Monday 9 October 2023

The Results are in!

Hi, Everybody!

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Since Dave's on the Fax, here's an update from the Man about the MarvelManVark Kickstarter:
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Okay!

As EVERYBODY knows from watching this Month's Please Hold For Dave Sim, Freebie won the L.O.A.S.S. Wordsearch contest (and not JUST because I forgot him...) (I mean, I got five entries, so they're all getting SOMETHING, but Freebie's getting the big prize. (I'm still figuring out what...))

Anyway, feel free to check my math:
First in was Zipper:
Hi Matt!
Enclosed is an attachment of my best attempt to complete the wordsearch contest.
1- I was able to find all the members
2- I found 45 additional words with more than 2 letters. They are highlighted in yellow.
3- My best attempt to name all the members.
4- I looked and looked and looked some more, forwards, backwards, diagonal, up and down and STILL couldn't find the word KWYJIBO. If you say that the word is there, I continue to look. If it's not, then I'm done.
20 pts Names
225 pts extra
10 pts for real names (6 out of 20 correct)
3 pts for FIRST
258 total
KWYJIBO was a joke Zip...

Then Michael F.
9 pts Names
15 pts extra
0 real names
2 pts. SECOND
26 pts. total

Next was "BlockCreationz"
20 pts Names
40 Extra
0 Real names
1 pt for THIRD
50 Weltansicht
100 video
211 total
He gets extra points for finding Weltansicht. Who WAS on the original wordsearch list:
I must have misplaced him when I reformatted everything.

AND extra points for this video:

Spatula had:
59 words found. Circled in black. Members color coded.
PEA
TAG
KEG
MEG
MARY
DUD (That firecracker was a dud)
POSE
AIR
KEN
RAIL
SEA
DOE (Female deer)
BET
PUG
SIT
CUP
WIT
SPA
LEE
LUG
FOR
TOW (I do that with the tug boat sometimes)
GAY
YAM
LOOT
MAT
PAN
TAN
WELT
RAY
JET
HAY
AXE
RUM
RAY
CAM
SAT
FUN
TOP
JOG
SAW
YEA
PAM
LEA
VIR (Babylon 5's voted never to become Emperor)
SIF (Thor had the hots for Lafy Sif in the comics)
ZED (Pulp Fiction. Zed's dead, baby)
ZED (Shows up twice)
TAR
SIM (How about that?)
BEN
FEW
REI (The pilot of Unit O in Evangelion)
SAY
HEW
FED
TAP
RAZE
NED
20 pts names
295 extra
10 real names
0 points Fourth
325 total

And finally, Freebie:
Here's the list of extra words I found. I ignored any that were entirely inside another word, but included those that shared some letters, but not all. I included names, since I wasn't sure if they counted. The only L.O.A.S.S. name I know is my own (Freebie) and it's not on the list. (And I didn't find it.)
TOW
DUD
MARY
RAIL
BET
TAP
TAB
TEEM
GEM
AXE
PORG
DOE
TOO
RAZE
SAY
FAP
CAM
LAY
WIT
TAG
FED
HEW
FIN
HAY
JOG
GRAM
SPA
GAY
LOOT
PAN
WELT
TAN
SIC
RAY
MOD
NAY
DOS
WAR
AIR
RUM
PUGS
POSE
TOE
ADO
PAD
ZED
SAW
FEW
GISM
WELK
SAD
MAW
TAR
BOT
DAY
GAT
DIM
WAD
RAP
PLY
SITE
LGTBQ
LAD
MAT
YAW
BAM
LORE
FAVA
RUT
CUP
SAT
FIB
MAULCEL
20 pts names
370 Extra
10 Real Names
0 pts for fifth
50 because I forgot him (like, completely...)
450 Total
Even WITHOUT the extra 50 for being the FORGOTTEN L.O.A.S.S. member, he still would have won.

EVERYBODY'S getting a piece of paper with Dave's signature on it (like a collectible one, not just a random scrap.). AND, thanks to Nate "The Goddamn Batman" Oberstein, a "FIGHT LIKE AN AARDVARK" bumper sticker. ANNND...other things from the AMOC Prize Drawer.

Freebie's getting a Dave Sim Original Art Card. Because he's a Winner.

If YOU are in the Little Orphan Aardvark Secret Society, and your name IS NOT
Aardvark
Daddy Varkbucks 
Manly Matt Dow
Bronson 
Papilionaceous 
Antialias 
Professor His Wife 
Temperance 
Toenail 
Dodger 
Spatula 
Empennage 
Patella 
Horseshoe 
Walmart 
Zipper 
Sundrop 
Lavender 
Archipelago 
Weltansicht 
Freebie 
or
TeeVee 
Please let me know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com so I can update the wordsearch.

And our member rolls. 

If you're not sure, check the sketch you got. It'll look similar to this:
With a different name obviously...

Okay Rigamarole it!
James Windsor-Smith's Papa Balloon & Cactus #3 Kickstarter
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On sale:
October 12-15 and October 26-29.
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Tune in tomorrow to see how The Strange Death of Alex Raymond Go Fund Me is doing...
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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill.
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Larry Shell could use a hand.
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Oliver's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..."Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video". 
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Next Time: Toenail with that Alex Raymond goodness...

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