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Which were your favorite "regular" (not a bonus, and not page-at-a-time) comics in 2020? You can vote for up to seven!

The answer is "The In-Law Unit".

Inlaw Unit is by far the best

My favourites have been the same since I joined MCC:
CHECKERED PAST

THE PERSUADER

WAITING ROOM

I put a few titles down; I usually don't like reluctant controllers but Enchanted Summer seems like it has a good story going on and the controllers' reluctance seems to come from a place of genuine affection rather than a sort of retrograde, self-indulgent chivalry.

The Alchemist is a fun harem mind control story with a decent method of control, and some implied potential for body modification too. If only it came out more often.

The Inheritance has a great art style and a mystery that's unfolding; it's hard to keep interest with its release schedule, however.

I've voted THK on a lot of previous years but it's been so long since an issue came out I can't really be bothered.

Started out as Waiting Room and it's only gotten better with time.

Since the poll doesn't let you order by votes, here were the top 20 (repeated numbers are ties):

1. Trigger Warning    - 23 (8.9%)
2. The Inheritance    - 17 (6.6%)
2. Waiting Room    - 17 (6.6%)
4. The Alchemist    - 15 (5.8%)
5. The Ring Cycle    - 14 (5.4%)
6. The Persuader    - 13 (5.1%)
7. The Hidden Knowledge    - 12 (4.7%)
8. Checkered Past    - 11 (4.3%)
8. The Chrysalis    - 11 (4.3%)
8. Found Objects 3    - 11 (4.3%)
11. Permed    - 10 (3.9%)
11. Roll Playing 2    - 10 (3.9%)
13. The Canadian Girlfriend    - 9 (3.5%)
13. Unknown Pleasures    - 9 (3.5%)
13. The Help    - 9 (3.5%)
16. The In-Law Unit    - 8 (3.1%)
16. Cuckoo's Nest    - 8 (3.1%)
18. Enchanted Summer    - 7 (2.7%)
19. Free Trade Zone    - 6 (2.3%)
19. Free Wifi    - 6 (2.3%)
19. Bigger    - 6 (2.3%)
19. By the Book 2    - 6 (2.3%)

Only eight votes for "The In-Law Unit".  Bummer.

Surprising to me too, considering how vocal some folks have been about that title.

It's a good story, the poll is imperfect.

A lot of factors besides general title-likedness go into people's votes: How recent the last issue was, a desire to boost otherwise-ignored titles, and things like that. Interestingly, there's not a huge amount of correlation between the results of the poll and how many people have liked the title on the site itself.

I agree with the first part and the second is fascinating.

A "favorites" poll isn't really possible for me. I like different things about different titles. And I stopped having "favorites" for most things a long time ago. And really, since serials update so slowly here, I pretty much treat each issue as stand-alone stuff. So if the latest issue wasn't hot and fast, then I just read it again when the next issue comes out.

I'm with Ozymandias. Plus I keep wanting to vote for John Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_(ice_hockey)).

Agreed.

It always surprises me that even when people can vote for seven comics, no one title ever seems to be picked by much more than half the voters. Trigger Warning was picked by 51.1%; The In-Law Unit by 17.8%.

The latter is OK - I'm not really into the whole sex with your mother-in-law thing. It's certainly no Free Trade Zone though, and that was only picked by 13.3%. Clearly there's no accounting for taste.

I mean, for me it's less about what *should* happen and more about what *did* happen. I love THK, best story on the site, but it had one issue way back at the beginning of the year so  I can't really vote for it in this sense.

for me it is checkered past hands doiwn!