Comments from the Halloween Pinup Contest 2008:

• Judge 01
  • Mitch Marmel - Curse of Frankenstein.
  • Neat effects, bad pun. (Is there a GOOD pun?) Well... okay; it's bad, but it's still funny. I think the gag would have worked better of the two characters were confronting each other; Geralderson is obviously unimpressed with the joke, but I think it'd be better with some sort of visual build-up; such as his recoiling from "the monster" in anticipation of a more dangerous "attack." I always find your designs interesting. They remind me of the extra little comic strips some Japanese cartoonists do for their compilations, where they take really cartoony versions of their characters and do mini-gags with them. (I can't remember the technical term.)
• Judge 02
  • Mitch Marmel - Curse of Frankenstein.
  • Even after repeated viewings, I still don't get it. Other than the mask of the monster - his name is Adam, by the way - what does it have to do with the curse. And why does SnowBuni say 'gotta keep it clean' in the closing panel?
• Judge 03
  • Mitch Marmel - Curse of Frankenstein.
  • I admit I didn't quite get the point of this illustration. If Mitch is specifically intending a not toward the 1957 Hammer film, then there were certainly horrific elements aplenty. But I'm not sure if there's some specific scene being referenced, and whether the "Gotta keep it clean" refers to that scene or to the use of "Darn" rather than a more potent epithet.
  • Also, Jeff's message specifically stated, "Deduct major points for ambiguous or undefined characters". While Mitch says that Geralderson is in the picture, I believe his presence is a bit too subtle.
  • Artwise, the use of the lightning bolt was effective, and SnowBuni is drawn very cutely in the concluding panel. I didn't understand why the mask she's holding has the extra center crest when the mask in the main panel doesn't.
    
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