All right, it is time for The Revolution’s Weekly Awards. The Che is awarded to the issue that is the best read of the week. The nominee for The Che is:
Uncanny X-Men #493
The Winner: Uncanny X-Men #493. Yeah, not much suspense when I only nominate a single issue for The Che, huh? The fact is that none of the other issues that came out December 5, 2007 were even worth getting a nomination for The Che. This was an incredibly weak selection of comic books this past week.
Uncanny X-Men #493 was another excellent installment of the Messiah Complex. After the pedestrian efforts that Marvel gave us on House of M, Civil War and World War Hulk, I really had low expectations for this big event. Man, has Marvel ever stunned and amazed me by turning in one incredible read with Messiah Complex. I wish all big events in Marvel could be this well done.
And now the nominees for the Sequential Methadone Award for the worst issue of the week are:
Countdown to Final Crisis #21
Justice League of America #15
Justice Society of America #11
Ultimates 3 #1
Robin #129
The Winner: Countdown to Final Crisis #21.
This week had a lot of rather pedestrian reads. Robin #129 was another lackluster installment of this supposed big return of Ra’s al Ghul. This entire event has been overhyped and underwhelming in its execution. I keep waiting for that feeling of something special that you get with big story arcs. However, this story arc just keeps missing it. Each installment lacks anything interesting and unexpected. This story arc is moving slowly and is actually rather boring.
Ultimates 3 #1 was definitely a step down from Millar’s version of the Ultimates. It is always depressing when a white hot title gets a writer change and then the title suddenly suffers from a serious drop in quality. That is what has happened to Ultimates. I don’t know how long Marvel is going to be willing to let Loeb drag this title down. Loeb’s run on Wolverine was mercifully short, yet he still managed to inflict a phenomenal amount of damage on Wolverine’s character in such a brief period of time. If fan reaction is overwhelmingly negative and Loeb’s Ultimates suffers from bad sales numbers then I wouldn’t be surprised to see Loeb’s run on Ultimates also unusually short.
Justice Society of America #11 was nothing but pure filler. Basically just a waste of time and money.
Justice League of America #15 was incredibly generic and predictable. This is another title that has suffered from a drop in terms of overall quality once there was a swap at the writer position.
However, the winner of the Sequential Methadone Award has got to be the crapfest known as Countdown to Final Crisis #21. This title just continues to get worse and worse with each issue. And that is pretty amazing, because I honestly don’t know if it is possible to get much worse than what we have gotten over the course of the past month on this title. Countdown to Final Crisis is unimaginative, poorly constructed, pathetically executed, horribly plotted and terribly paced. I don’t know what else to say.
So, congrats to Uncanny X-Men #493 for winning The Che and congrats to Countdown to Final Crisis #21 for winning the Sequential Methadone Award!
2 thoughts on “Weekly Awards for Comic Books From December 5, 2007”
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Be careful – DiDio might use this as justification for calling Countdown “award-winning”
Tut tut.
Justice Society of America was a good read.
The only thing it suffered from was that it was a good read instead of the really good read it usually is.
It should not be on the worst list