Best Writer: Tough one. I think I’ll go with Warren Ellis.
He’s been one of the most prolific writers this year, coming out with books from multiple publishers and everything I’ve read of him, has been enjoyable. From Avatar, we have Gravel (one of my favorite series of the year, though the publishing was a bit erratic and took away points from the best series category), Anna Mercury, No Hero, Doctor Sleepless, Ignition City, Supergod, Frankenstein’s Womb. From Marvel, we have Astonishing X-Men, Ultimate Armor Wars. From Radical, Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead (well, he did work on it). He had a great year.A runner-up would be Fred van Lente for Incredible Herc and Amazing Spiderman, mostly.
Oh, and Joe Kelly is also a great writer!
Worst Writer: Jeph Loeb!
Best Artist: JH Williams III blows my mind not only with his drawings, but also with his composition and the way he treats the page. Amazing! Greg Rucka's doing some good work over at Detective Comics but the book is MADE by the art.
Worst Artist: I’m leaning towards Ed Benes, but Greg Land is up there with me. I’m not much of a fan of the cheesecake in some books. It’s plain hard to take seriously a story or a book that has all of the girls doing ass shots towards the reader. For sexy women done 'right', I'll take Amanda Conner.
Best Hero: Lots of people up for this. Hercules is definitely in consideration. He is fun, a bit goofy without being idiotic, has personality and charm. Thor also had a very strong year dealing everything Loki sent his way. Vril Dox has been great over at R.E.B.EL.S. Starlord and Nova have been showing definite improvements in their leadership abilities over at Marvel Cosmic. Ultimately, I give it to Gravel as the tough military-magician who has to take on a ton of twisted and demented magicians. It’ll be interesting to see how he deals with power and see whether or not he is also corrupted as his rivals have been.
Worst Hero: Damian-Robin. I’ve hated him from the beginning. He’s done nothing to make me change my mind. It doesn't help that his personality seems to change depending who is writing him. Could it be that he is only in need of a proper handling and direction? Nah! Fuck him.
Best Villain: Hera, over at Incredible Hercules. Her master plan is taking shape and it’s been a while in the making. The idea of a Greek goddess being the CEO of a major multinational company and using those earthly resources, as well as all the mythological-magical ones, is fun and clever. It borders on being silly (specially seeing it out of the context of the book) but it's pulled off well by Van Lente.
Worst Villain: toss up between Rulk and Superboy Prime. They’re both so annoying and irritating.
Best movie: I’m torn between District 9 and Zombieland. I enjoyed both films immensely though for different reasons. I loved the documentary feel of D9 but was a bit disappointed when it shifted into an all-out sci-fi action flick (good as it was). Zombieland on the other hand was FUN. Great cast, great humor.
So Zombieland it is!Worst movie: Avatar.
I should say that this wasn’t a bad movie per-
se, just that I was under whelmed. I didn’t know what to expect going into it, and the special effects were very good, but to me, SFX do not a good movie make. It was long, a bit boring, story wasn’t that new or interesting, characters were lame. Definitely overrated.
So that's it. Those are my picks for best/worst in the year that was. Hopefully I'll be back posting more stuff soon.
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