Best Of

This is such a cool concept.

I like that you're still sporting the puppet Animal Man avatar.

BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2023) - Junk Rabbit, Image Comics

BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2023) - The Harrower, Boom! Studios

BEST NEW COMIC (first issue shipped in 2023) - Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos - Dark Horse

BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2023) - Eight Billion Genies, Image Comics

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR ONE-SHOT - Svengoolie: Lost in Time, Frank Miller Presents

BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT - Superman uses Brainiac's portal, Superman: Age, DC

BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series) - Superman: Space Age, DC

BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT - Space Between, Boom! Studios

BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2023) - Something is Killing the Children, Boom! Studios

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION) - Human Target, volume 2, DC

BEST WRITER - James Tynion IV, SiKtC, Christopher Chaos, and others, various publishers

BEST ARTIST - Greg Smallwood, Human Target, DC

BEST WRITER/ARTIST - Terry Moore, Parker Girls and After Dark, Abstract Studios

BEST COLOR ARTIST - Trish Mulvihill, Flash and others, DC

BEST LETTERER - Torn. I'm going with Chris Crank, Eight Billion Genies, Image just over Simon Bowland, Sandman: Glass House, DC

BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2023 (cannot have won the award previously) - Danny Earls, artist

And if I may be allowed to lobby a bit, I nominate Trish Mulvihill every year, but she gets no attention, despite wonderful work and a decades-long contribution to comics. This year, she's working on the well-regarded Flash run. Just take a look at these colors! She deserves to be in the mix.

Ohh boy. For those who don't know My daughter doesn't like playing with Barbies, but she loves playing with marvel legends. She plays with them like Barbies with super powers.

Latest in Abigailverse since the addition of new marvel action figures.

Doctor Doom is still dating Elektra and he is caring for Valeria while she is visiting from her parents.

Captain Marvel is the aunt of Abigail's 2 Ms. Marvel action figures and sends them to super hero school. Our dog partially ate one of the Ms. Marvel's arms, that figure lost her arm saving a little girl from a crocodile.

The Vision and Scarlett Witch are married and Mary Jane Watson is their daughter. MJ is dating spider Man.

There is some kind of super hero school with Monica rambeau as the teacher and Franklin Richards attends ( not real sure what is going with that story)

I introduced my kids to Groo a few months ago and man I can't buy back issues fast enough for them. They have been giggling for the month of August

Abigail has probably read Death of Groo 5 times since we got it

Eric,

I found a playlist with all the episodes of Phantom 2040 on YouTube

For those of you who might not be following it, Sal’s kickstarter for The Hostage successfully funded, so congrats to Sal.

In one of his updates Sal recommended another project that successfully parted my money from my wallet, an Illustrated prose novel from Richard Delgado called Dracula of Transylvania. Looks right up my alley.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloverpress/ricardo-delgados-dracula-of-transylvania

… would anyone support calling the CGS Annual “Best Of ____” Awards the Jamies as a tribute to Jamie D?

For the longest time I resisted variant covers, because I didn't want that to become what the comics market was all about (amazing covers with nothing worth reading inside them), but of late my bluff has been called. I have a number of friends in the industry more than I am who I try to support by picking them up, and hell...my girl Mary Marvel is on every other cover these days, so I'm picking up a lot more of them than I used to.

My absolute breakdown was this year when I bought my first 'virgin art' cover (no logos or publishing info, just the art).