Your 2007 Wizard Fan Award Nominees

This Wizard Fan Awards have announced their nominees for this year's ceremony, to be held at the Wizard World Chicago convention in August. The Wizard Fan Awards are highly focused awards. They are centered on American superhero comic books and those occasional outside elements of heroic fiction which fans of superhero comic books frequently adore.

I like them because they still give nominations out to the armless statue people, it's fun to see what alt-comic related project pops out of the awards' belly like that scene in Alien (and this year's party-crasher is... Art School Confidential?), and every so often there's something that makes an eyebrow arch, like the in-story murder of one of Marvel's half-dozen prominent African-American heroes making the Comics Greatest Moment category. Did anyone reading Civil War really think that moment was awesome? Was "greatest" redefined as "slightly depressing" without my realizing it? Would Wizard editors watch The Godfather and come away raving about Luca Brasi's death scene? I'm imagining kids sitting around when one of them reading the comic yells "Eat it, Black Goliath!" and they all high-five each other. That was like the 3,189th greatest moment in comics last year, between Glenn Ganges entering a room at #3188 and every panel from Blade #6 tied at #3190.

See? This post is a lot more fun to write than the one for the Harveys. Anyhow:

FAVORITE WRITER
Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man)
Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers)
Geoff Johns (Infinite Crisis)
Ed Brubaker (Captain America)
Joss Whedon (Astonishing X-Men)

FAVORITE PENCILER
Steve McNiven (Civil War, New Avengers)
Steve Epting (Captain America)
Phil Jimenez (Infinite Crisis)
John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men, Planetary)
Tony Daniel (Teen Titans)

FAVORITE INKER
Danny Miki (Moon Knight)
Andy Lanning (Infinite Crisis)
Stefano Gaudiano (Daredevil)
Mike Perkins (Captain America)
Dexter Vines (Civil War)

FAVORITE COVER ARTIST
J.G. Jones (52)
Simone Bianchi (Detective Comics)
Gabrielle Dell'Otto (Annihilation)
James Jean (Fables)
Arthur Suydam (Marvel Zombies)

FAVORITE COLORIST
Morry Hollowell (Civil War)
Laura Martin (Astonishing X-Men)
Bill Crabtree (Invincible)
Moose Baumann (Green Lantern)
Dave Stewart (B.P.R.D.)

FAVORITE LETTERER
Richard Starkings & Comicraft (New Avengers)
Nick J. Napolitano (Infinite Crisis)
Todd Klein (Fables)
Rus Wooten (Invincible)
Chris Eliopoulos (Civil War)

FAVORITE EDITOR
Steve Wacker (52)
Tom Brevoort (New Avengers)
Peter Tomasi (Batman)
Scott Allie (B.P.R.D.)
Axel Alonso (Amazing Spider-Man)

FAVORITE MALE HERO
Captain America (Captain America)
Ralph Dibny (52)
Daredevil (Daredevil)
Spider-Man (Amazing Spider-Man)
Luke Cage (New Avengers)

FAVORITE FEMALE HERO
She Hulk (She-Hulk)
Wonder Woman (Wonder Woman)
Ms. Marvel (Ms. Marvel)
Renee Montoya (52)
Black Canary (Birds of Prey)

FAVORITE VILLAIN
Superboy Prime (Infinite Crisis)
Lex Luthor (52)
Annihilus (Annihilation)
The Governor (The Walking Dead)
The Red King (Incredible Hulk)

FAVORITE SUPPORTING CHARACTER
Winter Soldier (Captain America)
The Question (52)
Foggy Nelson (Daredevil)
Jimmy Olsen (All-Star Superman)
Debbie Grayson (Invincible)

FAVORITE ONGOING SERIES
Captain America (Marvel)
The Walking Dead (Image)
Daredevil (Marvel)
52 (DC)
Runaways (Marvel)

FAVORITE MINISERIES
Infinite Crisis (DC)
B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame (Dark Horse)
Marvel Zombies (Marvel)
Nova (Marvel)
Civil War: Young Avengers and Runaways (Marvel)

FAVORITE ONE-SHOT
Villains United Special (DC)
Annihilation Prologue (Marvel)
The Goon 25-Cent Issue (Dark Horse)
Winter Soldier: Winter Kills (Marvel)
Civil War: Casualties of War (Marvel)

FAVORITE PUBLISHER
Marvel
DC
Dark Horse
Image
Oni

FAVORITE COMIC MERCHANDISE
Hawkeye Statue (Bowen Designs)
MiniMates Galactus Statue (Diamond Select)
Dr. Doom Helmet & Hood (Limited by CAS)
Jennifer from Liberty Meadows Statue (CD Moore Studio)
Sexy Slave Leia Statue (Kotobukiya)

FAVORITE ACTION FIGURE LINE
Marvel Legends (Toy Biz)
DC Superheroes (Mattel)
Alex Ross' Justice (DC Direct)
Superman/Batman (DC Direct)
Marvel MiniMates (Diamond Select Toys)

FAVORITE COMIC MOVIE PROJECT
V for Vendetta (Warner Bros)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Fox)
Art School Confidential (Sony)
Superman Returns (Warner Bros)
Casino Royale (MGM)

BREAKOUT TALENT
Christos N. Gage (Union Jack)
Ed Benes (Justice League of America)
Ivan Reis (Green Lantern)
Daniel Acuña (Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters)
Greg Pak (The Incredible Hulk)

COMICS GREATEST MOMENT
Death of Superboy (Infinite Crisis #6)
Death of Roger the Homunculus (B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame #3)
Spider-Man unmasks (Civil War #2)
Clone Thor kills Goliath (Civil War #3)
Death of Booster Gold (52 #15)

FAVORITE TV SHOW
Lost (ABC)
Battlestar Galactica (SciFi)
Heroes (NBC)
Smallville (The CW)
Justice League Unlimited (Cartoon Network)

FAVORITE DVD RELEASE
V for Vendetta (Warner Bros)
Superman Returns (Warner Bros)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Fox)
Ultimate Avengers II (Marvel)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (Warner Bros)

FAVORITE VIDEO GAME
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
Justice League Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive)
Superman Returns (EA Games)
Gears of War (Microsoft Game Studios)
The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
 
posted 3:10 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives