2021 Hugos: Best Graphic Story or Comic

[nwhyte]

A couple of people have asked me if I will return to the staff of DisCon III now that the Chair has resigned. Whoever the new Chair is, I will decline any such invitation. My former position as WSFS Division Head was filled within twenty-four hours of my own resignation, by someone who (unlike me) has actually done that job before, and who does not

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Invisible Kingdom

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IMHO, Invisible Kingdom Volume 1 should have won the Hugo the previous year, but unfortunately it didn't even get a nomination. I certainly had it on my nominating ballot.

So I'm glad that at least the Hugo voting public has caught up on the quality of this series.

Ghost-Spider

[anonymous]

I agree with you about Seanan McGuire's output being somewhat overrated, but I disagree with your assessment of Ghost-Spider. This is a completely average superhero comic that relies not only on a knowledge of the past few years of Spider-Gwen/Ghost-Spider (despite the fact it is labeled #1, a technique the big comic publishers, especially Marvel, use to entice readers to pick up titles they might not otherwise), but decades of Spider-Man lore, since the villains in this book are legacy Spider-Man villains. You rightfully ding Die, Monstress, and Invisible Kingdom for being essentially middle chapters in longer works (although I thought Invisible Kingdom stood pretty well on its own); Ghost-Spider is as much or more of this phenomenon (I think this category would be better named Best Graphic Series). To the larger issue of quality, there are a number of superhero books that would have been far superior to Ghost-Spider. The most obvious is Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin, but one could also have put Daredevil, Immortal Hulk, Strange

Re: Ghost-Spider

[nwhyte]

No idea who you are! But Ghost Spider made me laugh once or twice, in places where the author had intended it, and that’s difficult enough to find in these times.