After a short five-year hiatus, we returned this year with a longtime CBR tradition. At the end of the year, we polled the many members of the CBR staff that make this site so great and asked them for their for their rankings of the top comics of the year. Every publisher putting out new comics material in English, regardless of genre or format, was fair game; each individual list was then factored in to determine the overall Top 100 that we unveiled on CBR over the course of this past week.

Now that the countdown is finished, here is a master list so that you can see where everything was ranked. I just noticed in the past that we used to do the master list from 1-100 once the countdown aspect is over. I can see the argument for that, but I still like putting it in 100-1 format.

Peruse the list below and click on any comic that you'd like to hear a little more about, and if you feel so moved, take to Twitter and (politely) discuss your thoughts using the hashtag #CBRTop100. As an aside, let me thank Morena Perez Vitale for the awesome headers for this countdown. They looked gorgeous throughout.

100. Checkmate (DC Comics)

99. Red Room (Fantagraphics Books)

98. Scout's Honor (AfterShock Comics)

97. Dead Dog's Bite (Dark Horse Comics)

96. Sonic The Hedgehog (IDW Publishing)

95. M.O.D.O.K. Head Games (Marvel Comics)

94. Stargirl: Spring Break Special (DC Comics)

93. High School Family (Viz Media)

92. Gamma Flight (Marvel Comics)

91. Mighty Morphin' (BOOM! Studios)

90. Way Of X (Marvel Comics)

89. Bite-Sized Archie (Archie Comics)

88. Ninjak (Valiant Comics)

87. Dinos And Comics (Dinosandcomics)

86. Excalibur (Marvel Comics)

85. Batman: Urban Legends (DC Comics)

84. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (Archie Comics)

83. Aquaman: The Becoming (DC Comics)

82. Dr. Stone (Viz Media)

81. Power Rangers (BOOM! Studios)

80. Detective Comics (DC Comics)

79. One Piece (Viz Media)

78. Katie The Catsitter

77. We Have Demons (ComiXology Originals)

76. UltraMega (Image Comics)

75. Hellboy - The Bones Of Giants (Dark Horse Comics)

74. Robin (DC Comics)

73. Department Of Truth (Image Comics)

72. Planet-Sized X-Men (Marvel Comics)

71. Jonna And The Unpossible Monsters (Oni Press)

70. Ice Cream Man (Image Comics)

69. Strange Academy (Marvel Comics)

68. My Hero Academia (Viz Media)

67. The Thing (Marvel Comics)

66. Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo (Z2 Comics)

65. Penultiman (AHOY Comics)

64. Moon Knight (Marvel Comics)

63. Made In Korea (Image Comics)

62. Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)

61. Cyclopedia Exotica (Drawn & Quarterly)

60. Shang-Chi (Marvel Comics)

59. Wolverine (Marvel Comics)

58. Batman '89 (DC Comics)

57. Night Of The Ghoul (ComiXology Originals)

56. Plunge (DC Comics)

55. Lore Olympus (Random House Books)

54. X-Force (Marvel Comics)

53. Batman (DC Comics)

52. Save It For Later (Abrams Books)

51. Iron Fist: Heart Of The Dragon (Marvel Comics)

50. All Time Low Presents: Young Renegades (Z2 Comics)

49. Black Widow (Marvel Comics)

48. Newburn (Image Comics)

47. Oblivion Song (Image Comics)

46. Iron Man (Marvel Comics)

45. Barbalien: Red Planet (Dark Horse Comics)

44. Tunnels (Drawn & Quarterly)

43. United States Of Captain America (Marvel Comics)

42. Girl From The Sea (Scholastic/Graphix)

41. Second Coming: Only Begotten Son (AHOY Comics)

40. It's Jeff (Marvel Comics)

39. Eat The Rich (BOOM! Studios)

38. Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

37. Destroy All Monsters (Image Comics)

36. Superman And The Authority (DC Comics)

35. X-Men (Marvel Comics)

34. Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow (DC Comics)

33. I Am Not Starfire (DC Comics)

32. Dark Knights Of Steel (DC Comics)

31. The Wrong Earth: Night And Day (AHOY Comics)

30. Run, Book 1 (Abrams Books)

29. Defenders (Marvel Comics)

28. Strange Adventures (DC Comics)

27. The Good Asian (Image Comics)

26. Once & Future (BOOM! Studios)

25. Inferno (Marvel Comics)

24. Graveneye (TKO Studios)

23. Dreaming: The Waking Hours (DC Comics)

22. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (DC Comics)

21. Infinite Frontier (DC Comics)

20. Catwoman: Lonely City (DC Comics)

19. Stray Dogs (Image Comics)

18. Rorschach (DC Comics)

17. Crossover (Image Comics)

16. Swamp Thing (DC Comics)

15. The Many Deaths Of Laila Star (BOOM! Studios)

14. New Mutants (Marvel Comics)

13. Far Sector (DC Comics)

12. Superman: Son Of Kal-El (DC Comics)

11. Human Target (DC Comics)

10. Beta Ray Bill (Marvel Comics)

9. Hellions (Marvel Comics)

8. The Other History Of The DC Universe (DC Comics)

7. Immortal Hulk (Marvel Comics)

6. Nocterra (Image Comics)

5. Monsters (Fantagraphics)

4. Die (Image Comics)

3. The Nice House On The Lake (DC Comics)

2. Eternals (Marvel Comics)

1. Nightwing (DC Comics)

Some interesting observations about the countdown now that it's finished.

-Nightwing was definitely the runaway top choice this year, but in a different year, Eternals might have taken the top spot, as those two books by far had the most support of the books on the ballots. I think Immortal Hulk and Superman, Son of Kal-El were the two next most popular books, in terms of making it onto ballots, but they tended to be lower on the ballots that they were on, which hurt them when it came to the points totals (while Nightwing and Eternals were typically high on the ballots that they were on, and obviously so were the other books that finished ahead of Immortal Hulk and Superman, Son of Kal-El).

-DC Comics edged out Marvel 27-26 in entries on the countdown, but what's staggering to me is HOW the DC titles appeared on the list, as they dominated the top 25 of the list (doubling Marvel up 12 to 6), but when we got to the Top 10, then Marvel edged ahead, taking 4 of the Top 10 to DC's 3. Of course, going even more narrow, DC had 2 of the top five to Marvel's 1).

-Image Comics was third on the list with 12 titles, with BOOM! Studios following with five (Dark Horse Comics had three to round out the top five).

-As is typical on countdowns like this, a number of writers had multiple projects make the list (logically, if you really like one work by a writer, you're probably going to like another work from that same writer). Eight writers had three projects make the list (Kelly Thompson, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, Chip Zdarsky, Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson and Tom Taylor), with Tom King being the most represented writer on the list with four spots. Tom Taylor ended up with two of the top 12 books, while Kieron Gillen impressively had two of the top five books! Ram V., too, while "only" having two projects on the list, had both of those books finish in the top 20.

-Clayton Cowles was by far the most common letterer on the list, especially towards the top of the list, as he lettered five of the top 25 books (and 15 books on the list, period). Deron Bennett's AndWorld Design impressively lettered two of the top six books, though.

We hope you enjoyed the countdown. Hopefully we'll see you again at the end of 2022!