Welcome to the 2019 ComicBook.com Golden Issue Awards, where we here at ComicBook.com take a look back at the year that was and choose the best of the best in comics and related media. Here we're looking at television, and what a year it has been for quality TV.
In 2019, the opening salvo was fired in the streaming wars. The battle will be fully joined this year when NBC and Warner Bros. get into the mix, but Disney has set the pace with its launch of Disney+ and Star Wars: The Mandalorian. HBO proved premium cable television is still alive and well. There were high expectations for Damon Lindelof's Watchmen series, but few could have guessed it would have been as universally acclaimed as it has been. Amazon's Prime Video streaming service had a banner year, launching The Boys, its superhero satire based on the popular comic, it had a cult hit in its adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens, and it even rescued the beloved sci-fi series The Expanse.
But you can never count out Netflix. The streaming service that started it all launched a new superhero series of its own with The Umbrella Academy, and continued to put out quality animated television with the likes to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Disenchantment, and BoJack Horseman.
The staff of ComicBook.com considered all of this and more in coming up with our list of nominees for the Golden Issues television awards. Our finalized list of nominees follow.
