Mystery Comic Cup 2

Yes, it's time for Mystery Comic Cup 2 to actually begin.

The rules:

• People participating in the Cup will vote for the best comic in each round.
  
• Revelation of your identity does not disqualify you anywhere along the way.
  
• All participants will reveal their identities at the end.
  
• Feel free to confirm or deny your identity if someone guesses it, but personally I think it's more fun if we reveal at the end.
  
• If I find anyone has entered under multiple identities, all of their identities will be disqualified from further competition. Don't fuck with me, or I will chop off your head and have Tobor cornhole the stump.
  

Rules for each match are typical Cup rules. Submit a single comic based on the rule for that round, yadda yadda. The only oddity will be the third round, where there will be three contestants. I figured that was better than eliminating four contestants or giving someone a free pass to the final.

We're gonna move this puppy along. Forty-eight hours maximum for a comic submission and 24 hours for voting, with some slack for the weekends. You snooze, you lose.

Kajun_Firefly is your backup host for those times I am away. I'll try to give him enough notice. If he fails to live up to his awesome backup host duties, I invite jes_lawson and andydougan to step in and keep things running smoothly.

For each round I will give you one of the rules submitted by a contestant, and a random serious poem from Rafi's Random Poetry Generator for you to use as inspiration. I realize that I didn't ask for nearly enough rules, and this is my way of providing a theme for each round while incorporating your content rules.

Your contestants are (seeded in alphabetical order):

• BobbyExtreme
  
• Cancer_Spy
  
• cappy_coke
  
• el_hijo_del_iris
  
• FourKneeKate
  
• GravyBoat2003
  
• HDB
  
• MotherGoose
  
• Mr_Doom
  
• ReplacerEraser
  
• y
  
• youdontknowme
  

The bracket can be seen here.

First round to be posted shortly.

Minor correction. HDB lost access to his/her account and is now known as I_Smell_Like_Poo.

Round 1, Match 1

BobbyExtreme vs. Cancer_Spy

Rule: All characters in the comic must be female.

Poem:

She darkly raises the dreary tables
Because the trees go behind the small sheep.
Where does the worm fall so secretly?
What is a woman?
A salesman smiles cleverly above the quick chairs.
The snakes write.

Since this is the first round, I want to make it clear -- just use the poem as some sort of inspiration. You aren't required to explain the poem or use lines from it.

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150035

BobbyExtreme

BobbyExtreme

BobbyExtreme

Bobby Extreme...

Actually, Ewwww, you should vote using your alias account, not your actual account.

Yea, I kinda messed up...

Cancer_Spy

bobbyextreme.

Furthermore, I would like to guess that ewwww is fourkneekate in the event that he may not have had the foresight to wait a few hours before posting his vote and then, to throw people off the trail, voted for the opposite. It is more a joke than anything, because I don't think anyone short of Devin is quite that stupid.

BobbyExreme!!!

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"Hey! You really do smell like poo!"- One_Eye_Jake

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Ewwwww.

He's obsessed with the "HDB" thing and obviously smells like poo.

hdb!

BobbyExtreme

2 things...
1. GravyBoat2003 is dcomposed.
2. Why does kajun hate me? It says you shouldn't be taken orally, which makes since you are a very Anal Person.But nice guess for a drunk, I mean a Scotsman...

Bah!

Well, it was a fun few hours.

I can wait another year for the 3rd installment.

Winner of Round 1, Match 1: BobbyExtreme

The bracket is here.

Round 1, Match 2

cappy_coke vs. el_hijo_del_iris

Rule: Involve the term Penal Code somewhere in the comic.

Poem:

We slowly examine the dreary house
And the snakes fight on the small cows.
What do the bears build so openly and cleverly?
Where are the people?
The dancers fall lovingly on the face of the pale lion.
The moons love.

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because I don't think anyone short of Devin is quite that stupid.

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For the record, Devin, I also think you are stupid.

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because I don't think anyone short of Devin is quite that stupid.

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cappy_coke is SOOO k_v_k.

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For the record, Devin, I also think you are stupid.

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Fight, fight, FIGHT!

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The mere-mortal to gain my vote is el_hijo_whatever

el_hijo_del_iris

I didn't really get either of them, I'll absain unless my vote is important.

That IS kind of the point

It was close but el_hijo_del_iris
gets BobbyExtreme's vote

el_hijo_del_iris

I'm not going to have access to a computer for the next few days. Keep voting and I'll start the next round on Sunday night, presuming we have a winner by then.

cappy_coke

el_hijo_del_iris

el_hijo_del_iris

Well...it has happened again...this contest is starting to go the way of the dinosaur. I can feel it coming now.

Do you have some inability to read the posts of others?

Fuzzy said, like 3 posts before yours that he'd be away for a few days and would resume things on Sunday (today).

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Do you have some inability to read the posts of others?

Fuzzy said, like 3 posts before yours that he'd be away for a few days and would resume things on Sunday (today).

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How come when I say "mom" I'm a sell-out, but it's okay for you to use transatlantic bastardisations like this?

Just curious.

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Do you have some inability to read the posts of others?

Fuzzy said, like 3 posts before yours that he'd be away for a few days and would resume things on Sunday (today).

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punky isn't stupid, but Devin is ugly.

*sniff* You like me, you really really like me!

Hey, Kajun, maybe you should step in now. I hate it when these contests get delayed.

Suck it. It is now monday...el_hijo obviously got the majority...no new round on sunday night. Eat your words kajun...but first, step in and start the next round, like andy said.

mAAk...nothing you say will ever matter to me. Because to me, you are still just a troll who switched his name around to earn acceptance.

Thanks dcomp, and devin is ugly.

Winner of Round 1, Match 2: el_hijo_del_iris

Round 1, Match 3

FourKneeKate vs. GravyBoat2003

Rule: The second panel background must be "motionblur".

Poem:

He sadly digs a dark day
But a tree drags upon the aging woman.
Who do the snakes run so lovingly and secretly?
What is the peacock?
A fool drags brightly around the crimson quills.
A star rises.

For the record, Fuzzy messaged me and told me not to step in as he'd continue it, but that was obviously a test of my co-hosting abilities, a test that I have failed.

My apologies. My long weekend trip got extended a day due to a family medical emergency.

Anyway... the chart is here.

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151384

We were obviously sent back in time to allow FourKneeKate to win this contest.