CBR's 2016 Top 100 Comic Book Runs as decided by the fans is complete

CBR's 2016 Top 100 Comic Book Runs as decided by the fans is complete.

01. X-Men by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Terry Austin: 2356 points (55 first place votes)
02. Sandman by Neil Gaiman: 1474 points (40 first place votes)
03. Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson: 1449 points (28 first place votes)
04. Swamp Thing by Alan Moore: 1311 points (39 first place votes)
05. Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: 1260 points (32 first place votes)
06. Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko: 1242 points (25 first place votes)
07. Batman by Grant Morrison: 1236 points (22 first place votes)
08. Batman by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Clapion: 1019 points (20 first place votes)
09. Thor by Walter Simonson: 887 points (19 first place votes)
10. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns: 812 points (24 first place vote)
11. Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont: 795 points (21 first place votes)
12. Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon: 790 points (16 first place votes)
13. Y the Last Man by Brian K.Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan: 665 points (12 first place votes)
14. JLA by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter: 661 points (12 first votes)
15. New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez: 651 points (9 first place votes)
16. New X-Men by Grant Morrison: 634 points (3 first place votes)
17. Fantastic Four / FF by Jonathan Hickman: 630 points (8 first place votes)
18. Starman by James Robinson: 622 points (9 first place votes)
19. Fantastic Four by John Byrne: 620 points (4 first place votes)
20. Captain America / Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker: 612 points (3 first place votes)

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21. Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley: 590 points (10 first place votes)
22. Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev: 585 points (8 first place votes)
23. Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday: 570 points (7 first place votes)
24. Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday: 535 points (6 first place votes)
25. Justice League by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis: 525 points (8 first place votes)
26. Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples: 521 points (10 first place votes)
27. Avengers by Jonathan Hickman: 419 points (5 first place votes)
28. X-Factor (2nd) by Peter David: 418 points (6 first place votes)
29. Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender: 416 points (4 first place votes)
30. Legion of Superheroes by Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, and Larry Mahlstedt: 412 points (10 first place votes)
31. Astro City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson: 402 (4 first place votes)
32. Daredevil by Mark Waid: 376 points (2 first place votes)
33. Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison: 361 points (4 first place votes)
34. Thor by Jason Aaron: 350 points (6 first place votes)
35. Suicide Squad by John Ostrander: 344 points (10 first place votes)
36. The Flash by Mark Waid: 341 points (3 first place votes)
37. Fables by Bill Willingham: 340 points (5 first place votes)
38. The Incredible Hulk by Peter David: 332 points (4 first place votes)
39. Amazing Spider-Man / Superior Spider-Man by Dan Slott: 325 points (8 first place votes)
40. Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, and Rodney Ramos: 322 points (6 first place votes)

41. Bone by Jeff Smith: 312 points (5 first place votes)
42. Punisher by Garth Ennis: 310 (2 first place votes)
43. Avengers by Kurt Busiek and George Perez: 306 points (5 first place votes)
44. Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and John Romita: 302 points (2 first place votes)
45. Avengers by Roger Stern: 290 points (9 first place votes)
46. Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja: 285 points (2 first place votes)
47. Animal Man by Grant Morrison and Chas Truog: 280 points (3 first place votes)
48. JSA by Geoff Johns: 274 points (3 first place votes)
49. Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona: 272 points (2 first place votes)
50. Hitman by Garth Ennis and John McCrea: 270 points (2 first place votes)
51. Hellboy by Mike Mignola: 265 points (2 first place votes)
52. Avengers by Roy Thomas: 261 points (10 first place votes)
53. Marvelman / Miracleman by Alan Moore: 252 points (6 first place votes)
54. The Fourth World by Jack Kirby: 250 points (5 first place votes)
55. Warlock by Jim Starlin: 238 points (2 first place votes)
56. Cerebus by Dave Sim and Gerhard: 230 points (8 first place votes)
57. Doctor Strange by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko: 212 points (3 first place votes)
58. Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez: 209 points (6 first place votes)
59. The Flash by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins: 202 points (5 first place votes)
60. The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman / Charles Adlard: 195 points (2 first place votes)

61. Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley: 193 points (6 first place votes)
62. Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez: 191 points (8 first place votes)
63. Spider-Man by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr: 180 points (3 first place votes)
64. The Question by Denny O'Neil and Deny Cowan: 176 points (4 first place votes)
65. Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley: 172 points (1 first place vote)
66. Conan by Roy Thomas: 170 points (0 first place votes)
67. Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory: 167 points (1 first place vote)
68. X-Men by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum: 164 points (1 first place vote)
69. Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Gaydos' Alias: 162 points (2 first place votes)
70. New Mutants by Chris Claremont: 160 points (1 first place vote)
71. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero by Larry Hama: 159 points (3 first place votes)
72. X-Force / X-Statix by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred: 154 points (1 first place vote)
73. Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walter: 152 points (5 first place votes)
74. Superman by John Byrne: 151 points (3 first place votes)
75. Hate by Peter Bagge: 150 points (2 first place votes)
76. Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: 146 points (1 first place vote)
77. Invisibles by Grant Morrison: 145 points (6 first place votes)
78. Thor by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: 142 points (3 first place votes)
79. Gotham Central by Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, and Michael Lark: 139 points (4 first place votes)
80. Duck Comics by Carl Barks: 138 points (5 first place votes)

81. Detective Comics by Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, and Terry Austin: 137 points (3 first place votes)
82. 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: 132 points (4 first place votes)
83. Shade the Changing Man by Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo: 131 votes (4 first place votes)
84. Sin City by Frank Miller: 130 points (3 first place votes)
85. Batman by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams: 129 points (5 first place votes)
86. Captain America by Mark Gruenwald: 124 points (3 first place votes)
87. Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang: 122 points (1 first place vote)
88. Promethea by Alan Moore and JH Williams: 120 points (5 first place votes)
89. Criminal by Brubaker and Sean Philips: 115 points (2 first place votes)
90. Supreme by Alan Moore: 104 points (3 first place votes)
91. She-Hulk by Dan Slott: 102 points (2 first place votes)
92. Nextwave: Agents of Hate by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen: 101 points (3 first place votes)
93. The Spirit by Will Eisner: 100 points (6 first place votes)
94. Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch: 98 points (2 first place votes)
95. Green Lantern by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams: 96 points (3 first place votes)
96. Iron Man by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr.: 95 points (2 first place votes)
97. Deadpool by Joe Kelly: 94 points (4 first place votes)
98. Eightball by Daniel Klowes: 92 points (1 first place vote)
99. Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guerra: 90 points (3 first place votes)
100. Wicked + Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie: 86 points (4 first place votes)

The end.

>08. Batman by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Clapion: 1019 points (20 first place votes)
>13. Y the Last Man by Brian K.Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan: 665 points (12 first place votes)
>26. Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples: 521 points (10 first place votes)
>34. Thor by Jason Aaron: 350 points (6 first place votes)
>61. Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley: 193 points (6 first place votes)
>67. Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory: 167 points (1 first place vote)
>100. Wicked + Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie: 86 points (4 first place votes)

CASUALS WERE A MISTAKE

And Astonishing X Men

>2012
>56. John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad – 158 points (1 first place vote)
>2016
>35. Suicide Squad by John Ostrander: 344 points (10 first place votes)
My favorite capeshit got over two times more votes than last time, just because of a shitty movie.

Hooray?

>08. Batman by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Clapion

>81. Detective Comics by Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, and Terry Austin
>85. Batman by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams

Best way to account for the casual factor:

If the comic is from the last five years, drop it 15 spots

If the comic is from the last ten years, drop it 10 spots

For famous runs, DC has been bad with reprinting those runs.

If the comic is from Marvel or DC: Drop 75% of the points.

Okay so what's your top 10 if you're so much cooler than everyone else Sup Forums?

OF COURSE. WHY WOULD EISNER'S SPIRIT OR KIRBY'S FOURTH WORLD CRACK THE TOP 50 OF THE GREATEST COMIC BOOK RUNS OF ALL TIME? DON'T BE ABSURD.

I posted a link to the voting on Sup Forums on the last voting day.
6/10 for me: 100 Bullets, Eightball, Love and Rockets, Hate, Fourth World and Barks' Duck comics
I'm surprised Hate made it and quite high.
I also voted for Copra, Acme Novelty Library, Yummy Fur and Marshal Law.
Acme Novelty Library didn't make it this time even though it beat Eightball last time.

>Hellboy isnt even in the top 50

But then again public voted 'best ever' lists are always wrong.

Clowes has been pretty active in the past few years. Making comics, making movies, making Shia LaBeouf break down...

Building Stories was in 2012, but I feel like Ware has been pretty quiet since them.

1. Kirby's F4
2. Miller's Daredevil
3. Ditko's Spider-Man
4. Claremont's X-Men
5. Eisner's Spirit
6. Robinson's Starman
7. Englehart's Batman
8. Mignola's Hellboy
9. Ellis' Planetary
10. Morrison's Batman

I should point out I was just doing cape comics here.

Honestly including capes and non-capes in one list is silly. There's no way to compare Persepolis or Building Stories or Contract with God to Green Lantern IMO

1. Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee (and John Romita)

2. Superman by John Byrne

3. Plastic Man by Kyle Baker

4. Incredible Hulk by Greg Pak

5. Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon

6. Wonder Woman by George Perez

7. Batman by Grant Morrison

8. Punisher by Garth Ennis

9. Batman by Dennis O'Neil

10. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns

Predictable list. Also.
>01. X-Men by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Terry Austin: 2356 points (55 first place votes)
>03. Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson: 1449 points (28 first place votes)
04. Swamp Thing by Alan Moore: 1311 points (39 first place votes)
>05. Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: 1260 points (32 first place votes)
>06. Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko: 1242 points (25 first place votes)
>08. Batman by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Clapion: 1019 points (20 first place votes)
>09. Thor by Walter Simonson: 887 points (19 first place votes)
>10. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns: 812 points (24 first place vote)
Not top 10 material.

I probably would have included Hellboy around 4 or 5 had I not been thinking of big two cape comics. Savage Dragon would be near the bottom of a top ten as well.

at least for Kirby, because it didn't fit the criteria?
Its not ONE book, but an epic stretched over a half dozen books.

to be fair, Morrison's Batman shouldn't be on here either for the same reasons, but CBR are fags who suck Morrison's cock whenever they can, so its to be expected.

>There's no way to compare Persepolis or Building Stories or Contract with God to Green Lantern IMO
Sure there is.

Persepolis, Building Stories and A Contract with God are all disqualified because they aren't runs, and this is a list of runs.

The Fourth World is often considered a singular work. Kirby thought so himself and DC reprinted it as a singular work in the omnibus format.
I'd rather Morrison's Batman run only took one spot rather than several.

I don't know, I don't like picking favorites. I can't even put them in any order other than alphabetical.

Amazing Spider-Man (Lee/Ditko)
American Splendor (Pekar et al)
Cerebus the Aardvark (Sim/Gerhard)
Fantastic Four (Lee/Kirby)
Love & Rockets (Hernandez/Hernandez)
Raw (Spiegelman/Mouly et al)
Suicide Squad (Ostrander/Yale et al)
Uncanny X-Men (Claremont et al)
Zap (Crumb et al)
Zot (McCloud)

I'll concede with the others, but I personally liked Y the Last Man

And I've only fully read 33 out of these runs.

>tfw still a casual after four years reading comics

It's probably because of the lack of reprints desu

>liking Sandman and disliking all of those

>Claremont's and Byrne's X-men at #1
Mutie lovers were a mistake.

It's being reprinted.

>01. X-Men by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Terry Austin: 2356 points (55 first place votes)
>11. Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont: 795 points (21 first place votes)
What did they mean by this?

Were they voting for some Claremont/Byrne/Austin comic OTHER than Uncanny X-Men?

They've separated the issues co-written by Byrne as some separate run.

cbr.com/tag/top-100-comic-book-runs/
68. Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum’s “X-Men”
“X-Men” #94-107

How does it make sense to separate Claremont's X-Men into different runs but not Morrison's Batman?

I think Ennis' Battlefields, Stray Bullets, Curt Swan Superman, BPRD, Lucifer and Prophet deserve to be in the list.

Byrne was a co-plotter in the middle of the Claront run hence the separation. Same reason why there are two spots for Stan Lee Spider-Man runs.

Prophet is in my subjective personal Top 10, but I don't think it would belong in an objective community Top 100.

It had too many problems with broken promises, loose ends and go-nowhere plots that I can personally forgive, but I don't see many others being able to.

Lucifer at least placed in the 2008 poll.

When you look at some (or many) of the runs on the list, Prophet certainly should deserve a place.

Yea Prophet's issues aren't worse than anything else on that list.

>its an X-fags rig the poll episode

Hellboy definitely needed to rank higher than Slott's Spider-Man.

But I am surprised that Cerebus got really higher on this list than I would expect. I would've thought CBR had a lot of people who didn't read many indies or be against Dave Sim's beliefs.

>07. Batman by Grant Morrison: 1236 points (22 first place votes)
>08. Batman by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Clapion: 1019 points (20 first place votes)

Calling Snyder's Batman the EIGHTH greatest comic book run of all time is infuriating but putting the guy who is more creative, more innovative and more interesting who Snyder lifted all of this ideas from exactly one rank above him almost makes up for it.

because they're the only ones who care about the comics?

would you prefer Bendisvengers to be #1?

>ctrl+f
>"Hellblazer"
>nothing
Fucking casuals.

The people have spoken, X-Men's #1

Honestly though, I'm surprised this got ranked where it did:

>94. Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch: 98 points (2 first place votes)

less than 10 years ago I think it would've gotten higher on the chart. So I think they really should do this poll again about 10 years from now so we can see where most of the choices will be by then.

frankly, most of the books didnt stand the test of time. in 10 years from now, ultimates won't even chart

Sandman ain't that good
Snyder Batman ain't that good
Claremont/JrJr is a better X run but that's a nitpick

Otherwise a solid list. I'm only a little upset o forgot to send a list in

I'm sure Wicked + Divine will be even higher /s

good showings by Legion, Flash, and Suicide Squad!!!

new mutants should be higher.

That's true and why I'm not really upset at current stuff charting as high as they do. I do have to admit I'm a little annoyed at seeing Bendis' Avengers higher than Morrison's Invisibles or Moore's Supreme or Lee/Kirby Thor but I know there's still fans from the 00's and 10's who enjoyed following it and CBR usually has Marvel-centric fans.

On the bright side, at least Busiek's Avengers outranked Bendis' Avengers vastly.

>Lumping Chew in with this garbage
>Talking about casuals without mentioning Sandman coming in at #2
Subtle

Yeah, and to make you feel even better, 10 years ago, Busiekvengers would lose to Bendis. While his run always was popular, more people will start to appreciate his run in following years.

They do it every four years

I'm legit shocked (happily) Stern and Thomas runs got on

and they both beat bendis :)

Just found the 2012 list:

cbr.com/2012-top-100-comic-book-runs-master-list/

>only cares about one single Big Two comic
>with a movie and a TV show
>calls others casuals

>CBR
>people

1. Carl Barks' Duck Comics
2. Jeff Smith's Bone
3. Mike Grell's Jon Sable, Freelance
4. David Mack's Kabuki
5. David Lapham's Stray Bullets
6. Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball
7. Jim Starlin's Dreadstar
8. Herge's Tintin
9. Bud Root's Cavewoman
10. Eric Powell's The Goon

>Yeah, and to make you feel even better, 10 years ago, Busiekvengers would lose to Bendis.

True. I remembered around the time of Bendis' first two New Avengers arcs there were fans claiming it was better than the Busiek run. To which I wondered which Bendis Avengers they were talking about.

Still I think Bendis' Avengers would have sort of worked if it was just Disassembled to Siege. He stayed on too long and people got even more familiar with his repetitions. I still wouldn't have ranked it near or above Busiek's, Thomas', Stern's, or Englehart's runs though.

LOL how is Sandman not number 1? Fucking x-men?! hahaha

2008
cbr.com/the-top-100-comic-book-runs-master-list/

Sandman was #1 on the 2012 list. See My guess? A lot of people ditched CBR after the change last year.

>only cares about one single Big Two comic
Nah, it's just that most of the other stuff I'd rank highly is on there somewhere - even Shade the Changing Man and Moore's Supreme run

Sin City should definitely be top ten

>stray bullets at 5

I love stray bullets and have been on the wagon since the 90s but no way.

Frankly, they deserve it better

Why? Sandman is better, more influential, and more impressive.

Sandman was also #1 on the 2008 list:

Sandman is a classic and a great comic book in its own way, but X-Men is WAAAAAAY more influential, and impressive, not to mention industry wise

Some people ditched CBR, yeah, but some of those people still voted on the poll.
According to the list maker the previous list got 700 votes but this one got 1000.

>more influential
The other two are a matter of opinion but this is objectively not true

Also The Sandman got 99 points this time but X-Men managed to double its points.

Obviously that's a personal list.

Huh, that's bizarre.

Yeah, it's very personal, I consider all of those to be cream of the crop comics but they're personal favorites that are also excellent rather than an attempt at a truly subjective list.

No it's not. It's dumb outdated action shit. It does not fucking hold up and reading it for the first time today would be a chore.

Chew was good tho. Maybe not top 100, but it wasn't snyder or saga tier.

>No it's not. It's dumb outdated action shit
confirmed for not reading Claremont's X-Men

>Most of these are Marvel
>Even most of the ones that are DC are Batman
>Superman only got the Byrne run in the list and it's 74

It seems like the memes about Byrne made people soured on him

I couldn't finish it, true. But I read enough to form an opinion. It obviously suffers from the restrictions and limitations imposed by the big two at the time. The "every issue is someone's first" gimmick makes reading comics of that period a nightmare. Fellating old comics because they're "influential" stagnates the medium.

as always CBR even considering dan slott´s spiderman run brings the whole list down
why do they love him so much?

And had you read further, you would probably know that X-Men actually pushed the limitations.
You wouldn't have Sandman without Claremont.
Bah, you probably wouldn't have Watchmen without Claremont.

>The "every issue is someone's first" gimmick
Holy shit, are people who got into Marvel through the movies really this brainwashed. You might not realize it but what you're describing is called a good comic. But if you like bloated event shit written for the trade I guess that's your business.

Here's a serious question, Sup Forums. Do you think Snyder & Capullo's run is all-time top ten material?

>You might not realize it but what you're describing is called a good comic
You're a braindead moron if you think explaining how a character's powers work every single issue is good. And stop pretending, capeshitters like you are the movie casuals, not me. Don't even try to imply you haven't eaten up every MCU garbage.

absolutely not, but the art is worth all the praise it gets, unlike the rest of it, not even it´s highs reach true greatness honestly
>tfw no spawn miniseries drawn in capullo´s current style

Sandman is boring as shit.

Isn't Sandman, canonically part of DC? You have Kain and Abel, for fuck sake, as one of the main characters

freaking Martian Manhunter is in that first arc too

>Isn't Sandman, canonically part of DC?
So?

This also

>No Question by Dennis ONeil

What in the fuck.

Doesn't it make him.... capeshit?

Blame yourselves. You should have bumped that storytimes! Maybe next time, you will

>You're a braindead moron if you think explaining how a character's powers work every single issue is good.
Shit that didn't happen.

It's in there. Lower than Walking Dead, Waid Flash, Waid Daredevil, Hickman Avengers, PAD Hulk, Hawkguy or Memender's Uncanny X-men

No specific order except what pops in my head first

Jeff Smith Bone
Mike Mignola Hellboy
Claremont X-men
Lee/Romita Sr Spider man
All Star Superman Grant Morrison
Usagi Yojimno Stan Sakai
Watchmen Alan Moore
Green Lantern Corp Gibbons
Spider-Girl Defalco
Transmetropolitan Ellis

yeah. That works.