2012 in Review: The Media Elite

Yesterday, we talked a bit about the folks who shaped the face of comics in 2012, giving a list of candidates for our Person of the Year that ran the gamut from writers to publishers.As we all know, though, much of the comics industry today is in fact defined by the folks in Hollywood who generate billions of dollars and a ton of interest in the properties published by Marvel, DC and other publishers. So who would be our picks for comics’s power players of the big and small screens?

The Walking Dead being dumped day before yesterday The Walking Dead top-rated series of the year Joss Whedon Marvel’s The Avengers Iron Man Avengers Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. Avengers The Dark Knight Rises Man of Steel Batman Wonder Woman Justice League Man of Steel Disney/Lucasfilm merger Star Wars Marvel Comics will take over publication of Star Wars comics Star Wars Episode VII Smallville Booster Gold Justice League of America’s Vibe Arrow Booster Gold X-Men: First Class The Hunger Games The Hunger Games X-Men