Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29

[E.CaimanSands]

Congrats to the Illustrators!
And yes, something must have gone wrong with the space-time continuum...

Oh, no, not the space-time continuum!

My poor googly eyes.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

My poor googly eyes.

Sorry, that was the best I could get in 640 wide. A larger version is here.

And panel 5 of this episode makes me think of you (though that's a crocodile, not an alligator).

[morshana]

I'm late to the show, but congratulations to all the Finalist illustrators!

[DavidK]

Congratulations illustrators.

And good luck for tomorrow? everyone. I'm not holding my breath though ... it could be another week away yet.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

With apologies to our own Annie...

The news'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be news!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the writing,
And the progress
'Til there's NNiNN!

When I'm stuck with a plot
That's not
Quite working,
I just visit the boards
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The news'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
She'll call ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
Away!

[AMcCarter]

Congrats to the illustrator finalists!

[morshana]

With apologies to our own Annie...

Nooooo! Make it stop!

[Strycher]

With apologies to our own Annie...

Nooooo! Make it stop!

Sorry Martin. Siding with Jeanette on this one.

[WriteToLive]

Congrats to the Illustrators!
And yes, something must have gone wrong with the space-time continuum...

Oh, no, not the space-time continuum!

Martin...I don't always say this, but I love you for posting this.

[Kary English]

Woo-hoos and high fives to the illustrator finalists!

[izanobu]

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This Annie will never forgive you.

Most of my friends call me Nobu. Thank god.

[onelowerlight]

When I saw the posted results for the Illustrators of the Future contest on the other thread, I nearly had a heart attack. Congrats to the finalists!

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Apologies, all. Evil Martin is NNiNNcorrigible.

[francisbruno]

Strange dream last night. Was a finalist and then one of the final 3 for the quarter. Then it turned out they took the winners from all four quarters and made them battle it out like in the hunger games. I woke up before I found out if I won for the whole year, but it was interesting while it lasted....

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Strange dream last night. Was a finalist and then one of the final 3 for the quarter. Then it turned out they took the winners from all four quarters and made them battle it out like in the hunger games. I woke up before I found out if I won for the whole year, but it was interesting while it lasted....

There can be only one!

[francisbruno]

may the odds be ever in your favor

[Kary English]

Third Daily Kick in 3 days.

If we don't hear something major today, heads will be asploding all over the intarwebz.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Evil Martin starts to wonder if there's an Evil Joni lurking out there somewhere! Suddenly an email just arrived in my Inbox; and it's from Writers of the Future!

But wait... It's just telling me that my Q3 entry has been received, and encouraging me to get to work on my Q4.

I suspect somewhere Evil Martin and Evil Joni are having a good laugh at the expense of my nerves...

[Strycher]

Evil Martin starts to wonder if there's an Evil Joni lurking out there somewhere! Suddenly an email just arrived in my Inbox; and it's from Writers of the Future!

But wait... It's just telling me that my Q3 entry has been received, and encouraging me to get to work on my Q4.

I suspect somewhere Evil Martin and Evil Joni are having a good laugh at the expense of my nerves...

When did you submit Q3? I remember you mentioning it, I think. Wasn't it quite some time ago?

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

When did you submit Q3? I remember you mentioning it, I think. Wasn't it quite some time ago?

April 3. As soon as the site reopened for submissions. If mine was not Submission #1 for Q3, it was darned close to it. So these messages are coming about a month delayed.

(Evil Martin adds: Almost like... maybe... Joni has some other work out of the way now, and she has time to send out these notices... )

[Strycher]

(Evil Martin adds: Almost like... maybe... Joni has some other work out of the way now, and she has time to send out these notices... )

Wow, that is evil.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

(Evil Martin adds: Almost like... maybe... Joni has some other work out of the way now, and she has time to send out these notices... )

Wow, that is evil.

Evil Martin knows nothing. But he loves to speculate...

[francisbruno]

I always thought those responses were automatic. Of course I always enter on the last day or two.
Just trying to push the post count up in this thread... There will never be another one so long. haha.
So, the interesting thing might be if you are a finalist for Q1, being judged for the top three spots and then hear back from Q2, whether it is a R or HM :) Hopefully they work out the top three before getting stuck in limbo again.

I wonder if you could get an R for Q2 while in the process of winning Q1?

[hazlett]

Evil Martin starts to wonder if there's an Evil Joni lurking out there somewhere! Suddenly an email just arrived in my Inbox; and it's from Writers of the Future!

But wait... It's just telling me that my Q3 entry has been received, and encouraging me to get to work on my Q4.

I suspect somewhere Evil Martin and Evil Joni are having a good laugh at the expense of my nerves...

I got my Q3 confirmation too, but oddly never received one for my Q2 submission. Does anyone else have a similar dilemma?

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

I always thought those responses were automatic. Of course I always enter on the last day or two.

That would be the non-Evil interpretation, and very reasonable. But it seems odd to me that I received the automatic response on 4/2, and then this response today.

I wonder if you could get an R for Q2 while in the process of winning Q1?

Anything is possible with the overlapping quarters!

[Strycher]

I wonder if you could get an R for Q2 while in the process of winning Q1?

Heh, wouldn't that be the perfect anecdote for an acceptance speech? I sure hope they don't make you guys wait that long though. I need you all in fighting shape and focused . . . So we can swap Q3 critiques.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Looks like no Results Thursday this week...

(Meanwhile, Evil Martin notes that there has been a lot of activity on PRweb this week, one press release every day for three straight days... Almost like a planned campaign...)

[E.CaimanSands]

Nothing to report here.

[Kary English]

I'm pretty bummed. At this point, even a flat rejection seems better than nothing.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

I'm pretty bummed. At this point, even a flat rejection seems better than nothing.

No! Never give up, never surrender!