Dan and I take some time to discuss our top picks from the 2012’s Comics of the Year. http://youtu.be/Uifp0tTlYxA Top Marvel Book: right at the beginning Top DC Books: 7:20 Top Creator-Owned Book 12:40 sec Top Marvel Arc 19:14 Top DC Arc 23:46 Top Creator-Owned Arc 27:49 Best Old Comic 31:35 Biggest Surprise 40:14
Enjoy as Dan and I take on the best of the best in comics for 2012! Books: Top Marvel Book This Year Eric Runner(s) Up: Fantastic Four/FF (Jonathan Hickman) Fantastic Four #605.1 - Nazi Fantastic Four I’m going to cheat and consider both of these to be one book because, plot-wise they were. Hickman used them in the same way that Chris Claremont used the X-Men/Uncanny X-Men books in the 90s - as a way to double-ship a story and tell it from two different perspectives. This year we saw an end to his run on these two books and what an ending it was. But what put these books into the runner up category for me were the epilogues Hickman wrote. Standouts included the alternate universe where the Fantastic Four worked for Nazi Germany. What makes Hickman rise above the rest is the attention to detail. Ben Grimm is one of the famous Jewish characters in the Marvel universe and so in this alternate world he is an unwitting member of the Fantastic Four. And while he is best friends with Reed in our world, Nazi Reed looks at him with disgust. All of that was pretty great on its own, but the way Hickman tied it into his Reed council sealed the deal on that story. ...