Best Comic Books of 2012 Winners | Talking Comics Awards | Comic Book Podcast Issue #63

Happy New Year everyone! We’re back for our first show of 2013 (recorded in 2013, that is). We’ve missed you guys a ton and we’ve missed talking about our favourite Books of the Week, so that makes a triumphant return to the show and kicks things off. Some of the comics (and books) discussed include: Red She-Hulk #61, Hawkeye #6, Ender’s Game, New Avengers #1, Cow Boy: A Boy And His Horse, Justice League and Aquaman.

AND, if you’ve been following along with shows #60-62, you’ll know that our topic for this week was our favourite comics of 2012. The previous shows were all dedicated to narrowing down our nominees (with your help on the site!) and now we announce the winners of each category. Who wins what? You’ll have to listen to find out (and we’ll post a complete list of them later in the week). In the meantime, you can look at a complete list of the nominees below:

Best Publisher

Marvel

DC

Image

IDW

Dark Horse

Breakthrough Writer

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Kurtis Wiebe

Jeff Parker

Matt Fraction

JH Williams III

Breakthrough Artist

Fiona Staples

Michael Allred

Amanda Conner

Riley Rossmo

Chris Samnee

Best Cover

Batwoman #5

The Massive #1 (Variant)

Punisher #16

Masks #1

Fairest #8

Best Web Or Digital Series

Sarah and the Seed

JL8

Hark, A Vagrant!

The Abominable Charles Christopher

Legends of the Dark Knight

Best Mini-Series Or Limited Series

The Cape by Joe Hill

Ghost by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Alabaster Wolves by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Murphy

Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre

Best Single Issue, Graphic Novel or One-Shot

Underwater Welder

Batman #5

Tale of Sand

Fantastic Four #606

Revival #1

Best New Series

Saga

Captain Marvel

Revival

Fatale

Hawkeye

Best Story Arc

Batman: Court Of Owls

Saga: Chapter One

Captain Marvel: In Pursuit Of Flight

X-Factor: Breaking Points

Defenders: Everything Dies

Best Artist

Fiona Staples

JH Williams III

Greg Capullo

David Aja

Mike Norton

Best Writer

Scott Snyder

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Jeff Lemire

Mark Waid

Jonathan Hickman

Best On-Going Series

Batman

Saga

FF

Daredevil

Aquaman

Best Overall Comic

Batman

Underwater Welder

Sarah and the Seed

FF

Saga

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