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Post by Van Plexico on May 7, 2006 14:43:42 GMT -5
The Jarvis Awards for Comics of 2005 Beginning in 1998, and each year thereafter (okay, well, except for the last five years... but nevermind that!), the Jarvis-Heads have voted to bestow awards in a variety of comics categories, focusing mainly on the AVENGERS but also on other comics.
This year, the great new members of the AvengersAssemble! Message Board also get to participate. Welcome aboard, all!
This year's JARVIS AWARDS cover comics which were released in the calendar year of 2005.
You may simply copy this entire article and fill in your answers. Then email it to me for tabulation, at:
vplexico@yahoo.com
This way, no one can vote more than once... unless they want to be really sneaky. But please don't. One, it's just wrong, man. And two, I'll be tabulating these results by hand, so stuffing the ballot box will just bury me under a lot of work I really don't need. Cool? Good. Now:
Voting will close promptly at... whenever I decide it will. (I will announce the exact date/time soon, but it will be at least a week from May 6, 2006, to allow for some good, spirited debate and suggestions in the various forums-- including in this thread on the Message Board.)
So get to discussin', suggestin', and votin'!
***** THE CATEGORIES FOR COMICS OF THE YEAR 2005:
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1. BEST AVENGERS-RELATED STORY OR ARC of 2005 (Best story involving the Avengers in any single comic book or series of comics)
2. BEST AVENGERS-RELATED WRITER of 2005
3. BEST AVENGERS-RELATED ARTIST of 2005 (Can include inkers and colorists as well as pencillers)
4. BEST ACTIVE AVENGER of 2005 (Most interesting or entertaining Avengers character appearing in an Avengers-related story in 2005; does not include supporting non-Avenger characters or villains)
5. BEST AVENGERS VILLAIN of 2005
6. BEST AVENGERS SUPPORTING CHARACTER(s) (Most interesting or entertaining character appearing in an Avengers-related story in 2005; does not include active Avengers or villains)
7. GREATEST AVENGERS "MOMENT" of 2005 (The single best moment in an Avengers-related story in 2005)
8. BEST AVENGERS SINGLE PANEL of 2005 (The single best panel in any Avengers-related story in 2005) 9. BEST MARVEL COMICS SERIES of 2005 (Can include Limited Series)
10. THE ONE COMIC BOOK EVERYONE SHOULD BE READING IS: (Can be anything from any company.)
AVENGERS CREATORS HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2006 (Inaugural Class) (Who has meant the most to the Avengers and their place in Marvel history and comics history in general? Vote for up to three members)
The winners of the Jarvis Awards for 2005 will be posted in a position of prominence on the AvengersAssemble! site after the voting is closed. Thanks to all for participating!
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Post by dlw66 on May 7, 2006 21:38:24 GMT -5
Guess I'll be going through my stack of Ultimates 2. Don't really see any point in looking at New Avengers...
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Post by dlw66 on May 8, 2006 7:44:40 GMT -5
Questions:
Are we only to consider new material from 2005? For example, a tpb reprinting some classic stories would not count for best story arc?
Did we ever decide how many creators are getting into the new Hall of Fame as the inaugural class? I see we are to vote for three. We had talked about five. If only three are going in, that will affect my vote.
Thanks, Van, for getting this all up and running again!!
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Post by Shiryu on May 8, 2006 8:20:36 GMT -5
Sounds great ! Just one question: in the Avengers related writer, can we propone someone like Straczinsky who showed the Avengers on ASM, or does it have to be someone writing a "real" Avengers book (not many choices in that case) ?
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Post by Van Plexico on May 8, 2006 10:01:01 GMT -5
A couple of quick answers to above questions: 1. Yes, only new material published in 2005. But, hey, don't forget, there were Avengers-related series other than NA and ULTIMATES 2 (not that I didn't like-- well, ULTIMATES 2, anyway). **Cough Cough youngavengers for one example cough cough* ;D 2. Number of possible electees to the HoF: This is still an open question. I think it should depend on the voting, rather than having a pre-set number. For example, if 100 people vote for Stan Lee, and no more than 2 people vote for anyone else, then only Stan should get in. I was thinking of setting some threshold percentage of the overall vote, below which, you don't make the cut (this year). In fact, an idea might be to nominate some, and then have a yes-no vote on each of them. I welcome thoughts about this. 3. You can vote for anyone you like for writer or artist (or Avengers moment, etc)-- it doesn't have to be a "core" book. But all voters should bear in mind just how relevant a scene it was, before choosing some random moment from NEXTWAVE or something of that nature.
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Post by dlw66 on May 8, 2006 10:38:13 GMT -5
I like a threshhold number for getting into the Hall -- say, 75-80%, somewhere in there. I do hope, members, that you vote. This should be fun, and hopefully it stays meaningful for a long time.
Van, thanks for answering these questions!
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Post by Shiryu on May 9, 2006 8:13:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the answers. I'll send my votes between today and tormorrow.
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 13, 2006 18:06:38 GMT -5
Voting will close promptly at... whenever I decide it will. (I will announce the exact date/time soon, but it will be at least a week from May 6, 2006, to allow for some good, spirited debate and suggestions in the various forums-- including in this thread on the Message Board.) Van, a week isn’t very long. I’ve voted (just a few minutes ago), but I felt like I didn’t have time to seriously consider my vote until today. You posted last Saturday, I didn’t see the announcement till Sunday, then I was busy with work (overtime, even) all week... I’d like to suggest a voting period of three weeks to a month—if not for this ballot, then for the 2006 awards and beyond. Regardless, thanks for running this event and letting us participate! ;D
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Post by Van Plexico on May 15, 2006 16:10:04 GMT -5
Well, I did say "at least a week," and that I would announce when that would be. I have no intention of closing it yet, because I have only received about six votes so far!
I'll give a several-days-notice before polls close, but I'll definitely leave the voting open for at least another two weeks.
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 15, 2006 16:22:59 GMT -5
Great. Thanks!
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Post by dlw66 on May 15, 2006 22:09:10 GMT -5
Only 6 votes!?!?!?! That is a crying shame. Even if people aren't feeling like they have much of a choice in Avengers books this year -- and that is not entirely true after we saw the extensive list of Avengers-related material this year, they could at least vote for the Hall of Fame or the "one book you gotta read"...
See, I said earlier, and others backed me up -- there are 78 or whatever people who are members here, but only a handful who engage in regular conversation.
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Post by Shiryu on May 16, 2006 7:56:15 GMT -5
To a certain extent that happens in every forum (and I still can't understand why), but I must admit it's quite a large group here. That being said, I'm sure more people will come soon (may be they are all NA fans not too happy for the direction most conversations go ^^).
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 16, 2006 15:30:11 GMT -5
Only 6 votes!?!?!?! That is a crying shame. Even if people aren't feeling like they have much of a choice in Avengers books this year -- and that is not entirely true after we saw the extensive list of Avengers-related material this year, they could at least vote for the Hall of Fame or the "one book you gotta read"... Well, as I suggested above, there hasn’t been much time to go back and review what came out last year. I didn’t even post my master list (flawed, I’m sure) until Saturday, and remembering what might qualify is half the battle!
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Post by imperiusrex on May 16, 2006 18:05:31 GMT -5
EMH was published between 2004 and 2005 does that count as a whole or only the issues that fall into that calendar year?
Admittedly it doesn't matter much--if I can only vote for issues 5-8, it'll still be a sweep for Casey and Kolins' miniseries...
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Post by dlw66 on May 23, 2006 12:16:23 GMT -5
I just wanted to post here again to get it highlighted on the main page. You folks out there who are regular readers, get out and vote!!
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Post by Shiryu on May 24, 2006 8:30:11 GMT -5
How many votes have arrived so far ? I hope we have gone beyond 6...
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Post by Van Plexico on May 24, 2006 9:47:08 GMT -5
Just a quick word to say I've been away from the computer, on a business trip, since the middle of last week. I'm back now, and will count the new votes and announce how many have now voted either today or tomorrow (Wed/Thurs.). Thanks for your patience. And the polls will remain open at least another seven days.
I haven't checked the YahooMail yet, but I've received several votes from some of the Jarvis-Heads on the AA! site in my regular mail, so we're at least in double digits by now...
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Post by Van Plexico on May 24, 2006 14:01:09 GMT -5
Okay, a few more votes came in while I was away on my trip, and they've now all been tallied up to this point. Interestingly enough, there are runaways in maybe two categories, but everything else is very, very close-- either two slight leaders, battling it out, or else categories with no more than one or two votes for any contender. Among the runaway vote categories is Hall of Fame. I'll let you guess which contender is already pretty much a lock there.
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 24, 2006 17:52:47 GMT -5
Among the runaway vote categories is Hall of Fame. I'll let you guess which contender is already pretty much a lock there. I’m guessing it rhymes with “Man”. Or at least begins the same as “Smilin’”.
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Post by dlw66 on May 24, 2006 18:56:01 GMT -5
My first reaction was that it is Big John, the penciller of more Avengers issue than any other, who is way out in front.
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Post by The Night Phantom on May 25, 2006 4:24:12 GMT -5
Probably we’re both wrong—it’ll turn out to be someone whose name rhymes with “Trendis”...
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Post by dlw66 on May 25, 2006 7:42:18 GMT -5
Oh, no!! Can those of us with sense stuff the ballot box??
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Post by Shiryu on May 25, 2006 8:47:41 GMT -5
I think it's good old Stan, but everything is possible, after all Bendis wrote Avengers for the whole of 2005.
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Post by Van Plexico on May 25, 2006 22:10:23 GMT -5
No guesses even remotely correct, so far. Frankly, I'm surprised at you guys!
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Post by Shiryu on May 26, 2006 7:20:14 GMT -5
Hmm, from the way you say it, I think YA and its staff are ruling then
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Post by dlw66 on May 26, 2006 7:32:37 GMT -5
OK then... since I generally feel that comics are more visually-driven than story-driven (did anyone subscribe to the Comics Buyers' Guide around 10 years ago when they had a huge debate in their letters column about art vs. story?? It was a huge fall-out from the Image movement and quite interesting; good topic for a thread here?), so it must be an artist. Can't believe it's not Buscema. Then it must be Kirby or Perez (for all the johnny-come-latelys to Avenging...).
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Post by von Bek on May 26, 2006 7:54:12 GMT -5
Then it must be Kirby or Perez (for all the johnny-come-latelys to Avenging...). Funny thing you consider who voted in Perez a "johnny-come-lately", you´re probably thinking about the Busiek/Perez run. When I think Perez art is mostly his 141-200 run.
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Post by Shiryu on May 26, 2006 8:04:27 GMT -5
BTW I've seen in the AA website that some Jarvis Heads include past Avengers writers / Marvel staff. Did any of them vote too ?
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Post by Van Plexico on May 26, 2006 12:45:51 GMT -5
None have, as of yet. Generally they tend to not participate in this sort of thing (polling/awards of books they've worked on), I've found. Which is understandable, I think.
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Post by dlw66 on May 26, 2006 17:36:56 GMT -5
vonbek, I will stand clarified. You are correct when you say that Mr. Perez's 1970's tenure is his Avengers "golden age"... I was referring to children of the 90's who might only be aware of his latter run (to which I meant no disparaging remark -- time was my main point, not quality).
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