Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Best Of 2009!

Hello Chums,



I'm back again with my second annual best of list for 2009. Enjoy it. I did.




Best (single) issue: Uncanny X-Men Annual #2. Matt Fraction doing a Hellfire Club story=COOL!




Best Limited Series: Stephen King's The Stand. Every arc of this massive book is a great read. (Marvel)








Best continuing series: The Warlord. (DC).





Best continuing series (read) in trade format: Scalped. Vertigo.





Best trade packaging: Absolute DC New Frontier.











Best Graphic Novel: Funny Misshapen Body. Jeffery Brown. (Touchstone).



Best book by a foreign creator: A Drifting Life. Yoshihiro Tatsumi. (Drawn and Quarterly).





Best independent comic (read this year): The King. Rich Koslowski. (Top Shelf).





Best Black and White comic (old): Our Cancer Year. Joyce Brabner and Harvey Pekar. (Four Walls Eight Windows)





Best Cover: Fables #81. (Vertigo).




Best Zero issue: Resurrection. (ONI).




Best Licensed comic property: Star Trek. (IDW).





Best character in a continuing series, limited series or one-shot: Punisher. (Marvel).




Coolest New Thing: Wednesday Comics. (DC).




Biggest Comics Disappointment: Frank Quitely doing only three issues of the new Batman and Robin series. Thanks a lot to DC Comics and Frank Quitely.




Comic book company of the year: Marvel.



Best Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Stephen King -The Stand. (Marvel).



Best Artist: Mike Perkins. Stephen King - The Stand. (Marvel).





Best Colorist: Laura Martin. Stephen King -The Stand. (Marvel).




Best book related to comics: Comic-Con 40 years of Artists, Writers, Fans & Friends. (Chronicle Books).












Best book on an artist: The Life & Art of Dave Stevens - Brush With Passion. (Underwood Books).


Best comic book related podcast: Fan Boy Radio.






Best comic book con: San Diego Comic Con. Until another con unseats it, San Diego still rules. Although I plan to hit the New York Comic-Con this year and maybe the Chicago Comics Entertainment Expo or maybe Heroes-con. We'll see.





Best Mini-Comic seen at the San Diego Comic-Con: First Plane Comics Presents Medical Maladies by D.L. Nelson. (First Planet Comics).




Best Superhero movie: The Spirit. I know this is laughable but was there another super hero movie this year?



Best movie period: Star Trek.


Keep Reading Comics.


D.L.