And you thought we’d forgotten, shame on you. While seemingly not as popular as coloring an Octobee, we received a bevy of fantastic entries for the Broadside distribution contest. Sadly, while we’d love to shower you all with gifts from the black pits of hate beyond the stars, doing so negates the whole point of you vying for our affection (or our fabulous prizes). Lacking the tridents and nets we usually employ to declare a clear victor it came down to doing what we at EctoCorp do best, sabotage and bickering until one of our machiavellian agendas won out.

And the winner is…
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That’s right mein Ectonauts, our glorious contest has come to a close. We’ve received a veritable torrent of entries, all of them simply amazing and absolutely hilarious. We must now retreat deep within the bowels of Ectomo HQ for much deliberation, but rest assured, we will announce the winners (and prizes) very soon.

Broadside Distribution [Jay Hathaway]

There are only two days left to submit your entries for the Broadside distribution and Octobee coloring contests. We’ve got a fantastic set of entries so far but we need more! Start hustling those Broadsides as if your very life depended on it (which thanks to the highly addictive drug coating each page it actually kind of does), scribbling those little Octobees to your heart’s content, and prepare for an onslaught of glittering prizes. Entries will be accepted as a link in the comments or via email. Now get cracking, Ectonauts!

Octobee [Thanks, Nark!]

The end is extremely fucking nigh, intrepid Ectonauts. Nearly a month ago we enlisted your assistance in the indoctrination of your peers and the opportunity to show off your glistening right brain with the announcement of Ectomo’s Broadside distribution and Octobee coloring contest. Everyone promptly forgot about the contest and I began construction on a papier-mache rocket ship to get us off this stinking mudball and start a tentacle based sex cult on Mars. Imagine our disappointment at the discovery that papier-mache doesn’t stand up to space flight quite as well as we’d all hoped; it turns out we’re Earth bound for the time being.

Yet our crushing disappointment at another missed opportunity to wear a spacesuit 24/7 means glittering prizes for you and yours! Monday January 28th we will announce the winner of Ectomo’s Octobee coloring and Broadside distribution contest. You still have a week to color an Octobee and cover your city with Broadsides via crop duster so set your hands to scribblin’. Send us all your completed Octobees and proof of B-side distribution and we’ll announce a winner next week. Check out the glorious works of your punctual comrades at the EctoFlickr. Good luck!

Octobee [Thanks, Shin Rhys!]

OH SWEET GOD THAT MAN HAS TENTACLE PIT! Thanks, Andreas!

r ator reminds us that the Tcho-Tcho people of Leng, located on a plateau just north of the Dreamlands have been making fine, Eldritch chocolate for generations or, perhaps, for a few months.

I’ve been fired many times from Ectomo; once for not procuring a picture of Spiderman for Eliza for the front page of the evening edition. Where was CB with Scott C’s Fez wearing Spiderclique then?

Ever wanted to be suspended from the ceiling in sculpture that looks suspiciously like viscous fluid excreted from the loins of a giant? Kimi points out that artist Ernesto Neto has you, eh, covered.

Llamapillar! Thanks, Shark Diver!

Anders Sandberg points out that Britons are already preparing their children for the return of the Old Ones.

Oh, and the moustachioed, zombie Octobee? Perhaps a subtle reminder, via Rhys Hale, that there is still an Octobee Coloring Contest going on!

• Christopher Robbin crept out from the shelter of the hundred acre wood to remind us of this cinematic abortion

• Ed Eck sends presidential missives involving moustaches and massive bathtubs

• Ninja-bot proceeds to kick out the jams with a bevy colored Octobees. Send us your submissions for glittering prizes!

• Will we never be free of the disturbingly sensual Orangina Octopus? Le Roi’s sucker mark laden tip indicates not.

• Dominic reminds us of the dangers of drug use with comics

• Concerned with the results in Iowa, Tim correctly points out that there is only one real choice for president

If you sent in a tip this past week but didn’t see it here (or used), it likely contained a malformed URL or we intend to use it later. We rely on you, our darling Ectodroogs, to pump the lifeblood of tips into our withered inbox veins. Keep up the good work!

Mutter Museum [Thanks, Steve!]

By now, all of the ectodrooglings have seen our triumphant first salvo into the respectable print medium: the broadside.

Our xeroxed b-sides have been taped to countless telephone polls, where they have quickly transformed into mushy, unreadable pulp. What omniscient mind can count the number of drunk New Year’s Eve revelers that, taking a break from barfing and booyeahing to visit the toilet, have found their minds edified on the nature of toxoplasmosis even as they micturate? For that matter, how many hobos have wiped themselves with our pompous musings? Three? Four? One thing is clear: the b-side is a triumphant symbol of ectomo’s value as a whole.

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Ninja-bot echoed my own sentiments with the following angry tirade about the Ectomo broadside:

At this juncture I’d like to let you know that I really, I mean REALLY FUCKING REALLY FOR REALLY REALS, hate having to load Acrobat.

Me too, damn it. Here, have at it:

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