It looks like Chicka's not going to show, so I'll start this off. Because of crabby's big event, CC 102 will have an extra component. To win, you have to submit at least one comic adhering to each of the following sets of rules:

1. Take a well-known work of fiction (book, movie, play, whatever), change some event in it, and show what happens as a result.

2. Write a comic describing some aspect of the experience of fatherhood.

If I was unclear, I'm expecting separate comics. No need to cram both themes into one unless you really want to.

I'll try and judge it Friday morning stripcreator time.

Ack! I was waiting for a response from you on ICQ!!

Ack, you guys aren't gonna scrap this contest now, are you? I just wrote up my entries!

Heh, anyway, this one's for the first rule:

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(I only played the N64 game, so I hope it follows the plot well. :-) To digress a bit, I actually did kill 006 prematurely in that game, set off some bombs a bit too early.)

Here's for the second rule:

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Blended the themes over both comics.

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Damn, fuzzyman beat me to the Star Wars joke.

You think you oldbies are so tough, huh, taking care of both requirements with one comic??? Well, take THIS:

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A pretty obvious one, considering that modernizing Shakespeare seems to be in style.

P.S. - I apologize in advance for any offensive language, stereotyping, inaccurate slang translations, etc. that exist in this comic.

How about apologizing for not reading the rules?

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These four strips are based on Greek plays that tell different parts of one continuing storyline. The first three also deal with fatherhood. The first strip is based on "Iphigenia at Aulis" by Euripedes. The remaining three are based on the Oresteia series by Aeschylus. The larger context for these plays is the Trojan War, which Homer has written about in the Iliad. Each strip is named after the play it is based on. The change in plot occurs in the first strip, and the remaining strips deal with the aftermath of this change.

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Haw haw haw!!!

I don't get it.

It misses one element -

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Haw haw haw!!!

I don't get it.

It misses one element -

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All the others stories the strips here are based on have been made into movies except Iphigenia at Aulis and the Oresteia series. I'm just saying I don't think one would get your's unless they went and read 'em.

Worthless, but what the hell.
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How about apologizing for not reading the rules?

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All the others stories the strips here are based on have been made into movies except Iphigenia at Aulis and the Oresteia series. I'm just saying I don't think one would get your's unless they went and read 'em.

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How about apologizing for not reading the rules?

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What, did I miss a rule somewhere?

"Take a well-known work of fiction (book, movie, play, whatever)" (Hamlet by William Shakespeare), change some event in it, (Take the ghost scene, bump it up a few hundred years, and change the setting to Brooklyn) and show what happens as a result. (Amusing miscommunication)"

"Write a comic describing some aspect of the experience of fatherhood. (Stereotypical miscommunication between parent and child)"

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I fear that only my fellow fogeys will get this one...

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What, did I miss a rule somewhere?

"Take a well-known work of fiction (book, movie, play, whatever)" (Hamlet by William Shakespeare), change some event in it, (Take the ghost scene, bump it up a few hundred years, and change the setting to Brooklyn) and show what happens as a result. (Amusing miscommunication)"

"Write a comic describing some aspect of the experience of fatherhood. (Stereotypical miscommunication between parent and child)"

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All the others stories the strips here are based on have been made into movies except Iphigenia at Aulis and the Oresteia series. I'm just saying I don't think one would get your's unless they went and read 'em.

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This is usually done in college in an introductory course on the western classics. Kaufman's entry in the last contest included a chorus, which led me to believe that he is familiar with Greek drama. Also, he has been to college and is even older than I am. So I think odds are good that he has enough familiarity with the plays I used.

Anyway, if you want movies, "Iphigenia at Aulis" was made into the movie Iphigenia (1977), and "Agamemnon" was made into the TV movie Agamemnon (1973).

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What, did I miss a rule somewhere?

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I'm just too lazy to do two comics and choose to glom the themes into one.

No, wait! It's the challenge... yeah, that's it... the challenge of doing a comic with both themes. That's the ticket.

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I guess I glommed onto that one part too much. My bad. Sorry.

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Hell just froze over.

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*laugh*

That R&J strip is genius, deuce!

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

(Terse, yet appreciative.)

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But what if Shakespeare's "Othello" was performed by the SC Players?

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Since I have lost the capacity for creativity, I'll just try to shoehorn this old one into the present rules...

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Ya see, the fatherhood element is expressed by the ingratitude of the son towards his parents and indifference to their deaths and, uh, um, oh forget it...

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This isnt an Entry , as it has nothing to do with Fatherhood , but i found the concept hilarious.

Steve Buscemi Rocks!

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Graveyard background was the spookiest we had... anyone get the masque of red death reference?

And yes, Poe WAS doing his thirteen year old cousin

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He isn't this old yet. Thank God...

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This is my first competition in ages, so I'm a bit rusty. Observe:

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First the mentions to the rulebreakers who only completed half the biathlon.

Achievement in Art Direction goes to TheBlairZip for oustanding casting of characters in his Pulp Fiction sendoff.

And Three Laughs to deucepm for three very good twists.

In the next post: the awards for those who completed both events ...

In CC 84, boorite gave me a Special ESP Award for swiping the two ideas he had in mind when he drew up the contest. After 18 contests, it finally gets passed to someone else. In my first draft of the rules, I was posting several examples, one of which was "What if C3P0 had a penchant for cornholing?" Thus, Big Evil Dan, that prize is yours; cherish it well.

A Special Casting Award goes to fpd. Three words: "penguins as furies" explain everything.

And an Outdoing the Host award goes to DexX. I came upon the idea for rewriting fiction a few weeks back when I made an alternative Lord of the Rings comic. You can search for it if you want; it wasn't that good. However, the High Elf concept provided a strong punch.

Oh yeah, we still have to hand out an overall winner for this thing. If I recall, in all the CCs I've run, I've never given out First Prize to the same person twice. And I do believe that streak is about to continue. Congratulations to:

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Curses! Foiled again!

Oh, wait... I won? I am stunned and amazed.

The next contest will be up as soon as I think of something. Since I had no expecation of winning this one versus the other entries, so it will take a few hours for me to think up something sufficiently evil... er.... I mean, entertaining.