In the week leading up to the 2017 Will Eisner Awards voting deadline this Friday, the Comics Beat will feature a series of “For Your Consideration” posts highlighting a number of the nominees as a celebration of their well-deserved acknowledgement. We’ll feature some never-before-seen behind the scenes content and some of the books’ gorgeous interiors. We encourage all of our readers to check these titles out and all of the eligible comics industry members to vote for the titles they think best exemplify what make comics great.


Full disclosure: I’ve been a huge Jeff Lemire fan for years. Ever since I picked up Essex County, I knew Lemire was a man after my own heart. His writing carries an emotional weight that is all too rare in North American comics. Lemire lends a human touch to every title he works on– even the ones with the most inhuman premises.

2016 marked a new level of success for Lemire as he wrapped up his work at Marvel and dove into new projects such as Royal City and Black Hammer. Recently, he released his new graphic novel, Roughneck, which I spoke to him about in an interview a few years back. Judging by his rapidly expanding body of work, Lemire is a tireless creator. His hard work has been rightfully awarded this year with an Eisner Award nomination for Best Writer.

Here’s a look at the four series that were cited as reasons for his nomination:

Descender

One young robot’s struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham.

Plutona

Five kids discover the body of the world’s greatest super hero, Plutona, in the woods after school one day. This discovery sends them on a dark journey that will threaten to tear apart their friendship and their lives.

Black Hammer

A new story from the prodigious brain of Jeff Lemire (Descender), amazingly realized by Dean Ormston (The Sandman) and Dave Stewart (Hellboy)!

Once they were heroes, but that age has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City—Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien—now lead simple lives in a timeless farming town. Even as they try to find their way home, trouble has a unique way of finding heroes wherever they are!

 

Bloodshot: Reborn

Bloodshot’s nanites made him a nearly unstoppable killing machine. His enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and healing made him the perfect weapon, and he served his masters at Project Rising Spirit — a private contractor trafficking in violence — very well. Now, Bloodshot is a shadow of his former self. He lives in self-imposed exile, reeling from the consequences of his past life and the recent events that nearly drove him mad. But when a rash of shootings by gunmen who appear to look just like Bloodshot begin, his guilt will send him on a mission to stop the killers, even if it means diving head-long into the violence that nearly destroyed him.


Check out of all of our 2017 Eisner coverage.

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  1. I have loved Lenore’s work since he was making mini-comics, but Plutona is just awful. I’m still angry I bought that series. The rest are really good, though!

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