Trying to determine the worst panels of this comic over the past year was, as you might imagine, an arduous task. With the number of legitimate entrants determined by the following formula:
(365 * 3)/Recycled Panels
there was a lot of crap to cull through, not to mention I had to take several breaks in order to visit the emergency room with a case of bleeding eyeballs. But the polls are now open! The field has been narrowed to five random, ridiculous categories…so in no particular order, let’s get started!
Nominees, Miscellaneous Mutant Division:
Elderly baseball kid, with a bonus Clambake chaser!
Dog-faced first base chick, with bonus wacky dialogue of “Give it a ride!”
Hideous Football Weirdo, with bonus floating widows peak!
“Holy crap that’s supposed to be a chick?!” with bonus creepy ref!
Vote HERE for the worst mutant.
Nominees, Mutant Group Division:
Baldy, Two-Face and The Blob!
A Gaggle of Basketball Freaks!
A Frightening Posse of Cave Spring Fans!
A Very Scary Thorp Family Christmas!
Vote HERE for the worst group of mutants.
Nominees, General Insanity Division:
F**ed-Up Sweatshirts!
Two days, two gratuitous crotch shots!
The joker and sleeping pizza vomit boy confer in a Valley Center kitchen!
Bill Ritter is missing way more of his leg than normal, plus what the hell is Gil doing?
Vote HERE for the worst general insanity.
Nominees, Craptacular Action Division:
Worst Punch Ever!
Magical levitating football!
Playing hoops with a volleyball at freakish 45 degree angles!
Super-mutant punter!
Confusingly Bad Cully Check!
Vote HERE for the worst craptacular action.
Nominees, Awful New Characters Division:
Clambake with melting chin!
Sweaty, gyrating Cully!
Two-headed Kaz-Gail creature!
Curley-Horse way too close up (and background characters missing legs!)
Vote HERE for the worst awful-looking character.
That’s it! Polls are open only until they’re closed, so be sure to vote before then!
This Week in Milford 
Great job with the nominees, Jason! This made my day! The toughest call for me was the Craptacular Action Division. The crazy 45-degree-angle basketball game has always been one of my favorites, but in the end, I had to go for Cully’s skating elbow on a player who must be about 6’8″, 380 lbs.
Awful New Characters also required some thought, but I went with my tried-and-true Laugh Test. If the mere sight of a panel caused me to laugh for more than 90 straight seconds when I first saw it (or laugh uncontrollably enough to be noticed at work, regardless of duration), it’s a winner. Gyrating Cully passes the test, while The Kaz With Two Heads does not.
Comment by Cash — January 21, 2008 @ 11:55 am
Gil Thorp doesnt publish on Sundays, so its 313*3/recycled panels.
Comment by RobM — January 21, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
But wait … if Dancin’ Cully was hilarious (which it is), how can it be possibly the Worst Panel of 2007? Sure, it absolutely fails at whatever action it’s trying to convey, but it wins at unintentional humor … and that’s gotta count for something.
Comment by El Santo — January 21, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
Isn’t the A-Trail strictly speaking a 2008 phenomenon? Not that we won’t have plenty of horrible panels of him for next year’s contest…
Anyway, link to this on my blog going up at earliest opportunity.
Josh
Comment by Josh — January 21, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
Wow, this was a tough one – feel like a
kid in a candy storenerd with bleeding eyeballs.Comment by Gil'sBarber — January 21, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
Thi is gonn be tough Jason, I laughed my ass off at every single one.
Once again the Thorpian Christmas card freaed the hell out of me.
Comment by Regina — January 21, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
I had a tooth pulled this morning, so it hurts to laugh. I should have stayed away from this blog today.
I voted for Curly Horse before reading Josh’s comment. He’s right, Curly Horse is a 2008 character. Oh well. It’s good to know we already have a strong candidate for 2008. Bodes well.
Comment by Sourbelly — January 21, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
The mutant group category was the toughest choice — every one of those is potentially a winner. I voted for the Christmas card but it was awfully hard to resist “bodies banging underneath the basket.”
Comment by Eric B. — January 21, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Andrew Gregory is likely to be a standout ass-clown for 2008, but as he debuted on December 27th, I felt he deserved the chance to compete as a freak in 2007 as well.
Comment by jasbeattie — January 21, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
OMG, what an incredible array! Cannot stop laughing long enough to make these tough, tough choices. Awesome work, dude.
Comment by julienne — January 21, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
But wait … if Dancin’ Cully was hilarious (which it is), how can it be possibly the Worst Panel of 2007? Sure, it absolutely fails at whatever action it’s trying to convey, but it wins at unintentional humor … and that’s gotta count for something.
Well, everyone has their own definitions, but mine go something like this: Best Panel = panel I enjoyed the most, for something approximating the reason I was supposed to. Best example: Kaz-Action-Punch. Worst Panel = panel I enjoyed the most, even though it wasn’t supposed to be enjoyed that way. I.e., just because it was so bad. But for me, awfully-drawn panels that provide no entertainment just fall under the category of “bland.”
(I’ll admit that there’s some gray area: I nominated “Ease up, friend!” for Best Panel and voted for it, but was I really laughing with Kaz, or at Kaz? More importantly, do I care? The answer to that question is no.)
Comment by Cash — January 21, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
Oh man that was hilarious.
Comment by Chance — January 22, 2008 @ 5:33 am
These are hilarious! Thank you! My vote for best of all the worst is the Christmas card.
Comment by The Divine One — January 22, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Too bad this isn’t Chicago. I would like to vote early and often.
Comment by Kevin — January 23, 2008 @ 8:39 am
Andrew Gregory’s sporting the Superman haircut. Spit-curl and all.
Comment by edge — January 23, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
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