Yesterday I shared my Hugo nominations for the first five categories, and today I’m looking at the next five.  I didn’t get as much read or watched as I would have liked partly because of the distraction from the issues with last year’s Hugos which were revealed right before nominations opened for this year.  I had to remind myself that looking for award worthy stuff and deciding what to nominate is really the fun part that no later drama can really take away.  Here are some more of my favorites from what I did get to:

BEST GRAPHIC STORY OR COMIC

• Batman – One Bad Day: Catwoman, G. Willow Wilson and Jamie McKelvie (DC Comics)
• Earthdivers Vol. 1: Kill Columbus, Stephen Graham Jones and Davide Gianfelice (IDW)
• Love Everlasting Vol. 1, Tom King and Elsa Charretier (Image)
• The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett and Tristan Roach (Abrams)
• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott (DC Comics)

While I continue to enjoy the series that have gotten repeat nominations (and some repeat wins) for this category, I try to look just a little further afield for my nominations.  Some of the creators here are still familiar names.  If we see something beyond the usual suspects on the ballot, I think Wonder Woman Historia is the most likely one of these.

BEST RELATED WORK

• A City on Mars, Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin)
• A Traveller in Time, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press)
• All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
• Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction, Mingwei Song (Columbia University Press)
• Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press)

I always like reading SFF related non-fiction books.  I was particularly excited for the review collections A Traveller in Time and All These Worlds, and I especially hope to see Maureen Kincaid Speller’s make the ballot.

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

• Asteroid City (Focus Features)
• Barbie (Warner Bros.)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount)
• LOLA (Cowtown Pictures)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)

LOLA was one of three movies which received eligibility extensions at last year’s WSFS Business Meeting.  I usually try to take a look at the works which receive these extensions if they seem interesting and I am able to access them.  I suspect you may have heard of my other nominations.  I’ll be very surprised if Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, sequel to Hugo winner Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, isn’t on the ballot.

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

• “Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore”, The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm)
• “Fight or Flight”, Carnival Row (Amazon Studios)
• “Part Five: Shadow Warrior”, Ahsoka (Lucasfilm)
• “The Last Generation”, Star Trek: Picard (CBS Studios)
• “What Was Meant to Be”, The Wheel of Time (Amazon Studios)

I imagine that most of the things which are likely to be on the ballot here are shows I haven’t seen yet.  In particular, I haven’t watched The Last of Us, and I’ve heard a lot of talk about the episode “Long, Long Time”.  I never played the video game and zombie apocalypse is not my cup of tea.  But it seems like I should give the show a try anyway.

BEST GAME OR INTERACTIVE WORK

No nominations from me for this category since I haven’t a clue.  I’m still looking forward to finding out what makes the ballot here.  The special category which was run in 2021 was for Best Video Game, but this new ongoing category is for any type of game or interactive work.  I’ll be curious to see if any outside-the-box sort of things get nominated.

See you tomorrow with more of my picks.  What were your favorites in these categories?