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November 04, 2007
Seriously People
If this blog can't push XKCD over the finish line on the web log awards, I quit. Go vote. No, don't skip to the next post. Vote. And in case you need more convincing, here are a few of my favorite XKCDs. But seriously. If XKCD fails, this blog has been for naught.
November 4, 2007 | Permalink
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Voted! But there are some other great comics out there for those with similar sensibilities as XKCD!
The Perry Bible Fellowship
Overcompensating
Dinosaur Comics
Beaver and Steve
White Ninja Comics
Posted by: Media Glutton | Nov 4, 2007 3:13:08 AM
This list of nominees is really horrible. Most prominent names are missing, leaving the voters with an awful choice of wannabe VIB's. The Weblog Awards become more of a lame rightwing joke every single year...
|-(
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 4:21:34 AM
Girl Genius is another great, but my nerdish instincts make me choose xkcd by a hair, that and the fact that xkcd is closer to first place.
Posted by: rtaycher1987 | Nov 4, 2007 4:21:39 AM
Ok, ok, imho xkcd isn't very funny, but I trusted Ezra's and Nicholas' judgment that they're the best of those lousy choices and voted for them now. However, I stand by my opinion that the list of nominees is a lame joke this year...
:-|
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 4:26:50 AM
Hey, just noticed that 'Girl Genius' isn't a comic blog, but only an advertisement site for a comic book! Imho this signifcant difference should result in disqualifiation for this category. Another example that the intransparent nomination process and the vetting of the candidates at the Weblog Awards is just a lame joke.
|-(
Oh, and the strong showing of Girl Genius in that poll raises urgent doubts on the correctness of the vote count, too. Sure looks like a stuffed election to me...
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 4:38:49 AM
Quick update on where we are on the phony soldiers. Another Democrat admits, yes he too was a phoney soldier:
Former Atlantic City Democratic Mayor: Phony Soldier Pleads Guilty
Remember last month when the Democrat mayor of Atlantic City went missing for three weeks during the heat of the "Phony Soldiers" comment by Rush Limbaugh and ABC's program exposing ones falsely claiming military records and fabricating stories of service in the military? Well, now resigned mayor, Robert Levy has pleaded guilty and is attempting to skate on no more than a 6 month sentence.
CAMDEN, N.J. - The former mayor of Atlantic City pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to enhance his veterans benefits, a crime that played a role in his bizarre three-week disappearance earlier this fall.
Making his first public appearance since leaving office Oct. 10, Robert Levy admitted to falsely claiming to have been awarded two military medals and embellishing his military record in order to receive more money in disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Levy admitted fabricating stories.
Posted by: Patton | Nov 4, 2007 5:26:22 AM
Hey, just noticed that 'Girl Genius' isn't a comic blog, but only an advertisement site for a comic book! Imho this signifcant difference should result in disqualifiation for this category.
No, Girl Genius used to be a comic book. Now the newest pages go up MWF, the archives are entirely online, and trade paperback collections are sold in stores. That makes it indistinguishable from a webcomic.
I love XKCD, but my votes are going to Girl Genius.
Posted by: Minivet | Nov 4, 2007 6:48:51 AM
"That makes it indistinguishable from a webcomic."
The site doesn't look like a Webcomic! Where's the "cartoon of the day" or the week or something similar? All I see is a homepage with a link to archived content...
Oh, and btw, what's MWF, pls???
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 7:22:03 AM
Look, dude, don't tell me what to do. I don't care if it's to caress the elastic on Alicia Silverstone's thong, if you demand that I do I simply will not. Eat me.
Secondly, these award nominees are a total fucking joke. I saw the ones for best blog and was appalled--only a crapped out brain would come up with a list like that.
Thirdly, the concept of "awards" for "best" is an absurd one in ordinary circumstances and really ridiculous for blogs. Not all blogs are even remotely alike in format/mission/style, so they can't be easily compared.
Almost everybody feels slighted, left out and hurt when they don't win, and even the winner is often fucked up with ego inflation for an absurd award he or she didn't need anyway. I really don't see anything remotely positive in this regrettable evolution of flawed judgment.
Posted by: paradox | Nov 4, 2007 7:35:23 AM
paradox, you might need to change to decaf. You are holding on to the reins a little too tightly.
Posted by: jmack | Nov 4, 2007 9:23:23 AM
"paradox, you might need to change to decaf."
:franticallysearchingforgarlic,silverbulletandwoodbolt:
DECAF??? Nobody should be subject to such torture, nobody!
:makingthreecrosses:
:D
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 9:32:50 AM
I'm a Phil fan from way back, my vote goes to Girl Genius which is a webcomic and is way great. Sorry Ezra and jmack, the advent of decaf was one of the first signs of a coming apocalypse.
Posted by: Hawise | Nov 4, 2007 9:37:25 AM
XKCD definitely gets my vote. Objectively superior to the competition.
Other xkcd-ish comics include
Dresden Codak
Cat and Girl
Posted by: Consumatopia | Nov 4, 2007 9:43:38 AM
"advent of decaf was one of the first signs of a coming apocalypse"
sounds about right! Decaf is to manly men what kryptonite is to Clark Kent.
:D
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 9:45:55 AM
Gray -- see the link that says "the comic"? Try clicking on it.
Posted by: Aaron Bergman | Nov 4, 2007 9:51:55 AM
Yup, I already did, but scimming over it, I thought it was just an example from the book. Thx for pointing this out. However, I don't get it. Is it supposed to be funny? Wtf are those two morons talking about? May be a translational problem for me, ok...
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 9:56:43 AM
I'm happy that XKCD has pulled ahead in the race for the moment - on Friday I noticed that the severely unfunny comic strip "Day By Day" was leading the pack - and it's still in second. The only explanation I could come up with was that the "people who like comics" vote was being split 4-5 ways in the poll while the "people who like comics that use conservative talking points as dialog" vote was completely dominated by "Day by Day". That or that the poll had been severely freeped. Come to think of it, those two explanations are pretty much the same, arent' they?
(Seriously, I was figuring that Penny Arcade, XKCD, PVP, and Girl Genius - with their respective fanbases - were going to split the comics fan vote, leaving Day by Day to sweep the conservative freeper vote and win in a landslide. Nice to see that isn't completely happening right now.)
Posted by: NonyNony | Nov 4, 2007 10:11:34 AM
Captain Vole may be a moron, but Gilgamesh Wulfenbach is a full fledged spark. ;)
I got hooked on Girl Genius after reading Personal Trainer. It's only a four page short story, and if you don't like the comic after that, it's not the comic for you.
Posted by: stm177 | Nov 4, 2007 10:29:07 AM
Too Much Coffee Man used to be truly great.
Here is evidence for that assertion.
This one is pretty good too.
And there's always this, although that one pretty much hurts too much to laugh, and I'm too old to cry.
Posted by: joel hanes | Nov 4, 2007 10:50:42 AM
Hehe, didn't know that series, but it's f*cking great! Thx Joel. :-)
Posted by: Gray | Nov 4, 2007 11:01:10 AM
Given the super weak selection of blogs on offer for the best Middle East/Africa blogs, I can't say that I've got much respect for the awards as a whole.
I mean, Totten is leading the pack, and blogs like the Arabist, Abu Aardvark and 'Aqoul weren't even nominated. God save us all.
Posted by: sean | Nov 4, 2007 11:55:24 AM
I like KCRW i'm just way too lazy to go vote.
Posted by: yoyo | Nov 4, 2007 1:13:28 PM
I like this one myself.
The important thing is that day by Day doesn't win. Since it's awful and unfunny and lame.
But I do love Cat and Girl, so much.
Posted by: Raznor | Nov 4, 2007 1:41:02 PM
I love xkcd too (but where is Achewood?), but doesn't this competition end the minute the Penny Arcade guys put up a link to the awards?
Posted by: Trevor | Nov 4, 2007 1:47:58 PM
So Adobe owns this thing. You can't vote if you don't use their Flash plug in. At least they don't make you use Acrobat Reader.
I suppose this is because they are only interested in polling viewers who are willing to put up with Flash animation advertisements.
Too commercial for me.
Posted by: Kaleberg | Nov 4, 2007 2:01:01 PM
