I return in a blaze of kinda knowing who should win the other categories! How exciting! Still I don't think any of the winners will be quite as unusual as the whole X-Statix/X-Force thing so this might well be a shade duller. But screw that let's keep going with the awards!
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BEST COVER:
Candidates: Various
Why?: Too many to mention. Before anyone goes 'ooh won't it just be the All New Savage She-Hulk 90s variant from one of your earliest posts? Well... No. No because if I go with that it'll just be me being a fanboy and such. I'm going to at least TRY to be more definitive with this!
THE WINNERS:
AMAZING FANTASY #15/Fantastic Four #1
Why?: I hate covers with speech bubbles (fuck you DC nation), but the impact of these two is completely undeniable. Still I don't need to tell you that; Bully's Comics Blog has all the evidence you could want (Amazing Fantasy / Fantastic Four). See? Fucking CRAZY influence!
Best Cancelled Comic:
Candidates: She-Hulk (Slott/David series), Captain Britain and MI13, Agent X, Cable & Deadpool, Nextwave, Alpha Flight, X-Man, The Order, etc.
Why?: Um... awesomeness...
THE WINNER:
NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E.
Why?: This is a true tragedy in comicdom. Almost revolutionary in it's anarchic mentality, NEXTWAVE represented more than just an awesome comic series to those who read it; it represented the other side of comics, the FUN side that got lost over the years in events and miserable shit. This was silliness perfected. Heck, even Warren Ellis (the famed writer-for-hire) decided he wanted to stick on past his 12 issue opener. But between him and Stuart Immonen the costs were too high, so it was either have the comic cancelled or get a new artist. So it died. The world mourned. Then moved on, remembering that the trades are still readily available.
The story of the cancellation can be found here
BEST COMIC ARC:
Candidates: "A Day With The Fantastic Four", "The Death of Jean DeWolff", "Kraven's Last Hunt", "Planet Hulk", "Earth's Mightiest", "Extremis", "E Is For EXTINCTION"
Why?: All of these stories stand as classics (or in the case of "Earth's Mightiest" just plain awesome) and couldn't go without at least being mentioned. There are many more classic storylines out there, but these are the ones that I personally think matter the most.
THE WINNER:
"E IS FOR EXTINCTION"
Why?: Really I SHOULD focus on the arc "Imperial" that followed this arc (it's the most epic part of the entire Morrison New X-Men run, but this arc did so much with just the three issues it had introduced one of the greatest adversaries of the X-Men (Cassandra Nova), invented Cerebra, massacred all of Genosha with a sentinel attack, set up Cyclops and Jean Grey to break up and more! And not a single negative aspect to it, save the occasional piece of iffy art from Quitely. The story took the X-Men to a whole new level and successfully revitalised the mutants by making them special again... By killing a whole load of them...
BEST EVENT COMIC:
Candidates: House of M, World War Hulk, Civil War, Kree-Skrull War, Secret Wars, Secret Wars II, Infinity Gauntlet, Age of Apocalypse, Heroes Reborn, Secret Invasion, Avengers Disassembled, Secret War, Decimation, Annihilation, Annihilation Conquest, Messiah Complex, Messiah War, War of Kings
Why?: Because Marvel have lots of events and they need an award of their own.
THE WINNER:
DECIMATION!
Why?: Okay, so before anyone tuts at me for going with the muties again, we're talking DECIMATION for crying out loud! This wasn't about their kooky adventures or anything. This was dealing with their number being reduced by 90%. Imagine you went from being such a massive group of people... say... I don't know.. LIKE YOU ALREADY ARE and getting reduced to the point of being an endangered species. This was a chance for heartfelt interactions and to show the damage from House of M. Between Quicksilver in Son of M, The 198, Sentinel Squad O*N*E we saw some great fallout from the event and gained a whole new understanding of what it meant to be a mutant. But the real moment of genius, of empathy, where you finally understood it, was with Generation M. In it we saw Sally Floyd (much-hated (for some dumb reason) character from the Front Line comics) dealing with her own personal grief related to the Decimation by talking to and writing about the mutants who were so unfortunate to lost their powers. That was enough to mean a lot, but when Chamber appeared, on a crazy amount of life support due to his lack of jaw and chest and heart and such... It was powerful. There was no better represention of an event than the comics that came out of House of M under the Decimation event banner. Trust me.
Holy crap I'm done. Regular updates resume soon, starting with 2 review tonight/tomorrow.
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