Best of 2014 Listener Input

Here are my thoughts/nominations for Best of 2014

Best Overall Comic
- Afterlife with Archie (Archie)
- Saga (Image)
- Daredevil (Marvel)
- Batman (DC)

Best Ongoing Series
- Afterlife with Archie (Archie)
- Batman (DC)
- Daredevil (Marvel)
- Sex Criminals (Image)
- the Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel)
- Outcast (Image)
- Rat Queens (Image)
- Nailbiter (Image)
- Saga (Image)
- Southern Bastards (Image)

Best Writer
- Charles Soule (Death of Wolverine, She-Hulk, Red Lanterns, Letter 44, Swamp Thing, Superman/Wonder Woman, Thunderbolts, Inhuman)
- Roberto Aguirre Sacasa (Afterlife with Archie, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
- Matt Fraction (Hawkeye, Sex Criminals, Ody-C)
- Brian K. Vaugn (Saga)
- Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Thor God of Thunder, Thor, Original Sin)
- Scott Synder (Batman, Batman Eternal, Wytches, Superman Unchained, the Wake, American Vampire Second Cycle)
- Jen Van Meter (the Death-Defying Doctor Mirage, 100th Anniversary Special: Fantastic Four)
- G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel)
- Joshua Williamson (Nailbiter, Captain Midnight, Ghosted, Predator: Fire and Stone, Birthright)
- Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Magneto, Lobo, Sinestro, Wolf Moon, Godzilla: Cataclysm, Deadpool vs. Carnage, Night of the Living Deadpool, Fearless Defenders, Night Trap, Army of Darkness)

Best Artist
- Russell Dauterman (Cyclops, Thor)
- Karl Kerschl (Gotham Academy)
- Adrian Alphona (Ms. Marvel)
- Roc Upchurch (Rat Queens)
- Fiona Staples (Saga)
- Chris Samnee (Daredevil)
- Francesco Francavilla (Afterlife with Archie, a million variant covers)
- Greg Capullo (Batman)

Best New Series
- Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
- Southern Bastards (Image)
- Gotham Academy (DC)
- The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel)

Best Mini-Series
- Memetic (Boom)
- The Death Defying Dr. Mirage (Valiant)
- And Then Emily Was Gone (Comix Tribe)
- The Edge of The Spider-Verse (Marvel)
- Trillium (Vertigo)

Best Graphic Novel
- In the Dark (a giant horror hardcover featuring the work of original work Rachel Deering, Declan Shalvey, Tradd Moore, Tyler Jenkins, Scott Snyder, Steve Niles, Justin Jordan, Cullen Bunn, Paul Tobin, Duane Swierczynski, Tom Taylor, Marguerite Bennett, Christopher Sebela, James Tynion IV, Ed Brisson, and a ton more).

Best One Shot/Single Issue
- Wytches #1
- The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw #1
- Daredevil #8 (The Purple Children)
- Batman #35 (Endgame Part 1)
- Outcast #3 (I Remember When She Loved Me)
- Afterlife with Archie #4 (Archibald Rex)
- Edge of the Spider-Verse # 4 (I Walked with a Spider)
- Hawkeye 16 (Recording Tape)
- Southern Bastards #4 (Here Was a Man, Conclusion)

Best Story Arc
- Here Was a Man (Southern Bastards)

Best Cover

- Batman #36 (Greg Capullo)


- Elektra #6 (Michael Del Mundo)


- Catwoman #35 Halloween variant (Joshua Middleton)


- Catwoman #36 (Jae Lee)


- Nailbiter #1 (Mike Henderson)


Best Publisher
- Image
- Boom!

Also, how about a category for best series that got cancelled in 2014(we could call it the Bob Reyer Award)? I nominate She-Hulk.

I like the Best Cancelled Series idea as well.

I also think the Bob Reyer award should be a thing, and that it should go to She-Hulk.

As for Favourite Pet of 2014...LOCKJAW!Not a big Inhumans fan, but i love that big, adorable dog, especially drawn by Adrian Alphone in Ms. Marvel.

And my pick for the Favourite book that i read in 2014 but didn't come out in 2014 award(not a real category, but whatever)is I Kill Giants.That book might be my favourite comic of all time, and ever since i read it (thanks to the Talking Comics Book Club)i can't stop talking about it.

ooo shout out for Moon Knight 3! I forgot about that one. it was pretty awesome

Matt,

Welcome to the Forum!

Harley Quinn never fails to deliver some of my biggest laughs each and every month! I've been enjoying the heck out of the Amanda Conner/Jimmy Palmiotti story, but for me, although I know intellectually that Chad Hardin's art is very good, I so long to see Ms. Conner's art on this book (I'm a HUGE fan!) that I'm certainly not being fair to Mr. Hardin's art as I compare the two of them!

Hey guys... I'm looking for a little feedback and I thought this might be an appropriate thread in which to solicit it.

My reading list was entirely composed of back issues in 2014, and thus I completely missed out on the year that was in comics. After listening to some of the "Best of" conversation, I decided to place one master order (helps to save on shipping) of trades in an effort to sample some of the best offerings of the year and hopefully add some new must-read series to my comics "to do" list.

With this premise in mind, I present my trade paperback "pull list". If you could kindly offer your thoughts on the list, I would appreciate it. I'm sure that all of these books are great, but does the list seem like a fair cross-section of the highlights for the year? (And yes, I know that some of these first volumes likely pre-date 2014, but I wanted to start from the beginning on each of the series, as I have not read any of the titles.)

Thanks in advance for your help and opinions!

SAGA TP VOL 01
SEX CRIMINALS TP VOL 01 
WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 01 THE FAUST ACT 
SOUTHERN BASTARDS TP VOL 01 HERE WAS A MAN 
MS MARVEL TP VOL 01 NO NORMAL
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 01 THE PROMISE
BLACK SCIENCE TP VOL 01 HOW TO FALL FOREVER
RAT QUEENS TP VOL 01 SASS & SORCERY 
MANIFEST DESTINY TP VOL 01