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While it is still a bit a way, this year we will be getting the first Most Wanted DC Finest Voting Poll by Near Mint Condition with some involvement from DC themselves.

Since it’s the first time this is happening, I feel like speculating on how they will do the voting options.

Do they list every possible DC Finest as a voting option?

Omar and Dom have confirmed that DC has mapped out every DC Finest already, but I doubt DC would want to give the official names out all at once.

They could go with fan mappings to cover every finest like they have with their most wanted Omnibus polls. That seems like the more likely option, though like the Omni poll I imagine that they would put in some restrictions.

1)      No Overlap with existing thick trade lines

Dom has confirmed that DC will continue lines of think trades, such as the JLA trades, that started before DC Finest launched. As such, they probably won’t put those as options for the poll since that would be a wasted vote. This could extend to include Compendiums since they cover the same thick TPB market that DC Finest does.

2)      Not Cannibalizing Votes

For the Most Wanted Omnibus Poll, they have the rule of not including the volume following one of the voting options unless it could be standalone. Example: They had Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 2 as an option, so they did not have Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 3 as an option but they did have Spectacular Spider-Man by Peter David as an option. They have also combined options in order to consolidate votes in order to get a point across. Example: they originally had the separate options for various classic Punisher omnis, but this time they combined it into one Classic Punisher omnibus so the votes could be focused on it and get across the message of “we want this era of Punisher in omnibus”.

 

With those in mind, I imagine they would put options based on an era (Eg. Silver Age Superman) or a creator run (eg. Flash by Waid). They would obviously include the next Finest in an already existing line and could do the Finest before too unless that Finest would be the second half of a creator run since why start with the ending of a run?

 

Using these rules, here is what I think the options for Wonder Woman would look like:

-continue Golden Age following Enter the Cheetah
-start Silver Age
-The Diana Prince Mod Era
-Beginning of the Bronze age
-Continue backwards from Legend of Wonder Woman
-Start George Perez era
-start William Messner-Loebs era
-start John Bryne era
-start Eric Luke (and others) era
-start Phil Jimenez era
-start Greg Rucka era
-Amazons Attack
-JMS era

Note: Who Is Wonder Woman era (immediately before Amazons Attack) is very short and I’m not sure if it would be its own Finest even including side material. With the side material it would be too much to include with Amazons Attack, so likely would be in the second Greg Rucka finest. Wonder Woman by Walt Simonson & Jerry Ordway is also very short and either be in the second Phil Jimenez Finest or the first Greg Rucka Finest.

How do you think the Voting will be handled?