Okay, a little experiment in strip structure here.

[Click to view comic: 'Spelunking']

I did a set of strips last year about "Stripcreator Network News." The idea was that the news anchors (Betty Butterworth and Jake Jemima) would cut to the videotape or remote location in the second panel, which was always something ridiculous. Then there'd be some throwaway line back in the studio for the final panel.

So what you end up with is this:

Panel1: Setup
Panel2: Big Punchline
Panel3: Little Punchline

So, your mission. Make a strip in that structure. Use the Stripcreator Network News framework if you like, or make up your own. You have a lot of room for experimentation here. The middle panel can be some other place ("Meanwhile..."), some other time, or some other medium.

Series up to 5 strips are okay. Political strips making fun of George "29% Approval Rating" Bush always welcome.

More examples here.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

[Click to view comic: 'Build Big? Little?']

[Click to view comic: 'Continuing a void']

[Click to view comic: 'CC 322: The Inner Turmoil Of Private O'Groin']
[Click to view comic: 'CC 322: If The Shit Fits, Eat It']

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

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - We Interrupt This Lame-Ass Comic']

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Two-Panel Kabuki Theater']

[Click to view comic: 'The love of co-workers news']" />

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If god didn't intend for us to eat animals then why are they made out of meat?

Never have I been so tempted to delete a thread and start over.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

[Click to view comic: 'Idi Amin's Freestyle BMX party.']

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

[Click to view comic: 'POMG! That is one sort of answer to a question']

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[Click to view comic: 'invisible man halloween indiscretions']

you ever get so drunk you wake up a different sex?
i haven't either. yet.

[Click to view comic: 'da news at 4']
[Click to view comic: 'da news']

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Kill Whitey.

[Click to view comic: 'Groovy! - Blah, blah, blah']

[Click to view comic: 'The Immaculate World Of Theodore GyeBangre']

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

[Click to view comic: 'Cowboy Infidelity']

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

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[Click to view comic: 'RCL no. 1113']

[Click to view comic: 'Why I Hate Talking to my Roomate']

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

CONTEST UPDATE

Okay, I think I messed up in picking a contest theme. Maybe it was too complicated, or maybe it was just stupid. So let's try something else.

It's May Sweeps here in the US. That means that TV networks are pulling out all the stops to attract an audience. It also means that the local newscasts are increasingly sensational and over-the-top.

Therefore, portray for me a newscast or newscast promo that may have gone too far.

The previously entered comics are still in the competition. If you want to enter a comic using the old rules, that's fine, too.

Judgement on Sunday.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

[Click to view comic: 'Newscast Gone too far with punchline in middle.']

i think this one's worse than my first 2

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Kill Whitey.

oops. did i mention the whole drug thing?

[Click to view comic: 'news of the eh...']

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Kill Whitey.

Most of my comics follow this format.

[Click to view comic: 'Corporateness']

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"Old" is the old new.

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