There will be many challenges ahead for the five finalists, maybe even including an Iron Man Match.

Here are the basic rules again:

• I am the law, I can vote, I can delete posts and I can pretty much just make up the rules as I go along. If I decide to bring back an ejected player then so be it.
  
• You will have 48 hours to submit a comic when I decide your match has started, if you will be away and your match is coming up, tell me and I'll postpone it, or if you're struggling for a couple of hours a PM would be nice, just to know you're still alive. (I however am allowed to go away for months at a time without telling anyone)
  
• VOTE! All previous Comic Cup XII contestants are elligible to vote. If you're away, fair enough, but don't waste your vote (or do that gay abstaining thing, conscientious objectors will be shot) even if someone is winning by 18 votes to 0.
  
• Remember once again, that I AM THE LAW. If I want to tell the rest of you cunts to fuck off and eat ass and then give the whole goddamn crown to kaufman, I will. This is a monarchy, a dictatorship, a tyranny, and not a goddamn democracy. Except for when I say it is.

Still in this thing are

• kaufman
  
• BigEvilDan
  
• Rabid_Weasle
  
• mmyers
  
• graykane

Style is Everything Match
Rabid_Weasle Vs kaufman

• Standard cup match, one winner.
  
• Your job will be to take the five styles that I give you and make a comic resembling each one. I don't care what the content is as long as you make it funny.
  
• This means your entry will consist of five comics. I'm going to make you work for this, people.
  
• Everyone will vote on who made the funniest comics with the five styles.
  
• I have a back-up plan if you both suck ass, but if I have to use it I may get angry and stab you both in the eyeballs.

Here are the styles you must make comics in:

• retard: which must be a jerkcity character, appearing six times against the splitter background, and the text must be stream-of-consciousness.
  
• B. Kliban: Read a few, figure it out.
  
• Sexy Losers: Must be completely, abhorrently filthy and pushing the boundaries of bad taste, but still funny. The late Graham Chapman, of Monty Python fame, was a huge fan of poor, poor taste. Dedicate this strip to his memory. Also, by bad taste, I don't just mean thinly-stretched puns, kaufman.
  
• parody of other users: I will be assigning each of you another SC User to parody, and by parody I mean lambasting, scathing parody. I want funny, but I want it to be piercing. Kaufman may have trouble with this one, as he's generally a really nice guy. I want satire, people.
  kaufman: KajunFirefly
  Rabid_Weasle: Kevin_Keegans_Perm
  
• dcomposed: This comic has to be in dcom's "Why I Hate..." style.

Since this is a semi-final and a research-heavy match, I will give you fuckers until the 22nd to complete this. If you get it in beforehand, then hopefully we can vote before Commercialized Christian Holiday.

Get going.

In the order presented by MikeyG:

261950
261954
261953
261964
261951

/comics/Rabid_Weasle/262109/
/comics/Rabid_Weasle/262112/
/comics/Rabid_Weasle/262248/
/comics/Rabid_Weasle/262251/
/comics/Rabid_Weasle/262252/

Same order as Mikey listed them.

Also, apologies to Perm for making a comic about you that isn't even funny.

They were all tremendously maginifcent but I vote for kaufman

I'm going with Rabid Weasle on this one.

Tough decision, but after seven seconds of careful consideration, Rabid_Weasle's third comic made up my mind.

kaufman

I praise the almighty man fauk.

Holy crap, this was a great round of comics.

However, in the end, there can be only one.

That one... um.. will win?

Screw it. I vote for the Rabid Weasle.

I vote for kaufman, but it wasn't an easy decision.

kaufman

Here's my breakdown.

retard: even
kliban: kaufman
filthy: rabid
KF/KKP: kaufman
dcompo: rabid

In the end, I have to go with kaufman because rabid didn't really try to do anything with Perm.

Rabid

weasle buuuuhdie is sqwizzin the joohoooooce

After much deliberation, Rabid_Weasle is inched out in a goddamn close match by kaufman. Rabid actually only lost by ONE vote. This may turn out to have been the best match of the whole cup, guys. You both deserve a prize. Instead, I'll stop talking about either of you and set up the next match.

Filthy Mouth Match
BigEvilDan vs mmyers

• Standard cup match, one winner.
  
• This is going to be a dirty match. That means there are five topics you must make one comic each about, and the topics are chosen by me.
  
• This means your entry will consist of five comics. I'm going to make you work for this, people.
  
• Please post them in the same order I list the topics in, according to topic.
  
• People will vote on the best set of five comics.
  
• You guys have until next Wednesday the 5th to make your comics.

Here are the topics:

• AIDS in the ass
  
• raping eskimos with barbed wire
  
• cunt slime
  
• pus-filled nipple tumors
  
• marmalade

Get going, you sexy toe manglers!

rabid :E

/comics/BigEvilDan/263671/
/comics/BigEvilDan/263672/
/comics/BigEvilDan/263673/
/comics/BigEvilDan/263674/
/comics/BigEvilDan/263675/

263683
263687
263685
263688
263686

Nice job, guys!

AA: Dan
BW: Dan
CS: Even
NT: mmyers
MM: Even

By a margin of 3-2, my vote goes to BigEvilDan.

I just changed one of my punchlines before I realized that kaufman had already voted. Am I disqualified or what?

wow. these were incredible, but since somebody has to win:

AIDS in the ass: BigEvilDan
raping eskimos with barbed wire: BigEvilDan
cunt slime: mmyers
pus-filled nipple tumors: mmyers
marmalade: BigEvilDan

BigEvilDan

VileGibNad

There's something under my bed.

Dan

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There's something under my bed.

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And I vote for Dave.

Hey guys, how am I doing in the contest...oh.

To be honest, when I saw I was against Dan, I let out a big "well shit." But we still may have Ohio so I'm not giving up yet.

BigEvilDan is the second funniest thing I've read all day, the funniest thing being the plan of work my boss thinks I'm going to get done today.

Gawds, I hate to continue to unanymity, but...

I love you, Milkman Dan!

mmyers, you aren't disqualified, and for EVERYONE who votes, please do not let that affect your voting.

I think I should probably concede this election and let the healing of my black and blue, bruised ass begin.

This was really close.I had to keep going back up to re-read. Dan gets my vote.

I got some ass cream I can let you have mm.

-dan

BigEvilDan

I thought mmyers was more nasty. Since both were pretty equally funny, I'll vote for him.

Sincerely,
Miss Jackson (if you're nasty)

I also thought mmyers really did well in genres he in which he doesn't usually dabble. Winner: mmyers.

Are there still other people voting, or one year after this Cup began, have we all finally given up?

I think we're drawing it out so that I'll be able to say that I was in it for at least a year, even if I don't win.

if we all call it quits now, i believe there's four of us who forever will be able to say, "I participated in Comic Cup XII-- the longest comic cup in stripcreator history-- and I never lost a single match!" say it aggressively. it feels good. try it.

It appears, with little fanfare, BigEvilDan has managed to whup mmyers in the biggest landslide since Los Angeles fell into the fucking Ocean. Or will, hopefully. Next match has a surprise contender.

Headlines Match
graykane vs. Spankling

Once again, Spankling is resurrected to compete in the Comic Cup. Let's see if he still loses every round.

• Standard cup match, one winner.
  
• This match is all about headlines. I will give you five words, and each of which you must create a headline using the letters in that word as the first letters of the words in your title.

  For example, using the word CUNT your title would be something like....Christians Usurp NAMBLA's Throne!

• This means your entry will consist of five comics, as I will be giving you five words to use.
  
• Please post them in the same order I list the topics in, according to topic.
  
• People will vote on the best set of five comics.
  
• Make the goddamn comics by the end of the month.

Here are the words:

• GOOGLE
  
• NIGGER
  
• GRIMY
  
• CHEESE
  
• FLAT-CHESTED LESBIAN

Good luck, you fuckers.

Spankling will still be competing in this cup long after we're all dead.

i'll give it a try, but i doubt that when expanded as an acronymn FLAT-CHESTED LESBIAN will fit in the space allowed for the title.

:E

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i'll give it a try, but i doubt that when expanded as an acronymn FLAT-CHESTED LESBIAN will fit in the space allowed for the title.

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if we all call it quits now, i believe there's four of us who forever will be able to say, "I participated in Comic Cup XII-- the longest comic cup in stripcreator history-- and I never lost a single match!" say it aggressively. it feels good. try it.

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Here's my entry. What do I win?