From: galletti@husc8.harvard.edu (Arturo Galletti)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Alternative Squiddies Ballot
Date: 11 Jan 93 05:06:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan11.000636.19181
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <9301051534.AA00786@valhalla.HQ.Ileaf.COM> tyg@valhalla.HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tom Galloway) writes:
>Presenting the Alternative Squiddies ballot, the awards for those categories
>which are too temporary or silly to make it onto the regular Squiddy ballot.
>As well as the opportunity to create your own categories. Remember these are
>for events which occured during 1992, and it's not required that you vote
>in each category. One vote per category though.
>
>The first part of this post describes the official categories, in most 
>cases with a bit of commentary or explanation. Then there's a bit about
>making up your own categories. Finally, there's a ballot with only categories
>and no explanations for cut & paste filling out.
>
>Mail ballots back to me by 0001 EST Friday January 22nd, and results will
>be posted shortly afterwards. The reason for the deadline of 1 minute after
>midnight on that Friday is that I'll be out of town and email impaired for
>the week starting that evening through the 1st of February.
>
>r.a.c. Related Categories:
>
>Best Nom du Net:
>Best .sigs: 
>Best Net.Character: LNH members, Suicide Squid, Marc Lynx, and Mr. Peanut
>     are all eligible, along with any other such who exist in a creative
>     manner on r.a.c.*. Nominating a real person would be considered tres
>     tacky though.
>Body Part You'd Give To Have A Copy Of Cowboy Wally Show: Those with a copy
>     can use their imagination.
>Zombie Thread Award: Topics that just won't die
>
>Company/situation Oriented Categories:
>
>Comic You'd Most Want From Lucien's Library:
>Who/What Should Have Killed Superman: Yes, Doomsday is eligible
>How Superman Will Return:
>Most Overexposed Marvel Character: We're talking number of appearances relative
>    to interest here, not Sue Storm's new costume.
>Character You'd Most Like To See Undergo A Sex Change: Inspired by three
>    characters, Shade, Shvaugn/Sean Erin, and Lobo doing just that over
>    about a 2 month period [pun not intended]
>Cross-Company Team-Up You'd Most Like To See: I'll fudge this a bit by saying
>    that I'm hoping for ones that we probably won't ever see, unlike, say,
>    Batman-Captain America or Flash-Quicksilver. More like Strong Guy-Tenzil
>    Kem or Stanley & His Monster-Calvin & Hobbes.
>Image Comic Most Likely To Be In Quarter Bins By 1994:
>
>More General Comics Related Categories: 
>
>Best Quote From A 1992 Comic Book:
>Worst Comedown: The title that's gone downhill the furthest
>Most Pointless Death: Yes, it counts even if the person is brought back
>Best Retcon:
>Worst Retcon: You wouldn't believe how tempting it is to have a special LSH
>     subcategory here...
>Worst Marketing Gimmick: To quote from a last year's ballot: 
>     "Are you _sure_ I can only choose one for this..." Be specific though;
>     "Special covers" is too general.
>Most Gratuitous Use Of A Hot Character In Another Comic To Attract Readers:
>Best Continuity Error In A Continuing Series: NOT most continuity errors, mind
>     you; best single error, or chain of related errors. Also eligible are
>     things which aren't really errors in the book in question, but which
>     are such relative to other books, such as a couple of planet destructions
>     before their time.
>Most Regretted Cancellation:
>Worst Scientific Mistake/Pseudoscience: Btw, as mentioned in last year's 
>     ballot, it's this year that B.I.O.N.-specific gravity is eligible.
>
>In addition to voting on the above formal categories, the Alternative 
>Squiddies also provide you with the opportunity to make up your own category(s)
>and winner(s) of same. To give you an idea of what this can be like, here are
>some of my favorite categories from last year, in some cases with winners.
>
>Please note that these aren't actual categories for you to provide winners
>for for this year (although certainly some of them may be repeated by several
>people, such as "Most Underrated Comic"). The idea is for you to comment on
>some trend or concept that you found noteworthy which isn't covered by either
>the Squiddies or Alternative Squiddies.
>
>Most Underated Mainstream Book(s):
>Guilty Pleasure Mainstream:
>Most Irritating Price Increase In A Comic That I Will Buy No Matter How
>  Bloody Expensive They Make It:  GROO
>Character I'd Most Like To Lobotomize With A Rusty Swiss Army Knife: Cable
>The Generalissimo Francisco Franco award for Still Being Dead After All These
>  Years: Captain Mar-Vell (and they better damn well keep it that way)
>Best PAD line:
>The Most In Need of Some Economics Classes Award: for all the suckers who 
>  bought zillions of copies of X-men #1a-e thinking that they'll be worth
>  something some day. (let's not *all* give this one to Superman #75 this year,
>  eh?)
>Worst Character Name:
>The I-Don't-Know-What-the-Hell-He's-Saying-But-I-Like-It Award:
>  Garth Ennis for taking bold new strides with John Constantine's English 
>  slang
>Best Cover:
>Biggest Disappointment:
>The Spinning-In-His-Grave Award For Best Betrayal Of A Character's Original
>  Concept:
>The Mushroom Award For Keeping People In The Dark And Feeding Them Plenty
>  Of Bullshit:  Marvel's press releases.
>The "It's Only a Flesh Wound" Award of Meritous Valor, Posthumous:
>  In one of the first Byrne Uncanny's, one of the Hellions has their
>  life drained to feed FitzGerald's time portal. The same Hellion is shown
>  captured in Fitz's iceberg fortress the very next issue, where she dies 
>  again, to power that same one-way portal. 
>The Marlin Perkins Toothy Congratulations Medallion for Most Painstaking
>  Background Research for a Quote:
>  In Wolverine #51, Forge, watching over Wolvie's Danger Room session,
>  observes that "He's regressed to the emotional response pattern of a
>  berserker killer ape." Uh huh. Now just what researcher went around
>  gathering brain patterns from berserker killer apes so Forge could do
>  that comparison, and why are they still working in their field?
>Best Anagrams for Tom DeFalco:  (tough, his name's only ten letters)
>  Calfed Moot / Flood me cat
>The "Book Most deserving of the Weedwhacker(tm)" award goes to Swamp Thing
>  under Nancy Collins.
>Comic least deserving of Tom DeFalco's writing: Fantastic Four
>Comic most deserving of Tom DeFalco's writing: 	X-Force  (it seems natural...)
>Best Excuse For A Switch To Marxism: Marvel on Wall Street
>The Gerhard Scholarship For The Purpose Of Learning To Draw Background Awards:
>  Rob Liefeld
>The "Look-At-All-The-Pretty-Colors" Award:  Shade, the Changing man
>Comics Creator Whose Work Is Most Likely To Send R.A.C.ers To A Major 
>  University Research Library: Neil Gaiman 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Best Nom du Net:
>Best .sigs: 
>Best Net.Character: 
>Body Part You'd Give To Have A Copy Of Cowboy Wally Show:
>Zombie Thread Award: 
>
>Company/situation Oriented Categories:
>
>Comic You'd Most Want From Lucien's Library:
>Who/What Should Have Killed Superman: 
>How Superman Will Return:
>Most Overexposed Marvel Character:
>Character You'd Most Like To See Undergo A Sex Change: 
>Cross-Company Team-Up You'd Most Like To See:
>Image Comic Most Likely To Be In Quarter Bins By 1994:
>
>More General Comics Related Categories: 
>
>Best Quote From A 1992 Comic Book:
>Worst Comedown: 
>Most Pointless Death: 
>Best Retcon:
>Worst Retcon: 
>Worst Marketing Gimmick: 
>Most Gratuitous Use Of A Hot Character In Another Comic To Attract Readers:
>Best Continuity Error In A Continuing Series: 
>Most Regretted Cancellation:
>Worst Scientific Mistake/Pseudoscience: 
>
>"David Duke has decided to run for President in 1996 with Oliver North
>as his running mate. They'll running as the Ku Klux Klan and Ollie ticket"
>--Capitol Steps
>tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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