Helm's FILL IN THE COMIC compo!

biothlebop · Tue 07/03/2006 23:38:09

Weirdness follows.

Haddas · Tue 07/03/2006 23:54:05

They are now zombie-protected

Tiki · Wed 08/03/2006 00:48:14

I don't know.

edit - oops. a few mistakes. kindly ignore them

Scummbuddy · Wed 08/03/2006 01:03:56

I thought the facial hair was getting longer in each succesive panel.

LimpingFish · Wed 08/03/2006 01:05:47

biothlebop · Wed 08/03/2006 01:24:28

rharpe · Wed 08/03/2006 04:43:26

Las Naranjas · Wed 08/03/2006 08:27:32

skw · Wed 08/03/2006 09:06:59

Great strip, Helm! I'm dying to see the original.

Hope you all like it.

nihilyst · Wed 08/03/2006 09:56:56

Metamorphosis

cheers
nihilyst

Abisso · Wed 08/03/2006 11:19:42

My english is not at the top, but I hope the idea is appreciated:

Ishmael · Wed 08/03/2006 11:55:44

I'm just curious... Is there a limit of some kind to how many entries one can submit?

Ubel · Wed 08/03/2006 12:16:21

Helm · Wed 08/03/2006 15:12:27

Ishmael: no

I guess I might as well post my own version,

hah! Okay, now

As it is painfully obvious, the script that went to print was vastly inferior to a lot of these entries, which goes to show I should be putting more effort into into the exposition part of making it, however sparse it may be. I feel like I've been severily Comic Strip Doctored here. To my defense, I do a lot of understated comics, so my Charlie Brownisms fall a bit flat against the punch-in-face brilliance of +10 xp!! or '...like this space mask!'. Besides, it's based on reality.

Only reality's degenerated since.

don't look at me like that. See how I'm looking at you?
Don't look at me like that. They're for protection.

I'm thrilled this has had such a wonderful turnout thus far, and we're still only on the second day of the compo. I'm going to have a very hard time picking a winner, but I do intend to comment on every piece when this is over. Which brings me to something I need to discuss with you guys. Since this went good, should we do it again? Every week? Every when-we-feel-like-it? That's one thing, I'd hate this to dry up and become just another compo, god knows, we have enough here. So I'd prefer this being an one-off than it being a regular piece of inanity down the road. So I need opinions.

Second issue to discuss: should the winner draw/assemble the next page or should I keep putting my own work for this up? I don't know to what extent the art helped the brilliance and abundance of these entries, but I do know I do comics anyway for work and I have a large backlog which is usually meticulously drawn, which isn't exactly the same as telling someone 'congrats, you win, start a new compo tomorrow or something'. I know eric or jess or a few other people here do comics and they probably have pages for this, but most people, even if they are brilliant in their captioning and clearly win, going through thr trouble of making a comic for a silly internet competition might be too much to ask. Opinions?

If you guys want me to continue putting comics up, I have an extensive archive, and I draw a new one every week anyway. Not all is suited for this type of thing (or is it? I thought originally this comic would be very bad and look at all these brilliant entries!) but at least some is.

skw · Wed 08/03/2006 16:04:47

Heh, heh. For protection? Let's say I keep this sax-like baby for the same reason

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At first I thought it's about an imbued knife which kills by itself or something magical. The last frame suggested that, (at least I got it in that way).

1. Put YOUR works here, I want to see more. Without brown-nosing, they're just great.

2. Hmm... maybe when the compo is over, the winner shall PM you and tell (or better show, at least a messy concept sketch) what he-or-she would want to place at the next page, and then you would draw it for another jam. I don't have any better ideas for the while.

Of course I hope it will be continued.

Helm · Wed 08/03/2006 16:11:47

Dude I can't draw an extra page a week (at least not with the attention a page deserves) for this contest. The only reason I say I am willing to keep this up and I'm pretty confident in can be of satisfactory quality is because I draw these comics anyway for work.

Nikolas · Wed 08/03/2006 16:13:18

Hehe, helm I think that everybody would love you to draw a little bit more... Or anyway to post more.

I think that if I won (who I haven't eben taken part...yet), I wouldn't be able to draw a new page, even if it was to save my life. Unless if you want comics with stickman...

So Helm you're destined to have 30 different captions to choose from every week.

Enjoy.

MrColossal · Wed 08/03/2006 16:18:20

QuoteSince this went good, should we do it again? Every week? Every when-we-feel-like-it?

Eric's answer:

Helm, why are the OROWs successful?

biothlebop · Wed 08/03/2006 16:21:09

Too much good is a bad thing.

Helm · Wed 08/03/2006 16:40:11

Eric: because the scope is small and managable, they don't depend on huge teams and coordination nor do they require the intensive effort of anyone for more than one week at a time.

But I don't see how that answers how frequent this can or should be. It's not like captioning a comic takes more than half an hour or effort to think and edit. What I'm scared of is whether people will care to do this again for a third, fifth, fifteenth time without this becoming dead weight. The orows are relatively young yet, and still orow3 was much poorer than 2 and 1 in my opinion.