Marvel Comes Up Big In Wizard Awards

[James Harvey]

www.wizardworld.com asked the question, and fans asnwered. The question this year was "In the last decade, who or what was...." Here are the results:

The Most Important Event: Joe Quesada Becomes EIC Of Marvel Comics

The Best Writer: Ultimate Spider-Man's Brian Michael Bendis

The Best Artist: Marvels' Alex Ross

The Best Mini-Series: Origin

The Consistently Best Title: Uncanny X-Men

The Most Improved Character: Spider-Man

The Best Villain: Magneto

The Sexist Female: Elektra

The Best Relaunch: Daredevil

The Mainstream Creator Who Helped Comics The Most: DD's Kevin Smith

The Most Exciting Event: The Age of Apocalypse

The Most Touching Death: Colossus

The Coolest Movie/TV Project: The "X-Men" Movie

The Worst Idea: The Spider-Clone

The Goofiest Idea: Archie vs. Punisher

The Best Comics Publisher: Marvel

Comments?

[The Green Hornet]

tough to disagree with any of these picks


my only gripe about AoA is that it should have been a mini-series thing instead of interrupting regular comics (but i still think it was awesome)

[Clayface]

Actually, I'd disagree with most of those picks, myself.

[halinar]

I wouldn't call Uncanny X-men the The Consistently Best Title, but that's just me. I broke my run of about 250 issues a couple years back because I couldn't take the garbage each month.

I must admit to loving most of the new spiderman stuff. I have not picked up a spider-book in years but I'm hooked on Amazing and Ultimate big time.

[CadaverousEyes]

Okay, that last question/answer leads me to believe that this wasn't a Marvel-only poll, so tell me: What's wrong with everybody?!

[Zoddman]

So, Wizard fans can only remember back to 1998? Because nothing else on here is from before 1998.

[Samhaine]

Originally posted by Zoddman
So, Wizard fans can only remember back to 1998? Because nothing else on here is from before 1998.
Actually, The Clone Saga, Age of Apocalypse, Marvels, and Archie vs. Punisher were all pre-1998.

But I have to agree with Clayface, most of these are just bad picks. Uncanny as the consistantly best? Right. That is, if by best they mean horrible. There are sooooo many other titles that have been better than Uncanny in the last decade. Alot of them belong to DC, too.

[Clayface]

Originally posted by CadaverousEyes
Okay, that last question/answer leads me to believe that this wasn't a Marvel-only poll, so tell me: What's wrong with everybody?!

I think part of the problem here is that Wizard's many years of Marvel bias have driven away a lot of the DC and independent comic fans. Thus, the readership is sort of biased toward Marvel stuff. I used to read Wizard regularly years ago, but I got so sick of them constantly praising Marvel, and ignoring DC so much that I stopped reading them.

[Samhaine]

Originally posted by Clayface


I think part of the problem here is that Wizard's many years of Marvel bias have driven away a lot of the DC and independent comic fans.
However, JSA *did* pull of The Best Comic of 2001 award, so at least DC got some recognization there.

[James Harvey]

Originally posted by Jim Harvey
[url]The Consistently Best Title: Uncanny X-Men

Um...yeah right. There are better Marvel titles that have been consistently better than this title. This 'winner' just doesn't sit right with me. Uncanny X-Men has been so inconsistent for the past few years that I can barely see any consistancy at all in the title.

[ZorBrak]

I (yes I know I'm a bad person) refuse to read any older titles...not the spiderman, x-men or anything else...why? late in the game and don't feel like backreading all those years to catch up number one, number two the whole spider clone thing pissed me off, number three, I hate all these crossover dead then alive again twists that kept happening.......soooooooo I went back to the primitive stuff, I only read the Ultimate brand. are they going to end the old stuff and make Ultimate their mainstream brand? I hope so because ultimate is the shiznet.

[Samhaine]

Originally posted by ZorBrak
are they going to end the old stuff and make Ultimate their mainstream brand? I hope so because ultimate is the shiznet.
They will lose most of their readers if they do this. I, personally, would probably drop all Marvel if they went to strictly Ultimate titles. However, they probably will not.

And most of the titles aren't continuity-heavy. Since Joe Quesada took over he's tried to give more of a way for newer readers to jump onto the books with pretty much any issue.

[Karkull]

As if this was a real award...this was so rigged. The stuff that won was the stuff that Wizard plugged the hell out of all year. No wonder the kiddies voted for them--that's all they were told about by the Wizard propaganda machine.

[Joe Wagner]

Originally posted by ZorBrak
I (yes I know I'm a bad person) refuse to read any older titles...not the spiderman, x-men or anything else...why? late in the game and don't feel like backreading all those years to catch up number one, number two the whole spider clone thing pissed me off, number three, I hate all these crossover dead then alive again twists that kept happening.......soooooooo I went back to the primitive stuff, I only read the Ultimate brand. are they going to end the old stuff and make Ultimate their mainstream brand? I hope so because ultimate is the shiznet.

I don't think this will ever happen - actually all the Ultimates really does is remind me of another hyped up continuity Marvel did some time ago - anyone remember the 2099 universe that was a complete hit for like the first two to three years and then died. Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened to the Ultimate titles (and I enjoy them to, but I enjoyed 2099 in it's heyday and look where it is now).

-Joe!