The Sticks Awards 616-620

[Nazzo, the 102nd]

Hi, and welcome to The Sticks Awards!

The Sticks Awards are given to the best strips of all times, chosen by the polls here in the Playground. Read the The Sticks Awards Results Compilation (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34791) thread for more details and previous results.

To vote, simply post your favorite strip of the current 5 on the thread. You have 5 days to do it.

The poll will close on March 14th, 00:00 AM forum default time.


The Sticks Awards 616-620

616 An Opponent or Rival Whom a Person Cannot Overcome (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0616.html)
617 Power Meeting (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0617.html)
618 Flank Cut (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0618.html)
619 Wow, That's a Spicy Meatball! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0619.html)
620 Probably About an "8" (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0620.html)

[QDI]

I feel bad leaving Belkar but 617 is the winner for me.

[martianmister]

617 for Celia.

[Brisingry]

620, for me, for the Belkster's last two panels.

[ExtravagantEvil]

I'm going to have to say 617, it was close with 616 though. I've been swayed by a closer review and the combined climax and comedically well done anticlimax. It was a good one :smallamused:

[Red XIV]

616 for sure.

[Bleak Ink]

I'll toss my vote for #617, please.

[MoonCat]

#616, Celia just pisses me off so much in #617, I dislike it, although the story is fine.

[Nimrod's Son]

None of those are particularly remarkable, but I'll go with #618.

[wade wilson]

This is difficult, but I'm going with 617.

[blackjack217]

616 can you also update the stick awards in your sig?

[Swordpriest]

616, for the line "you poor dumb pickle-woman" .... :smallbiggrin:

[Melee]

616, due to concentrated hilarity.

[Gift Jeraff]

#619 for the blue dragon's line.

[ThePhantasm]

619. Tough choice though.

[Kurald Galain]

I'm gonna drop a 616 on you and sing about how I represent the Lollipop Guild.

[monomer]

I'm going to throw my vote in for Strip 619, based on the number of jokes, and the parody of MMO's.

[Savil]

#618's my choice

[Chaos rising]

617 for me. Celia finally does something!

[Joerg]

They all have their funny lines. I like 616 best.

[hajo]

The Sticks Awards!

616 An Opponent or Rival Whom a Person Cannot Overcome (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0616.html)
617 Power Meeting (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0617.html)
618 Flank Cut (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0618.html)
619 Wow, That's a Spicy Meatball! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0619.html)
620 Probably About an "8" (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0620.html)

I vote 616 "I'm going to temporarily inconvenience you !" :smallbiggrin:

[homersolo]

616
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[LuPuWei]

the line "you poor dumb pickle-woman" .... :smallbiggrin:

is one of my all time favorite OotS quotes.

617, 619, and 620 are great too, not in the least for Hank.

But I like the over all feel of 618 the most.

[jevans90]

Strongly considered 618, but 616 gets my vote on balance.

[Drakonzeta]

616's going to take the cake...

[TimelordSimone]

616
Mostly because it's one of my favourite title punchlines.

[Forealms]

618, even though I thought 616 was pretty good.

[NegativeFifteen]

617. Legal issue meets DnD, pure awesome.

[JoseB]

This one was hard. I was doubting between 616 and 619, but in the end I went for #616. Crystal's stupidity always struck a chord with me.

[dps]

So many good strips during this arc. I'll go with 616.

[Swordpriest]

I think we can predict a winner fairly confidently at this point. :smallwink:

[DBear]

616 When :belkar: sez you're not worth killing...

[Dushara]

Definitely 617, for Celia and advocates of non-violence everywhere (and for a darned funny unexpected ending).

[Killer Angel]

I'm torn, between 616 and 617. :smallfrown:
Meh, i'll go for 616...

[Ninja Dragon]

618 takes it.

[Pigkappa]

None of those are particularly remarkable, but I'll go with #618.

I agree. #618, but I don't really think any of these can be the best strip ever.

[Mordae]

618 - come back here and die for my fleeting tactical advantage!

[dogfish44]

Tough one between 616 and 618....


Going with 618.

[PhantomFox]

616
"Now if you said 'You little twit! I'll minorly inconvenience you!' I might think 'Whoa, she means business!"

[Eiremauve]

#617
"On behalf of my client, I am willing to negotiate the immediate reinstatement of her lapsed employment with your organization!"
"...Legal pad"

[ClockShock]

616
That's right. Go ahead and find someone else to kill you. See if i care.

[Morgan Wick]

Because of the midnight FDT end time I'm not 100% certain the voting is closed, but I'm pretty certain, so:

Looks like 617 would have challenged 616 if it weren't for the anti-Celia brigade making it a love-it-or-hate-it strip. (On the one hand, it's the one time Celia's actions in this book are funny and proactive instead of stupid. On the other, this incident is arguably Celia's worst yet for the way it wound up screwing Haley.) Otherwise, things went pretty much as expected.

Speaking of which, 621 is plot-important but really fires up the anti-Celia brigade (for basically the last time). 622 is going to be a favorite just for the last two panels; for me, the rest of it falls flat. But then... we enter the highlight segment of the hundred, taking up the middle two quarters with all the best non-610/611 strips packed inside. 623 explains some of V's state of mind with a funny bit at the end, 624 and 625 are moderately interesting for V's confrontation with Qarr, but the highlight strips of this sequence won't come until we enter the next two quarters; there's nothing here to challenge 610 or 611. In fact, all three of the V strips will have trouble just with 622. Expect 621 to be the runt (if it receives a single vote), 622 to be a minor favorite, but I wouldn't be surprised by any order in the top four other than 622 in fourth.

[Nazzo, the 102nd]

Official results below.

616 - 18 (46.15%)
Red XIV; MoonCat; blackjack217; Swordpriest; Melee; Kurald Galain; Joerg; hajo; homersolo; jevans90; Drakonzeta; TimelordSimone; JoseB; dps; DBear; Killer Angel; PhantomFox; ClockShock

617 - 9 (23.08%)
QDI; martianmister; ExtravagantEvil; Bleak Ink; wade wilson; Chaos rising; NegativeFifteen; Dushara; Eiremauve

618 - 8 (20.51%)
Nimrod's Son; Savil; LuPuWei; Forealms; Ninja Dragon; Pigkappa; Mordae; dogfish44

619 - 3 (7.69%)
Gift Jeraff; ThePhantasm; monomer

620 - 1 (2.56%)
Brisingry