The Comic Geek Speak "Best of 2022" Awards Nominations Thread (SUBMISSIONS DUE 3/5/23)

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Awards season is upon us! That means it's time for the Comic Geek Speak Best of 2022 Awards, and time for YOU, our listeners, to take part in the nominations process! Here are the categories:

BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2022)

BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2022)

BEST NEW COMIC (first issue shipped in 2022)

BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2022)

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR ONE-SHOT

BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT

BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series)

BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT

BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2022)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION)

BEST WRITER

BEST ARTIST

BEST WRITER/ARTIST

BEST COLOR ARTIST

BEST LETTERER

BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2022 (cannot have won the award previously)

To participate, submit your ballot via e-mail to bestof@comicgeekspeak.com by 11:59 pm (EST), Sunday, March 5, 2023. Please make a nomination in AT LEAST EIGHT of the above-listed categories, and select only ONE nominee per category! Whatever receives the greatest number of listener nominations in each category will be included on the final ballot along with the Geeks' own nominees, and there will then be one last round of voting after that to choose our overall Best of 2022.

If you'd like to share your list of nominees publicly, please feel free to do it here in this thread, but be aware that posting such lists here DOES NOT COUNT as voting; you must submit your ballot via e-mail for it to be counted as part of the official listeners' nomination process!

Finally, each induvial award "statue" will heretofore be known as a Jamie, in honor of the one and only Jamie D.

Thanks in advance for your input, everyone! If you have any questions, send us a message or just ask 'em here.

nweathington

What I have so far, just off the top of my head. Subject to change.

BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2022): Hitomi

BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2022)

BEST NEW COMIC (first issue shipped in 2022): Read a lot of #1 issues last year, but they were all one-shots or part of a limited series — no ongoings.

BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2022): Catwoman: Lonely City

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR ONE-SHOT: Astro City: That Was Then Special #1

BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT

BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series)

BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT: Hitomi

BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2022): Saga

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION): Friday, Book Two: On a Cold Winter’s Night

BEST WRITER: Tom King

BEST ARTIST: James Stokoe

BEST WRITER/ARTIST: Daniel Warren Johnson

BEST COLOR ARTIST: Greg Smallwood

BEST LETTERER: Farel Dalrymple

BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2022 (cannot have won the award previously): Isabella Mazzanti

ChrisMurrin

BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2022): Night-Mite!

BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2022) Mr. Agony and Mr. Ecstasy

BEST NEW COMIC (first issue shipped in 2022) Eight Billion Genies

BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2022) Serial

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR ONE-SHOT Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White 1

BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT Confrontation between Jenni and Zoe in Serial

BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series) The aftermath of The Books of Korvac in Iron Man

BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT Starhenge

BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2022) Iron Man

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION) Beware of Toddler v1

BEST WRITER James Tynion IV

BEST ARTIST Bruno Redondo

BEST WRITER/ARTIST Liam Sharp

BEST COLOR ARTIST Trish Mulvihill

BEST LETTERER Simon Bowland

BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2022 (cannot have won the award previously) David Hazan

DAR

Best New Hero/Team- Lona Steelrose(Do A Power Bomb)

Best New Villain/Team-Failsafe (Batman)

Best New Comic-Worlds Finest Batman Superman

Best Limited Series- The Thing 

Best Single Issue/One Shot -Batman Riddler One Bad Day

Best Cliffhanger/Moment-Kal-El stabs Bruce (Dark Knights of Steel)

Best Storyline-The Battle for Bludhaven’s Heart(Nightwing)

Best Surprise/Sleeper Hit-Eight Billion Genies

Best Ongoing Comic-Nightwing

Best OGN/Collection-Fantastic Four: Full Circle 

Best Writer-Tom King 

Best Artist - Greg Smallwood 

Best Writer/Artist-Cliff Chang 

Best Color Artist-Jordy Bellaire 

Best Letterer-Clayton Cowles

Breakthrough Talent of 2022-Abstaining

Finally get to do one of these.