The Stick Awards II: Second Edition (#0081 - #0090)

[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 81 through 90.

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 July 20th, 4pm EDT. Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, 80 Replacement Cleric ascended to the heavens at the expense of Team Cleric. Who will it be this time? Only you can decide that.

So let us sit down and swap tales of our favorite comics. And in doing so, we might just determine the winner of....

.THE STICK AWARDS II: 0081 - 0090

81 First Church of Banjo
82 Beats Pay-Per-View
83 Pillow Talk
84 Saddest. Comic. Ever.
85 The Elder Puppet
86 The Most Important Quest
87 Bathroom Humor
88 Getting Closer
89 Invisibility: The Lazy Artist's Friend
90 Consequences of a Failed Skill Check

[mythmonster2]

I've got to go with number 84 this time around. Durkon's first real character development, I feel.

[apenpaap]

Hmm, Banjo gaining followers? Vaarsuvius being half-camel? ( "I think I can see the hump!") The invisibility comics? ELAN GETTING A 4?! I think I will have to choose for Belkar realising the power to inflict bodily harm was always his in 85.

[ChristianSt]

Quite absurd: I think this is by far the strongest bunch of comics so far. (The weakest I think are 86/87). There some really awesome gags there (I got a 4!; Banjulhu is awesome; the "Does it do espresso?" "No." "NEVER!" exchange is brilliant).

But that being said, it was still pretty easy to pick a winning strip out of it:

84 - Saddest. Comic. Ever.

This is for me the first true proof OotS can be so much more than a gag-a-day-strip, and in my opinion possibly a real strong contender for top 1-100.

[Draz74]

Sigh. There are a few here that I hate to not vote for. Especially "I got a 4!" But I've long toted "Does it do espresso?" "No." "NEVER!!!" as one of my favorite 3-5 strips in the first book. So, 81.

[Demolator]

90. I like 90.

[martianmister]

81

One of my all-time favourites.

[SaintRidley]

85 for sure.

[GuySmiley1970]

90. Classic Elan moment

[Defiant]

81. Amusing social commentary. But Vaarsuvius's punchline delivery was perfect.

[Bird]

84 by a country mile. The way Durkon chooses a life of loneliness (despite not considering it to be a choice) and breaks Hilgya's heart in the process really gets to me.

Also, it's such a nice bit of insight into his character. His rejection of happiness in favor of duty helps make sense of his later conciliatory behavior when Miko arrests the order. And the way he chastises Hilgya for being too human is thought-provoking.

Like ChristianSt, this would likely be my pick for the best of the first 100 strips.

[thatSeniorGuy]

I Got A 4 90!

[Gift Jeraff]

If it feels groovy, do it.
#84

[David Argall]

A pity. There are several here that would have won in previous weeks, but now must 2nd place, because now 90 is not to be denied.

[Killer Angel]

I've got to go with number 84 this time around. Durkon's first real character development, I feel.

Also the last, for a long time... but I agree.
84 gets my vote.

[oppyu]

84

First time an oots strip had some kind of emotional reaction aside from 'heh, that was funny.'

[pearl jam]

It was hard to choose from among the invisibility sphere comics. I'll go with 90.

[Ebon_Drake]

Hmm, tough one. I like #81 and #82 and I kind of hope #84 will be the winner, but after much painful deliberation I'll have to go for #90.

Did you hear me? I went for #90!

[white lancer]

Obviously, #84 (and a few others) is a very solid comic, even if its title is now outdated. But I GOT A 4 is too good for me to resist casting my vote for #90 - Consequences of a Failed Skill Check.

[NobodyWasTaken]

I got a 90!

[137beth]

Three great Elan moments: Banjulhu, V is half-camel, and I GOT A 4!.
Ultimately, though, my favorite was the argument about whether to go this way, this way, or this way:
89

[Saharo]

While 90 gets a high honorable mention and would have won for me for most of the previous weeks, this week has to go to 84. I mean, how can it not?


Although that title...2004 Rich, if you only knew.

[Ailowynn]

Me gusta 86

[Niesra]

81

Banjo cracks me up!

[littlebum2002]

I usually dislike Banjo strips, but #81 is great. The whole "Orthodox vs Reformed" cracks me up.

[Melee]

88. It made me crack up laughing when I reread it. 90 was a close second.

[Ellye]

81 for me, one of the best early comics.

[Ninja Dragon]

Very good set, hard to choose. I could have voted some of those in previous threads.

But I'll pick 81.

[Sir_Leorik]

84



It really is the saddest comic in "OotS" up to that point, and it goes a long way towards developing Durkon's character. It is therefore getting my vote over the pretty funny "Orthodox" vs. "Reform" Banjoism, the toilet humor, the "Elder Puppet" and the invisibility and move silently gags.

[Mike Havran]

87 because of the half-camel joke.