*COUGH*

*MIC FEEDBACK*

Uh... hello and welcome to the PTP 2011 COMIC BOOKS OF... 2011... AWARDS. Um. (Inaudible Mumbling)

*DROPS STACK OF INDEX CARDS ON GROUND*

I just um... ah... Due to a last minute scheduling conflict, I'm afraid... uh... Eddie Murphy will be unable to host this year's ceremony... But let's not let that stop us from having a wonderful night filled of comics, laughs and delicious Hors d'oeuvres!

*STAGEHAND RUNS ONTO STAGE, WHISPERS SOMETHING INTO HOST'S EAR*

I'm ah... also being told that Eddie was in charge of refreshments this year, so uh... there won't be any of those either. Um...yeah *COUGH*

*STAGEHAND RUNS OFFSTAGE WEEPING*

(BEGIN POWERPOINT PRESENTATION)

IT'S THE 2011 PREPPIES!

YOU post the categories! YOU make the nominations! Time to celebrate the comics that rocked us (and mock the ones that didn't) in 2011.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

We're done here

Joe and AV: SOTF!
Shoutout to, Jerome Opena on X-Force.

This is the toughest category for me every year. Comics are an embarrassment of riches in the eye candy department. But between Butcher Baker and Homeland Directive, I really fell in love with this guy's style in 2011

BATAMAN is eclipsing, THE GOD's isht and American Vampire is extremely solid.
Swamp Thing is also flambe!

So yeah, guess my vote goes for Da Snyper as well

AV has been crack all year. Do not sleep.

Cover was dope and promised a new storyline? Plus I got the first trade from the library a while back and liked it. Sleepy time is over... Make that FOUR Snyper books for me

Hmmm. Is that too many?

Come on, guys! This book makes badasses look like cream puffs.

I agree, Uncanny X-Force is freaking awesome.

change of vote, wanted to give MG some love.

I feel like it was "supposed" to be Habibi... but 2011 was all about Infinite Kung-Fu for me.

except for maybe Korgi v3, which was also good.

But yeah, IKF was better... while Habibi's great, don't get me wrong, it was almost as though it was... just too much, if that makes sense. We've discussed it recently, so I guess that's no surprise.

I'm perusing several end of year Top 10 lists online and requesting my library pulls accordingly

new shit just for GN format, I can't think of any other answer but this one

And thus would be ineligible

I have to agree also. I was fortunate to read a review copy. That was the illest OGN to drop this year.

Warren and Betsy, embrace in the falling snow. Fantomex, loses his first brain to a knife in the temple; his second mind activates shortly thereafter.

...the most cold-blooded ending that I have ever read in comics, B. It was not pretty but the entire DAS vs. Hickgod's entire lead-up to 600? No competition. HICKGOD, floundered before he found his groove in *that* epic.
DAS was flawless.

edging out Action.

Not going gaga over too much else from it at this point.

Batwoman is great though albeit, a tad decompressed.

Owls are scary.

Just because it's getting slept on

It's the book I never thought I'd read, and now it's a goddamn Top 5'er (in terms of DC books at least)

Honorable mentions to the Men Animal and Bat

I've been buying this book for my girlfriend since the Straczynski run, but I always read it first. Of course, since Azzarello took over, I actually enjoy reading it first. And Cliff Chiang? That dude's hands are touched by God. Very solid book.

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Thank, THE GOD for creating him way back when. Praise, Remender for making him the coolest XMAN ever!

From WW2 to The Wild West, Raphael smashed the shelves and created some phenomenal work.

Hot chicks. Incredible design. Pulpy as all get out.

JUST LOOK AT THESE SHITS Y'ALL

http://bit.ly/tUjAsS

The interior could literally be drawn by a nearsighted toddler with an expired mustard packet and I would cop this book for the covers alone. EVERY SINGLE TIME

(For the record though, the interiors look great too)

SCORCHED EARTH POLICY and the STAKES IS HIGH.
Plus, Thor punched out a ginormous dragon-God!

that last issue kicked my ass.

I am still hoping Riley gets his in a future arc. Jeeze.

That shit cray!
Let's go to the Age of Apocalypse and acquire a SEED of the Gods.
What?
The bad guys already have it?
Game over, X-Force.

The most ruthless squad ever assembled was dissassembled in the short span of a few issues. Meticulously and piece by piece. Wolverine, you fail to factor in at all.

Choose wisely.

Deadpool, to the rescue!
Chill, Deadpool.
*Throws an ice ball at, DP*
SMASH!
You done for in DAS, fool.

Hmmmm...

Sheriff Karnow, catches one to the dome via, Dino Poor Bear...after a botched raid, thanks to an old crumb of an FBI agent!

Chaining "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" though? Gully move, Torchy!

Cap: "Fix my man up, we need him right so we can fuck your brother up."
Odin: "Who you talking to!? I'm Odin! King of all this shit here and--"
Cap: "A, on the forilla? Iont even five a fuck about none of that shit. Suck my dick, B. Give my man a potion or some Sif pussy juice or something. Not now, but RAHT NAH, you bitch!"
Odin: "Oh, my bad, I thought you was somebody else. Right away, sire."

Damn, thanks for the refresh. I guess overall, FEAR ITSELF was forgettable?

it was better than Siege to me tho

That's BAWLS son

Plenty to choose from...

A huge flaw in an overall badass event, by a vet writer.

it really undercut the moment for me

BUCKY.
CABLE, is a distant second but it kind of makes sense. XMEN is super soap-operaish like that.

I wasn't fond of Buck coming back but they did make him interesting
I'll give em that

...at least not biologically...i don't think the books ever even gave the two that big of a relationship....

wtf is goin on in here?? "killing" him was the dumb part....as was "killing" off Thor (how long til they bring him back?)

The House's reboots >>>>> 80% of New 52

I'm tired of all the renumbering and renaming. It's a trend they think will lure readers but I think it will only confuse them - especially when it goes back to the way it was.

Shit, throw in FF and Daredevil/Black Panther weirdness. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

In. every. single. title.

Will you choose an offering from, The God?

But he lived.
That was an amazing comic!
Very heartfelt work.

Unfortunately, the comic it led to was bad.

The art was bad but it def was not, PHILLIP TAN awful!

Hmmm.

Grey Gargoyle, stoning all of Paris was epic and fucking terrifying.

Even on my current UNCANNY X-FORCE high, I gots to give it to DD

So many.

Once, Darkseid came back I was gone.
Then I came back full of hope.
CYBORG, going all red and being all emotional was the nail in the coffin.

Loaded question BUT...

The realness and ANTLERED BOY GODS, sent to destroy humanity.

Flash has been surprisingly well good.

AnnihiluSsssssssssssssss

For hottest new superhero accessory

Mine...Giant Cap Robot, who was actually a mad scientist, which was revealed when he fell through a dream....then he got blasted by the dream's dreamer!

I FEEL LIKE I'VE JUST BEEN INCEPTED

to kill the head Trench Bitch
THEN when her boys came to get revenge he pushed a huge ass piece of ocean floor on them, against the ocean's water pressure, and crushed th' fuck out them

General Clops and Wolverine, holding hands while running off to murder a giant mutant killing robot.

Thomas Muffucking old MAN BAT GOD!

Owls, you big dummy!
Followed by crazed bear in SWEET TOOTH.

From Animal Man and Swamp Thing fame?

Specifically those murderous, zombifying, face contorting, mind controlling bug things. EWWWW

Carl, getting shot in the head.
WHERE YOUR I AT?
You heard me you lived.

TWDrop!

Y'all are STILL talking about Joe the B, and while that was The God and yeah, that guarantees you'll read it, I've been praising this one for 2 years now and I don't think I've seen anyone else comment on a single one of my always-positive reviews.

The series is on its 3d (I think) volume and takes the best of Joe's toys-come-to-life adventure (keep in mind that the first volume of this was out long before Joe) and spins it into a longer tale that hews closer to fantasy. The current arc (Jester's Tale) is about as good as comics get, in my opinion, and I'm the only one reading it.

http://th3rdworld.com/book/The-Stuff-of-Legend

Pretty sure at least one other PTPer has sung its praises (Was it Coates? I forget) but yeah, you've been ringing the bell far too long on this one for me not to give it a shot

it's a hard book to keep up with/find....all i can hope right now, is that when it's all over i can buy a trade...if one comes out...

Didn't move me

But maybe I'll check for a trade sometime

Yes it matters!

Francesco Francavilla on Detective Comics and Man Without Fear

The return of INC

Winter Soldier

The Defenders

The first crop of the new 52 to get the AXE.

It will be awesome!
Bet on it.
And new Vertigo.

Bru Dawg and Phillips' FATALE

HICK-GOD doing some creator owned stuff again

So, lots of IMAGE in my future...

Over at DC, I anticipate things with Animal Man and Swamp Thing coming to a head

And Marvel? I'll keep on keepin' on with FF, Daredevil and whatever Remender touches, be it Uncanny X-Force or Secret Avengers or whatever. Can't say I'm excited for X-MEN VS AVENGERS but that's not to say I'll be able to ignore it, either

Mostly I'm just wanting to be surprised though. Hopefully I have no clue what my favorite comic of 2012 will be

>HICK-GOD doing some creator owned stuff again

when I added FATALE and SAGA to the pull list, and the clerk didn't know what I was talking about. I dug up the back issue of Red Wing with the ad in it and we went and flipped through Previews together to no avail... he wound up saying he thought he remembered something about a Hickman project getting switched from monthly to OGN.

Here's a blurb which confirms... and also mentiond two other projects for Image!: http://www.comiclist.com/index.php/news/jonathan-hickman-one-shot-feel-better-now-delayed