Hugo Suggestions for Best Graphic Story, 2012

[womzilla]

After reviewing the 1000+ comics I read last year, I came up with a score of works that struck me as exceptional and that meet the qualifications of being science fiction or fantasy stories which were completed in 2012.

• Avengers Academy: Final Exam, by Christos Gaga, Andrea DeVito, et al
  
• Batgirl: The Darkest Reflection, by Gail Simone & Ardian Syaf
  
• The Boys: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men, by Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson
  
• Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred, by David Hine and Shaky Kane
  
• Castle Waiting, by Linda Medly
  
• Chew: Space Cakes, by John Layman and Rob Guillory
  
• Crossed: Wish You Were Here, by Si Spurrier and Javier Barreno
  
• Demon Knights: Seven Against the Dark, by Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves
  
• Everything Burns, by Matt Fraction, Keirion Gillen, Alan David, et al
  
• Infernal Man-Thing: Screenplay of the Living Dead Man, by Steve Gerber and Kevin Nowlan
  
• iZombie: Repossessed, by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred
  
• Locke and Key: Clockworks, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodrigues
  
• Mind MGMT, by Matt Kindt
  
• New Deadwardians, by Dan Abnett and I. N. J. Culbard
  
• Prophet: Remission, by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, et al
  
• RASL, by Jeff Smith
  
• Saucer Country: Run, by Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly
  
• Snarked, by Roger Landridge
  
• Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words, by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
  
• Valen the Outcast, by Mark Alan Nelson and Matteo Scalera
  

It was very difficult to select 5 finalists from this list, and if I did it again tomorrow, I would probably choose at least slightly differently. I will say I was biased towards works that will not get another shot at nomination next year.

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I'm not willing to cross the picket line to support any of the Before Watchmen books. I was around in comics in 1986 when DC was bragging about how the contract for Watchmen was a real advance in creators' rights, and I'm not going to reward them for waiting 25 years to go back on their word.