The Stick Awards II: Second Edition (#0521 - #0530)

[Porthos]

Welcome to The Stick Awards II: Second Edition!

The Stick Awards are handed out to the best strips of all time as chosen by our fellow Playgrounders.

This week we are covering the comic strips 521 through 530.

For full details about the Stick Awards, please check out the main thread here.

To read more about the original Stick Awards, created by Nazzo, the 102nd, please read his thread here.

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

Voting for this week will close on August 21st, 4pm EDT. Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, 520 The Power of Immediate Gratification decided that the easiest way to prove its worthiness was to throw a cat in to the face of one of its competitors and escape in the confusion. Turns out to have been a fairly decent strategy as it was able to take the ticket that enables it to move on in this competition in the chaos that follows.

Dwelling on such hilarity however, is never focus of these little skirmishes between comics. No, moving ever onward is our goal. That goal, of course, is figuring out the best of the best. And the only way to do that is to vote in......

.THE STICK AWARDS II: 0521 - 0530

521 Remorse
522 We're Doomed If She Finds the Map Key
523 Orders That Won't Stick
524 Pretender to the Throne
525 Look More Closelier
526 He's Just Pine-ing for the Fjords
527 Pep Talk
528 The Ghost Screamer
529 The Summons
530 Regarding the Speed With Which One Removes Band-Aids

[Emanick]

523: Orders That Won't Stick is just too hilarious not to vote for.

[Gift Jeraff]

#530 for the euphemisms.

[Bird]

I must vote for 524. It has Belkar-on-Stilts, which always makes me happy. (Belkar's dodgy acting, too.)

[Sir_Leorik]

I suppose 530 is the best of this bunch.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I like Belkar's antics in #523. 530 is pretty good as well.

[oppyu]

525

For Eugene's very helpful assistance, and for being one of the few strips not centred around Belkar.

[Angelalex242]

524

Because Paladin Honor always deserves a vote. And it ends Thanh's kinkiness...

Wait, not THAT kind of dominated! :P

[zinycor]

530


because that's the best way to come with bad news

[ChristianSt]

I'm in for 527 - Pep Talk: It's just amazing how the strip works both as dialogue between Haley and Roy or only as Haley's monologue :)

[declinator]

I really like the 529-531 sequence of strips with Celia and taking their sweet time to find common ground. Of those, two are up for voting now, and really undecided between them. In the end, I'll help 530 on its way to the BoH tournament by voting for it.

EDIT: I was obviously stuck in the last century. Strip numbers now corrected. Sorry for the confusion.

[nogall]

Ghost of Lame Monsters Past + +5 Air Freshener of Pineness = Winner! 526

[martianmister]

524 Pretender to the Throne

[NobodyWasTaken]

I'm tempted to vote for 324, but I think I'll go with 427.

[martianmister]

I'm tempted to vote for 324, but I think I'll go with 427.

Why not 214?

[Meph]

So many good strips, with so many good puns. I had forgotten how good Haley and Belkar worked it out together. I take time to deliberate.

[Porthos]

I really like the 429-431 sequence of strips with Celia and taking their sweet time to find common ground. Of those, two are up for voting now, and really undecided between them. In the end, I'll help 430 on its way to the BoH tournament by voting for it.

I'm tempted to vote for 324, but I think I'll go with 427.

I hate doing this, but I am going to presume that these are votes for 530 and 527 respectively. Please say otherwise if they're not.

Why not 214?

Yeah... I think I will request that we not fill up this thread with joke votes. I'll even ask by saying "Pretty please with sugar on top".

[thatSeniorGuy]

530 just wins out for me.

[Emperordaniel]

526 wins this selection for me because ghost splat.

[ChristianSt]

I really like the 429-431 sequence of strips with Celia and taking their sweet time to find common ground. Of those, two are up for voting now, and really undecided between them. In the end, I'll help 430 on its way to the BoH tournament by voting for it.

I'm tempted to vote for 324, but I think I'll go with 427.

I hate doing this, but I am going to presume that these are votes for 530 and 527 respectively. Please say otherwise if they're not.



Yeah... I think I will request that we not fill up this thread with joke votes. I'll even ask by saying "Pretty please with sugar on top".

From the context it pretty much has to be 530, because 429-431 don't even feature Celia.

Unfortunately there isn't any context to verify the other one with, so guessing is the only option

[137beth]

I know a lot of people like 524, but I didn't really like the fact that it repeated the "dominate" joke from 521 that I didn't really think was funny the first time.

So, to sound like a total hypocrite, I'll vote for 521. It sounds funnier now that it can be compared to 939. Everything Belkar does eventually goes mainstream!

[ImperatorV]

Gonna go with 530.

[DaggerPen]

524 Pretender to the Throne for me!

[declinator]

I hate doing this, but I am going to presume that these are votes for 530 and 527 respectively. Please say otherwise if they're not.

For my vote (530), this assumption is correct, and I edited (and commented on the edit) my post above. Sorry for the confusion. It's like at the beginning of a new year you keep writing the old one...

[GuySmiley1970]

524 for me.

[littlebum2002]

530ffffffffffffff

[David Argall]

Not one of the stronger 10, but 524 seems best

[Meph]

530 will do it for me too.

[Mike Havran]

None really shines for me, except for the Archon's comment at the end of #525

[Porthos]

This is a much stronger set than the last one. Lots of great gags as well as character interactions. The Old School player in me can't help but smile at 522 for the in your face "secret door", for instance (which didn't get a single vote BTW, what's up with that?). It's such a little thing, but many times it's the little things that makes OotS great.

"Perhaps they polymorphed into boxes, Mistress?"

Classic.

Still, that's not the one I am going to vote for. No, I am voting for 524 because it finally proves once and for all just how evil, sadistic, and thoughtless one of the core members of OotS is. It's very rare we get to see such cold hearted, dare I say banally dismissive malevolence in the comic, but I for one am glad that the spotlight was shown on it.

I mean. really Haley. Everyone can see the string and everything! Such effrontery to the basic concepts of Willing Suspension of Disbelief and your blatant shoddy disregard to how a modern audience demands excellence from their effects department should not, not MUST not, go uncommented upon.

Shame, Haley, SHAME! At least you could have attempted to put on some age spots or a tiny amount of makeup to make it look like Belkar had some wrinkles.

Harumph.

No, 524 gets my vote for precisely that reason. It lays bare to all just what kind of person Haley is. And I for one am willing to applaud any artist who is willing to withstand the sort of backlash that will follow from showing the true hidden ugliness of his characters.

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Satire? Moi? Surely not.

And with that....

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

530 Regarding the Speed With Which One Removes Band-Aids is the winner this week. It now moves on to the Best of the Hundred tournament.

Full Results are as follows

........THE STICK AWARDS II: 0521 - 0530

	Comic Number	Votes Received	Vote Percentage
	521	1	4.17
	522	0	0.00
	523	2	8.33
	524	7	29.17
	525	2	8.33
	526	2	8.33
	527	2	8.33
	528	0	0.00
	529	0	0.00
	530	8	33.33

Please join us for the next round of voting for Strips #531 - #540 which can be found here.