When you see it...

[Arloest]

In general the quality went downhill when DCS went from he to she.

[Foxchild]

That makes a small difference, but.... ugh, still not gonna accept it. I personally don't want another smug signle character focal point strip. And "bird" will not really fill an alternate co-staring character all that well.

[cougartiger]

Is it plagiarism if you copy comics form yourself, or just tacky?

To be fair, these are just concept strips. DCS is pulling her *best* ideas from her previous work in order to impress the judges/voters with "Girl". It remains to be seen if anything good & original will come of it... The existence of the last year of O&M and then Raine Dog makes me skeptical.

This. DCS is trying to create a comic strip that will play to a mainstream audience. To that end, she created a variety of strips that show the basic premise, humor and characters. Nothing wrong with that.

Despite her thieveing ways, I honestly wish DCS the best of luck with this new strip. I just can't bring myself to hate someone who created such a beautiful portrait of Locke and Ms. Mudd for me and me alone (which I then shared with everyone on the net but that's beside the point).

[Muninn]

I already replied to this in another thread before seeing this. As others have said Büni is the best of the bunch, sub-par artwork be damned. Belle Plaine and Evil Twin aren't bad either. Also, seems one of the strips (CounterCulture) already got picked for syndication, so it's just 9 contestants now.

[IceDragon]

That makes a small difference, but.... ugh, still not gonna accept it. I personally don't want another smug signle character focal point strip. And "bird" will not really fill an alternate co-staring character all that well.

It's odd, when she stopped following the Calvin and Hobbes Formula, she could not do it well. I guess she needs to go back to that formula...

[osprey]

I already replied to this in another thread before seeing this. As others have said Büni is the best of the bunch, sub-par artwork be damned. Belle Plaine and Evil Twin aren't bad either. Also, seems one of the strips (CounterCulture) already got picked for syndication, so it's just 9 contestants now.

Yeah, Buni is the only one that actually made me laugh out loud. CounterCulture gave me a few smiles as well, and its art is high quality.

[Cactus Jack]

I don't have much faith in the comic. It seems like an even more self insertion then Ozy and Millie. It always seemed like Ozy was how DCS saw herself, inteligent but misunderstood and picked on by the jocks and she just took it in hopes of them moving on, while Millie was how she wanted to be, outspoken, witty, and willing to fight back.

I always thought Ozy was the ideal, while Millie was closer to who she was.

I think Ozy is more of how she felt she was and Millie was what she wanted to be. Ozy never wins against the bullies, just passivly takes their abuse hoping for it to end while Millie is far more proactive physically fighting back several times as well as beating them in more cerebreal ways.

[IceDragon]

Someone pointed out that one RD panel in the discussions for this contest...

[Novil Ariandis]

It won.

[osprey]

I call shenanigans.

[Arloest]

Well frankly its not all that unfeasible. She probably is the most talented artist of the bunch and if you didn't know that a lot of these jokes were Ozy and Millie rehashes they would seem funny.

[Cactus Jack]

Does this mean she will be too busy redrawing Ozy and Millie to continue Rain Dog?

[MuffinSticks]

Does this mean she will be too busy redrawing Ozy and Millie to continue Rain Dog?

....I can't decide if that would be good or bad.