The Official Comic Book Culture forum "Best of 2007" Nominations Thread!

[wonderfly]

The Official CBC "Best of 2007" Nominations Thread!


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Do any of these comic books have what it takes to be the Best of 2007?!?

Another year is drawing to a close, and once again, the Comic Book Culture forum is interested in what YOU think is the best, (and worst) of the last year in comics!

Just like the Oscar's reward the year's best films, we're going to be awarding the winners of the "Best of the Year" in comics! This process will be broken down into two parts: A "Nominations" thread, (that's what this thread is) followed by the actual "Awards" thread! After the votes in the "Awards" thread are counted, the winner's will be declared!!!

Here are the catagories for which we want your nominations:

Best Continuing Comic Book
Best Writer
Best Artist
Favorite Hero/Heroine
Favorite Team
Favorite Villian
Best Limited Series

Rule #1: Please feel free to post multiple nominations in each category-you can make multiple nominations now, but when it comes time to cast your vote in the actual "Awards" thread, you can only place one vote!

Rule #2: Please make your nominations for comics released from December 1st, 2006 to December 1st, 2007. Any comics that come out in December will go on next year's nominations. For the "Best Limited Series" category, your nominations should be for mini-series and limited series for which the majority of issues were released in 2006, (thus "Countdown", and "Annihilation: Conquest" (the entire event) can be nominated, but the recent "Captain Marvel" miniseries from Marvel, (of which only the 1st issue has been released) cannot be nominated.

Want to see what people were nominating last year? Click here to see last year's Nomination's Thread! (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=179609)

This nominations thread will run until December 16th. The actual voting "Awards" thread will run for 2 weeks after that, ending on January 1st. After that, the votes will be tallied, and the winners will be announced!!

Following that, come January, the winners in each main catagory will be awarded prizes in the form of Theme Weeks!!! Yes, that's right, we're bringing back the Theme Week events from last year's awards! During each Theme Week, the format of the Comic Book Culture forum will change to reflect the winners of the awards early next year. It's a fun way to celebrate your favorite comic books, and participation gives you the chance to win a "Guest Pick of the Week" in our weekly "This Week in Comics" thread!

There will be other categories you will be allowed to vote on in the actual voting thread, (such as "Best New Talent" and "Favorite Supporting Character") but these other catagories will not have nominations. If you have other categories you'd like to recommend, please feel free to post your recommendations in this thread as well!

So let's hear your nominations for the above categories, and wish your favorite comic book characters good luck! ;)

Enjoy this Toon Zone "Best of 2007" event? Here are some other year end Toon Zone "Awards" threads:

The Annual "Toon Zone Awards": 2007 Edition (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=201528)

[rggkjg1]

Best Continuing Comic Book - All Star Superman, Batman, Detective Comics, Action Comics, The Spirit, Justice League of America, Superman Confidential, Captain America, Star Trek: Year Four, Superman
Best Writer - Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Darwyn Cooke, Paul Dini, Ed Brubaker.
Best Artist - Frank Quitely, Darwyn Cooke, Tim Sale, Andy Kubert, Tony Daniel, Gary Frank, Alex Ross
Favorite Hero/Heroine - Superman, Batman, The Question, Supergirl, Wonder Woman
Favorite Team - Autobots, Justice League, Justice Society,
Favorite Villian - Sylar (NBC's Heroes)
Best Limited Series - Star Trek The Next Generation: The Space Between, Star Trek: Alien Spotlight, Justice

[Stu]

Best Continuing Comic Book - Detective Comics, Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-Man
Best Writer - Ed Brubaker, Paul Dini.
Best Artist - Mark Bagley, John Romita Jr.
Favorite Hero/Heroine - Daredevil, Batman. This one usually goes to Spider-Man but he has been so horrendously out of character this year he's near the point of runination for me.
Favorite Team - The Ultimates
Favorite Villian - Mr. Fear - oddly enough, this time last year, I had no idea who he was! The Joker also had some outstanding appearances in the "Detective" storyline in Detective Comics, but this Countdown stuff sounds like nonsense, but I've not been reading it.
Best Limited Series - World War Hulk - this has been one of the best crossovers in years.

This list seems a little short - we used to have a lot more catagories. May I ask why it's been trimmed down?

[wonderfly]

This list seems a little short - we used to have a lot more catagories. May I ask why it's been trimmed down?

No, I believe it's the exact same amount of nominations we had last year. (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=179609)

You're perhaps thinking of the actual Awards thread, (here's last year's thread) (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=180569), which has more catagories for votes. We'll run that thread in Mid-December, after the Nominations thread.

This Nominations thread is more for preparing our main catagories for the "Theme Weeks", event, (which is our way of actually awarding the winners). The catagories in this thread are our main catagories, and thus we're showcasing them a bit more than the rest. We may make revisions in the future, but last year this seemed to work pretty well. :)

[wonderfly]

Time for my nominations:

Favorite Comic Books: Incredible Hulk, Avengers: The Initiative, Punisher (MAX), Scalped, Conan, Fall of Cthulhu

Favorite Writers: Jason Aaron, (Scalped, The Other Side, Wolverine), Greg Pak, (Incredible Hulk, World War Hulk, What If: Planet Hulk), Mike Carey, (X-Men, Crossing Midnight), Christos Gage, (Civil War: Iron Man/Captain America, World War Hulk: X-Men, Annihilation: Conquest-Quasar, Iron Man: Director of SHIELD Annual, Union Jack, X-Men: Endangered Species back-up stories), Dan Slott, (She-Hulk, Avengers: The Initiative, GLA/Deadpool: Summer Fun Spectacular), Garth Ennis, (Punisher, JLA/Hitman, Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears)

Favorite Artists: Skottie Young, (New X-Men), Carlo Pagulayan, (Incredible Hulk), Mark Texeira and Javier Saltares, (Ghost Rider), Cary Nord, (Conan), Greg Ruth, (Conan: “Born on the Battlefield”), Dan Jurgens, (Booster Gold)

Favorite Heroes: Booster Gold, Jonah Hex, Conan, The Death Dealer

Favorite Villians: Hulk, (yes, in my mind, he was both "hero" and "villian"), Thunderbolts, The Phalanx, (from Annihilation: Conquest), Barracuda, (from Punisher MAX and the Barracuda mini-series), Nyarlathotep, (from Fall of Cthulhu)

Favorite Team: Thunderbolts, New X-Men, Avengers: The Intiative (the Recruits)

Favorite Mini-series: Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears #1-6, World War Hulk #1-5, Spider-Man: Reign #1-4, The Other Side #1-5, (I think the majority of this came out in 2007), Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer #1-6, Conan and the Midnight God #1-5, Dragon’s Lair #1-4, (I think half of this, or more, came out in 2007), Astro City: the Dark Age (Book 2) #1-4, (again, I believe half of this, or more, came out in 2007).

[wonderfly]

I've removed the sticky on this thread, (I'm beginning to think a thread can become camouflaged at the top of the forum).

Anybody else have any nominations?!? If you have a pick for the Best in Comics for 2007, then give us your picks!!

[Ed Liu]

OK, my nominations this year.

Best Continuing Comic Book
Marvel Adventures: Avengers
X-Men: First Class
The Spirit
Usagi Yojimbo
Casanova
Best Writer
Brian K. Vaughan
Fred Van Lente
Gail Simone
Jeff Parker
Matt Fraction
Best Artist
Darwyn Cooke
Stan Sakai
Fabio Moon
Cameron Stewart
Favorite Hero/Heroine
The Spirit
Barbara Gordon/Oracle
Casanova Quinn
Usagi Yojimbo
Favorite Team
Marvel Adventures Avengers
Birds of Prey
Favorite Villian
MODOC (from Marvel Adventures: Avengers)
The Adversary from Fables
(I'm pretty sure I had trouble with this category last year, too)
Best Limited Series
Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil
Action Philosophers
Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Mortality

-- Ed

[Jin Kazama]

Best Continuing Comic Book
-Booster Gold
-The Lone Ranger
-Justice League of America
-Batman
-Robin

Best Writer
-Brad Meltzer (JLA)
-Grant Morrison (Batman)
-Joss Whedon (Astonishing X-Men)
-Geoff Johns (Booster Gold)

Best Artist
-John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men)
-Ed Benes (JLA)
-Andy Kubert (Batman)
-Dale Eaglesham (JSA)

Favorite Hero/Heroine
-Booster Gold
-Batman
-The Lone Ranger
-Green Lantern

Favorite Team
-The Challengers (Kyle Rayner, Jason Todd, Donna Troy, Bob) (Countdown)
-The Green Lantern Corps.
-The Sinestro Corps.
-JLA

Favorite Villian
-Superman/boy Prime (Green Lantern, Countdown)
-Ultimate Cable (Ultimate X-Men)
-The Future Titans (Teen Titans)

Best Limited Series
-Justice
-Shazam! and the Monster Society Of Evil
-Trials of Shazam

[Jacob T. Paschal]

Does Manga count? If so...


Best writer: Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note)
Best artist: Takeshi Obata (Death Note)
Best Villian: Light Yagami (Death Note)
Best Hero: L (Death Note)


While Death Note was published in the states bi-monthly, the chapters were written and drawn weekly over in Japan and while part two of the series had a few rough spots the art was qite detailed and the

downfall of Light

Was incredible.

[wonderfly]

Does Manga count? If so...


Well, yes, you're free to vote for whoever you choose, (for best writer, best artist, or whatever), though take note that there will be a "manga" catagory in the main voting thread, (a question asking "What is Best Manga of the last year?") Perhaps we will have an expanded "manga" voting section in the future, wait and see...

[Spider-Man]

Best Continuing Comic Book - All Star Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, Captain America, Astonishing X-Men, Action Comics, Marvel Adventures The Avengers

Best Writer - Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Joss Whedon

Best Artist - Frank Quitely, Mark Bagley, John Cassady, Renato Guedes, Gary Frank

Favorite Hero/Heroine - Superman, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man (Ultimate Version)

Favorite Team - The X-Men, Marvel Adventures The Avengers

Favorite Villian - Superman Prime, Green Goblin (Ultimate Spider-Man version)

Best Limited Series - none

[Xurk]

Best Continuing Comic Book
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- All-Star Superman
- Amazing Spider-Girl
- Daredevil
- Green Lantern
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8
- She-Hulk
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane [though this has been on a hiatus for half of 2007]
- Thunderbolts

Best Writer
- Brian Michael Bendis [USM, Mighty Avengers, New Avengers, NA: Illuminati]
- Joss Whedon [Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8]
- Brian K. Vaughan [Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8]
- Sean McKeever [Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Countdown [to Final Crisis]]
- Geoff Johns [Green Lantern, Sinestro Corps one-shots]
- Greg Pak [World War Hulk, Incredible Hulk]
- Dan Slott [She-Hulk]
- Kaare Andrews [Spider-Man: Reign]
- Tom DeFalco [Amazing Spider-Girl]
- Ed Brubaker [Daredevil]
- Grant Morrison [All-Star Superman]
- Warren Ellis [Thunderbolts]

Best Artist
- Mark Bagley [Ultimate Spider-Man, Mighty Avengers]
- Mike Wieringo [Spider-Man/Fantastic Four, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man]
- Ronald Frenz [Amazing Spider-Girl]
- Frank Quiteley [All-Star Superman]
- Bryan Hitch [The Ultimates 2]
- Arthur Suydam [Marvel Zombies VS Army of Darkness [covers], Marvel Zombies 2 [covers]]
- Sean Phillips [Marvel Zombies 2]
- Jo Chen [Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 [covers]]
- Takeshi Miyazawa [Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane]

Favorite Hero/Heroine
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man [Ultimate]
- Spider-Girl
- Daredevil
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
- Green Lantern [Guy Gardner]
- Superman [All-Star]
- Hulk
- Luke Cage

Favorite Team
- New Avengers
- Green Lantern Corps
- Sinestro Corps
- Renegades [WWH]
- The Ultimates
- Thunderbolts

Favorite Villian
- Iron Man [:p]
- Sinestro
- Superboy/-man Prime
- Hulk
- Zibarro
- The Hood
- Hobgoblin [MC2 Universe]
- Doctor Octopus [Ultimate]
- Green Goblin [Ultimate]
- Mr. Fear
- Thunderbolts

Best Limited Series
- Countdown [to Final Crisis]
- World War Hulk
- Marvel Zombies 2
- Marvel Zombies VS Army of Darkness
- New Avengers: Illuminati
- Spider-Man: Reign
- Spider-Man / Fantastic Four

Well, that was a thorough enough list! I also hope some of my choices light some bulbs above some people's heads, just as reading the posts above mine did to me :) I'm looking forward to the voting thread!

[thedanmachine]

Best Continuing Comic Book:
Batman Confidential
Ultimate Spider-man
Green Lantern
Daredevil

Best Writer:
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian K. Vaughn
Geoff Johns
Greg Pak
Ed Brubaker

Best Artist:
Jim Lee
Mark Bagley
Frank Quitley
Sean Phillips

Favorite Hero:
Batman
Ultimate Spider-man
Daredevil
Iron Man

Favorite Team:
Green Lantern Corps
New X-Men

Favorite Villain:
Hulk
Ultimate Green Goblin
Joker (in Batman Confidential)
Mr. Fear

Best Limited Series:
World War Hulk
Spider-man Reign

[Anthonynotes]

Gather this one's mainly for superhero comic fare, vs. newspaper comic strips and their characters... oh, well, guess someone can weed out/correct me on any inappropriate nominees:

Best Continuing Comic Book
- All Star Superman
- Superman

Best Writer
- Kurt Busiek
- Grant Morrison
- Darb Conley (if comic strips/"Get Fuzzy" counts)
- Tom Tomorrow (if comic strips and "This Modern World" counts)
- Alison Bechdel (if comic strips/"Dykes to Watch Out For" counts)
- Garry Trudeau ("Doonesbury")
- Stephan Pastis ("Pearls Before Swine")

Best Artist
- Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For)

Favorite Hero/Heroine
- Superman
- Captain Carrot
- Alley-Kat-Abra
- Pig-Iron
- Krypto
- Lois Lane (if she counts as a "heroine")

Favorite Team
- The Zoo Crew

Favorite Villian
- Starro the Conqueror (from the Capt. Carrot miniseries)
- Frogzilla (from the Capt. Carrot miniseries)
- The Salamandroid (from the Capt. Carrot miniseries)
- Lex Luthor
- The Prankster
- Arion, Lord of Atlantis
- Amalak

Best Limited Series
- Captain Carrot and the Final Ark

[wonderfly]

You now have one week left to give us your nominations. The Nominations thread will run until next Sunday night, (Dec. 16th) at midnight, EST. The next day, (Dec. 17th) the actual "Best of 2006" Voting thread will begin and run for 2 weeks, (till January 1st)!

Don't blame us if your favorite superhero/writer/artist/comic book doesn't end up on the list of choices in the actual voting thread because you didn't nominate them!!


I also hope some of my choices light some bulbs above some people's heads, just as reading the posts above mine did to me I'm looking forward to the voting thread!

You bring up a good point: if anybody sees a choice made by someone else, and wants to add them to their list of nominations, you are allowed to go back and edit it into your post. Sometimes it takes a while to go back and think about all the cool comics you enjoyed over the past year. I recommend digging back through the last year's worth of threads on the CBC forum - but you can also see how others are voting here to give you ideas as well!!!

Remember, winners of the Voting Thread will recieve a Theme Week celebrating the winners in January/February of next year!!!

[Miyamoto Musashi]

Favorite Comic Books: Ultimate Spiderman, Batman Detictive Comics, Ultimate Avengers, Justice League Adventures(Yes, the one based on the cartoon)

Favorite Writers: Brian Michael Benedis, Paul Jenkins, Stan Lee

Favorite Artists: John Romita sr, Mark Bagley, Mark Buckengham, Humberto Ramos

Favorite Heroes: Hulk, Booster Gold, Jonah Hex, Conan, The Death Dealer

Favorite Villians: Doc Ock, Lex Luthor, Kingpin, Joker, Penguin, Leader, Abomination, Will O' the Wisp

Favorite Team: JLA, X-Men, Fantastic4, Ultimate Avengers

Favorite Mini-series: None

[wonderfly]

Gather this one's mainly for superhero comic fare, vs. newspaper comic strips and their characters... oh, well, guess someone can weed out/correct me on any inappropriate nominees:Just like with Jacob and his manga picks, you're allowed to vote for whoever and whatever you want, though it should be noted there will be a catagory devoted specifically to newspaper strips in the actual Awards thread.

The CBC forum is open to all types of comics, but our main discussion does come from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, (and a few others), which tends to make the focus around here be on superheroes, (though the votes in this thread may award someone or some comic which has nothing to do with superheroes)!!

It all depends on who you guys vote for!


Favorite Villians: Doc Ock, Lex Luthor, Kingpin, Joker, Penguin, Leader, Abomination, Will O' the WispI know the Favorite Villian catagory can be a tough one, but try and keep your picks to villians that have actually appeared in the last 12 months. I'm not sure when the last time the Will O' the Wisp was in a Spider-Man comic book.

[DisneyBoy]

When do we get to vote for the worst of? What about a "best newcomer category?"

Best Continuing Comic Book
- Teen Titans GO!

Best Writer
- Jason Hall
- J Torres

Best Artist
- Terry and Rachel Dodson
- Todd Nauck

Favorite Hero/Heroine
- Raven

Favorite Team
- Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, The Gargoyles Clan

Favorite Villian
- Abstain

Best Limited Series
- Abstain

EDIT:

Most Promising New Creative Direction
- Wonder Woman

Most Promising New Ongoing Series
- Gargoyles

[wonderfly]

When do we get to vote for the worst of? What about a "best newcomer category?"


All such categories will be included next week when we unveil the Official "Awards" thread. But before then we need everyone's nominations to give us some choices in our "main event" categories!!! :)

[Miyamoto Musashi]

Just like with Jacob and his manga picks, you're allowed to vote for whoever and whatever you want, though it should be noted there will be a catagory devoted specifically to newspaper strips in the actual Awards thread.

The CBC forum is open to all types of comics, but our main discussion does come from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, (and a few others), which tends to make the focus around here be on superheroes, (though the votes in this thread may award someone or some comic which has nothing to do with superheroes)!!

It all depends on who you guys vote for!

I know the Favorite Villian catagory can be a tough one, but try and keep your picks to villians that have actually appeared in the last 12 months. I'm not sure when the last time the Will O' the Wisp was in a Spider-Man comic book.
There have been oiver twelve months since will o' the wisp appeared in deadly foes of peter parker? Or he hasn't appeared and my source just made an error?

[Xurk]

Oh yeah, there was an arc in Sensational Spider-Man just after Peter unmasked, featuring Will 'O the Wisp, Molten Man and others... I just can't recall if it was in 2007 or not.

[wonderfly]

Oh yeah, there was an arc in Sensational Spider-Man just after Peter unmasked, featuring Will 'O the Wisp, Molten Man and others... I just can't recall if it was in 2007 or not.

Ah, yes, I remember now. Still, I think that storyline ended right before December, 2006, (which is the Nominations cut off date).

Any further nominations?!?

[Miyamoto Musashi]

The last of it is in December 2006


http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/images/sensational_spiderman_v2/031.jpg

The iron-spider suit is better than the scarlet spider one

[wonderfly]

You now have 48 hours left to cast your nominations if you haven't done so already, (this thread will run until Sunday at midnight, EST).

Any last nominations?!?

[Miyamoto Musashi]

You now have 48 hours left
On the time of where?

[wonderfly]

On the time of where?

Eastern Standard Time USA. In other words, you guys have till late Sunday night, or early Monday morning...so if you have any nominations you want to add to your post, now's the time. And if there's anyone else who wants to nominate in any of the catagories, now's the time. As it stands now, if no one else notes, then let me just say the nominees will be...interesting, this year. :shrug: :sweat:

[MasterDartz]

Best Continuing Comic Book
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- Ultimate X-Men
- Green Lantern

Best Writer
- Geoff Johns [Green Lantern, Sinestro Corps one-shots]


Best Artist
- Arthur Suydam [Marvel Zombies VS Army of Darkness [covers], Marvel Zombies 2 [covers]]


Favorite Hero/Heroine
- Ashley J. Williams
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man [Ultimate]
- Cyclops
- Cyclops [Ultimate]
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
- Batman



Favorite Team
- The Ultimates
- Green Lantern Corps


Favorite Villian
- Doctor Octopus [Ultimate]
- Green Goblin [Ultimate]


Best Limited Series

- Marvel Zombies VS Army of Darkness

[wonderfly]

And that's a wrap. Thanks to everyone who placed their nominations!! Look for the actual voting thread to begin tomorrow...