The SHH 2012 Comic Book Awards - Nominations

[JewishHobbit]

Hello everyone!

For the past couple of years I've been wanting to host a comic book awards here at the hype and always thought of it too late. This year, I'm making it happen. This thread is for the sake of Nominations and for creating the categories that people would be interested in seeing.

The plan is to have a thread (this thread) where people will nominate however many titles/creators/etc. that they feel should be included in the voting ballot. Then, shortly after the new year, I will send out a ballot to anyone who is interested or who has participated in the conversations, and they will vote and send me their ballots. Then I will later award the winners of each category in it's own thread. I will hold the actual voting after the new year so that every comic of 2012 will be released.

These awards cover Marvel, DC, Boom, Dark Horse, Dynamite, Image, and any other comic you'd like to mention.


Categories thus far:

Best Single Issue of 2012
Best Ongoing Series of 2012
Best Mini Series of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Best One-Shot of 2012
Best Arc of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Best Writer of 2012
Best Artist of 2012
Best Character of 2012
Best Supporting Character of 2012
Best Villain of 2012
Best Company of 2012
Best Independant Title of 2012


I'm likely missing some obviously needed categories so shout them out. I considered Inkers, letterers, and colorists but I honestly care very little about that. If others would like to make a mention then I'll add them.

Also, it'd be fun to have some "out there" categories that would just make voting fun. I suggest:

Worst Single Issue of 2012
Worst Ongoing Title of 2012
Worst Arc of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Biggest WTF Moment of 2012 (things that make you go hmm?!)
Best Scene of 2012 (single moment in an issue, a panel or a page, etc.)
Best Death Scene of 2012
Ugliest Art of 2012
Worst Writing of 2012
Most Doable of 2012 (that's right... which fictional character would you 'do' if he/she were real?)

Just some ideas.

So what do you guys think? Let's get these categories knocked out first but if you want to go ahead and nominate then go right ahead. Just check back to see if there are any new categories you should nominate for. As of now, I am not limiting the number of nominees. I will likely take no more than 5 per category to the ballot though, so keep that in mind.

[JewishHobbit]

For the sake of reference, here are some solicits for January of 2012 so you know where to start.

Marvel
DC
Image
Dark Horse

[runawayboulder]

Best Single Issue of 2012
Amazing Spider-Man #698
Uncanny X-Men #4 (The Phalanax issue that came out in early January)

Best Ongoing Series of 2012
The Punisher
Wolverine and the X-Men

Best Mini Series of 2012
Fury Max
AvX Consequences

Best Arc of 2012
Everything Burns (Journey into Mystery/The Mighty Thor crossover)

Best Writer of 2012
Kieron Gillen - Journey into Mystery and Uncanny X-Men
Jason Aaron - Wolverine and the X-Men
Greg Rucka - The Punisher
Mark Waid - Daredevil

Best Artist of 2012
Marco Checchetto - The Punisher
Nick Bradshaw - Wolverine and the X-Men
Giuseppe Camuncoli - The Amazing Spider-Man

Best Character of 2012
Fantomex - Uncanny X-Force

Best Supporting Character of 2012
Rachel Cole-Alves - The Punisher

Best Villain of 2012
Doctor Octopus
Mr. Sinister

[Hawkingbird]

I'm two years behind, so I can't really take part in this, but from what I've read

Best Supporting Character: Kate Bishop. (I love her in Hawkeye)
Doable: Hawkeye
Worst Arc....Bendis, you let me down) Avengers vs X Men

[Keyser Soze]

I take it that, since this is a nomination thread where we come up with the shortlists, we can make multiple nominations at this stage?

Best Single Issue of 2012
Batman #5
Batman #15
Saga #1
Wolverine & the X-Men #17

Best Ongoing Series of 2012
Saga
Batman
Thor: God of Thunder
The Manhattan Projects

Best Mini Series of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares
The Shade
Happy!
The Strange Talent of Luther Strode

Best One-Shot of 2012
The Underwater Welder
Chew: Special Agent Poyo
Iain Laurie's Horror Mountain
Orc Girl

Best Arc of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Batman: The Court of Owls
Batman: Death of the Family
Journey into Mystery: Everything Burns
Rotworld

Best Writer of 2012
Scott Snyder
Jason Aaron
Brian K Vaughan
Jeff Lemire

Best Artist of 2012
Fiona Staples
Greg Capullo
Esad Ribic
Iain Laurie

Best Character of 2012
Batman (Batman books)
Marko & Alana (Saga)
Jack Joseph (The Underwater Welder)
Quentin Quire (X-Men books)

Best Supporting Character of 2012
The Will (Saga)
Doop (Wolverine and the X-Men)
Red Crow (Scalped)
Robin (Batman books)

Best Villain of 2012
The Joker (Batman books)
Negan (The Walking Dead)
Joseph Oppenheimer (The Manhattan Projects)
Kade Kilgore and The Hellfire Club (Wolverine and the X-Men)

Best Company of 2012
Image
DC
Marvel
ComixTribe

Best Independent Title of 2012
Saga
The Manhattan Projects
Chew
The Underwater Welder

I'm going to skip the various "worst" awards, as I'd rather not be negative, but here are my nominations for the remaining categories:

Biggest WTF Moment of 2012 (things that make you go hmm?!)
The monster with the giant, diseased, dangling scrotum and tiny maggot dick. (Saga #7)

Best Scene of 2012 (single moment in an issue, a panel or a page, etc.)
"No, I'm Peter Parker!" (Amazing Spider-Man #698)
"Look into his eyes..." (Batman #15, opening page)
Wolverine trying to convince Doop to join the team. (Wolverine and the X-Men #17)
Poyo takes on the hordes of Hell.... and wins! (Chew: Special Agent Poyo)

Best Death Scene of 2012

Spoiler!!! Click to Read!:

Glenn (The Walking Dead #100)
The pimp whose head The Will makes explode with his bare hands. (Saga #4)
Catcher and Nitz (Scalped #60)
Toni Chu (Chew #30)

Most Doable of 2012 (that's right... which fictional character would you 'do' if he/she were real?):
The Stalk (Saga) (....don't judge me. )

[Keyser Soze]

I'm also going to add in....

Best Inker
Jonathan Glapion (Batman)
Christian Alamy (Green Lantern)
Cliff Chiang (Wonder Woman)
Francis Manapul (The Flash)

Best Colorist
Fiona Staples (Saga)
FCO Plascencia (Batman)
Dave McCaig (American Vampire)
Dean White (The Avengers, Thor: God of Thunder)

Best Letterer
Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt (Batman)
Jared K Fletcher (various DC comics)
Sal Cipriano (various DC & Vertigo books)
Kel Nuttall (various indie books)

[JewishHobbit]

Multiple nominations are okay at the moment.

[Thwip!]

Best Single Issue of 2012
Amazing Spider-Man #698
Daredevil #8

Best Ongoing Series of 2012
ASM
The Spider
Daredevil

Best Mini Series of 2012
AvX Consequences
Spider-Men

Best One Shot of 2012
A-Babies vs X-Babies

Best Arc of 2012
No Way Back (Amazing Spider-Man)

Best Writer of 2012
Dan Slott - Amazing Spider-man
Greg Rucka - The Punisher
Mark Waid - Daredevil

Best Artist of 2012
Paolo Rivera - Daredevil
Ryan Stegman - Scarlet Spider

Best Character of 2012
The Shadow

Best Supporting Character of 2012
Aracely (Scarlet Spider)

Best Villain of 2012
Doctor Octopus

[runawayboulder]

For any of the "Worst Of" categories, put me down to nominate anything AvX related. The main series, the writers, the VS books. The only thing that was decent was the AvX Consequences book.

[Cyclops3235]

Best Single Issue of 2012:
Batman 5
Batman 15
Batman Inc 5 (lot's of good fives this year...)

Best Ongoing Series of 2012:
Amazing Spider-Man
Batman
Earth #2


Best Mini Series of 2012: (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Batman Inc (Does this count?)


Best Arc of 2012: (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Death of the Family (Batman)
Danger Zone (ASM)
Ends of the Earth (ASM)


Best Writer of 2012:
Scott Snyder (Batman)
Grant Morrison (Batman Inc)
Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man)
Rick Remender (Uncanny X-Force, Venom)

Best Artist of 2012:
Greg Capullo (Batman)
Ivan Reis (Aquaman)
Jim Lee (Justice League)

Best Character of 2012:
Dick Grayson (Nightwing, Batman, Batman Inc)
Joker (Batman)
Peter Parker (ASM)
Alan Scott (Earth #2)

Best Supporting Character of 2012:
Terry Sloan (Earth #2)
Jason Todd (Batman #15, Batman Inc)
Damien Wayne (Batman, Batman Inc, Batman & Robin)

Best Villain of 2012:
Doctor Octopus (ASM)
Joker (Batman)
Jack-o-Lantern/Crime Master (Venom)
Terry Sloan (Earth #2)

[runawayboulder]

Also, Psylocke for best character this year.

[runawayboulder]

Originally Posted by Thwip!

Best Single Issue of 2012
Amazing Spider-Man #698
Daredevil #8

DD#8 was one of the best issues Waid has written during his run but issue #7 was better/the best. It's the one where DD leads the school for the blind kids through a blizzard after their bus crashes. Damn thing won an Eisner for best single issue/story. Sadly, it came out the last week of 2011 so I can't nominate it here.

[JewishHobbit]

Originally Posted by Cyclops3235

Best Mini Series of 2012: (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Batman Inc (Does this count?)

Batman Inc. is considered an ongoing. I'd recommend nominating something else.

Though if I'm not mistaken, the last few issues of vol. 1 were released as a oneshot called Leviathan Strikes. Something to think about since you didn't nominate a one shot.

I'm pretty sure that was in 2012. I can't check at the moment (at work).

[Ash J. Williams]

Best Single Issue of 2012:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series #6
Daredevil: End of Days #1
Swamp Thing #15
Daredevil #17

Best Ongoing Series of 2012:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Daredevil
Swamp Thing

Best Arc of 2012: (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
A Town Called Penance (The Sixth Gun)
Rotworld

Best Writer of 2012:
Scott Snyder (Swamp Thing)
Mark Waid (Daredevil)
Tom Waltz (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Best Artist of 2012:
Yanick Paquette (Swamp Thing)
Chris Samnee (Daredevil)
Dan Duncan (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Howard Porter (Batman Beyond Unlimited)

Best Character of 2012:
Swamp Thing
Daredevil

Best Supporting Character of 2012:
Deadman and Poison Ivy (Swamp Thing)

Best Villain of 2012:
Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Coyote/Spot (Daredevil)
Darkseid (Batman Beyond Unlimited)
Anton Arcane (Swamp Thing)

Best Independent Title of 2012:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Sixth Gun

Best Colorist:
Ronda Pattison (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Bill Crabtree (The Sixth Gun)

[Spider-Aziz]

Best Single Issue of 2012
Amazing Spider-Man #698

Best Mini Series of 2012
Spider-Men

Best Villain of 2012
Doctor Octopus

I have nothing to say with other categories

[Thwip!]

Originally Posted by runawayboulder

DD#8 was one of the best issues Waid has written during his run but issue #7 was better/the best. It's the one where DD leads the school for the blind kids through a blizzard after their bus crashes. Damn thing won an Eisner for best single issue/story. Sadly, it came out the last week of 2011 so I can't nominate it here.

Those were my thoughts too. I love #7 but #8 has one of my favourite moments of the year

[Spider-Aziz]

My super villain origin

[runawayboulder]

I think next year this should just go in the Marvel comics thread. The weekly B/T goes there anyway. I feel like folks are missing this...

[JewishHobbit]

Yeah... I'm thinking the same. I'll see if I can get a mod to move it or something.

[Hound55]

Best Single Issue of 2012
Saga #1
Daredevil... I'm going to say #14? I'm not good with issue numbers.
Batman... I think it was Issue #5?
Clearly I love misery and the morbid... and f***ing royal robots with tv heads.

Best Ongoing Series of 2012
Saga
Daredevil


Best Mini Series of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
The Infernal Man-Thing


Best Arc of 2012 (at least half of it must have taken place in 2012)
Saga Volume 1. Issues 1-6, don't know if it has another title.

Best Writer of 2012
Jeff Lemire (too great a volume of quality work to ignore)

Best Artist of 2012
Greg Capullo
Yanick Paquette
I'll give a heads up to Kevin Nowlan for finally wrapping up the long-awaited Man-Thing mini which was worth the long-awaiting.

Best Character of 2012
Matt Murdock


Best Supporting Character of 2012
Prince Robot IV (Saga) - Difficult... he's not a real villain but is an antagonist, supporting's as good as any for him I s'pose.

Best Villain of 2012
Joker for coming back
Mark Waid's The Spot. (although this could come as 2011 as well)
Mindy the Tree

Best Company of 2012
Image


Best Independent Title of 2012
Saga

Kirby Award for Best All-Rounder (written and drawn by)
Jeff Lemire
Joe Mulvey (SCAM)

[JewishHobbit]

Hound... for those single issues that you aren't sure of the issue numbers, could you give me a quick jist of the issue so I can make sure the right ones are nominated?

[Hound55]

I'm pretty sure I'm right on each. Checked over reviews online (because too lazy to get up...) after posting that.

[Keyser Soze]

Joe Mulvey's SCAM is brilliant, glad I'm not the only one to read it.

[CConn]

Best Single Issue:
Zaucer of Zilk #1

Best Ongoing:
Saga

Best Mini Series:
Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred

Best Arc:
Wonder Woman #6-12

Best Writer:
Brian Wood

Best Artist:
Greg Capullo

Best Inker:
Mark Farmer

Best Colorist:
Dean White

Best Character:
Conan from Conan the Barbarian

Best Supporting Character:
Izabel from Saga

Best Villain:
Reed Richards from Ultimate Comics Ultimates

Best One-Shot:
The Underwater Welder

Best Indie Series:
Sweet Tooth

Best Company:
Image

Worst Single Issue of 2012:
Incredible Hulk #8

Worst Ongoing Title of 2012:
Green Arrow

Worst Arc:
AvX

Best Scene of 2012 (single moment in an issue, a panel or a page, etc.):
Batman escaping the Court of Owls in Batman #5

Best Death Scene of 2012:
Peter Parker.

Ugliest Art of 2012:
Harvey Talibao

Worst Writing of 2012:
Scott Lobdell

Most Doable of 2012:
Kristen McDuffie

[Phaedrus45]

Didn't see this thread over here, as I'm used to the awards appearing in the Marvel thread. Here is what I wrote for probably my favorite publisher:

On my Best list would definitely be Valiant. All their books have been a great jumping on point for fans, new and old. There isn't a title among the five that I don't like: Harbinger, Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong, Shadowman, and X-O Manowar. It's much better than the other relaunch attempted a few years ago. If I was to pick a Favorite Company, they would be a huge consideration. They aren't shoving the titles down our throats (one a month, no multiple titles like Dynamite has done), and I feel as if I'm getting just enough. New titles will probably come; but, they are creating interest in those other Valiant characters by having them appear within the pages of the current five titles.