Your rules:

1. A lot of fun contests have taken place lately. It's getting harder and harder to come up with original rules. Hopefully, these will provide a fun twist.

2. I just made these comics, numbered 71019 and 71022. They provide the introduction.

   7101971022

3. Obviously, Comic 71339 doesn't exist now, nor will it for a few days. I won't make any special attempt to create it. and it doesn't matter whether or not it has anything to do with this contest.

4. Between now and the creation of Comic 71339, your mission is to depict the various characters in their attempt to get ahold of the money. Making alliances, breaking alliances, backstabbing, thinking outside the box, ... anything goes. Multiple submissions encouraged. Extra credit for building off of each other's stripcreating work.

5. When Comic 71339 comes into being, it will show here:

   71339

   Take a good look at it. All the characters in this strip have found the money, regardless of what the text of the comic reads.

6. Once the money has been found, greed kicks into high gear. Characters will converge on whomever is holding the loot at the moment. Who will wind up with the pile?

7. We'll know once Comic 71400 has been created. The contest will then be over, and I will look for and identify the single funniest comic or miniseries of the lot.

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71112

So in theory, if I were to make every comic between now and the end of the contest, I would win be default?

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71112

Aaargh, ignore the post above.

71137
71138
71140
71142
71143
71148
71151
71155

Here are the first few bits of my humble entry.

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71272
71273
71275
71276

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71314

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71328
71329
71332

71337

After Comic 71339:
71342
71346
71353
71354
71356
71369

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Incidentally, I was too late and missed comic 71400 entirely:

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Just our luck. The net decides to go on a stripping binge and posts more comics in a day than it did all last week. Well, rules are rules, so let's put this to bed.

By technical guffaw, the winner and new champion:

TheBlairZip!

(It was close, but SCROE! put you over the top).

Weeeeee! My first win! Thanks, kaufman. Of course, a technicality is about the only way I figured I would ever win. ;) Rules for the next CC shortly.

Well, that was short but sweet. And a bit bemusing, all things considered.

DAMN!!

It's all over before I got to post an entry!

Well in case anyone's remotely curious, I was going to do something like ...
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And then have some intermediary comic to tie in with this one I did for CC 92:
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And then finish it off with kind of hilarious ending comic, but oh well ... must be getting lazy and slow in my old age.

You know, I've only just realised the excellent reference in the title of this contest.

And I still don't understand the winning strips.

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And I still don't understand the winning strips.

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