It’s that time of year again where all you’re juicy web comic dreams come true. Contests galore are upon us and to start it off is Eyeskream’s Second Anniversary Contest. You might remember last year’s contest was for members only but this year even little Johnny can put his two cents in. Don’t worry though because your favorite two podcast hosts are joining the judge’s panel to keep Erik in line. From the press release:

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And you thought this thread was dead. Let’s see if we can’t get back on top of all the news we’ve missed reporting.

Komikwerks – Johnny Saturn, a gritty superhero webcomic created by Scott Story and Benita Story started updating on the Komikwerks. It will update 7 days a week until it runs through the archives; thereafter new episodes will update every Saturday. The strip is described as a mix of Greek mythology, angels and demons, battles with addiction, and 19th century Romanticism resulting in some pretty bizarre tales.

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I had this idea six months ago! The thought is that a review site would be the perfect place to find a list of comics your readers would be interested in reading. My biggest reservation was the very reason I thought it was a good idea. There’s all these hundreds of good web comics that are good because there’s no editor to tell them how to be funny. They don’t have to hold back and have no schedule to force themselves to produce back jokes when they have writer’s block.

It’s a perfect nightmare to mange.

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I know you were wondering when I would get around to covering this. At first I thought this was just an interesting story. As I reported before, last fall Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten published several cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in a not so flattering light. The difference now is what was once a peaceful protest where 11 countries were writing letters to Denmark complaining has turned into a full blown violent protest.

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It’s been awhile since I’ve made my rounds of the webcomic news sites and I was surprised by just how much I had missed. The nicest surprise has been a recent post by Eric. Growing up I have always loved Garfield. I even have the very first book ever published. You can imagine though how disappointed I was to find the strip never grew up with me. As much as I love cats that lovable fat cat never changed and kept telling the same old stale jokes about his weight and torturing Jon and Odie.

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It was bound to happen. We might have been first with the whole podcast thing (unless you consider Fanboy, the original TalkAboutComics, and Alpha-Rant) and that helped us shoot to the top with our site stats, but there was no way it was going to last. One year ago the only competition was Websnark and Comixpedia. We humbled ourselves knowing we could never equal Eric’s writing skills or the amount of news you can find at the eZine, but that didn’t stop us from doing what we have never been qualified to do.

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I don’t think I even need to comment about this.

You didn’t actually think I would let this go by without comment? Our new favorite guys in getting web comics into print have upped the ante. 01Comics announced their new Print-on-Demand Live Beta Test! Going live on January 30, 2006 Ka-blam is accepting orders as a part of their Beta Testing project. From the Press Release:

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For a comic which has been around for over seven years I was surprised there has never been a cameo in the strip itself. The PC Weenies, by Krishna M. Sadasivam, on Friday, February 3rd, and various characters from the Eyeskream Webcomic Collective made their debut in the very first crossover between The PC Weenies and another webcomic within an actual PCW toon itself.

Head over and guess which characters belong to which Eyeskream comics.

If there is one thing gaming comics get right its how to appeal to their audience. Ctrl+Alt+Del has teamed with the guys behind Blind Ferret Entertainment to bring us Digital Overload, a HUGE LAN Party. I’m talking the hundred you manage to piece together with all your college buddies “testing” the campus network. These guys are borrowing the Rhode Island Convention Center to seat 750 gamers out to prove that you can game for more then 50 hours straight without killing yourself. Here’s the press release:

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Even though Comixpedia is one of the biggest news sites on the web it still crumbles when Penny Arcade fires across it’s bow. Looks like there’s no preparing for such an event as many readers will have found the “Problem in Database Connection” page which is currently being displayed.

Gabe and Tycho have said in the past that they always try to be careful when they link someone but sometimes having half a million faithful readers leaves little space for caution.