On June 17, MOVIE POOP SHOOT celebrated its third anniversary of going "legit," being a genuine pop culture news and information site. In that time, in a record maybe only notable to those of us involved with the site, we haven't missed one single day of updates--neither holiday nor illness nor Y2K problem slowed us down (that last one, mostly because it was solved 30 months before we ever re-launched and was a non-issue to begin with) or kept us from having new content up every single day of the week (and most weekends) since its inception. So it's time to celebrate... with a day off!

Okay, not really--we'll be here every day as always. But it's time to throw a little party to celebrate our three years (38 months now, actually). And we're going to do that by giving away all kinds of prizes associated with the site.

In various columns here, you've heard us talk about HIDE AND CREEP, the indie zombie comedy that Chance Shirley so nicely detailed in his THIS MOVIE AIN'T GONNA SHOOT ITSELF column. Well, after he detailed every step of the production in that column, the movie has found DVD distribution, and the distributor has given some to us for the cause. I recommned you winners take the DVD and run it while you read along with his columns--it's not quite the same as watching THE WIZARD OF OZ and listening to PINK FLOYD's Dark Side of the Moon, but it's close.

I've also talked about SUPERHEROES AND PHILOSOPHY, the book that takes a deeper look at the concept of being a superhero, and applied philosophical discussions to comic characters. Scott Tipton and I contributed a chapter to this book, as did comics luminaries like Denny O'Neil, Jeph Loeb and Mark Waid. And we have some signed copies of that book for you here, too.

SHAUN OF THE DEAD is my comics-writing debut at IDW Publishing, and I have issues 1 and 2 to give away here (issue 3 should also be here by the time we award the prizes, and if so, I'll throw copies of that one in, too. Likewise, if the first issue of my adaptation of George Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD is delivered in time, those'll be sent along, too. But overseas printers being overseas printers, I only guarantee SHAUN 1 and 2 right now).

Big, rich and famous screenwriter fellow Brian Lynch used to write MONKEY MAN comics, too (well, he still is, along with the other stuff), and one winner will get an assortment of his comics, too.

The prolific D.K. Holm, in addition to his NOCTURNAL ADMISSIONS column (and his DVD DIATRIBE and YOU'LL NEVER WRITE A BOOK IN THIS TOWN AGAIN, has written some books in his day, too. And I'll be adding a copy of his QUENTIN TARANTINO: THE POCKET ESSENTIAL book (I'd also suggest people go pick up his R. CRUMB CONVERSATIONS book and KILL BILL: AN UNOFFICAL CASEBOOK.

Finally, the last contest we ran here was for THE FIELD GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE book by Meghan Marco. Now, Megan's not been previously associated with the site, but before that contest was properly ended, my computer was hacked and all my e-mail lost (and along with that came many other, bigger problems I won't bore you with here). So all the worthwhile entries for that contest, and there were quite a few, were forever lost. Rather than re-run the contest, I'll just include those books here as well (sorry, everyone who entered before).

So just how do you win these various prizes? Read on...

TO ENTER

While we discuss many things here at the site, it still has "Movie" in its title, and a movie is where this site was born. So let's do this:

Your task at hand is to imagine that there was a big-budget Movie Poop Shoot movie in the works. What I want to see is what the movie poster for this flick would look like.

Now, this is about as wide open as it can be--you can create a movie parody poster, use any images here at the site, give it a wacky sub-title, cast real actors to play the parts of any of us here, or do something entirely different in your poster. Crude, reverential, humorous... any and all entries are encouraged.

You'll have more time to enter this one, as you'll see below. And all entries will be immediately saved (in case a repeat hacking occurs) and then all entries will be run in a later ONE HAND CLAPPING, too.

So get Photoshopping, and remember, this is your version of Movie Poop Shoot: The Movie, so go in whatever direction you see fit.

When you're done, send an e-mail to me with the subject "Movie Poop Shoot: The Movie," and attach a jpeg of your poster (preferrably with a height of 600-800, but that's not required). Also, include your name and address in the e-mail.

THE PRIZES

There will be Three Third Place Winners, all of whom will receive a prize set containing the following: