The Brick Awards: the Best of the Worst tournament (#231-#270)

[littlebum2002]

About 2 years ago, a great forumite named Porthos created an OOTS voting contest (based on a much shorter lived, but equally fantastic, previous version) which had forum goers vote on the best OOTS strips of all time. It was an impressive contest which has gone on for over 2 years (and only ended, or went on hiatus, due to running out of strips) and will undoubtedly be remembered in this forum as one of the most well-run ongoing threads on here.

This is not that contest. This is a shameless mockery of that contest.



Welcome to The Brick Awards, the best of the worst tournament! :smallsmile:

The Stick Awards were handed out to the best strips of all time as chosen by our fellow Playgrounders. However, when voting for the Stick awards, some strips felt left out, abused, unloved. Whether they simply were a weak strip, or a decent strip surrounded by amazing strips, for whatever reason some strips just didn't get any votes. :smallfrown:

So this contest is designed to give those strips the morale boost they need and deserve! I am collecting all the strips which received zero votes in the Stick awards and presenting them in groups of ten (Or, at least close to ten, since I don't want to cut off in the middle of a group of strips). We will then vote as to which is our favorite of the worst strips so we can finally decide which the best worst strip is!

(And let's be honest, even the worst OOTS strips are still pretty good and deserve our appreciation!)


To vote in this thread, simply state which comic of the ten eleven listed is your favorite. Bolding the number of the comic (Like this) helps it stand out.

Voting for this week will close on Friday, December 8 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, we got an order of gluttony with a side of corruption when :elan: #224 Groggy, Groggy, Groggy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0224.html) was our winner.




.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0231 - 0270


242 Chekov's Law Realized (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0242.html)
246 Rumors of Her Death (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0246.html)
248 Blame the Hormones (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0248.html)
252 Linear Storytelling (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0252.html)
256 Six Degrees of Evil Separation (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0256.html)
259 Son of Mail Call (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0259.html)
260 The Prison Blues (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0260.html)
263 The Great Escape (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0263.html)
265 A Tale of Two Paladins (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0265.html)
268 The Lawyers Strike Back (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0268.html)
269 A Familiar Face (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0269.html)

[Euclidodese]

252 ... By a mile... By a 'How on earth did this not get any votes?' Sort of a mile.

Seriously... "Explain to me how that could possibly be a good idea without using the phrase 'False sense of security'." Is one of the funniest one liners I have ever read or heard.

[Killer Angel]

The best ones in this rond are:
252 (for the mentioned reason)
256 (Rocket Skates!!!)
265 (Belkar may not know how to follow a track, but knows hot to leave one)

I'll think on it, I've got a week... :smallsmile:

[Bulldog Psion]

I'm going to vote for 260.

Maybe it's because I'm a writer that I find this statement to be hilarious:

"Would it be OK to compliment you on working the plot recap so smoothly into your angry monologue?"

:smallbiggrin:

(Honestly, though, I can't see how at least half of these didn't get votes the first time through.)

[nogall]

three excellent cases for meta-humor: 242 and the "blame cerebus" line", 259 and the quasi-reveal of the MITD, and finally 260 and Elan's bardic meta-comments.

I think I'll vote for 242.

[Bird]

Great bunch of strips. I'll take 242. And I just noticed that the High Priest of Balder recently stole the trick that Elan used in that page.

[ti'esar]

268, mostly for V and Rodriguez in the middle.

"-ONE highly skilled legal professional and one man in a very expensive suit."

[137beth]

256, purely for the rocket skate line.

[Pyrous]

252 - Linear Storytelling

:nale: Without using the phrase "false sense of security".

Awesome! :smallbiggrin:

[Emanick]

252 - Linear Storytelling

:nale: Without using the phrase "false sense of security".

Awesome! :smallbiggrin:

Can someone explain the joke there to me? I know, I know, explaining jokes ruins them, but I've never found that line even the slightest bit funny and now I wonder if I'm missing something.

Anyway, I'm going for 242: Chekov's Law Realized, because the shadow joke is just so absurd and original.

[Mordae]

259 for hobgoblin comedy!

[Vargtass]

242, but it was a close call for me, at least two more could have made it.

[obaryb]

259 for breaking fourth wall, hobgoblins and their tastes, and (last but not least) for Xykon being Xykon.

[Syldar]

268, because of "...one man in a very expensive suit." :vaarsuvius:

[Laurana]

A great bunch here.

I like 256 for Thog's face and then "yes, the new plan will STILL involve rocket skates",
259 for the hobgoblins and xykon humour,
268 for "One man in a very expensive suit",
and especially 269 for the "slipping the wood" part (leafy wankers LOL :smallbiggrin:)

But I really have to quote Euclidodese:


252 ... By a mile... By a 'How on earth did this not get any votes?' Sort of a mile.


Totally this ^

I'm astonished. I most definitely vote for #252

[Mike Havran]

Huh, I'm really surprised to see all those strips. I'll give the vote to the #242 for :thog: non-traditional panel layout and for the Shadowdancer using his main power for the first time ever.

[ChillerInstinct]

Tough call, really. To say that I'm surprised that most of these got skipped over completely would be an understatement.

I'm tempted to go with 242 as a continuation of my vote from the last round... but ultimately, sometimes, it's the little jokes that make a strip stick in my mind, and the one-two-three punch of "slipping the wood", "them leafy wankers have broken many homes", and the speech from Celia about how lucky they were to be "rid" of Belkar tips the scales in favour of 269 in my book.

[dmc91356]

268, for reasons specified above.

[Killer Angel]

256 (Rocket Skates!!!)

[Jaxzan Proditor]

#268. I love the lawyers.

[ChristianSt]

Four words:
Out
of
fudge
ripple.

252 Linear Storytelling

[LotusWyvern]

260 gets my vote. Roy sure is annoying in these.

[martianmister]

242 :smallwink:

[Sylian]

246, 268, or 263. Hmm. I suppose 268 gets my vote.

[Gift Jeraff]

#256
:thog: thog liked it.

[declinator]

269 - I can't really say why, but I found that one funny...

[littlebum2002]

I'm gonna go with the Bardic Knowledge Check, 260


VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

242 :Haley: Chekov's Law Realized (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0242.html) is the winner this week.

246, 248, 263, and 265 ALL go on to the ultra brick awards!

Full Results are as follows

........THE STICK AWARDS II: 0191-0230



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





242

6

24.0%





246

0

0%





248

0

0%





252

4

16.0%





256

3

12.0%





259

2

8.0%





260

3

12.0%





263

0

0%





265

0

0%




268

5

20.0%




269

2

8.0%





Please join us for the next round of voting

[Bulldog Psion]

That is about the last one I expected to see win. :smalleek:

I'm also surprised at the number of "ultra bricks," considering that I thought most of these were pretty decent.