What's your favorite comic from the gotfuturama.com contest?

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Besides the first place, entry #34 seems pretty good. Yours fav? Discuss!

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i think #46 rocks. 

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I like #12.

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There were a bunch of really awesome ones, but i adored the one with Bender and the exploding baby.

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I've only read the winners and a few others, but...

Sweet Zombie Jesus, that Zapp/Kif one about the Fox planet was hysterical!  Granted, maybe one or two bits seemed slightly recycled from the show (like the revelation that Mars was blown up on accident...too similar to "the hubble telescope" line), but mostly it was absolutely hilarious.  Especcially liked the bit with the coffee maker, and Zapp's "yet somehow I feel a connection to them" line.  Plus the artwork is great.

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Heh, h311.

I loved the FOX one as well.

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The winning one was really amazing. I haven't read too many others, but yeh. Good stuff.

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Chay's "steal a framegrab" one was very clever.

And the one with the parrot, i think it was #3 was hysterical.

EDIT: i reread the parrot comic (#3) and i noticed something i hadn't the first time i read it. Fry's eating ice cream and in each panal the words on the container changes, The words are so small i completely overlooked them but they say:

"Dippin Dots: the ice cream of today"

"Ice Cream: the Ice cream of the past"

"Ice Cream Soup: the Dippin Dots of the future"

I laughed so hard. The words on the ice cream container were just as entertaining as the comic itself!   

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Otis should get some applause for his comic, I loved the anger dome.

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I like the one about Fry and Bender's comic strip getting pre-empted by a football comic strip.  It's funny 'cause it's true.

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The winning comic is absolutely amazing; it kept me gripped the whole way through, and was extremely funny and well written. It’s amazing to think they managed to pull that off so well, without even using any members of Planet Express. It was definitely a well-deserved win. It has some interesting panel compositions too, and I particularly loved the effective build up, only to find they were accidentally blowing up Mars. Cloolsome artwork too 

Having said that, nearly all of the entries were really awesome too. Of the ones which didn’t make it into the top four, I’d say I liked number #9 my favorite. It just had something special, to me. I really liked Margarita’s too, simple, yet really clever and unique. The other two entries which made it into second place aside from mine were both amazing too.


 

Originally posted by zoidyzoid:
I like #12.

 

Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Otis should get some applause for his comic, I loved the anger dome.

Thanx, that means a lot, I’m really happy that some people like it. I was really surprised to make it into joint second place, but I’m also really happy for the recognition. Although, reading through the comments on CGEF though was quite disheartening to say the least, because it seems quite a few people really didn’t like mine or find it funny at all, ah well. I guess it just comes down to taste, and my humor and approach is quite different to most entries in the contest. Everything I do seems to be controversial, but I was just doing it my way. I’m just so happy that some people like it, that makes it all worth it for me 

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Yeah, Otis was probably my favorite for sheer comic talent and the anger dome.

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Yeah, Otis, the art is incredible! Just like art from the show!

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The first prize Comic should get published,
with an extra of otis comic on the last pages!

and may i ask if anybody read my comic,
and/or what you think about it? http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Articles/ComicContest/display_comic.cgi?ID=39

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Thanx all!  And yeah, publishing some of the comics would rule 

And Bofr@, I read your comic and enjoyed it. You certainly put a lot of work into it, and at 14 pages I think it's the longest entry in the Comic Contest. It did remind me a little of Issue #9 of the Futurama Comic's where Fry and the Professor swapped bodies, but I liked your spin on things. The Fish character was nice, as was the Nervotransformator gun. Some nice humourous touches, I especially liked it when Zoidberg said Fry had been in the toilet for hours. It may not be artistically the best, but it got the point and story across, and was fun to read, cloolsome stuff 

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i liked yours otis P. i really loved the proffeser in the angry dome

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I didn't get the black and white comic, some auxiliary characters fire a rocket and destroy the dome, of-coarse he would be mad. Am I missing something?

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
And Bofr@, I read your comic and enjoyed it

Thank you,
by a contest winner that means much to me =)

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#43 will always have a place in my heart. Heh heh, "eggs breaking."

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Artistically Otis' is my fave all the way. Its so incredibly well drawn, I love it 

Humour wise, I'd have to say number 28, Brian Emling. Apart from Otis', this is the comic that made me kinda laugh out loud too.

But there are some really great enteries, its so hard to pick just one fave. But Otis' and Brian's are my top 2 

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Thanx again   

   

Originally posted by MattOSX:
I didn't get the black and white comic, some auxiliary characters fire a rocket and destroy the dome, of-coarse he would be mad. Am I missing something?

You're not really missing anything, unless it's your sense of humor... I'll elaborate. Beginning with the panel #1, first of all we don't see the Professor in his Angrydome. We just see The Robot Devil on the slay, who is at the helm, Roberto is there with the Robot Devil, because I thought it'd be fun seeing them together, and Robot Santa is there armed with his TOW Missile (from 'Xmas Story'). They are all up to mischief on an Unseasonal; out of the blue rampage.

Robot Santa fires a TOW Missile through the following two panels, and we see it "CRACK!" through the air, but we don't know where it'll end up at this point. This is meant to be building up the suspense, and show a sense of speed and power. I have also used varied pacing elements to achive this, such as making the immediate frame after the missile is fired thin, to suggest the missile is passing quickly through it. On panel #4 I have raised the skyline, and made the buildings smaller and more distant, to suggest that the missile has now traveled a long way, and has traveled diagonally towards us, and the Professor. And after panel #4, I have deliberately given a very small gap leading up the panel #5, to make them flow together sequentially. This is all to add the initial impact, and add drama, to make the humor in conclusion more effective. In panel #4 the Professor then comes into view in his Angrydome. Personally, I absolutely loved the Angrydome joke in the series, and think it was the best thing in 'Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch'. I wished we could have seen more of it. So I extended upon that idea, taking it further with other elements. To me, just the sight of seeing him waving his arms in the Angrydome is hilarious. By the time people see panel #4; with the missile and the Angrydome together, they put two and two together and can predict what will happen next.

In panel #5, we have a huge "CRASH!"; (a play on the similar noise "CRACK!", which the missile made previously) as the missile hits the Angrydome. Then in the final panel, we see Professor Farnsworth’s reaction to this, and he's even more angry than he was (and to be in the Angrydome he must have already been pretty angry).

What makes it funny, to me anyway, is the fact that the very place the Professor goes to get away from everything and let off his anger, has now been destroyed. He now has nowhere to go, and yet he's even more angry now than he's ever been before! The other thing that makes it funny, is the fact it's totally unexpected to him. He had his back to the missile and didn't see it coming, unlike us reading the comic. It was an Unseasonal surprise, and something which wouldn't normally happen. This was my idea, and what I thought made it funny anyway...

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You should make a comic explaining the joke in the comic you just explained.

Jokes are better when they're explained...

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I only explained it because I was assked...

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Oh, he goes there to vent his anger? I didnt know that.

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I take it you haven't seen 'Kif Get's Knocked Up A Notch' then?...

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The show was pre-empted alot, I only saw  half a dozen shows until I got season 1 and 2 DVDs. So no.

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Someone said it on CGEF.com but I think all the people who disliked Otis' comic have obviously not seen "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch". I have, and therefore I loved it. 

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Is it season 3 or 4?

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Season 4. Episode 4ACV01 to be precise.

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I really like Otis comic. To see Robot Santa in action again and the angrydome was very funny.
GO OTIS 

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what about a
"Make a Futurama Animation" contest??

that would ROCK !!!

or so 

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#22
#28
and of course #49 gets top billing.     

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I think the style of 28's is adorable...anyone who can do Futurama outta Groening style deserves winning.
Oh, and the joke in #33
Fry:What, is eating lobster cannibalism to you, Zoidberg?
Z: No, I'm just poor.

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there all very good actually

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The winning one was fantastic, and I also particularly liked the one with the slides. The descriptions the professor was making as the slides came up behind him were great, as was the slides of him wearing sashes saying Adenine and Guanine!

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Originally posted by Venus:
Chay's "steal a framegrab" one was very clever.

Well, What can i say... joking, thank you
i liked #28 alot aswell, but realy like Otis's, cause it was different, very good

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Zapp v.s the FOX planet!