The Boarders Awards for 2003

[Leigh S]

Historically speaking, it should mebbe be the Chronos Carnival award?

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=thrill&page=thrillsuckers" target="_blank">Thrillsuckers

[Oddboy]

I think we should keep the 'Steaming Bison' award... the name of the award is more about the *reaction* to the story then just the worst story.
ie which story really made you *shudder* the most at the thought of reading it & had the most hatred thrown at it (deservedly or otherwise) - this year I might suggest Steve Moore's Past Imperfect for example.


IIRC the reason the voting wasn't conducted via the polls last year was because of the need to give proper time to each category.
Some people only visit the site on week-days, some people only at weekends etc and polls should have the same length of time to run, so it should be 1 week per category...which would then take *forever*.  I'd recommend using a thread, as last year, where everyone cut'n'pastes the categories & fills in their votes on one thread.

[W. R. Logan]

How about Wake setting up an awards page where we can have seperate polls in all catagories, with a link from the main page?

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

[DavidXBrunt]

That'd be preferable to clogging the board up with seperate threads.

[Oddboy]

If Iever get the time, I'm going to flick through this year's progs and maybe do a list of new stories and this year's Dredds, unless someone beats me to it.

(so far this year, and only for 2000AD, not the Meg)

Judge Dredd
Incubus Wagner/Diggle/Flint
The Trial Of Orlok Wagner/Kennedy
A Night At The Opera Rennie/Marshall
Hard Day's Night Morrisson/Goddard/Teague
Revenge Of The Chief Judge's Man Wagner/Burns
The Satanist Wagner/Adlard
Holding On Rennie/Gibson
Club Sov Rennie/Fraser
Meet The Flooks Rennie/Holden
See Zammy Run Rennie/Miranda
The In Club Wagner/Ormston
Inside Job Edginton/Pugh
Meatmonger Smith/Siku

Other stuff...
ABC Warriors Mills/Ezquerra
"The Shadow Warriors (Book I)"

Atavar II Abnett/Elson

Banzai Battalion Wagner/Gibson
"Save the Fitz!"

Bec & Kawl Spurrier/Roberts
"Enlightenment"
"eeevil.com"
"Pest Control"

Caballistics, Inc. Rennie/Reardon
"Going Underground"
"Moving In"
"Breaking Out"
"Downtime"

Dead Men Walking Stevens/Cook

Durham Red Abnett/Harrison
"The Empty Suns (Book I)"

From Grace Spurrier/Irving

Interceptor Edginton/Pugh

Leviathan Edginton/D'Israeli

Lobster Random Spurrier/Critchlow
"No Gain, No Pain"

Nikolai Dante Morrison/Burns
"Hell And High Water"

Rogue Trooper Rennie/Johnson/Collins
"Ghouls"

Sinister Dexter
"Relode" Abnett/Willsher
"Big Game" Abnett/Smith
"Write From Wrong" Abnett/Yeowell
"Oh Kal Cutter" Abnett/Clarke
"Junk Bond" Abnerr/Davis

Sl?ine Mills/Langley
"Moloch (The Books Of Invasion: Book I)"
"Golamh (The Books Of Invasion: Book II)"

Snow/Tiger Diggle/Clarke
"Pax Americana"

Strontium Dog Wagner/Ezquerra (idea by James Norton)
"The Tax Dodge"

Synnamon Clayton/Dows/Campbell/Townsend
"Facing Mecha"

The V.C.s Abnett/Williams
"Look On The Bright Side"
"Shotgun"
"Tickover"
"Bystander"
"Green"
"MIA"
"E & E"
"Charon"

Past Imperfect
"Otherworld" Moore/Smith
"The Man They Couldn't Hang" Kek-W/Gallagher
"The Great War" Wilkinson/Gallagher

Tales of Telguuth Moore/Howard
"The Black Arts of Skrixlan Nort"
"Pagrok the Infallible"
"One Cold Winter Night?"
"The Iniquities of Snedron"

Tharg's Alien Invasions Flint
"Mr Meat Bingo's Zombie Umbrella"

Tharg's Future Shocks
"Head" Woolley/Gurr
"Bad Thoughts" McTighe/Gallagher
"Revelations" Blythe/Kennedy
"The Burning Deck" Bark/Dayglo

Tharg's Terror Tales
"The Statue Garden" Wilkinson/Reardon

[Marbles]

biggest disappointment of the year from that list was definitely the VC's.

[Dudley]

Can we have a "Troll of the Year award"?

[Queen Firey-Bou]

and now for best newcoming troll....
yes ! he's come from no where & knocked the arch troll off the top troll position !
and the winner is ...... !

[Trout]

Hot damn, that's a fine list.

Well done and thanks for beating me to it, Odds!

- Trout

[Oddboy]

No problem Your Highness, I have many files, it was just a cut & paste job.

There's an error there though - Banzai Battalion was in Prog 2003 rather then in year 2003 (I was using 'Find') so that shouldn't be counted.

Unless stuff from P2003 is counted, in which case you'll need to count Rogue Trooper "Angels" (Rennie/Coleby), Sinister Dexter "Get Shirty" (Abnett/Davis - text story with spot illustrations) and The V.C.s "Escher's Well" (Abnett/Williams).

What d'yall reckon - count P2003 or not - it does include the episode 1s of 4 of the thrills that are in the year '03.

[Slippery PD]

Well it depends on wether we count 2003 and not 2004 or 2004 and not 2003.....

Id also like to see a one shot award, best PI, Future Shock or terror tale???

Yer Slips

[DavidXBrunt]

Including Prog 2003 makes sense to me.

Maybe we could split the votes into 4 categaries? Dredd, One Offs, Returning Strips, and New Strips?

Dredd - Judge Dredd
Incubus Wagner/Diggle/Flint
The Trial Of Orlok Wagner/Kennedy
A Night At The Opera Rennie/Marshall
Hard Day's Night Morrisson/Goddard/Teague
Revenge Of The Chief Judge's Man Wagner/Burns
The Satanist Wagner/Adlard
Holding On Rennie/Gibson
Club Sov Rennie/Fraser
Meet The Flooks Rennie/Holden
See Zammy Run Rennie/Miranda
The In Club Wagner/Ormston
Inside Job Edginton/Pugh
Meatmonger Smith/Siku

One offs -
Past Imperfect
"Otherworld" Moore/Smith
"The Man They Couldn't Hang" Kek-W/Gallagher
"The Great War" Wilkinson/Gallagher

Tharg's Alien Invasions Flint
"Mr Meat Bingo's Zombie Umbrella"

Tharg's Future Shocks
"Head" Woolley/Gurr
"Bad Thoughts" McTighe/Gallagher
"Revelations" Blythe/Kennedy
"The Burning Deck" Bark/Dayglo

Tharg's Terror Tales
"The Statue Garden" Wilkinson/Reardon

New Strips -
Caballistics, Inc. Rennie/Reardon
"Going Underground"
"Moving In"
"Breaking Out"
"Downtime"

Dead Men Walking Stevens/Cook

From Grace Spurrier/Irving

Interceptor Edginton/Pugh

Leviathan Edginton/D'Israeli

Lobster Random Spurrier/Critchlow
"No Gain, No Pain"

Snow/Tiger Diggle/Clarke
"Pax Americana"

Synnamon Clayton/Dows/Campbell/Townsend
"Facing Mecha"

Returning Strips -
ABC Warriors Mills/Ezquerra
"The Shadow Warriors (Book I)"

Atavar II Abnett/Elson

Banzai Battalion Wagner/Gibson
"Save the Fitz!"

Bec & Kawl Spurrier/Roberts
"Enlightenment"
"eeevil.com"
"Pest Control"

Durham Red Abnett/Harrison
"The Empty Suns (Book I)"

Nikolai Dante Morrison/Burns
"Hell And High Water"

Rogue Trooper Rennie/Johnson/Collins
"Ghouls"

Sinister Dexter
"Relode" Abnett/Willsher
"Big Game" Abnett/Smith
"Write From Wrong" Abnett/Yeowell
"Oh Kal Cutter" Abnett/Clarke
"Junk Bond" Abnerr/Davis

Sl?ine Mills/Langley
"Moloch (The Books Of Invasion: Book I)"
"Golamh (The Books Of Invasion: Book II)"

Strontium Dog Wagner/Ezquerra (idea by James Norton)
"The Tax Dodge"

The V.C.s Abnett/Williams
"Look On The Bright Side"
"Shotgun"
"Tickover"
"Bystander"
"Green"
"MIA"
"E & E"
"Charon"

The only thing I'm dithering over is the placing of Tales of Telguuth.

One offs or Returning strip? You decide!

[ukdane]

Well, A link could always be put up on the front page, to the POLLS section of the site. (Alternatively ask Wake to create a special voting page)
Then all the polls could run for 2 weeks, simultaneously.

[Oddboy]

I've placed them in the one-off's sheet of my 2K files, but they could go in repeat offenders *sorry* returning strip section if y'all want.
I somehow doubt it matters too much as I don't think it'll get too many votes...

[ukdane]

Well, if you follow how the stories are broken down on this site, then Telguuth is a "one-off".