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Sensational Character Find of 2021:

  • Taaia, mother of Galactus (Matt)
  • Skuttlebutt (Beta Ray Bill's spaceship, given a lady body this year) (Chris)

Deepest Rabbit Hole Followed in 2021:

  • WinAmp skins (Matt)
  • Dragon Ball (Chris)

Best Thing that was New to Them Ajax Boys in 2021:

  • Taskmaster (TV series) (Matt)
  • Dimension 20 (Chris)

Best Game That We Heard About on a Podcast But Likely Will Not Actually Play:

  • Persona 5 (Matt)
  • The game that's like Jet Set Radio but isn't on Switch yet (likely Bomb Rush Cyberfunk) (Chris)

Favorite Podcast You Added to Your Weekly Roster:

  • With Gourley and Rust (Matt)
  • Sawbones (Chris)

The Not a Sponsor But Could Be Award for Best Programming on Home Box Office Maximum:

  • Search Party (Matt)
  • Infinity Train (Chris)

End of a Weird Era Award for Best New Batman Character:

  • Clownhunter (Matt)
  • Punchline (Chris)

HOTY - Hero of the Year:

  • Blade or Echo (maybe being suggested as runners up) (Matt)
  • "Hangman" Adam Page (Chris)

VOTY - Villain of the Year:

  • Doctor Doom (from his time travel scheme in Avengers #750)

The Most Buckwild Use of a Wrestling Move Outside of Wrestling:

  • Beta Ray Bill doing a rainmaker (Beta Ray Bill miniseries) (Matt)
  • Green Goblin doing a spinebuster (Spider-Man: No Way Home) (Chris)

Best High Concept:

  • Cosmic awareness Star-Lord (Al Ewing's Guardians of the Galaxy) (Matt)
  • The continuing idea of the Marvel Universe being the eighth world (Chris)

Best Use of Continuity:

  • Nova arresting Magneto for something that happened in the 70's (Al Ewing's Guardians of the Galaxy) (Matt)
  • Galactus's mom (Chris)

Biggest Tearjerker Moment:

  • MJ: "That's just not who he is" (Spider-Man: No Way Home) (Matt)
  • Aunt May's death (Spider-Man: No Way Home) (Chris)

Favorite Taskmaster Series:

  • Series 2

Best Dragon Ball Character:

  • Gohan

Best New Discord Server:

  • War Rocket Ajax Discord server

Gotta Get a Ladder, No Wait Gas Can Award for that Moment You Were Reminded You Were a Dad:

  • Receiving a drill for Christmas (Matt)
  • Buying a snow shovel (Chris)

Maybe I Just Don't Get Comics Anymore Award for the Story That Doesn't Make Sense:

  • Rorschach

The 0/10 Hell No Never Again Award for the Moment You Will Never Recommend:

  • Rorschach (perhaps specifically when the detective becomes the new Rorschach) (Matt)
  • Story in Superman: Red and Blue #1 where Superman can't do anything about a dictator (Chris)

The Transformers Are Good Actually Award for the Property (Comics or Otherwise) that You Never Cared About Before But Discovered a New Love For in 2021:

  • Defenders (by Al Ewing) (Matt)
  • Dragon Ball (Chris)

John Darnielle Award for Most Unexpected Ajax Guest:

  • Powell from Ghostfruits (who hated Chris's run on Darkhawk)

Single Issue or Moment that Most Made You Want to Put Your Fist in the Air and Go "Hell Yeah":

  • Various incarnations of Hulk staring down God (Immortal Hulk #50) (Matt)
  • Beta Ray Bill doing the rainmaker (Chris)

Single Issue or Moment that Most Made You Want to Put a Comic Down, Take a Walk, and Think About Some Stuff (Could Be Good or Bad):

  • Bad: The end of Rorschach
  • Good: Ryan North's Darkhold Iron Man comic

Matt's Fav Versus Chris's Fav Award for Who Had the Better Year Overall: Spider-Man or Batman:

  • Comics only - Batman
  • Overall - Spider-Man

Watching While You Work Award for Best YouTuber (or similar content creator) of the Year:

  • Patrick H. Willems (Matt)
  • Tim Rogers (Chris)

The Hollowed Out Head Of A Celestial Award for the Craziest Thing from Comics to See Adapted for the Screen This Year:

  • Immortus on Loki (Matt)
  • S.T.R.I.P.E. on Stargirl (Chris)

Best Final Issue or Ending to a Comics Series:

  • Immortal Hulk #50

Hot Claws Memorial Award for Best Put a Timestamp on that Moment of 2021:

  • Batman fighting Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk (Simon Saint from Fear State, perhaps?)

Best Meta-Commentary:

  • Natasha Irons fights the internet made manifest (Superman and the Authority)

NXT Memorial Award for Worst Creative Relaunch or Reboot:

  • NXT 2.0

Best Comics Moment in Wrestling:

  • One Winged Angel

Best Retail Therapy Purchase:

  • Microphone w/ arm (Matt)
  • Mechanical keyboard (Chris)

Harley Quinn Award for Best Character Not Yet in the Source Material of Comics:

  • Michelle Jones Watson (the MCU's MJ) (Matt)
  • The MCU's version of Ned Leeds (Chris)

2021 Marvel Comics Bullshit Award:

  • Al Ewing's Defenders series

2021 DC Comics Bullshit Award:

  • Infinite Frontier(Matt)
  • One-Star Squadron (Chris)

War Rocket Ajax Intercontinental Champion:

  • Jed MacKay and All Dogs