The Comic Geek Speak "Best of 2021" Awards: The Final Vote (Ballots due 4/24/22!)
Adam_Murdough
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Welcome to the final round of voting to determine the winners of the CGS "Best of 2021" Awards--hope you survive the experience! Below is the final slate of nominees, broken down by category:
BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2021)
The Blue Flame
Geiger
Justice League Incarnate
Radiant Black
BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2021)
Adam Strange
Dr. Donald Blake
Heartless
Hunter's Moon
BEST NEW ONGOING COMIC (first issue shipped in 2021)
The Marvels
Newburn
Radiant Black
Superman: Son of Kal-El
BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2021)
Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star
The Defenders
Kang the Conqueror
Strange Adventures
BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT
Crossover #7
The Flash #776
The Flash Annual 2021
Spider-Man: Life Story Annual #1
BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT
Catwoman's old friend (Batman/Catwoman #1)
the new Radiant Black (Radiant Black #4)
Alanna Strange takes action (Strange Adventures #11)
the true parentage of Adam-X the X-Treme!!! (X-Men Legends #1)
BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series)
Batman: Fear State
Infinite Frontier / J.L. Incarnate
Nightwing: Leaping Into the Light
"Rebellion on the Run" (Star Wars titles)
BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT
The Flash
Frontiersman
Primordial
Stray Dogs
BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2021)
Eternals
Iron Man
Nightwing
Something Is Killing the Children
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION)
Cuphead Vol. 2: Cartoon Chronicles & Calamities
Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith
Reckless: Friend of the Devil
You Look Like Death: Tales of the Umbrella Academy
BEST WRITER
Christopher Cantwell
Tom King
Tom Taylor
Chip Zdarsky
BEST ARTIST
Chris Bachalo
Bilquis Evely
Jorge Jimenez
Bruno Redondo
Andrea Sorrentino
J.H. Williams III
BEST WRITER/ARTIST
Cliff Chiang
Daniel Warren Johnson
Terry Moore
J.H. Williams III
BEST COLOR ARTIST
Frank D'Armata
Javier Rodriguez
Greg Smallwood
Dave Stewart
BEST LETTERER
Wes Abbott
Clayton Cowles
Tom Napolitano
BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2020
Jeremy Adams
Raffaele Ienco
Stephanie Phillips
Pornsak Pichetsote
Greg Smallwood
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, April 24th. 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!!