Pilot Season (comics) - 2008

2008

The entrants for the 2008 season are:

• Twilight Guardian #1 (winner) (W) Troy Hickman (A) Reza (Cov) Hendry Prasetyo
• Lady Pendragon #1 (W) Matt Hawkins (A) Eru (Cov) Drew Struzan
• Alibi #1 (W) Joshua Hale Fialkov (A) Jeremy Haun (Cov) Jeremy Haun
• Genius #1 (winner) (W) Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman (A) Afua Richardson (Cov) Afua Richardson
• The Core #1 (W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Kenneth Rocafort (Cov) Kenneth Rocafort
• Urban Myths #1 (W) Jay Faerber (A) Jorge Molina (Cov) Jorge Molina

The 2008 season included 4 new original properties. Only 2 of the comic books, Twilight Guardian and Lady Pendragon, had a history of publication prior to participation in Pilot Season. This was a markedly different situation from the 2007 event, in which all five of the Pilot Season issues (along with the cancelled Aphrodite IX pilot issue) had been based upon pre-existing Top Cow characters.

The voting period ran from August 4 through to September 8 2008. In a departure from the previous year's competition (which allowed people to vote as often as they liked), individual computers were only able to vote once per day.

The final distribution of votes has been detailed as follows:

• Twilight Guardian: 29%
• Genius: 24%
• Urban Myths: 22%
• The Core: 15%
• Lady Pendragon: 7%
• Alibi: 3%

Twilight Guardian's first issue post Pilot Season was released in January 2011.

According to Mel Caylo, Top Cow Vice President of Marketing & Sales, some entrants that did not win the 2008 competition may still have a future at the company. "While we have two, very clear winners in Twilight Guardian and Genius, voting for the other books was so fierce that it doesn't preclude us from ever doing something else with those properties down the road."