Thread by @Exalted_Speed

Welcome to me talking about the comics I read this year and giving them arbitrary awards that don't matter but gives me an excuse to look back on the good, the bad, and the certain comics that kill me on the inside every time I think about them.

*Best We really want to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic
*Something is killing the Children
This book is a light recommend mostly because while it is solid the Buffy comparison loom strong in this book and despite the hype can feel a little like someone just wanted to make Buffy

*the Arbitrary Ed and Sean Award
*the Reckless Graphic novels
Ed and Sean are always worth a read and this one leans into their pulp sensibilities hard, if you like Noir comic, pulp action and dark LA stories these comics are recommended. So far there are 3 with a 4th coming soon

*Old School material I did for a thread award
Golden Age Action Comics
I was kind of shocked by HOW good these hold up as fun comics and in the first year how confident it was, While Superman was tweaked hard later on it's hard not to love this Superman.

*manga I'm really into but didn't talk about yet
*Dandadan
look everyone loves this right now so I just didn't talk about it much, and you know how I roll.

*Manga I got into because I thought the girls were pretty
*2.5 Sedeuction
While not life changing the manga is very sweet and sincere at times allowing me to keep going through it, a solid time.

*Manga I'm just here for the ride
Gundam Thunderbolt continues to entertain me HARD.

*Best Sequel I read this year
Spider-man Life story Annual 1.
One of the best J Jonah Jameson stories of all time? Yeah it is. This is just a solid comic and it's expansion of the already good Spider-man life story was needed, can't wait to get the Hardcover.

*This issue SHOULD PROBABLY GET ACTUAL AWARDS

This Flash issue did something really unique with Doctor Fate's Magic which is well make it the reader, you the reader are asked to be his magic and it is a solid gimmick. Meta as hell but not in an annoying way we all hate.

*Best Marvel Series that finished out award
Immortal Hulk, this run is going to have backlash hell I already saw some, but I can't help but feel like Peter David's run it will be the basis of the next great Hulk run for what it brought to the table.

*Retcon of the year
It's a confusing mess but honestly Amazing Spider-man FINALLY undoing Sins Past was going to win. Simply for that fact that I got so MANY comments that said I can't believe it wasn't already. Well now it is.

*Gn I finally got to award
Daniel Clowes does superheroes, it's very indie comic, but Daniel is a great creator and the art and variety in this 39 page story is amazing, he does have a love of classic superheroes but this story is very much the male side of Ghost World.

*The Feels unfinished award
Coming from a terrible Dan Didio plan, Grant Tries to salvage this story into something and honestly I think this title did have potential to become another classic if they left it on it's own and give it 12 issues but alas only 4. Still I liked it.

*Best IDW transformers Series award
*Beast Wars
as a 90's kid I'm HIGHLY BIASED here, but this is a fun read and carries the spirit of IDW phase 2 at it's best(aka fun characters and decent action)

*Best DKR riff
TMNT the Last Ronin is a fun book and is basically what carrying the IDW TMNT line right now because my god is Campbell a boring writer.

*Series I plan to read someday because of weird twists I hear about

I just didn't find the time this year so I'm giving it a shout out now.

Now....the bad stuff......

*The America Chavez prequel award
Juliet Takes a breath is a GN adaption of Gabby Rivera's novel that landed her the job on that title and boy is it bad, condescending toward everyone, and legit actually BAD advice for Asthma that could fuck you up.

*The Modern Donna Troy Award
This goes for character who probably have been tweaked too much in order to fix them making their history and backstory a mess and America take's that award this year for completly changing her backstory but it's understandable on some level.

*The legit worst Starfire story next to that one Nightwing Annual
I am not Startfire tried and failed, I was actually one of the KINDER reviews in the end but alas. Mariko should be praised for making Mandy a legit shit at points but she doesn't give her enough good qualities

*The actual worse DC YA GN award
Yeah didn't see this coming? Well It's a legit bad comic with really wonky art, it also takes unique traits from Jessica like her NOT being an immigrant or Illegal and being from Oregon. It's just a mess of a book.

*I hate THIS GN SO MUCH AWARD
Rorschach is everything I hate about the Watchmen discussion wrapped up in one book, from dissing old school comic creators, to taking the wrong lessons of the old gn to just being a fucking terrible attempt to cash in, fuck this book.

*Last Minute Bad comic of the year award,
This one came out last year and when I found it I was shocked by how bad it was, and how bad it's research was. Like for one if you even know a little about Chan culture it just gets everything wrong right off the bat.

*This was A COMPLETE MISFIRE AWARD
The X-men Green story, okay here's my take, I legit think this came from complete incompetence and judging what the readership wanted, it wanted to be a fun gray morality tale about a new anti hero x-men team....and failed to sell them.

and the worst comic...if you follow you know what it is....

Mother of Madness is the comic that has GIVEN me the most grief I've ever seen, here's the thing if I did not get that grief from the Emilia Clarke stans I would have just never talked about the series after issue 1, but because I'm SLIGHTLY petty... I read all 3 issues.

It was a bad comic, and guess what? I don't hate anyone who worked on it, but it was a bad comic, in tried to tackle Human trafficking and I had to say Garth Ennis handled it way fucking better, and other issues, but at the end of the day it's just a bad, terrible book.

And that's it for this year overall for me, This was a fun year where I grew as comic critic and commentator, it's my hobby and it's been fun. Even with the bad stuff I loved talking about it with people and people who follow me.

and the award for coolest followers is you people, you guys have been fun, and even if we don't talk much I do love hearing your thoughts on threads, characters, and comics, good, bad and ugly, it's been a fun year...I'm going to try to read more good comics next yeah though.