweeties

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Presents: Diesel Sweaties']

[Click to view comic: 'CC 440 - Hearts']

I don't know who Rachel Rosen is, and Red Robot C-63 isn't gay, but it was still funny.

Pearls Before Swine

[Click to view comic: 'CC 440: With Apologies to The Craw']

I'm surprised no one used Rat. He gets some of the best lines. Still, it is usually the stupid crocs who are funniest.

Sinfest

[Click to view comic: 'CC#440 sell sell sell!']

This also has IndiePete from Deisel Sweeties in it, but the others are Sinfest characters. It's hilarious how God sometimes mocks the Devil with his  hand puppets, especially when he's trying to conduct the serious business of getting someone to sell his soul.

And the winner is RCCOLAMAN for the Sinfest strip. I laughed more at this than at the others. Good job.

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Alright I WON!!!! How unexpected!! I will begin a new contest some time tomorrow.

...high five!!