Couple-Up: Legal Fine Print
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My Cover on Comics Buyer’s Guide #1676 & a New Writing Contest
Talk about perfect timing! My copy of Comics Buyer’s Guide #1676 arrived today on Valentine’s Day. A great Valentine’s gift for me since I did the cover and the theme of the issue is romance comics.
Well, okay. The late Dick Giordano did the original art and Allen Freeman extended and colored the art. But I wrote the dialog.
I’ve decided to just show the art here for now. You’ll have to pick up the magazine to see the gags I wrote.
Besides, it’s been awhile since I had a contest for readers. So here’s the deal.
Contest Rules
Submit your dialog for this art in the comments section below. Contest closes Monday night at midnight. I’ll pick a winner by the end of that week. Winner gets 10 Last Kiss notecards.
Gordon Pyke Wins Contest; Guest Caption by Orson Scott Card
Congratulations to winner Gordon Pyke (and to everyone who took part in the contest.)
Second Place honors went to Jeff Willis for his submission: MAN: I feel faint. WOMAN: You should put your head between my knees.
Third Place bragging rights went to Gale Grove for the following dialog: MAN (thinking): I knew that she was a real women when she opened the beer with her tongue.
Special thanks to Orson Scott Card for writing the opening caption and setting the scene for the contest comic.
There were lots of great submissions that didn’t win prizes, but that are well worth reading. Some of my favorites are here.
↓ Transcript
Caption by Orson Scott Card
Dialog by Gordon Pyke
SCENE: A man and woman are picnicking below a tree. The man is on his back and has his head is in the woman's lap. He's holding a beverage in one hand. The woman smiles and looks down at him.
CAPTION: She knew he was a real man when he fell out of the tree without dropping his beer.
WOMAN: I guess climbing trees isn’t your thing, honey! Why don’t you try something easier…like me?
Dialog by Gordon Pyke
SCENE: A man and woman are picnicking below a tree. The man is on his back and has his head is in the woman's lap. He's holding a beverage in one hand. The woman smiles and looks down at him.
CAPTION: She knew he was a real man when he fell out of the tree without dropping his beer.
WOMAN: I guess climbing trees isn’t your thing, honey! Why don’t you try something easier…like me?
Three’s a Crowd! Two…Ain’t Enough!
Lucky me. Not only did Orson Scott Card create a caption for the current writing contest (submit through Feb. 5, 2010), he also wrote the dialog for today’s comic.
Frankly, I love it. (If Charles Addams did romance comics I’d like to think they’d be like this.)
Orson actually wrote captions for a number of other Last Kiss panels. I’m just trying to figuring out the best time and format to use them. As I said before…lucky me.
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Special guest writer: Orson Scott Card
Scene: Grim-faced man in the foreground; woman behind him over his shoulder, looking worried.
WOMAN: But you said if I sacrificed my conjoined twin...you'd
love me forever!
MAN: I wasn't talking to you!
Scene: Grim-faced man in the foreground; woman behind him over his shoulder, looking worried.
WOMAN: But you said if I sacrificed my conjoined twin...you'd
love me forever!
MAN: I wasn't talking to you!
June In January
Today’s comic was written by “June” who entered one of my recent writing contests and won in a close vote by readers. How close? One vote! See? Voting matters…at least when it comes to selecting what (or whom) you’re going to laugh about!
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SCENE: A woman enters the room through a doorway. In the foreground (with his back to us) a man watches her enter.
MAN: I told you to stay out of my closet!
WOMAN: And I told YOU that you can’t be...prettier than me when we go out!
MAN: I told you to stay out of my closet!
WOMAN: And I told YOU that you can’t be...prettier than me when we go out!
