Behind the Panels Awards 2014 – Nominations

The 2014 Behind the Panels Awards, celebrating the best in comics from around the world in 2014, will be recorded LIVE TO HARD-DRIVE at the Panels Cave, and hitting your podcast feeds from from 29 December 2014.

Join hosts Richard Gray, David McVay and David Longo as we count off our favourites from the last 12 months, and get into a good chat about the things we like/don’t like.

We’ve streamlined the awards this year to focus on whole books rather than individual creators. So many great books came out this year, so it’s important to note that this is only a fraction of the wonderful content we’ve absorbed this year.

As we count down until that show, we also invite readers and listeners to submit their choices for their favourite comics, films, and TV for 2014. Send your choices to feedback@behindthepanels.net, or hit us up on our Facebook page, our Twitter feed or leave a voice message for us to play on the show.

UPDATE: The WINNERS can now be found in the Behind the Panels Issue 123 – Panels Awards 2014

The nominations are:

Favourite New or Limited Series of 2014

• Vertigo Quarterly (DC/Vertigo)
• The Multiversity (DC Comics)
• Gotham Academy (DC Comics)
• Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
• She-Hulk (Marvel)
• Daredevil (Marvel)
• Rocket Raccoon (Marvel)
• Deadly Class (Image Comics)
• Southern Bastards (Image Comics)
• The Wicked + The Devine (Image Comics)
• Starlight (Image Comics)
• Outkast (Image Comics)
• The Fade Out (Image Comics)
• Wytches (Image Comics)
• The Autumnlands: Tooth and Claw (Image Comics)
• Groo vs Conan (Dark Horse)
• The Woods (Boom! Studios)
• Justice Inc (Dynamite Entertainment)
• Wilds’ End (Boom! Studios)

Great But Too Soon to Include: Bitch Planet (Image Comics), Gotham By Midnight (DC Comics), Wolf Moon (DC/Vertigo)

Favourite Continuing Series That’s Not Saga of 2014*

• Harley Quinn (DC Comics)
• The Private Eye (Panel Syndicate)
• Earth 2 (DC Comics)
• Zero (Image Comics)
• Batman (DC Comics)
• Revival (Image Comics)
• Fatale* (Image Comics)
• Lazarus (Image Comics)
• Hawkeye (Marvel)
• Captain Marvel (Marvel)
• Thor, God of Thunder (Marvel)
• Black Science (Image Comics)
• Velvet (Image Comics)

*We LOVE Saga: but if we nominate it again this year, these other fine titles are just going to miss out

Favourite Australian Release of 2014

• Winter City (Winter City Productions)
• Fly (Gestalt)
• Awkwood (Milk Shadow Books)
• Deer Editor (Four Colour Ray Gun)
• From Above (Self published)
• Oi Oi Oi (Comicoz)

Favourite Event of the Year

• Forever Evil (DC Comics)
• Original Sin (Marvel)
• Futures End (DC Comics)
• Zero Year (DC Comic)
• Prometheus/Alien/Predator: Fire & Stone (Dark Horse)
• Spider-Verse (Marvel)
• Axis (Marvel)
• Godhead (DC Comics)
• Death of Wolverine (Marvel)
• The X-Files Conspiracy (IDW)

Favourite Original Graphic Novel

• Blacksad: Amarillo (Dark Horse(US)/Editions Dargaud(Europe))
• Seconds (Ballantine)
• Zatanna/Black Canary: Bloodspell (DC Comics)
• The Hip-Hop Family Tree Book 2:1981 – 1983 (Fantagraphics)
• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
• Battling Boy: The Rise of Aurora West (First Second)

Favourite Comic Book Movie

• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Sony)
• Blue is the Warmest Colour (Transmission)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Disney)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (Disney)
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Icon)
• Snowpiercer
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (Fox)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount)
• Big Hero 6 (Disney)

Favourite Comic Book TV Series

• Arrow (The CW)
• Constantine (NBC)
• The Flash (The CW)
• Gotham (Fox)
• Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC)
• The Walking Dead (AMC)

People Who Have Left Us

• Jeremy Dale (Skyward)
• Stan Goldberg, veteran Marvel colorist and Archie Comics artist
• Dick Ayers, original Ghost Rider co-creator and Sgt. Fury artist
• Lorenzo Semple Jr, Batman TV creator

Special Awards

• Cover Story Best Cover Artist of the Year – TBA (in podcast)
• Legend of the Year – TBA (in podcast)
• Dead Set Legend of the Year (Australian) – TBA (in podcast)
• Kick Ass Pick of the Year – Our favourite Kick Ass Pick of the Week we’ve covered this year from Issue 85 (The Dark Knight Strikes Again) through to Issue 122 (Krampus). See the complete Episode List!

What We’re Most Excited About in 2015

• Agent Carter (ABC)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (Disney)
• Ant-Man (Disney)
• Convergence (DC Comics)
• Daredevil (Marvel/Netflix)
• Secret Wars (Marvel)
• Fantastic Four (Fox)
• Let’s face it….Star Wars: The Force Awakens