In celebration of the thousandth issue, we've cleaned things up on the site a bit, updating some out-of-date galleries and character pages, adding new drawings to them and including characters whose pages had been missing. Feel free to click around and read some stuff if you haven't been there in a while!
Here is what one thousand issues looks like.
Take the 1000th Issue Quiz! It has ten questions representing eras of Negative One: for instance, the first question is from the first hundred issues, the second is from issue 101 to 200, etc. Each CORRECT ANSWER represents an entry into the contest, so if you get a perfect score, you have entered ten times. (You will not be scored immediately. All submissions are run through spam checkers first so you will receive your results later.) Resources exist, linked at the quiz, to aid your memory if you want to check anything. Good luck!
In the spirit of celebrating one thousand issues, another way to enter the contest is to go to this link to get your assigned Random Number between 1 and 1000, and then reread and comment on the comic issue you get! (You will be offered links on that page to help you easily access the right comic.) Each comment submitted on an old issue between the contest dates counts as one entry into the contest. You may do this however many times you wish, but please only leave authentic comments. (It should go without saying that I will not publish or count as entries any trollish or contentless comments.)
We're bringing this option back from previous contests: You can send in questions to your favorite Negative One characters. Any questions dubbed appropriate for publishing will be answered on each character's interview page. Each question sent to a character will count as an entry into the contest. You may want to spend some time looking at the questions already asked to your character of choice so you don't send repeats.
We're mainly offering the above options, but if you were to submit fan art or fanfiction for the comic, it will be published in the appropriate section, credited as you request, and will count as 10 entries. And though I don't mind submissions that are on the silly side, please don't send anything that's not genuinely composed. Nothing disturbing, R-rated, or trollish will be accepted.
We will discuss prizes with the winners directly, but for this the winners may choose from four options:
You will be notified if you are a winner. These entry options all have submission forms that include e-mail addresses, which is what we will use to contact you, so please make sure your e-mail address is one you check and that it is correct in the submission before hitting send.