Yay, I can finally comment on this! I chose coloring the comic in time, but I meant finishing it at all... -.-

I don't know how you all do it, making such ber-epic entries in such a short span of time, and coloring them too.

2nd place goes to backgrounds.

The deadline in general. Imagine having a great idea for an entry, but you have to cut it short because of bad-time-management/real-life-issues/general-lack-of-time. You want to make it the best and yet time limitations bring it down. In my case, it's totally my fault that I don't practice decent time-management....

When I worked on my exhibition comic, I had a ton of ideas and it was way too hard to pick just one.

To me, figuring out how to make a creative way to win is the hardest.

Backgrounds. Srsly.

yeah backgrounds are a bitch, but i'd say coloring the hole damn thing in time...happenned to me twice....T __T

Bothe keeping the opponent's characters true in their nature AND doing background... I suck at backgrounds...

I voted for coloring, because I kind of failed with my timing this time. I guess everything else can be also included, with exception for backgrounds - come on, sometimes it's as enjoyable to draw bgs as the characters. And oddly, it's the hardness of making a good comic in general that makes it such enjoyable task. I mean, it's a shitload of work, and yet we're all doing it instead of sleeping at nights and such... we're all loonies here

ALL OF THE ABOVE!!! nah...with my limited experience, the hardest thing I found was making it simultaneously an exciting battle but also a great story...I came a cropper on that when I was battling last week. A good storyline and dialogue can very easily beat good artwork I think, unless your judges are 'all about the art' you know?

Well, since I've never entered one, I'm going to guess what would be the hardest for me. Backgrounds. I can't draw them to save my life Well, I can't draw anything to save my life, but backgrounds are the absolute worst.