Show notes
This is an extra-long episode with categories predetermined and agreed upon. Here are the nominees...
Best comic to show a lapsed fan
- House of X / Powers of X
- Black Hammer
- Hellblazer
- Green Lantern
- The Immortal Hulk
- Middlewest
Biggest Disappointment
- Fallen Angels
- Batman: Damned
- 2099
- Spider-Man by Abrams
- Return of Wolverine
- Last Knight On Earth
- Invisible Kingdom
Best Comics Trend
- Team listed as Co-Creators
- Sexploitation characters are now written by fabulous writers (Red Sonja, Deja Thoris)taken seriously
- Major publishers embrace horror/genre
- Grand Design
- ALPHA / OMEGA issues
- Kitschy properties are being given fun and clever books (Six Million Dollar Man, Barbarella)
Worst Comics Trend
- Solicitations Too Far Out
- Too Many Event Tie-Ins
- Constant Re-Scheduling
- Creator’s rights in jeopardy (Watchmen)
- Political Avoidance
- An overabundance of Elseworld Batman stories (Last Knight on Earth, Bat-dad in King’s run, Curse of the White Knight)
Biggest Surprise:
- DC Restructures into age bracket model
- Vertigo shuttered
- Young Animal returns
- DC Zoom and Ink a success!
- X-line complete relaunch
- Marvels are annotated and BACK
- Conan under Marvel and in every book
Biggest Surprise
- X-Men Immortality
- Hot claws NO MORE
- Walking Dead ends abruptly
- Black Hammer & Justice League
- Doomsday Clock finally completed
Best Publisher
- Marvel
- DC
- Image
- Vault
- Dark Horse
Best #1
- John Constantine: Hellblazer
- Silver Surfer: Black
- Captain Marvel #1
- ACTS OF EVIL: PUNISHER ANNUAL #1
Best Ongoing
- Immortal Hulk
- Justice League
- Venom
- The Dreaming
- Thor
- Black Hammer (+ various tie-ins)
- Gideon Falls
Best Event
- War of the Realms
- HoX & PoX
- Absolute Carnage
- Leviathan
- Year of the Villain
Best Reboot
- The X-Men Line
- Young Justice
- Daredevil
- Fantastic Four
- Batman/Superman
- Buffy
- Hellblazer
Most Memorable Retcon (bad or good)
- Moira X
- Wolverine and the Infinity Stones
- Xavier and Magneto working together
- Doomsday Clock
- Venom creates children on purpose
Best Romance
- Gambit and Rogue
- Krakoa Polyamory
- Batman and Catwoman
- Spider-Man and MJ
- Harley and Poison Ivy
- Betsy and Blob (X-Tremists)
Best Hero
- Venom
- Xavier
- Miles Morales
- Dora (The Dreaming)
- Doctor Strange
- Hum (Coda)
- Martian Manhunter
Best in-comic Team
- Excalibur
- Marauders
- The Marvelous X-Men
- Young Justice
- Doom Patrol
Best Villain
- Mister Sinister
- Knull
- Morbius
- Leviathan
- Lex Luthor
- Batman Who Laughs
Best Costume
- Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock)
- Batman Who Laughs
- Captain Kitty Pryde
- Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo” Mullein
- Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy
- Dark Captain Marvel
Best Series Debut
- Little Bird
- Silver Surfer: Black
- Spider-Man: Life Story
- The Batman’s Grave
- Far Sector
- Peter Cannon
- Die
- Sandman Presents: Hellblazer