Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know there's some sort of Newb Contest floating out there in this forum, but here is an idea we started last year--acknowledging and crowning the Best New Strippers of the last year.

Last year, it was posted in Comic Showcase, but that was before the More CC's forum, so I'll stick it here and volunteer to moderate it. Here's how it works:

This will be a quick contest involving only comics created in 2004 by those who joined in 2004. If you joined prior to 2004, but created an alias in 2004, you are not eligible!

Here's how the contest will run:

I'll post a topic, and you PM me the comic number of what you think is your best comic in that category.

All comics submitted must have been created in 2004--no new comics will be accepted. Once the deadline is up for PM's, I'll post the comics and voting will commence. If you don't get your comic PM'ed to me prior to the deadline, then you sit out that round.

Voting is open to anyone. At the end of the voting period, a winner in that category is declared and the next topic is posted with a new PM deadline.

At the end of the contest, all votes cast will be tallied and whomever receives the most votes during the contest across all categories will be crowned Best New Stripper of 2004. The categories will be general enough to ensure a wide array of strippers can participate.

The first category is "Best First Strip." PM me the first comic you made on Stripcreator by midnight Stripcreator time Thursday.

I deleted the first comic I ever made:(

We should do another one of these for the non-new members. Sort of an "SC Year In Review".

i will win this.

I joined in late 2004, this is my very first comic I made of the Alien Office series.
/comics/d_Random/260563/

So far, I like yours best.

No, no, no...I'll post the comics all at once tomorrow night. So far, I have 8 entries, including d's above. If any other n00b's want to join in on the fun, they can PM me their first comics.

Round two will be announced tomorrow two so the voting can proceed while I collect more entries.

Oops! Sorry, I jumped the gun!

Okay, here it goes. Everybody had to start off somewhere, and this is how each of our first contestants burst onto the Stripcreator scene.

Anyone can vote. If you award a tie, I'll split your vote. Also, a few strippers started out with different accounts before settling into the nicknames we all know and sometimes love, so I'm allowing aliases, as long as the user didn't join SC prior to 2004.

Vote Now: Best First Strip!

/comics/TooMuchCoffeeGuy/224257/

/comics/Externalization/216336/

216024

/comics/r2_d2/213515/

/comics/SPORGASM/210606/

/comics/d_Random/260563/

/comics/SpideyChris/258249/

/comics/CHUBBY/250412/

254885

208741

Okay, contestants--PM me the URL to the Last Strip you made in 2004 by Monday night.

quodlibet

My vote goes to SpideyChris.

I'll vote for d_Random. ftc's comic was hilarious though.

Oh, in case anyone cares TooMuchCoffeeGuy was my first account.

Hmm. It's pretty much a toss-up between ftc and quodlibet, but I think I like quodlibet's better, so... I'm voting for quodlibet.

SpideyChris

I almost have to go with d_Random, but in the end I can't resist TooMuchCoffeeGuy.

ftc should have at least one vote, so here it is.

Externalization gets my vote, with ftc and d_Random as runners-up.

d_random

I split my vote between Externalization and r2_d2.

TooMuchCoffeeGuy

I'm going to break the 4-way tie and vote for d_random. d_random wins Best First Strip...but we're just beginning...this is anybody's contest since all votes count in the final tally.

Contestants: send me the URL for your Personal Favorite Strip by Friday.

Everyone else: Vote now for Best Last Strip of 2004:

/comics/ftc/256537/

262186

/comics/Injokester/263226/

263372

/comics/d_Random/263689/

/comics/Externalization/263414/

/comics/SpideyChris/263518/

/comics/CHUBBY/263921/

Slim pickin's, but in the end I have to go with Injokester.

Don't worry...the next few categories will allow the contestents to choose what they think is the best submission.

I pick d_random this time around.

Injokester

CHUBBY

Injokester

I vote for Injokester!!

Wow, Injokester's comic really sucked...

I'll vote for SpideyChris

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Wow, Injokester's comic really sucked...

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d_Random

Cap'n Injoke

I didn't really like any of them, except cowtipper's.

ps that's a vote

They were all bad, but CowTipper's was the least horrible.

Oh shit....I haven't posted on a normal message board in a while....

I'll throw in a vote for CHUBBY this time around.

I've got a question, too. Are we going to get all the same categories that last year's group got? I'm trying to take future catagories into consideration while deciding which strip to submit as my personal favorite.

My vote goes to Cowtipper.

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Wow, Injokester's comic really sucked...

I'll vote for SpideyChris

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SpideyChris

My vote goes to d_random.

To answer your question, Externalization, I'll be using many, but not all of the categories from last year. I'll probably come up with a few different categories as well.

Injokester ran away with Best Last Strip. Now we get to the meat of the competition, where contestants get to decide what to submit.

Contestants...PM me your Best Relationship Strip by Tuesday.

Now, voters...behold the Best Personal Favorite category:

/comics/CHUBBY/260128/

/comics/Externalization/221234/

/comics/ftc/255574/

/comics/SpideyChris/261998/

/comics/Injokester/245428/

/comics/JESUSSANDWICH/237762/

I'm gonna throw my vote to ftc.

This is a tough call, but yeah I'll go with ftc too.

I'll split between Externalization and Injokester.

Injokester -- I think you meant to type "Remind me not to let..." in the punchline. You might want to fix that.

My mind automatically fixed the error. You've never been in a position where you had to read a variety of reports from different people, have you?

Injokester gets my vote this time. And not that it matters, but my vote for the last one would have gone to quodlibet. Keep reminding me to vote choad or just make the voting go on a bit longer.