The numbers are in and the votes have been tallied for the ComicAttack.net Best of 2014 Fan Poll!
Fans chose from the nominations they emailed to us along with those from the CA.net staff and after the voting was all done the top five in each category were chosen. So did your favorite writer make the list? Was that OGN that blew you away a contender in 2014? Did your manga suggestion make it to the top five? Well, here’s where you find out so enjoy, debate, and let us know what you think of the finalists!
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BEST ALTERNATE MEDIA (TV/NOVELS)
1. The Flash
1. The Walking Dead
2. The Strain
3. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
4. Arrow
BEST COMIC BASED MOVIE
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past
4. Big Hero 6
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
BEST COMIC BOOK MOMENT
1. Chew #45: The shocking death of that really cool character that we won’t spoil.
2. Southern Bastards #4: Earl Tubb’s daughter revealed.
3. Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #6: Miles kicks Osborn’s ass.
4. Amazing Spider-Man #9: All of the Multiverse Spider characters gather.
4. Thor #2: Malekith wears Thor’s severed arm as a necklace.
BEST COLLECTED EDITION
1. Locke & Key Alpha & Omega (IDW)
2. Hip Hop Family Tree Box Set (Fantagraphics)
3. Batman Vol 3. Death of the Family (DC)
4. Uber Vol 2 (Avatar)
5. Chilling Archives Worst of Eerie (IDW)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL
1. Blacksad: Amarillo (Dark Horse)
1. The Joyners in 3D (Archaia)
1. Curse of Ragdoll (Mike Wolfer)
4. The Wrenchies (First Second)
5. Andre The Giant: Life & Legend (First Second)
BEST INTERNATIONAL (EUROPEAN/ASIAN)
1. Blacksad: Amarillo (Dark Horse)
2. Okko: Book 4 – Cycle of Fire (Archaia)
3. Monsters (Dark Horse)
4. Sanctum (Humanoids)
BIGGEST SURPRISE GOOD READ
1. Genius (Top Cow)
2. Trees (Image)
3. The Woods (BOOM!)
4. Teen Titans (DC)
5. DMC (Daryl Makes Comics)
BEST INDIE ARTIST
1. Terry Moore (Rachel Rising)
2. N. Steven Harris (Ajala/Watson & Holmes)
3. Mateus Santoluoco (TMNT)
4. Stjepan Sejic (Death Vigil)
5. Ross Campbell (TMNT)
BEST INDIE WRITER
1. Terry Moore
2. Brian K. Vaughan
3. Brandon Easton
4. Garth Ennis
5. Jeremy Whitely
BEST BIG 3 ARTIST
1. David Marquez
2. Greg Capullo
3. Olivier Coipel
4. Juan Ferreyra
5. Sara Pichelli
BEST BIG 3 WRITER
1. Scott Snyder
2. Grant Morrison
3. Dan Slott
3. Jason Aaron
3. Matt Fraction
BEST LICENSED SERIES
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW)
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse)
3. Godzilla (IDW)
3. My Little Pony (IDW)
3. Planet of the Apes (IDW)
BEST EVENT SERIES
1. Fire & Stone: Prometheus, Alien, Predator, AvP (Dark Horse)
2. Spider-Verse (Marvel)
3. Multiversity (DC)
4. Armor Hunters (Valiant)
5. Original Sin (Marvel)
BEST MANGA
1. Attack on Titan
2. Monster Perfect Edition
3. Tokyo Ghoul
4. Black Butler
4. What did you Eat yesterday
BEST ONGOING INDIE SERIES
1. Rachel Rising
2. Saga
3. Chew
4. Uber
4. Oddly Normal
BEST NEW INDIE SERIES
1. Concrete Park
1. Wicked and Devine
3. Southern Bastards
4. Death Vigil
4. Nail Biter
BEST NEW SUPERHERO COMIC
1. Ms. Marvel
2. Iron Fist: The Living Weapon
3. Grayson
4. Rai
4. Teen Titans
BEST ONGOING SUPERHERO COMIC
1. Batman (DC)
2. Miles Morales: Ultimate Spidey (Marvel)
3. X-O Manowar (Valiant)
4. Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel)
5. Swamp Thing (DC)
BEST PUBLISHER
1. Image
2. Dark Horse
3. Valiant
4. IDW
4. Archaia
There you have it, the top 5 in every category chosen by the fans to stand out as the best of what 2014 had to offer. Hopefully you even came away with a new title or creator to check out and add to your reading pile!
Thanks again for all that participated in our Fan Poll and we hope to see you again when we set up the nominees for 2015!
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