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.