Fret no more, frantic ones: the voting to determine the winners of the CGS "Best of 2019" Awards is now officially open! Below is the final slate of nominees, broken down by category:
BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2019)
Gotham City Monsters
Naomi
Teen Lantern
BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2019)
Apex Lex
The Grim Knight
Hordeculture
King Kid
The Overseer
Star
Thomas Wayne (Flashpoint reality)
BEST NEW ONGOING COMIC (first issue shipped in 2019)
Five Years
Legion of Super-Heroes
Vampirella
Young Justice
BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2019)
Doomsday Clock
House of X / Powers of X
Spider-Man: Life Story
The Wrong Earth
BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT
20XX #1
House of X #2
Justice League #22
Marvels Epilogue
BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT
Batman meets an old flame (Batman Annual #4)
death of Alfred (Batman #77)
Moira's a mutant! (House of X #2)
"This is the Big One!" (Freedom Fighters #10)
BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series)
"Cruel Summer" (Criminal)
Dawn of X
Flash: Year One
Justice/Doom War
BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT
Afterlift
Daredevil
History of the Marvel Universe
Invaders
Naomi
Once & Future
Red Sonja
Something Is Killing the Children
Spider-Man: Life Story
BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2018)
Batman
Daredevil
Immortal Hulk
Monstress
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION)
Criminal: Bad Weekend
Giraffes on Horseback Salad
Middlewest, Vol. 1
They Called Us Enemy
BEST WRITER
Al Ewing
Kieron Gillen
Jonathan Hickman
Chip Zdarsky
BEST ARTIST
Dale Eaglesham
Tradd Moore
Javier Rodriguez
Liam Sharp
Sana Takeda
BEST WRITER/ARTIST
Michel Fiffe
Terry Moore
Mike Norton
Ed Piskor
BEST COLOR ARTIST
Jacob Phillips
Dave Stewart
Sana Takeda
Matt Wilson
BEST LETTERER
Clayton Cowles
Tom Orzechowski
Cory Petit
Rus Wooton
BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2019
Daniel Warren Johnson
Marjorie Liu
Jed MacKay
John Timms
Chip Zdarsky
The candidates are arrayed before you--now, make your choices and raise your voices! Submit your ballots via e-mail to bestof@comicgeekspeak.com, anytime before 11:59 pm (EST) on Sunday, March 15th. Please vote for only ONE candidate in each category; no dual votes or "ties" allowed! Also, please vote in every category, if possible. Ballots containing votes in fewer than 12 of the 16 categories will be considered incomplete and disqualified! If you'd like to share your ballot publicly, please feel free to do it here in this thread, but be aware that posting here DOES NOT COUNT as voting; you must submit your ballot via e-mail for it to be counted!
May the best comics/creators/etc. win!!
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