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Happy New Year everyone! We’re back for our first show of 2013 (recorded in 2013, that is). We’ve missed you guys a ton and we’ve missed talking about our favourite Books of the Week, so that makes a triumphant return to the show and kicks things off. Some of the comics (and books) discussed include: Red She-Hulk #61, Hawkeye #6, Ender’s Game, New Avengers #1, Cow Boy: A Boy And His Horse, Justice League and Aquaman. AND, if you’ve been following along with shows #60-62, you’ll know that our topic for this week was our favourite comics of 2012. The previous shows were all dedicated to narrowing down our nominees (with your help on the site!) and now we announce the winners of each category. Who wins what? You’ll have to listen to find out (and we’ll post a complete list of them later in the week). In the meantime, you can look at a complete list of the nominees below: Best Publisher Marvel DC Image IDW Dark Horse Breakthrough Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick Kurtis Wiebe Jeff Parker Matt Fraction JH Williams III Breakthrough Artist Fiona Staples Michael Allred Amanda Conner Riley Rossmo Chris Samnee Best Cover Batwoman #5 The Massive #1 (Variant) Punisher #16 Masks #1 Fairest #8 Best Web Or Digital Series Sarah and the Seed JL8 Hark, A Vagrant! The Abominable Charles Christopher Legends of the Dark Knight Best Mini-Series Or Limited Series The Cape by Joe Hill Ghost by Kelly Sue DeConnick Alabaster Wolves by Caitlín R. Kiernan Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Murphy Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre Best Single Issue, Graphic Novel or One-Shot Underwater Welder Batman #5 Tale of Sand Fantastic Four #606 Revival #1 Best New Series Saga Captain Marvel Revival Fatale Hawkeye Best Story Arc Batman: Court Of Owls Saga: Chapter One Captain Marvel: In Pursuit Of Flight X-Factor: Breaking Points Defenders: Everything Dies Best Artist Fiona Staples JH Williams III Greg Capullo David Aja Mike Norton Best Writer Scott Snyder Kelly Sue DeConnick Jeff Lemire Mark Waid Jonathan Hickman Best On-Going Series Batman Saga FF Daredevil Aquaman Best Overall Comic Batman Underwater Welder Sarah and the Seed FF Saga Annnnnnnnnnd... we say it on the show, but just in case you missed it, the Talking Comics crew on Twitter are: Bobby: @ bobbyshortle Steve: @ dead_anchoress Stephanie: @ hellocookie And Bob's email is  bobreyer@talkingcomicbooks.com FYI: the crew have gone all superhero on the world, thanks to the wonderful  Hanie Mohd. Like them? Make sure to follow her and let us know what you think of our new superhero pictures.