Eagle Award Nominations

[Elliot Kane]

Britain's top comic awards have just put up the final list of nominees as voted for by the general public around the world.

The list is here

The most interesting thing I found was that in the 'Favourite Comics Villain' section, as voted into nomination by the general public, is our dear friend Iron Man!

Looks like the general perception of Civil War was not entirely as Marvel had intended ;D

I think the list also makes for an interesting look at the differences in thinking about comics between the UK and the US...

[Gray Lensman]

Well, I went ahead and voted. Even if I had to skip a few. ;D

Actually, overall the Eagle Awards offers quite the reasonable list. A far better list of candidates that some of the ludicrous things you see on the Eisner or Wizard award ballots, for instance. It's not so drowned by the ridiculous hype or pro-Marvel deck-stacking that you often see in some of the US comic awards.

Needless to say, I voted for Stark as best villain. ;D And yeah, as much as Marvel likes to pretend the Pro-Reg guys are heroes, the general consensus among fandom definitely seems to know better. It's good to see.

I personally hope All-Star Superman and 52 win some awards, but I guess we'll see.

[Venom65437]

Well if I can vote for Stark as a villain, I'm going to vote!

[hector]

I liked them. The choices are really just successfull mainstream comics, which is a nice change of pace from the Eisners, who are far more elitists.