Wahey! So, I'm as surprised to be hosting this as anyone but it's still literally a dream come true to have won a competition, except this dream has less sex and absinthe than usual. But anyway, here's the set-up for Comic Competition 179:
The Rules:
- The focus of the strip must be somewhere remote, far away from everyone and everything else. This can be anywhere you want, on an island, in space, or the middle of a desert, a mountain, whatever. Just as long as it's far away and there are very few people there.
- Characters can talk about this place from elsewhere or ideally be stuck in this place, getting up to something.
- Series are welcome
- Old strips that are compliant are welcome.
- You may not use the letter E. Just kidding. EEEEE!
No-no's
Nothing is blatantly forbidden (wahey!)
However…
- I'm unlikely to find any clichés or stereotypes funny unless done in a particularly new way.
- Other than that anything goes.
The following are optional and will get you
Super Bonus Points:
- Exceptionally silly names for the place. Eg. Space Station Renton 47, or Fistula Island.
- The following words or phrases, or variants on them:
- "Creosote"
- "Who's Doublenutz?"
- "I just finished de-icing the…[insert technical phrase here] module, I need a [insert drink here] [insert analogy to how badly character needs beverage here]?"
- "Uranium enriched cheese"
- New and Creative insults such as " haddock shite" "Sweet rabid baby Jayzus!" or "Bah! Would that I could reign flaming meteors on those soul-less bastards! BAAAHHH!"!
- I'm a fan of Scottish sci-fi author Iain M. Banks so if you've read any of his stuff, working in some element of his work will win major points. Or any other science fiction type plot device or film reference for that matter.
- Last but not least I'm open to flattery and bribes, in the form of recycling characters or reference to any of the running "jokes" from any of my strips . This may require you to read some of them. Hey, perhaps this smacks of egotism but I may never win another comic competition again so I may as well encourage people to give my crap a remix while I can!
I'm introducing a twist in this one, in the form of:
Recommended reading on remote places:
http://www.bas.ac.uk/Living_and_Working/Diaries/Halley/2002/index.html
http://www.kerguelen.de
http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/4466/
Obviously, just like university, you can ignore these and go and drink beer at the cheapest bar you can find instead. Or whatever.
Ok, there's the rules and recommendations.
Now pack up your map, tequila, thermal underwear and/or sunscreen , find this godforsaken remote place and I'll see you back here on Monday 7th April at noon British Summer Time.
CC 179 participants: your expedition begins…NOW!