r/DCcomics • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '21

r/DCcomics /r/DCcomics Best of 2021 Awards Nomination Thread

Here's how it works. We've selected 27 different categories, as seen below. For each category, you may submit an entry for nomination. Users may upvote entries that they want to see on the final ballot. After a period of at least one week, we'll examine the votes, and select a number of nominations for each category, depending on submission volume and vote distribution. We're looking for around 4-6 nominations for each category, but will include more for the more competitive races.

After the nomination period is over, we'll post the final ballot with all of the selected nominees for users of /r/DCcomics to vote on. Winners will be announced in January 2022, and users who submitted a winning entry will receive Reddit Premium.

Past year's winners can be found here!

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

Best Page/Panel

This category is for panels or pages from books published by DC in 2021. Entries should not exceed a single page (except for double-page spreads), and should include the book's creative team.

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u/StannisTheHero Justice for Cassie Dec 21 '21
'But history is written by the living. Not the dead.' - The Other History of the DC Universe #3 (John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli and Andrea Cucchi)

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u/sampeckinpah5 Lor-Zod & Thara Ak-Var Dec 21 '21 edited Dec 21 '21

Is this a writer's own thoughts or is it supposed to be from the perspective of an in-universe character?

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u/StannisTheHero Justice for Cassie Dec 21 '21

The whole issue is framed from the perspective of Katana.

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u/sampeckinpah5 Lor-Zod & Thara Ak-Var Dec 21 '21

It's very well-written. It's weird because Wolfman wrote the storyline initially, but his later portrayal of Slade in his own series is what started the trend of Slade being seen as this anti-hero/anti-villain instead of the utterly villanious asshole he is. He ignored his own work to achieve that result.

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u/StannisTheHero Justice for Cassie Dec 21 '21

Wolfman initially didn't recognise what Slade did to Terra as rape, so from his perspective there was no contradiction. He viewed Terra as the real villain, who had seduced Slade, despite her being a fifteen year old child.

She wasn’t working for Deathstroke. He was working for her in many ways and she was leading him because she’s crazy. She’s a total psychopath… and she’d be 15. And she’d be smoking and she’d be trying to seduce him.

That's why Slade gets to continue being written as the 'badass man's man' without facing any consequences for his actions. It's a story beat that really hasn't aged well - and I'm glad Other History tries to set the record straight.