6-Commando Contest #1 Winners!
As promised, here are the winners of the first official 6-Commando contest. To everyone who participated, thank you! You restored my faith in the whole process, really. I know it’s a contest cliché, but all the entries were really terrific! Three, however, stood out, and they are:
Third Place:
This one came from first-time poster “Pickles.” I can’t say why but it just struck me as funny and appropriate. So up it went! Well done, man!
Second Place
This was contributed by “Madurai,” a long-time contributor here, and the use of quasi-military jargon actually made me laugh out loud when I read it. Excellent!
Grand Prize and Winner of 6-Commando Merchandise:
Lovely timing and a perfect sense of humor for the moment! This was by “FJCestero,” and is the winner of the contest by a long shot. The minimal approach paid off – I love this one!
Thanks to the top three, the prizewinner himself, and to everyone who participate! And by the way, I feel that special mention is due to “vnflcards,” who submitted the only “serious” tone entry, and which I am, even now, tempted to add into the story, as it so closely fits what actually was going on, in an oddly prescient way. For now, however, I’m sticking with my first impulse and leaing the page is it is. But it was a wonderful opportunity to have some fun with you all, and this little contest was a great success! I promise there will be many more very soon. Thanks to all of you who’ve been reading and following along – you all make this comic possible with your support and encouragement!
[Original Post – 26 June 2011]: Okay, so I’m sure you’re all used to this, but this page took me for-EVER to finish and I have a very long week ahead of me. Really important deadline at work. But I got the page done! Yes! I’m sure you all imagined that Sarah wouldn’t be dead, but you might not have been prepared for this! But honestly, every other way I drew this it just didn’t seem right, so I just took the “big step,” here, and did my best to keep it tasteful, and to keep the naughty bits off camera, as it were.
And let me just say that the response to the contest was way, WAAAY better than I had imagined! You guys all rock! I have selected the top three and the winner, but it’s 1:00 AM and I really have to turn in now so I haven’t yet drawn the winning selections into the page, as I had promised to do. So the official announcement will come tomorrow evening when I get home from the studio. Hope you all can tune back in then to see! Until then, just ponder my fairly risqué artistic direction on this page, and think of what might be!
Update tomorrow – tune in to see who won!
Ahah! I knew Mike wouldn’t let Sarah down! He’s a tank! (No pun intended)
Also… Nudity!
Also also… Who called it! *does happy dance and points back to my comment on “Unbelievable*
Wik…
Mike is a good guy, huh? The UNA knows how to make ’em! On your other points, first: if you’re coming to this site for nudity, you must be VERY new to the internet 😉 And second, yeah, you did call it, I must admit. Hence this scene working out as it did: one must do the expected in an unexpected way!
–M
I’m not coming to this site for nudity, I come to this site for the great webcomic that appears here. I just felt the need to point it out in case anyone missed it!
And yeah, if you can call mike a “guy”, he sure is a good one =D
Awww… you flatter me!
I’se just jokin’ is all… /:,
–M
I’se be knowin’ dis, an I jus be jokin’ too…
Except for the part about the great webcomic, that part is true =P Keep up the lovely (if slightly radiation burned) work!
I really can’t imagine riding around inside of Mike’s innards is gonna be too fun, especially as she wasn’t in the best condition to begin with after having half her face burnt off in one neuclear blast and then been inside of Mike when a second one hit.
For that matter, how did she even get inside of Mike?
Don’t think me rude if I can;t comment, but I mean, I have to tell the story, don’t I? I only WISH I could do this full time so I could answer all these questions faster!
–M
Seems like those Russian docs and medics are toast?
Whole wheat, man.
–M
Russkies prefer buckwheat from what I know. ^^
Russians prefer rye… 🙂
And, uh…Milo too? If so, Sarah won’t be too happy. Neither would Milo, but I don’t think his feelings would count at that point anyway.
Hmm… this was somewhat surprising, but then again makes complete sense…
On a humorous side note:
“Get your M-1-E radiation shelters now! only a couple of them left!
IT CAN ALSO DOUBLE AS A TANK!”
Seems Sarah`s recovery might be hard. It`s a miracle that she`s survived this long. But a trauma like this should theoretically leave her scarred for life.
Well, it’s a good thing she seems to be comatose – having to be conscious in that state would be a real horror, even I have to admit, being the one who put her there, so to speak.
–M
It was quite a shock to see her there. That’s pretty much the last thing I expected from this page.
Well, good, then! I note this page as the next major turning point in the plot, so if it were TOO predictable I’d have been worried!
By the way, and this is to everyone else as well, I apologise for having been so remiss in responding to everybody’s posts the past two weeks. Truth is I just today managed to make a really important deadline at work, on which a very large amount of money was riding, and now I’m gelatinous with fatigue. Working more than forty hours in three days is a tall order, and when you live an hour and a half from your studio, well, that makes it a bit tougher. So it’s left me with literally no time to do anything but work, travel and sleep. Now that it’s back to normal, whatever normal is, I’ll be able to reply much more regularly I hope. This week’s update may be a dud, but I’ll do my best. ANd thanks for sticking with me, everyone – and ALSO, thanks and welcome to everyone who’s posted for the first time here the past few days – it does me good to know you’re watching!
–M
Yay! I got third! /happydance
Honorable mention! Do I get a ribbon?