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Inflatable_Man
December 28, 2004 10:23 AM

Your character was at the top of his game. The chicks dug him. The guys wanted to be him. And he had the best selling pop albums and starred in the highest grossing teen sex comedies. Now he's been caught up in an embarrasing/disgusting/plain bizzarre scandal that immediately destroys any legitimacy he had and makes him a late-night punchline. Your job is to chronicle the scandal. What was he involved in that contributed to his downfall? Was it an Ashlee Simpson moment? Or was it a far more sinister OJ Simpson moment? The choice is up to you. You might also want to chronicle how he handles himself in the aftermath. Does he turn to drugs and sink deeper or try and clean up his image?

Series are not only allowed, but encouraged.

Bonus points for anyone who includes an obscure C-list celebrity as a friend or mentor to our erstwhile superstar. By C-list I mean guys like Carrot Top, Gary Coleman, Monica Lewinsky or the surviving half of Milli Vanilli. You get the idea.

Bonus points also for including words like "degrading", "shameful", "pathetic", "humiliating" and "crack cocaine".

Bonus points if your character or someone else in the strip says "I will not wear that chicken suit!" or "But officer..."

No archived strips allowed.

Judging will be next Tuesday! Have fun!

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possums
December 28, 2004 11:33 AM

Would you consider Kirstey Alley C-list?

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Inflatable_Man
December 28, 2004 12:16 PM

Only if she's fat. :)

(c-list is subjective, folks. Don't sweat the small details too much)

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biped
December 28, 2004 1:30 PM

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biped
December 28, 2004 1:31 PM

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Inflatable_Man
December 28, 2004 9:02 PM


"Hey! Youse guys!!!"

From the lack of interest, I'm afraid I may have made a bit of a crap CC. Or people are too busy! I'm hoping it's the latter, but probably not. Well, I tried. With only biped contributing so far, your chances of winning this thing are greatly increased so send in those entries, cuz y'know biped won't win! (omg, I'm j/k)

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UnknownEric
December 29, 2004 7:58 AM

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Or people are too busy!
I think it's a good CC. I've been trying to come up with something worthy of the topic.

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UnknownEric
December 29, 2004 8:17 AM

There's no real SCANDAL here, unless you count "being shitty" as a scandal, but...

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kaufman
December 29, 2004 9:38 AM

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fpd
December 30, 2004 5:42 AM

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From the lack of interest, I'm afraid I may have made a bit of a crap CC. Or people are too busy!

The thing about this CC is that it requires more work than usual and leaves less room for individual inspiration. Consider some recent CCs that have been very successful, such as the nightmares CC or the love stinks CC. Each gave a general theme common to the lives of many and left a lot of room for individual inspiration. In contrast, the theme of this CC is less relevant to everyday life, and it doesn't lend itself well to single strips. Also, the amount of detail you've already given us about what the strips should be about restricts individual creativity more than the usual CC does. If I get inspired, I might enter something, but it hasn't happened yet.

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fpd
December 30, 2004 5:42 AM

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From the lack of interest, I'm afraid I may have made a bit of a crap CC. Or people are too busy!

The thing about this CC is that it requires more work than usual and leaves less room for individual inspiration. Consider some recent CCs that have been very successful, such as the nightmares CC or the love stinks CC. Each gave a general theme common to the lives of many and left a lot of room for individual inspiration. In contrast, the theme of this CC is less relevant to everyday life, and it doesn't lend itself well to single strips. Also, the amount of detail you've already given us about what the strips should be about restricts individual creativity more than the usual CC does. If I get inspired, I might enter something, but it hasn't happened yet.

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biped
December 30, 2004 2:10 PM

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possums
December 30, 2004 2:15 PM

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Inflatable_Man
December 30, 2004 7:27 PM

Some really good strips here! Keep 'em comin.

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mox
December 31, 2004 9:51 AM

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ArtemisStrong
January 1, 2005 8:15 PM

Great, I was all like ready to submit a totally winning comic and then mox has to go and steal my idea!

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fpd
January 1, 2005 9:22 PM

Okay, I got an idea, and it grew into something I like.

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Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Big Moose, Midge Klump, Reggie Mantle, and Cheryl Blossom all belong to Archie Comics. Trevor Horn and Jay Leno are real people.

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Inflatable_Man
January 4, 2005 1:07 PM

... And possibly the least popular CC ever comes to a wimpering close! But to those who did participate I thank you. Next time (if there is one), I'll try to make the rules a bit more simple and concise.

Anyway... on to the winners!

UnknownEric comes in third with his series about the Rise and Fall of hairmetal rockstar Aynis Hertz!!!

fpd blasted into second with his series about the Rise and Fall of bigamy loving teenager Archie Andrews!!

But in the end there can be only one winner....

Despite the lack of entries, there were still some REALLY funny entries that had me guffawing... and judging the ultimate winner was not easy, but in the end one series stood above the rest:

I'm talking about biped's brilliant Biff McGurk series which somehow managed to not only incorporate all the rules into the strips, but the *actual* descriptions of the rules as well. And it was still somehow the most hilarious series I've seen in weeks.

biped take it away!

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biped
January 5, 2005 1:53 PM

Thank you very much. I've never been as proud as I am at this very moment to be a big, fat asshole.

I will post a brand new CC just as soon as I figure out why I have suddenly been buried beneath a mountain of dead dogs.

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