[BIZSQUID] 2003 Pseudo-Nominees

Well, things are looking up.  I've actually gotten a decent number of
ballots to start.

I was working on cleaning up the formatting, but it's late and I have
to get up for work.  But I wanted to get this out there today.  

You can see where I gave up.  Look for a cleaner version in a day or
two, but in the meantime, I hope this helps.

Thanks to all those who voted so far.  I look forward to seeing
ballots from the rest of you soon.

Remember, you don't have to vote in every category.

RESULTS:

#1  FUNNIEST POST OR SIGNATURE:
 Hay Rube
" JMS's contribution to the rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe ""Writer's
(sic) you simply can't stand"" thread"
 Kiss Prowler. He's pure Dada gold!
" Paul O'Brien (In response to a post from the ""Spoof Central"" guys)
We haven't heard from you guys in ages! Please keep it that way."
 The Hay Rube
     Michael Schiffers Jesus and Supermanpost.
#2  ZOMBIE THREAD:
" ""naughty"" language in Waid's FF"
 Analyzing box office results from comic-related movies.
" Anything to do with John Byrne, when PAL and JVVSM start their
mash-note sessions. Get a room, fellas!"
 Anything with Busiek
 Rob Zombie To Create Horror Comic
                  Who Will Stop Kang-Bush in Iraq?
#3  CHARACTER FOR RELATIONSHIP:
 Aunt May. I hear she's pretty easy!
 Barbara Gordon
 Dru from Pibgorn
 Jakita Wagner
" Marcy, from Finder."
 Sandy from Agent X
 Sue Richards
     Linda Danvers
#4  LEAST USEFUL MEMBER OF A SUPERTEAM:
 Bouncing Boy from LSH (yes it's been a while since I read the series)
 Jack of Hearts (He whines and blows up. Mostly whines.)
 Sammy of the X-Men (fish boy)
 The Truth
  Falcon from Avengers
     Pajaman (AMELIA RULES)
#5  CHARACTER TO BE:
 Elliott from 9CWL
 Green Lantern      
" Iron Man, the money, the technology, the women, the all round
coolness, bar a bad writer making it crap."
 Johnny DC
 K. Everett Ross.  He has Plot Immunity.
 Mr. Fantastic (at least when Wieringo's drawing Sue)
                        Rokk Krinn (Cosmic Boy)
#6  STUPIDEST CHARACTER NAME:
 Mr. Fantastic
 Queen of R.A.C.
 Short Pack (but then that's the whole point)
" Taskmaster, what task is he a master of?"
" The Truth, becauseit's a lie"
 Truth
               Atom-Smasher
#7  WORST EDITOR:
 Bill Jemas
 Mike Carlin
 Mike Carlin. (Why? Because it's his turn!)
                           Tomasi
#8  MERCHANDISING:
"McFarlane's ""clenched"" Miracleman statue"
 Busts of any kind. They are so small.
 DC's minifigures with cylinder heads
" Most of DC Direct's output. JLA wall dohickeys? Pocket Super-Heroes?
Marionettes? Inarticulate ""action figures"" (See Kingdom Come figues
... does the Kid Flash even move?)? DC, why don't you just make the
Wonder Woman, Power Girl, and Batgirl blow-up dolls and be done with
it!"
 Spawn
 The toy cars with Marvel character names stamped on them.
"  Elektra Limited Edition ""Real Doll""(TM) sex toy"
"   Aquaman, the video game"
#9  HARDEST WORKING PRO:
 Alan Moore
 Brian Michael Bendis
 Brooke McEldowney
 Geoff Johns. Someone make him stop. Please.
 Kurt Busiek
" Mark Bagley (18 issues of USM a year, and he still has time to do
scenes for Alias)"
 Priest
"  Kurt Busiek, tho it was close between him and JMS"
                    Alan Moore
#10 LULU:
 Age of Bronze
 Desert Peach
 Detective Comics
 I am too insecure in my sexuality to answer this one.
                                   NAMOR
#11 IMPROVED TITLE:
" Birds of Prey (in a perfect world, Gail Simone took over immediately
after Dixon's last issue)"
 Daredevil
 Ultimate X-Men (swapping Bendis for Millar)
                         CAPTAIN MARVEL
#12 WORST LETDOWN:
 Fantastic Four #500 (Unthinkably average)
 Liberty Meadows
" Planetary. It is ever coming out again? Upon re-reading the TPB,
I've decided it doesn't matter."
" Strac's Spidey. It's stillgood, just as good."
 Sweatshop. Pete Bagge beats a dead horse!
 The Eternal
"  DK2, no question."
                          The Game of the Gods--WONDER WOMAN
#13 WORST COMIC: (Is Marville still eligible?)
"#13 WORST COMIC: Legion 20. Universo Project visits Ed Debevics, with
enough nerd nudges to qualify for a flak jacket."
#13 WORST COMIC: The Eternal #1 (Let's rehash Kirby and add nothing
new other than lots of nipples.)
"#13 Worst Comic:  DK2, though it's more obvious for letdown status."
"#13 WORST COMIC:  The ultimates, never on time and always late"
#13 WORST COMIC:                            GRADUATION DAY
"#14 WORST COVER: New X-Men #  with Phoenix and Emma Frost both
sitting on the crapper. (Close second, Daredevil 40 - Daredevil climbs
a water tower.  Yeah, that's got eye appeal! Next, Jim Lee will do a
Batman cover showing Bruce Wayne paying his taxes! Then, a special
Alex Ross painted cover of Superman, where he sorts his sock drawer!)"
#14 WORST COVER:  Trouble no. 1
#14 WORST COVER:                            Abstain
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE: Darwyn Cooke channelling Howard Sherman for the
Dr. Fate backup in JSA All-Stars 3.
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE: Formerly Known as Justice League
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE: Hulk sans the Hulk
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE: OUTSIDERS was actually good.
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE: Supreme Power
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE: TechJacket from Image
#15 PLEASANT SURPRISE:                      HUMAN DEFENSE CORPS
#16 Most Unpleasant Surprise:  Waid's firing from FF and the
subsequent storm.
"#16 UNPLEASANT SURPRISE: ""Fight Club"" Thunderbolts (Ick, ick, and
ICK!)"
#16 UNPLEASANT SURPRISE: Moore and O'Neill *still* can't manage a
decent schedule on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
#16 UNPLEASANT SURPRISE: Waid off FF
#16 UNPLEASANT SURPRISE:                    Trevor Barnesdeath in WW.
#17 WORST RETCON:  Nightcrawler leaving the church
#17 WORST RETCON:                           Black Lightnings
daughter.                         
"#18 BEST RETCON: Alan Scott is ""Green Lantern"" again (JSA #50)"
#18 BEST RETCON:                            Busieks Manhunter/Kirk
dePaul
#19 KERVORKIAN: Marville
#19 KERVORKIAN: Marville
"#19 KERVORKIAN: Thunderbolts, post-Nicieza."
#19 KERVORKIAN:                             BLACK PANTHER
#19 Kevorkian:  American Century.
#20 MOST REGRETTED CANCELLATION: Black Panther
#20 MOST REGRETTED CANCELLATION: Black Panther
#20 MOST REGRETTED CANCELLATION: Simone/Udon AGENT X
#20 MOST REGRETTED CANCELLATION: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. We didn't even
get to see how bad it was going to be!
#20 Most Regretted Cancellation:  Supergirl.
#20 MOST REGRETTED CANCELLATION:   Agent X
#20 MOST REGRETTED CANCELLATION:            SUPERGIRL
#21 WORST SCIENTIFIC MISTAKE: Why is this still a category?
"#22 WORST CONTINUITY ERROR: Geez, Superman must be pushing 90 by
now."
#22 WORST CONTINUITY ERROR:                 Black Lightnings daughter.
"#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE: (Does ""Spider-Man / Black Cat""
count? If not, no vote.)"
#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE: Comic Book Heaven
#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE: Girl Genius #9
#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v2
#6
#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE: Planetary
#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE: Planetary #16
#23 Most Anticipated Next Issue:  Bone 52.
#23 MOST ANTICIPATED NEXT ISSUE:            PLANETARY
"#24 BEST QUOTE: ""I'm done.  OK, now I'm done.  OK, now."" from
Ultimate Spider-Man #43."
"#24 BEST QUOTE: Tortured Lex Luthor to Joker: ""Doesn't it bother
you… bother you at all, really... that Batman likes Catwoman better?""
(OUTSIDERS #3)"
"#24 Best Quote:  probably Spidey's ""J. Jonah Jameson"" response in a
recent Captain Marvel (issue 10, I think)."
#24 BEST QUOTE:                             Abstain
#25 MOST JARRING FILLIN: J. Torres on Black Panther
"#25 MOST JARRING FILLIN: J. Torres' two issue stint on BLACK PANTHER.
He's good, but he's not Priest."
"#25 MOST JARRING FILLIN: The artist on the ""Big Stuff / Small
Stuff""  arc of FF."
#25 MOST JARRING FILLIN:                    Chuck Austen on EXILES
#26 WHY AM I BUYING THIS?: Avengers
"#26 WHY AM I BUYING THIS?: THE AUTHORITY, V2"
#26 WHY AM I BUYING THIS?: The Eternal (waiting out the first story
 arc)
#26 WHY AM I BUYING THIS?:  Liberty Meadows
#26 WHY AM I BUYING THIS?:                  21 DOWN
#27 FAVORITE GUILTY PLEASURE COMIC: CAVEWOMAN: PANGEAN SEA (one of the
breast comics out there)
#27 FAVORITE GUILTY PLEASURE COMIC: I feel no guilt.
"#27 FAVORITE GUILTY PLEASURE COMIC: Nothing ""Trashy"" left me
without guilt this year."
#27 FAVORITE GUILTY PLEASURE COMIC:         ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN
#28 MOST SEXIST ARTWORK: Everything by Greg Horn.
#28 MOST SEXIST ARTWORK: Greg Horn
#28 Most Sexist Artwork: pretty much any Greg Horn cover.
#28 MOST SEXIST ARTWORK: The Eternal
#28 MOST SEXIST ARTWORK: The Perv who draws X-Men Phoenix
#28 MOST SEXIST ARTWORK:  Greg Horn's covers on anything.
"#28 MOST SEXIST ARTWORK:                    Ed Benes, SUPERGIRL,
BIRDS OF PREY"
#29 VOICES IN MY HEAD: Chuck Austen
#29 VOICES IN MY HEAD: Gilbert Hernandez's run on BIRDS OF PREY
#29 VOICES IN MY HEAD: Marville
#29 VOICES IN MY HEAD:                      JSA: Princes of Darkness
#30 DEAD MEN WALKING: Arrowsmith
#30 DEAD MEN WALKING: DC's Focus Line. It won't solicit well and just
die from there.
#30 DEAD MEN WALKING: The Eternal
#30 DEAD MEN WALKING: Trouble
#30 DEAD MEN WALKING: Ultimate Adventures
#30 DEAD MEN WALKING:                       THE CREW
#31 UNDESERVED LOW SALES: Black Panther
#31 UNDESERVED LOW SALES: Gotham Central
#31 UNDESERVED LOW SALES: Savage Dragon (Watch out Dave Sim; Larsen's
past #100 and isn't slowing down.)
#31 UNDESERVED LOW SALES:                   CATWOMAN   
#31 UNDESERVED LOW SALES:Agent X
#32 UNDESERVED HIGH SALES: Loeb/Lee Batman
#32 UNDESERVED HIGH SALES: Uncanny X-Men (Hasn't anyone--other than
Paul O'Brien--noticed this how horrible this is?)
#32 UNDESERVED HIGH SALES:  Austen's Uncanny X-Men
#32 UNDESERVED HIGH SALES:                  JSA
"#33 ROLL YOUR OWN: ""Burning Bridges While Still On Them"" Award to
Bill Jemas"
#33 ROLL YOUR OWN:   complet disinterest of a fans opinion: Marvel.
#33 ROLL YOUR OWN:         Worst Caption: JSAs The Human Bomb. Roy
Lincoln. Explosive Grandfather.            
"Most Unintentionally Apt Movie Tag Line:  ""The punishment begins in
2004,"" for the Punisher film."
Willie Nelson Award for takingon a *LOT* of work: Howard Chaykin who
is apparently drawing every thing DC has coming inthe next five
months.
"""Afterschool Special"" Award to Arron William's PS232"
"""Say Yes to Drugs"" Award to Grant Morrison and Chris Weston for THE
FILTH"
#34 BEST NEWS: Jemas is gone!
"#34 BEST NEWS: Kurt Busiek's sequel to Marvels, amongst others he
announced"
#34 BEST NEWS: Supreme Power
#34 BEST NEWS:                              GAIMANs ENDLESS NIGHTS
#35 WORST NEWS: Chuck Austen is new Avengers writer
"#35 WORST NEWS: I was pretty bummed out when I found out I didn't win
the ""Life-Size"" Captain America bust at the Dynamic Forces booth."
#35 WORST NEWS: Previous news item is incorrect!
#35 WORST NEWS: Waid fired from FF
#35 WORST NEWS:                             Jesus Castillo case
rejected by US Supreme Court.



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