2011 Comic Book Round-Up - The Good and Bad
For those of you that are more visual or were tired of re-listening to the last podcast in order to write down the books we talk about, here is the list finally. There are a few that are on there that we didn't talk about... maybe only one actually, but this is the list. Nothing added in the way of commentary so if you still haven't heard the podcast then check it out.
The Highest of the High
Best Book of the Year – Pinpoint #1 (Big Dog Ink)
Best Book of 2010 That We’re Still Talking About – Titans Villains For Hire Special (DC Comics)
Best Childhood Revival – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDWPublishing)
Best Mini-Series – Loose Ends (12 Gauge Comics) and 27 (Image Comics)
RunnerUp – Strange Case of Mr. Hyde (Dark Horse Comics), Strange Talent of LutherStrode (Image Comics), Who Is Jake Ellis (Image Comics) and Crossed: Psychopath (Avatar)
Best Ongoing – Hellraiser (Boom! Studios)
RunnerUp – Li’L Depressed Boy (Image Comics)
Best Original Graphic Novel – Seeds (Com.x)
Best One-Shot – The Tattered Man (Image Comics)
Best Mega Indie Book – Zombie Tramp Vol. 2 #1 (Super RealGraphics)
TriggerMen #1-3 (Triptych Books)
Best Collected 90’s Work – Major Bummer Summer Slacktacular(Dark Horse Comics
RunnerUp – Milk and Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad (Dark Horse Comics)
Best All Ages Book – Rust Vol. 1: Visitor In The Field(Archaia Press) and Sketch Monsters (Oni Press)
The Highs
DC Reboot – Bout time they pulled the trigger!
Johnny Storm’s Death – It was good until Marvel spoiled it and then ruined it.
Strangest/Coolest Book – Caligula (Avatar Press)
Best Book About Vampires – Goon #34 (Dark Horse Comics)
The Lows
Mini-series That Will Make It To Next Year – Artifacts (TopCow Comics) Ran for so long they made it ongoing.
Great cover, but the book sucks
Worst Ongoing Series – Anything Batman or X-Men.
Worst Book Of The Year – The Infinite (Skybound Comics)
Worst Childhood Revival – Ghostbusters (IDW Publishing)
Worst 90’s Revival – Tie – Vampirella (Dynamite) and LadyDeath (Avatar)
Worst Big Event – Fear Itself
Strangest Creative Team On Any Book – JT Krul, Dan Jurgens andGeorge Perez on Green Arrow (DC)
Most Annoying Industry Habit of 2011 – Getting Alan Moore’sopinion on everything.
Runner Up - Tweeting in books
Worst Movie Adaptation – Total Recall (Dynamite)
Worst Convention I Went To This Year – NYCC, close second SDCC.
Landmark Issues That Had No Real Effect On Anything – Spawn# 200