Comics you are most excited about in 2012

[Evil Pants]

Emperor gave me the go ahead to launch this, so maybe it's something that we could keep going throughout the year as new announcements come up, or maybe to report if something met/fell short of expectations.

What, me start? Well, if you insist

LOTS of things I'm looking forward to in 2012, but here's a small smattering.

First of all, there are a few current mini series that I'm looking forward to finishing up:

Casanova: Avaritia by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba (Icon)

Loose Ends by Jason Latour and Chris Brunner (12 Gauge Comics)

Superior by Mark Millar and Lenil Yu (Icon)

Choker by Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith (IDW)

Spaceman by Brian Azzarello and Ed Risso (Vertigo)

Memoir by Ben McCool and Nikki Cook (Image)

Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)

And a few ongoings that we didn't see much of in 2011, but are picking back up in 2012:

Orc Stain by James Stokoe (Image)

Powers by Brian Bendis and Michael Oeming (Icon)

Butcher Baker by Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston (Image)

Mudman by Paul Grist (Image)

Scarlet by Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev (Icon)

Pigs by Ben McCool, Nate Cosby, and Breno Tamura (Image)

Near Death by Jay Faeber and Koray Kuranel (Image)

Godland by Joe Casey and Tom Sciloli (Image)

Wasteland by Antony Johnston and Justin Greenwood (Image)

And some new things I'm really excited about:

Battling Boy by Paul Pope (First Second) I know, this was supposed to come out last year. And the year before that...I can dream, can't I?

The Secret History Of DB Cooper by Brian Churillo (Oni)

Prophet by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy (Image)

Hellboy: In Hell by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)

Lobster Johnson by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Tonci Zonjic (Dark Horse)

The Silence Of Our Friends by Nate Powell, Jim Demonakos, and Mark Long (First Second)

The Year Of The Beast by Cecil Castelucci and Nate Powell (Roaring Brook)

Conan by Brian Wood And Becky Cloonan (Dark Horse)

The Massive by Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson (Dark Horse)

Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)

Album by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)

Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Murphy (Vertigo)

Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)

How say you all? What are you excited about in 2012?

[The Adventurer]

Most Anticipated Comic in 2012[/u]
BRANDON GRAHAM ON PROPHET (I never thought I could ever be excited about a comic Rob Liefeld had a hand in. But Brendon Graham's revival of Prophet looks to be as anti-Liefeld as it is possible to get. Brandon Graham's King City was my Comic of the year last year, his output has been a little low this year, but next year looks like things are about to take off for him.)

[Emperor]

There is also Hickman's Manhattan Projects:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34992.0.html

[COMMANDO FORCES]

2000 AD & the Judge Dredd megazine 

[Evil Pants]

There is also Hickman's Manhattan Projects:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34992.0.html

Yeah, that looks interesting too...should have added it to my list

[BPP]

Tardi's New York Tales
The Manara Library vol 2
New Requiem Vampire Knight / Claudia Vampire Night

[Colin YNWA]

I'm really looking forward to the line of Battle reprints expanding (hey a man can dream!).

Possible reprints of Corto Maltese and the long promised Bacchus Omnibus (please please please...)

That aside the same old 'mainstream' bunkum as ever!

[SmallBlueThing]

For me, it's be the various goodies coming to us from the House of Tharg- notably the possibility of new Slaine, with a new artist, and maybe some goodies to tie in with some movie or other that may be released around September.

On top of that, The Walking Dead #100 is due for August- with great things promised therein.

I also hear talk of another Witchdoctor series, which pleases me and the boy. Otherwise, I'll be continuing to buy Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E and possibly Swamp Thing now I've caught up and issues 2-4 were a lot better than the initial one promised.

AND AND AND! Charley's War may come to an end with volumes 9 and 10 due, by my reckoning, in May and October.

SBT

[The Adventurer]

Dan Abnett (without Andy Lanning) has a new Vertigo series coming in March that basically sounds like a 2000 AD strip.

New Deadwardians

Described as a detective story set in an alternate history in post-Victorian England, "New Deadwardians" gives an account of a fictional time when nearly everyone in the upper class voluntarily became a vampire to escape the lower classes. Why? Because those in the lower class are zombies.

Between New Deadwardians, Paul Cornell's Saucer Country and Bill Willingham's new Fables spin-off Fairest. Vertigo is looking to be a really interesting place to be next year.

But not as interesting as Image! What with Saga (BKV!), The Manhattan Projects (Hickman!), Thief of Thieves (Kirkman!), Prophet (Graham!), Glory (Keatinge!), Supreme (Larsen!), and Fatale (Brubaker!).

Gonna be a year.

[Colin YNWA]

AND AND AND! Charley's War may come to an end with volumes 9 and 10 due, by my reckoning, in May and October.

Hold on a minute there. Do you have some info on this? Normally we only get one Charley's War in Octoberish is there news that we're getting two this year? Very exciting.

[SmallBlueThing]

Do we? My mistake then. One a year? Really? We havent been buying these for eight years, have we? If so, i hope they hurry them up, because my 'shelf' (read: pile) is yearning for a complete run.

SBT

[Evil Pants]

Most Anticipated Comic in 2012[/u]
BRANDON GRAHAM ON PROPHET (I never thought I could ever be excited about a comic Rob Liefeld had a hand in. But Brendon Graham's revival of Prophet looks to be as anti-Liefeld as it is possible to get. Brandon Graham's King City was my Comic of the year last year, his output has been a little low this year, but next year looks like things are about to take off for him.)

If you're a Graham fan, this is a chalk drawing he did exclusively for the comic shop that I do the marketing for.

[Ancient Otter]

The previous posts mentioned a load I'm excited about, here is some more:

From Cinebook, The Scorpion and Crusade will get a new volume each in the first half of the year and a new series, a occult western called S.P.O.O.K.S.(originally called W.E.S.T. back in Europe) will start.

From Dark Horse, Geoff Darrow will return with the Shaolin Cowboy. Harlen Corben has a fantasy collection compiled from Dark Horse Presents called Murky World out in February and in March he is illustrating a horror series, Ragemoor, about a sentient castle. Fingers crossed Eden: It's An Endless World and MPD-Psycho will get further releases, we might even see Furry Water from Rafael Grampa too.

Jonathan Hickman fans should keep an eye out for Feel Better Now, which seems close in vein to The Nightly News

Other bits and ends I'm awaiting - The Last Days on Immortal, Attack on Titan, Genetiks, Judge Bao, King City collection, The Strange Tale of Panorama Island and we'll see what Humanoids, Print Media and SelfMadeHero have up their sleeves. 

[Ancient Otter]

Knew I'd forget something - the Joe Sacco compilation Journalism.

Simon Roy was talking on his blog during the year about another science fiction comic called Blood Bank - there hasn't been any news lately, hopefully the attention Prophet will get will rub off on this and his earlier book Jan's Atomic Heart.

[Roger Godpleton]

The best comic of 2012 will be the best comic of 2011: American Reaper.

American Reaper/
He's so tough/
American Reaper/
Doing Reaper stuff.

American Reaper, he's so cool/
If you don't like him, you're a fool/
Guest appearance from Justin Hawk[ins]/
Disapprove, and you're a dork.

American Reaper/
So damn great/
American Reaper/
I wish we could mate.

Clint Langley, better than Kirby/
Drawing like a fucking demolition derby/
Redefining "comic art"/
Get with the program, you old farts!

R. E./
A.P./
E.R/
That's who he are.


REAPEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

(Reaper)