UnknownEric lives up to his name with a no-show. TheGovernor goes through to the next round.
Round 8
ragu4u vs jes_lawson
Random.org have come up with 123 so let's take a look...
cc123: Comedy - Tragedy = ? (7th June 2002, hosted by ObiJo, won by Kaufman)
Ten years from now, the next generation of strippers will be competing in Comic Contest 1234. No doubt they'll recognize the significance of that combination of numbers and maybe, just maybe, they'll look back at comic contest 123 to see what the previous generation did.
Now what could I say here that would be funny? Maybe "Let's moon them", or "It's to those people I say, fuck off", or "But more likely is that we'll all be enslaved by the robots by then."
But not in this contest, sister. This contest is all about seeing if the old adage about all comedy coming from tragedy is true. There are three rules:
1. There can be absolutely no "tragedy" whatsoever. Every person (character, mentioned third party, or anyone else) must be as well-off or better-off when the comic ends as when it started. Nothing bad can happen to anyone. (No insults, threats, assrape by a giant red robot, etc.)
2. All people (as defined above) in the comic must be in a neutral or good mood. Nowhere in the strip can someone be in a bad mood. They don't have to be happy, they can be neutral if you want. They just can't be sad, or angry, or any other mood that smells like tragedy.
3. Funniest comic wins.
Be careful with rule 1. Even if nothing bad happens to any of the characters, if they're talking about something bad happening to someone else, you've broken the rule.
And for the record, Obijo was wrong. Ten years later, we were only at CC556.