Web site to give away $2,000

An online comic book is offering college students a chance to win $2,000.\nDipuc.com is encouraging students to enter its "Worst Dating Story" contest, which concludes Oct. 20. The comic book, which explores love, dating and relationships, is "a melding of sophisticated and sophomoric humor," according to a press release.\nCreator Jill Reger said in the release that the comic book's main character, Dipuc, is Cupid's long lost twin sister and is out to prove Cupid is a sadist and that she is the true savior of love.\nStudents interested in entering the contest can go to the comic book's Web site and submit their worst dating stories online. Four finalists will be selected and notified by Nov. 6.\nThe four finalists will then be given a confidential code on the Web site and work on their comic in a section called "Back Stage with Brain Vomit." From Dec. 1 to Feb. 14 the finalists will have to get as many people to read their comic by disseminating their codes and encouraging people to look at them.\nThe release said the finalist with the most visitors "back stage" wins the $2,000. \n"The finalists will have to be creative as to how they disseminate their codes," Reger said in the release. "We won't reveal the codes to anyone, so it will be fun to see how they go about getting people to visit their comics."\nAs far as her comic goes, Reger said Dipuc is Cupid's archenemy and nemesis.\n"Where Cupid uses a bow and arrow to shoot an unsuspecting person often creating unrequited love, Dipuc's tools are a crowbar and a mallet," she said.