Friday, March 5, 2010

official xkcdsucks contest thread

HEY GUYS. It is finally here. I made enough money off this site's advertising to have a contest with SERIOUS PRIZES.

This post is where you should post a link to your entries. Also post your e-mail and whatever name you want to use (I'd say anything but "anonymous" should work fine). If you don't post your e-mail address I can't get in touch with you if you win, so you really should do it. Note: this post is just for contest entries. There's this thread for commentary. So don't post anything but entries! I will probably delete anything else (this is just so that it's easy for all of us to go through them all quickly.)

A rundown of contest rules etc:


What: Entries are remixed xkcd comics, using your own text (or xkcd text, whatever you want) and entirely xkcd art. No other limitations, so you should have plenty of material to work with. If it's not clear that your art is from xkcd, we may ask you to provide comic #s where you got your source material. Remember: The best entries will use the humor-sans font!
UPDATE: Just so you guys know, you can enter something you made a while ago, and even something you've linked to before here. It does not have to have been made expressly for this contest.

How to win: The finalists will be chosen by me and me alone, probably about 5 entries. After that, I'll make a poll and you guys can all vote in it and that is how we will choose the winner and runners up.

Prizes: The top winner will get a $100 TopatoCo gift certificate and the two runners up will get $20 TopatoCo gift certificates. Both of these are negotiable, so if you win, we can work out another prize if you want (but I retain the right to go "fuck it, man" and just give you the damn gift certificates).

Deadlines: This thread will stay open for 2 weeks (ie, until the end of Friday March 19th) until about March 28th or so. I'll take a little while to decide on finalists, and then I'll put up the poll for winners a little after that.

Sounds good? Remember: Post links here, post commentary on this thread.

66 comments:

  1. http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii238/ymersvennson/xkcd2.jpg

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  2. http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab325/hazyshadedfa/dreamsredux.png

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  3. http://i46.tinypic.com/i3x8r4.jpg

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  4. http://i751.photobucket.com/albums/xx153/scrivimancer/fixed.jpg

    jasonschemistelf@hotmail.com

    (Don't worry guys, it's a spam account! (OR IS IT? (yes.)))

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  5. http://drakeblood4.deviantart.com/art/Xkcdsucks-156340071

    Markus_Leben@mac.com

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  6. http://i.imgur.com/U45Xq.png

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  7. Title: "It's Funny Because I Say So?"

    http://imgur.com/g8QZS.jpg

    Alt Text: "Maybe if I went back to the one about the penis..."

    davidtg@gmail.com

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  8. Title: Collatz Friends

    http://i.imgur.com/3wn0Y.png

    Alt Text: "One too many comics about random wikipedia science have taken its toll on Randall Munroe"

    (This was a quick idea I got on the bus on my way home. The original one I planned for this contest is coming soon... I hope)

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  9. here's one I prepared earlier

    (I don't expect to win but maybe somebody will get some laughs out of it)

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  10. sobaditsxkcd.png

    It's an old one, hope someone gets a giggle. I'm not interested in prizes, plus I have no idea what a topatoco is, some sort of hybrid potato taco? Prizes should include a signed copy of XKCD Sucks: The Book though IMHO.

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    http://i.imgur.com/Peq7v.png
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    kat310@nyu.edu

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  12. http://drakeblood4.deviantart.com/art/xkcdsucks-2-156405501

    This one was just too evil to pass up.

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  13. kat310 - you made it actually funny! Wow.

    These are all awesome. I don't know if I can compete with that.

    First try:
    http://wocares.com/host/images/439132_firsttry.png

    captcha: sness

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  14. http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/930/xkcds708couldbebetter.png

    Carl, you should know my e-mail by now!
    dragon2041 (at) ho(t)ma(il) (dot) (co)m

    I like this mashup because it reminds me of older xkcds

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  15. HAY

    http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1273/xkcd.png

    this one is technically ineligible b/c it uses outside art but i'm a MAVERICK and i spit on your rules

    http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/661/spolde.png

    annapolis little full stop twip snail shell at sign thing googlemail doort com

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  16. ann - there was a picture of an explosion in the harriet the spy one, wasn't there?

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  17. Edison: http://i46.tinypic.com/i3x8r4.jpg

    Gold!! Get's my vote... this _is_ a democracy, right? /qyf

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  18. could probably work on the wording:

    http://web.uvic.ca/~pgordon/fing_blue_shells.png

    more to come, hopefully, in time.
    pgordon at uvic.ca

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  19. http://imgur.com/FXBNp.jpg

    davidtg at gmail dot com

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  20. http://picasaweb.google.com/Flasher702/XkcdsucksContest#slideshow/5442630907993454882

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  21. http://www.mrphlip.com/boomerang/?12+28+16+13

    puddle729@gmail.com

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  22. http://www.mrphlip.com/boomerang/?10+18+23+17

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  23. http://drakeblood4.deviantart.com/art/Necrophilia-156783092

    Part weird train of thought, part pure stupidity, hope you like it.

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  24. http://img.blorgblorgbl.org/images/bexkcd.jpg

    email: thatswedishjerk@hotmail.com

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  25. Title: Opus
    Email: jasonschemistelf@hotmail.com

    http://i.imgur.com/nkb8C.jpg

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  26. http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1939/psychicp.png

    hotfurry69@gmail.com

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  27. So here's the eligible version of the second strip I submitted. Tip of the hat to Person#1 for telling me where to find the explosion:

    http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4836/spolde2.png

    But don't worry, fAnns! There is more to come yet. Unless I forget or can't be bothered.

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  28. http://i.imgur.com/LBGkK.png
    ALT text: If you keep hovering your mouse here, it's gonna be a long day.
    kylel at caltech dot edu

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  29. Well I did this one a while ago, it's clearly against the rules of the contest, but on the other hand - what the hell. I don't want to make a new one.

    http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4106/listentotonyrb4.gif

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  30. another
    http://web.uvic.ca/~pgordon/muse.png

    pgordon at uvic . ca

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  31. Here's one I did:

    http://tinypic.com/r/1zdmarp/5

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  32. Most of the edits I've done fit the criteria (I used external art in my "FIRST Design" edit), so I thought I'd submit a few.

    Wings - Slightly modified from my original edit to include Carl's suggestion of keeping the explicit Icarus reference.

    Stephend and Me - My "epic" version. Definitely the most popular of my edits; imgur tells me the original got nearly 25000 hits (thanks!). I made a few changes here: Beret no longer vanishes for a bit after the balloon ride, the "shing" of the swords reads correctly, and I did a (very) little clean up of some of the blurrier parts.

    - Just a "show, don't tell" version of Randall's original. No changes to my original edit.

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  33. Heh, didn't provide any text for the last link, that should be:

    We Get It

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  34. http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9407/newman.png

    BO!

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  35. Not great, but I thought I'd share anyway:

    http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7726/sexkcd.gif

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  36. @Ann Apolis:
    Congratulations on writing a comic that is actually worse than xkcd!

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  37. You know what, I want a TopatoCo gift certificate.

    http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/989/wegetit.jpg

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  38. http://users.drew.edu/cstave/images/xkcdfixed.jpg

    cstave at the obvious email address (it's drew)

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  39. So basically all this time I posted on XKCDCouldBeBetter I could have saved my images and used them for this?

    Fuck.

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  40. you can still post them here!

    guys, a clarification which I will add to the post: you can enter things you've already made and shown people, they do not have to be original to this contest.

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  41. In that case, can I link to my CouldBeBetter posts to save time?
    If so, it's here: http://xkcdcouldbebetter.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=userrecentposts&user=tomr
    It's quite funny looking back at my old edits and remembering the fads I've started. Man, do the kids still do rape comics?

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  42. that works. as long as I can see the comics. which I can.

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  43. mine is very, very long:
    http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9403/xkcdparody.jpg
    (and will probably seem much less funny in the morning when I'm more sober)
    --david y.

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  44. nooooooo! read the rules, david! i am afraid you have used NON XKCD ART and thus you must be executed! nooooo

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  45. It's just as nonsensical as a regular xkcd, only it sucks:
    http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/3866/xkcd220292.png

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  47. http://wocares.com/host/images/687540_comic.png

    you know my email

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  48. talking about could be better; I made these at some point. I don't really like them, but it doesn't hurt entering them:

    http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/374/xkcdjud.png
    http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/4002/therapepart1.png

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  49. okay. fine. for the rest of this comment I shall refer to you as "Carl the Anal Retentive" and there is nothing you can do about it.

    anyway, here's the same thing only without the talented artwork: http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7648/xkcdgod.jpg

    --david why

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  50. extra arrow: http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9339/extraarrow.jpg
    how to find me: http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/9339/extraarrow.jpg

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  51. I'm sure you will win for this, anon 11:11

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  52. As I said, my version of "Freedom".

    http://imgur.com/qlr6l.png

    Um... Anon 11:11, that arrow goes against what Collatz Conjecture is about. Very subtle, though...

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  53. http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/443/cameo.png

    Alt-text: "In this comic I meet Rob from xkcdsucks and tell him I have a gift for him. Then I hit him with a baseball bat. Aloria comes in and does not suspect a thing."

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  55. http://picasaweb.google.com/matthew.ray90/XKCDRemix#5450738269748807282
    matthew(dot)ray90 (at) gmail(dot)com

    Title: Rule Of Cake
    Alt-Text: I considered applying this rule to #631, buy my normal approach was useless there.

    I only found this site a couple of days ago, and it's already inspired me to create this thing--whatever it is. A collection? A meta-comic? Anyway, keep up the scathing criticism.

    March 20, 2010 8:38 AM

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  56. And here's another submission. Annoyingly, the image host won't bring it back up to its proper size. Grrr.

    http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FQN7hDV5hQQ/S6UpkG1uQZI/AAAAAAAAAB8/hMwFq5y3WMc/xkcd_remix_001.jpg
    Title: Conversion

    And here's the version with a slightly different ending:
    http://lh5.ggpht.com/_FQN7hDV5hQQ/S6Us1PlnXQI/AAAAAAAAACE/sR48Ig6kHSU/xkcd_remix_002.jpg

    I like the second version better, mostly because the first one violates the rule for punchlines I set up in my previous submission. Yes, I am a hypocrite.

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  57. Apologies in advance if this has already been done, because it's a pretty obvious manipulation, but nonetheless:

    http://www.asceai.net/du/u/xkcd_decline.png

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  58. @Matthew's first comic: actually, in many cases, replacing the entire last panel with goatse (!) makes the comic funnier. It seemed hard to believe at first, but...

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  59. http://wocares.com/host/images/457565_rakes.png

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  60. http://img.skitch.com/20100224-bne88x1af4cj9w9axbq46wfp1d.jpg

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  61. http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7060/carlk.png

    BAM!

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  62. http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1714/focusgroups.jpg

    contact info can be found in my profile.

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  63. http://www.pretentiousname.com/temp/xkcdsucks.png

    (Original, awful PoS: http://xkcd.com/720/ )

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