golf, amirite? ilx's comic strip voting thread is now open

I've got my top 40 but I don't have a bottom 5. I don't pay attention to shit comic strips I've read once or twice so I don't know any names nor do I care. Is it okay if I just skip it?

Yep

Cool. I'll have the ballot to you shortly.

I'll send mine tonight as well. Just completed it but can't edit work email stuff out on my phone so will have to do it from the desktop at home.

Forgot about this, think I have my longlist somewhere - we still got a bit of time, right?

There is still time!

You should have mine now.

ok shit I still have to vote. I'll get mine in soon.

Just about to send my ballot.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/b9e4caf0daa80130fcf3001dd8b71c47

One reason Arlo & Janis is top-5 for me.

God how those two like to fuck.

Poor Gene has probably been sleeping with headphones on since he was a toddler.

haha it took me like a full minute to understand that joke

WAIT imma vote today!! I just found this!!

a few months late to the game, but what on earth happened to:

Toothpaste for Dinner
Pearls Beforeo Swine
Get Fuzzy
FoxTrot
NonSequiter

Get Fuzzy and Foxtrot are on the list. I thought about Pearls when I was working on my ballot last night, but it definitely wouldn't have made my top 40.

http://i.imgur.com/OfUu2sy.gif

Arlo is constantly craving sexual congress from his wife Janis.

It's a better schtick than "ACK! I'll be late for work!"

Fuck, that reminds me, I didn't put Cathy on my "worst strips" ballot.

ACK!

SUBMIT'D

ACK!

guys it's ok just go shopping

but don't eat chocolates or you'll get fat, ACK!

really, the only thing keeping Cathy from being the absolute fucking worst is the existence of Pluggers

idk Pluggers but I am having a hard time imagining something more embarrassing and reductive than Cathy

The art in Pluggers is 10K better than Cathy.

http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/

America’s first interactive, reader-participation comic -- Pluggers chronicles the hardworking people the world depends on. They represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along -- balancing work, play and family life.

Is the POV sort of Mallard Fillmore + Stockholm Syndrome, or is it more apolitical?

Oh man, you might actually be right about Pluggers.

I've been away from ILX for a while, can I still vote in this poll, or is it closed?

I just read through two weeks of Pluggers strips and I am pretty sure I want to die

Whenever I read Pluggers I am pretty sure I want to kill

never said I wasn't taking some pluggers out with me

I've been away from ILX for a while, can I still vote in this poll, or is it closed?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:24 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still open, I believe.

Still open, Tuomas, please vote!

def think ilx should send in their fake pluggers and see if any of them get printed ("you know you're a plugger when you search in vain for the punchline to a comic strip" etc)

but as pplains sez, the artwork is far more accomplished than Cathy...or Dilbert

there's no denying that the artwork is more accomplished but in some ways that makes it worse, because someone is spending effort on drawing these painfully banal scenes into the lives of boring retirees

nothing but love for the gritty AARP realism of Pluggers

Maybe it is Stockholm Syndrome - Pluggers just doesn't get much of a rise out of me.

"Pluggers wear suspenders so they can keep a claw hammer hooked into their belt loop." Well ok then. It's like passing by a billboard for the Precious Moments chapel. I just keep moving right along.

Pluggers are those people who posted images of themselves about being in "the 47%" that were like "I have three jobs and raise 5 kids and make my own clothes just so you can sit on your ass in your nice welfare mansion" but somewhat less vitriolic and political.

I'm proud of my terrible life!

titling this "golf" means i only now noticed it

shit is voting still open?? I didn't see the nom thread get updated!!

still open - please vote!

we have a little over 10 ballots atm. i'd love to end up w/ 20+.

maybe u should bump the nom thread

http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/16

always thought this plugger character looked like Roger Ebert

http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/07/30

seems relevant

so uh is there a deadline?