{"id":4015,"date":"2012-03-19T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T19:01:43","slug":"twitter-picks-page-two-of-the-harveys-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Picks Page Two Of The Harveys Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Harvey Awards is easily the most difficult comics award to vote on. Mainly this is a function of its two-tiered voting process. In addition to the usual final vote where folks select their favorites among a small pool of stand-out nominees, the Harveys have an initial round of voting during which the nominees themselves<\/em> are chosen–among a pool of every single thing published during the calendar year.<\/p>\n

Even if you’re reasonably up the previous year’s reading, it can be a daunting task just to remember what came out when and what the standouts were in each category. If you’re a bit behind reading-wise, it’s a near-impossible task to come up with a list of the best books of the previous year.<\/p>\n

So just for fun I thought I’d put out the call on Twitter–one category a day–and see what the consensus opinion was for the categories listed on page two of the Harvey ballot.<\/p>\n

First, though, a few things:<\/p>\n

1) I only did the second page because the categories on that page are generally the ones that deal with books<\/em> from 2011 rather than series<\/em>. Since I tend to read the former, those are the categories I was most interested in. If there’s a good reaction to this post, I’ll consider doing page one as well.<\/p>\n

2) This is obviously a 100% non-random survey. The people who received my call for opinions are people who have chosen to follow me on Twitter and (presumably) have some commonality in their tastes.<\/p>\n

3) Some categories are more robust than others depending on all kinds of “Twitter factors.” For example, there’s a ton of Manga in the “US Edition of Foreign Material” category because my inquiry about it got a retweet from an influential Manga blogger\/reviewer. Even random stuff like what time of day I put out the call affected feedback.<\/p>\n

4) I felt weird about including Oyster War<\/em> in the online comic category, but several people listed it in their replies. They were probably just being nice, but they listed it so I added it.<\/p>\n

5) Most important: Let me know your picks in the comments, via Twitter, or via G+ and I”ll add to these!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So, here it is:<\/p>\n

Best Single Issue or Story<\/strong><\/p>\n