Brian & Seth in "THE BLOCKHAMS CAPTION CHALLENGE"
After never missing a regularly-scheduled strip in ten full months of The Blockhams, I finally admitted defeat in the face of natural disaster on Tuesday. But today we're back, with the first ever...
After working up some artwork a few weeks ago I found myself searching for the perfect punchline and couldn't quite nail it down. I even bounced it off of the never-ending idea machine known around here as Misopogon. And somewhere around there, I had an idea of my own... wouldn't it be fun if I could invite some of the Michigan Media's more famous faces and/or names to write a caption for the art? Surely I thought it would be cool to see how these journalistic types might tackle on something a bit more creative, and by all means it would be interesting to see how each one stacked against each other when the dust had settled.
So, by my own admission, the whole thing was thrown together rather haphazardly on Twitter. And the whole misery of natural disaster thing this week didn't help. Plus there was Hurricane Sandy too. (hur hur)
But in the end, it all worked out. Over on The Blockhams site I have all of the results displayed, and even have a poll set up to determine the winner. The only problem now is that I wanted to include links and shout-outs to the sites of each of the respected contestants. As you are now reading this on one of those sites, it's hard not to look at it as a conflict of interest that I would include a poll on Brian's own site. I also didn't want to link out to all other sorts of Michigan sites here-- I feel guilty enough driving traffic away enough just by linking to The Blockhams itself.
So as a healthy compromise I've chosen to display the entries of both the staffers here at MGoBlog that agreed to take part. If you would like to see the rest and/or vote for either the Photobomb Ninja himself or the Artist Formerly Known as Misopogon, then by all means you are welcome to. But at any rate I thought it would be worth showing MGoBlog what two of the official staff are capable of in a unique creative challenge.
So without further ado, I present to you this week's edition of The Blockhams, drawn by myself and written by both Brian and Seth.
THE CUBE
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November 1st, 2012 at 1:16 PM ^
I voted for one of them.
November 1st, 2012 at 1:25 PM ^
The TomVH submission is soooooo TomVH. That man sure does love him some chocolate cake.
November 1st, 2012 at 1:56 PM ^
Show them this again and how hard it is to actually write something funny.
November 1st, 2012 at 2:04 PM ^
I voted for Dooley.
November 1st, 2012 at 2:38 PM ^
...so there.
November 2nd, 2012 at 9:50 PM ^
Something about the phrase "the dork tour" cracked me up.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:46 PM ^
but I would have went with......
"If we spin it backwards, can we erase the 2008-2010 seasons?"
November 1st, 2012 at 5:52 PM ^
November 1st, 2012 at 9:59 PM ^
I might have held out until Seth and Brian got a little more inspired, myself. Wouldn't have taken long.
November 1st, 2012 at 5:00 PM ^
The squirrel says, "My wife is a slut."
November 1st, 2012 at 5:48 PM ^
I went through withdrawls without my Tuesday Blockhams. Hope all's well and you surrvived Sandy OK.
November 1st, 2012 at 10:57 PM ^
It was so wet today.
HOW WET WAS IT?
It was so wet today I walked across a squirrel with his nuts out to dry.
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:46 AM ^
I'll throw my hat in too...
"I don't get it. We're suppose to paint this thing? I thought we were looking for a rock."
November 2nd, 2012 at 9:45 AM ^
For some reason, Craig's just made me laugh. I don't even know why...
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:07 PM ^
Charlie: "Or, maybe, the cube stays in place and the world spins around it."
The Squirel: "Head asplode!"
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