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How about something for "Most Surprisingly Good Comic of the Year". In other words, which comic did you not expect to like but ended up really enjoying.

"Best Wild Pop-Culture Remix" -- Strong contenders would be Matt Fraction and Grant Morrison.

"Best Boundary-Pushing of the Medium" -- Not so much a writing thing as an award for the comic that does really new and bold formal things. "Wow, i didn't realize you could do comics that way!"

"Best Throwaway Concept" -- The sort of thing Moore, Morrison and others specialize in -- the little tossed-off idea or suggestion that someone will expand into a massive story five or ten years later. Probably excludes Geoff Johns's stuff, since he almost always means these as plot setups for himself.

"Best Compression" and "Best Decompression" -- Self-explanatory, I'd think.

"Best Extras/Special Features" --i.e., the back matter in Casanova and Criminal, the massive fold-out Batcave by Jim Lee, etc.

"Best Career Comeback"

"Best Bad Comic of the Year/Guilty Pleasure" -- "I shouldn't be reading this, let alone praising it, but it was so much fun despite all."

Here's some ideas:

- Best All Ages Comic
- Best Single Issue
- Best Story Arc
- Underrated Comic Writer of 07
- Underrated Comic Artist of 07
- Best Hardcover or Trade (non reprinted material)

I'd like to throw in "Best ON SCHEDULE comic of the Year". (not just awarded for actually staying on schedule, mind you, I mean the best comic with the condition that it had to be good without needing to have frustrating delays, if that makes sense).

Maybe "Consistently best character depicted by multiple creators", for the character that remained cool wherever they turned up (e.g. could be JLA characters who were in Justice mini and/or their own books, could be certain Green Lanterns, could be Iron Man if you liked his characterization this year, etc.).

How about something like "Best Ending to a story or storyarc"?

Best new name? Power? Gimmick?

The mind boggles at the possibilities.

Best Waste of Time read

Best Place to Read Your Comics

Two books that would be best served if their creators switched books

Rookie writer/artist of the year

Best Book By A Creator You Thought Was Dead

Best Comic John Byrne Would Hate

Best Comic John Byrne Would Love

Best Comic In The Judgment Of Your Significant Other

Creepiest Cover

Best Comic Based on Earlier, Better Steve Gerber Comics

Best Comic Involving Either "Count" or "Down" or Both

Best Comic Set in the Past or Future

Best Gigantic Reprint Collection

Best Comic in Need of More Readers

New Character that you most want to dropkick to the South Pole -

Best ongoing subplot (lasts at least 6 issues)- an example here would be Brenda and LaDama in Blue Beetle.

Most revitalized character

- Least annoying retcon.

- Best page layout

- Best Kirby reprint set (there were a lot last year)

- Most innovative use of the medium

- Creator who evolved the most over the year

- Best new format

- Best moment in Scott Pilgrim

How about:
- Best Single Issue
- Best Story Arc
- Best Comic No One Read
- Best On-timecomic of the Year
- Best Splash Page
- Best Line from a Superhero
- Best Comic that should be Marvel, but is not
- Best Comic that should be DC, but is not
- Best WTH? moment
- Best Self-published
- Best Dan Didio/ Joe Q moment

Best Tentacle Rape Cover

Best New Comic with an Old School Feel

Best comic you can read with your girlfriend.

Best comic artist that doesn't offend your girlfriend.

Best Moment of the Year
Most Stupidest Moment of the Year
Most Suprisingly Good Book of the Year

Most Impressive Justification For Claiming That All-Star Batman And Robin Is A Good Comic

Following up on one of Omar's suggestions, I'd like to see an award for 'Best Expansion of a Throwaway Concept' (for example, the throwaway Moore stuff that Johns worked into Sinestro Corps War, that sort of thing).

Best delayed mini
Best delayed young avengers comic

“Best Wild Pop-Culture Remix” — Strong contenders would be Matt Fraction and Grant Morrison.

“Best Boundary-Pushing of the Medium” — Not so much a writing thing as an award for the comic that does really new and bold formal things. “Wow, i didn’t realize you could do comics that way!”

Although I like your other suggestions a lot, these two sound like they would just turn into excuses for yet another predictable Morrison or Fraction gushfest, which I presume Brian wanted to avoid this time around.

I'd nominate "Best Fan Uproar Moment" There were a lot this year, from how bad Countdown reactions were to MJ Statues to One More Day, etc.

Here's another one: "Most avoidably delayed comic." Meaning this comic was not just delayed, but it was so obvious from the moment the comic was announced that it would be delayed. For example Jim Lee is seriously behind on a monthly books, I have an idea: let's give him a NEW monthly, Wildcats.

Best Fill-in/Pinch-hit Job by a Writer

Best Fill-in/Pinch-hit Job by an Artist

Best New Pairing of Writer to Character(s)

Best New Pairing of Artist to Character(s)

Best New Comic You Never Expected to Like

Best Editor

This "Big Event" Was Actually Good (ie, something that stetched across more than one ongoing title or had a featured miniseries plus spinoffs/tie-ins/etc. And yet you liked it anyway, even if it embarrasses you)

This "Big Event" Is Most Fun to Belittle and Mock

Best Comics Blog (excluding this one, since we're all already reading it)

(I like all my suggestions, though a couple are similar to some already posted. I also very much like the Best On-Time Comic. Most laugh-out-loud suggestion so far: MightyGodKing's "Most Impressive Justification For Claiming That All-Star Batman And Robin Is A Good Comic.")

"Best Non-Zombie Cover Homage"

"Best Cliffhanger"

"Best Resolution of a Cliffhanger"

"Best Rationalization of Another Writer's Error"

How about a classic:

"Sensational Character Find of 2007"

Retcon of the year!

Seriously, every year has more than its fill of retcons, why can't we choose the most significant?

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

Best use of MODOK.

Best use of lame villain.

Best tangential crossover tie-in.

Best comic to overcome low-expectations.

Best Kiss

Most Sexist Moment

Least Deserving of Publisher's Hype

Most Overrated

Most Underrated

Best/Worst Couple

Best/Worst Line-up (Super Team)

Team/Character most Deserving of their own comic

Best non-superhero book

Most/Least Realistic depictions of anatomy.

Most/Least Realistic Use of Dialogue.

Most/Least Deserved Cancellation.

The Elk's Run ("Where the heck did this comic go?") Memorial Award.

The Nightwing Award for Achievement in Impossible Continuity (aka "The 3-Places-At-Once Award").

Most/Least Welcome Return of A Character (dead or otherwise).

Best manga/non-American comic

Weirdest concept

Best cover/cover artist

Best alien/monster

Good comic most likely to be cancelled soon

Most overrated comic

Best award category

Although I like your other suggestions a lot, these two sound like they would just turn into excuses for yet another predictable Morrison or Fraction gushfest, which I presume Brian wanted to avoid this time around.

Not just Brian. I mean, I like All-Star Superman as much as anyone, but it's not the be-all and end-all. I think one of our strengths around here is the diversity of viewpoint and I am hoping for categories that will bring that out.

"Best Comic With Orders Above 100,000"

"Best Comic With Orders Below 10,000"

Using ICV2 numbers, of course.

"Best Co-Writing"

Given the number of comics with multiple writers lately, I thought this might be an interesting category.

"Least Essential Reprint"

"Least Essential One-Shot or Mini-Series"

"Least Essential Ongoing Series"

Not bad, per se, just . . . superfluous. And, yes, I stole this one from The Onion.

Best use of sound-effect/onomatopeia.

Best use of MODOK.

2007 *was* the year of MODOK, but I think we all know what would take home the trophy for this one.

Best Sound FX

Best Anthology Title

Most Literate Comic

Best Single Issue title (My vote would be for Total Eclipso: The Heart from Blue Beetle)

New Comic that should become a movie

New Comic that should become an ongoing TV series

Best/worst use of anthropomorphic animals (Did anyone else read the Rabbi's Cat this year?)

Most Unintentionally Funny Comic of the Year

Most Out-Of Character Moment

Best In-Character Moment (I'm thinking of this in terms of an old character doing something new & different that still jibes with his previous behavior)

Best Character Redemption (One possible nominee: Dan Slott revealing that She-Hulk didn't sleep with the Juggernaut)

Best Continuity Fix

Best Creative Team Transition

The "Don't Call It a Comeback!" Award (looking at you over there, Nova)

The Punisher's Most Creative Bad-Guy Murder Sequence (missle launcher to Stilt-Man's crotch? or was that in 2006?)

Most Fantastically Over-the-Top Action Sequence (I miss NextWave, sigh)

Best Category Suggestion

In defense of the "Pop Culture" category, surely Brian O'Malley could swoop in and take it?

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