I gotta say, I'm pretty happy with this year's Eisner nominees. For the past couple of years, I've been a little disappointed by what the Eisner judges have come up with, but this year's lineup is solid. Of course, it was hard to go totally wrong, since 2006 was an exceptional year for comics. It was the year one comic was nominated for a National Book Award, and another, completely different comic was named Time magazine's book of the year. It was the year Gilbert Hernandez published a complete original graphic novel with DC, and everyone forgot about it because there was too much other good stuff going on. It was the year of the Great Outdoor Fight.

Anyway, I'm into this year's Eisners enough to post my picks for each of the ten million billion zillion categories. Because I'm nerdy that way.

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