The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #661-710

[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 went 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 will last until Tuesday, April 19 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

:vaarsuvius: 658 Bird in the Hand (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0658.html) suddenly popped into everyone's heads last week so it was our winner!

.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0661 - 0710


664 Down to Earth (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0664.html)
670 The War Council (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html)
671 Also, She Needs Her Clothes Back Now (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0671.html)
674 The Elf Who Cried Raven (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0674.html)
678 First Step in the Process (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0678.html)
686 Also, At Lower Altitude (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0686.html)
690 Riders on the Worm (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0690.html)
691 All Available Resources (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0691.html)
705 Those Don't Take Over Until the Graveyard Shift (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0705.html)
708 An Animated Discussion (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0708.html)
710 Does He Get XP for Their Buzz? (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0710.html)

[Pyrous]

670 - The War Council

"One saving throw at a time."

[Markozeta]

50 entire strips to pull out 11 bricks. Wow.

I'm going with 678

[ChillerInstinct]

Yet again, so many good strips here. Side effect of this bunch taking place during one of the best arc endings and best arc openings in OOTS history, I suppose.

Will probably swing around near the end to prop up a strip that didn't get picked, but for the moment I'm going to go with #671 for the sick burn, AND the hilarious use of the double meaning of "dismiss".

[Bulldog Psion]

I'll go with 705 with Goblin Dan's hydra burger stand putting in an appearance. Working on his second million, probably. :smallwink:

[Bird]

Tough choice. Eugene approving of Darth Vaarsuvius in 664 was a great character moment, and I enjoyed the legal role provided for the toad familiar in 678. I think I'll vote 710, though, for that endearingly terrible gather information roll from Elan.

[Laurana]

To me it seems a hit-and-miss group.

Some of them are really good though.

I like 664 for Elan's comment about V, the mysterious exchange between Roy and his Archon, the chaffeurs' signs, the highway from heaven sign, the minibar comment... Eugene does not seem to be very lawful though (nor very good, for that matter).

671 is probably not so special, but Haley's dismissal of Celia is fantastic!

678 has that bitterly hilarious advice from Blackwing plus a very well done coup de theatre.

My favourite is 670. The start of liberation is so cool, O-Chul is the greatest as usual, but what I like best is Elan and Haley coming clean to each other. I love their relationship, it's done so incredibly well, and I was also surprised by it because when Haley showed signs of liking-liking Elan back in the first few strips I was like no way! I'd never thinked it'd work and io and behold, it's one of my favourite things in the whole comic.

[137beth]

670 for Haley's development.

[nogall]

678. Served, witnessed and voted.

[Jormengand]

I have to go with #674: The Elf who Cried Raven.

:vaarsuvius: "I require a reminder as to why raining arcane destruction is not an appropriate response to all of life's indignities."
:vaarsuvius: "Quickly, please, before they are out of range."

[martianmister]

670 - The War Council

[Jaxzan Proditor]

As fond as I am of the Dune strips, I think I'll go with #670 here.

[ti'esar]

705, for the "skeleton crew" gag.

[Laurana]

:vaarsuvius: "I require a reminder as to why raining arcane destruction is not an appropriate response to all of life's indignities."
:vaarsuvius: "Quickly, please, before they are out of range."

Yep, those were really good too :smallbiggrin:

[Emanick]

674: The Elf Who Cried Raven gets it for me, despite how awesome that "Liberation: commencing" moment was. It's the only strip I can remember that's gotten substantially funnier the more often I read it.

[obaryb]

#708 for the Wrong-eye and Tsukiko relation development.

[declinator]

671 for the burn applied to Celia (and because 670 will do well without me).

[Asmodean_]

I swear I voted for 671 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0671.html) when it came around. Maybe not.
Still, there's no cleric spell powerful enough to heal this burn.

:haley: You're an annoying twit who doesn't know as much as she thinks she does.
:roy: ...
:haley: Oh! You meant dismiss the summoning.

[dmc91356]

Voting 674 - I love me some V and Blackwing.

[Sylian]

670 gets my vote.

[Jasdoif]

Lots of good choices this batch. 670's a really smooth wrapup of one arc and the start of another, 671 has me wondering how long Haley'd been waiting for that opportunity, 674 has Elan's Big Bird "familiar", 686 features the "Fighter's Feather Fall"....

But I've always loved how deftly Niu throws comedy into the otherwise serious 705 with the skeleton crew comment. So that one gets my vote.

[Mike Havran]

#705, I guess.

Nah. #674 and the sensory aquity of loose gravel is just too gorgeous.

[Gift Jeraff]

#691 fj04rj02rj92

[littlebum2002]

Voting closed! Working on results now.

[littlebum2002]

That was a hard one, but I'm gonna have to go with 670 just because one little aside from O-Chul shows how hardcore he is.

Also, I just have to say this: I am amazed, and proud, of the response we are getting from this. I originally did it as a joke, hoping to get a few votes, but the vote count is almost as high as the original awards! Makes me much more motivated to get everything done on time!


Ultra bricks: 664, 686 and 690


http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i294/trytoguess/O-Chul.png 670 The War Council (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html) is our winner this week

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!


........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0661-0710



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





664

0

0%





670

7

31.8%




671

3

13.6%




674

4

18.2%





678

2

9.1%





686

0

0%





690

0

0%





691

1

4.5%




705

3

13.6%




708

1

4.5%




710

1

4.5%




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