The Stick Awards II: Second Edition (#0261 - #0270)

[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 261 through 270.

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 December 23rd, 4pm EST. Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, 255 Meep meep! devised a plan so brilliant, so cunning, and so complicated that only a Super Genius could have come up with it. In so doing it claimed the award for its own.

Who will win this week? We only get to find out once you tell us.

'tis the season to spread good tidings and holiday cheer. So lets all sing a song and raise a toast to which ever strip deserves to win....

.THE STICK AWARDS II: 0261 - 0270

261 I Smell a Solo Adventure
262 All You Need is Love and Improvised Thieves' Tools
263 The Great Escape
264 I Cannae Tell a Lie
265 A Tale of Two Paladins
266 Guessing Game
267 The Cat Behind the Throne
268 The Lawyers Strike Back
269 A Familiar Face
270 Dueling Egos

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For ease of reading, What Haley Said, courtesy of the thread of the same name.

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#262
Jpz rezncw gpsi! Pnbd! Hxj hpd'e jpz pnbd??
You stupid lock! Open! Why won't you open??

Qpcdq ep icgg jpz...
Going to kill you...

C xfeb Flfvcdq-kzfgcej gpsir!
I hate Amazing-quality locks!

Qbb, exfdir, dp nubrrzub exbub.
Gee, thanks, no pressure there.

Wfld ce! PNBD!!
Damn it! OPEN!!

C fl epefggj cd gpyb hcex jpz.
I am totally in love with you.

#264
Aqmd. Rmtdwx!
Wait. Listen!

Fqgj mx dow qwrrt! Fqgj! FQGJ!!
Back in the cells! Back! BACK!!

#268
Qxxx, baxww.
Ewww, gross.

#269
Arwcrxcon!
Fantastic!

[Sylian]

#267: The Cat Behind the Throne - It was either 266 or this one. 266 had a funnier punchline, but 267 added more to the story and was funnier overall.

[Gift Jeraff]

#266 is one of my favorite Elan & Roy moments.

[nogall]

some good ones, but definitely going with 270. When in doubt...

[mythmonster2]

Dang, quite a few of these are good contenders, 264 and 270 sticking out, but in the end, Haley/Elan wins the day for me with 262.

[Sir_Leorik]

"And... I believe in you!"

*CLICK*

262!

[Ghost Nappa]

I think I'm going to say #264. Durkon doesn't get a lot of punchlines. I'll give him this one.

[Emanick]

266: Guessing Game is too hilarial not to vote for.

[Meph]

I'll postpone my vote for now.

[Bird]

I'll take 267, which finally gives us a big dose of Shojo.

[Killer Angel]

Argh, it's too hard to choose.
A golden Belkar, an hilarious Durkon, the power of love, or Mr Scruffy?

Well, i suppose that, if I vote for Scruffy, Belkar is somewhat related, so 267

[ImperatorV]

267, for the introduction of Mr. Scruffy and the look on Roy's face last panel.

[Torrasque]

durkon takes 264 for me

[David Argall]

270. It doesn't greatly outdo the competition, but...

[Mike Havran]

263-268 are all very close. I'll give it to Durkon and #264.

[ChristianSt]

"When in doubt, set something on fire." is a really awesome line, but my vote goes to the (non-)lying Durkon in 264 - I Cannae Tell a Lie

[NobodyWasTaken]

Belkar's right in 270, you know.

[Pigkappa]

The best is 262

[Forealms]

270 for me.

[Azurome]

#264
Mechanical Defect.

[DolGrenn]

266 because Roy is rarely wrong.

[martianmister]

262.........

[thatSeniorGuy]

267 I think.

[rs2excelsior]

270, please.

Belkar lighting Miko on fire. Never gets old.

[Meph]

Seems like the strips I love the most among this bulk aren't so liked. And between just the currently most liked (264, 267 and 270), I have no doubt. So 270.

[Muenster Man]

#266 for me.

[littlebum2002]

Lots of good ones, but I'm going to have to go with 261

[Porthos]

Absolutely swamped right now. And I figure there's not many people online over the holidays anyways. So I'm giving a 72 hour extension for voting.

Mostly because I'm really not going to have the time/inclination till the 26th anyway.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.

[Porthos]

Well, better late than never, as they say. And, I think a little grace period during the holidays isn't the worst thing in the world. So all all that's left is for me to record my vote and bring this one to a close. Ordinarily, I'd go for 264, I think. But I'm not about to create a tie when the award is already running late. And second best is still pretty best in my book in this occasion. So 262, it is.

And with that....

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

270 Dueling Egos 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: 0261 - 0270
{table]|Comic Number | Votes Received | Vote Percentage |
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261

|

1

|

3.85

|
|

262

|

5

|

19.23

|
|

263

|

0

|

0.00

|
|

264

|

5

|

19.23

|
|

265

|

0

|

0.00

|
|

266

|

4

|

15.38

|
|

267

|

5

|

19.23

|
|

268

|

0

|

0.00

|
|

269

|

0

|

0.00

|
|

270

|

6

|

23.08

|[/table]

Please join us for the next round of voting for Strips #271-280 here.