You voted, and now, after over 1,000 ballots were cast (precisely three more ballots cast than four years ago), here are the results of your votes for your favorite comic book creator runs of all-time (this is the FOURTH time we've done this countdown. We're on an every four year schedule)! I'll try to post a new installment every day for the rest of the countdown.

To recap, you all sent in ballots ranking your favorite runs from #1 (10 points) to #10 (1 point). I added up all of the points and here we are!

40. Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye – 339 points (2 first place votes)

Hawkeye #1-22

Almost a dozen years ago, there was a Young Avengers Presents mini-series where each issue spotlighted one or two members of the Young Avengers. Matt Fraction did the Hawkeye spotlight issue, featuring Kate Bishop interacting with the then-newly resurrected Clint Barton, who was going by the name Ronin at the time. The issue was great and Fraction surely had it in mind four years later when he launched Hawkeye with artist David Aja, as he brought Kate Bishop along as Clint's new partner/student, as Clint got involved in an apartment building and these bad guys who wanted to take control of the building.

Aja was brilliant on this series, trying experimental things with art that you just don't see in comic books very often...

The success of Hawkeye was integral into Marvel's decision to expand into slightly off-kilter approaches to superheroes, like the Ms. Marvel run that also made the countdown.

As the series went on, Fraction began to split the book between Clint stories (drawn by Aja) and Kate stories (drawn by Annie Wu) when Kate left New York to go to Los Angeles.

Fraction's stories were clever and heartfelt. Clint was the closest you'll ever get to seeing an actual, god's honest "everyman" superhero, as Fraction played up Clint's frailties. Kate, meanwhile, grew a ton under Fraction's pen and she left the series as probably the coolest Hawkeye in comics (my buddy Kelly Thompson later wrote an excellent Kate solo series and I'm going to be so pumped to see her get a "Thanks" credit whenever Hawkeye comes to Disney +, along with Fraction and Aja and others, of course).

39. Kurt Busiek and George Perez's Avengers – 349 points (4 first place votes)

Avengers (Vol.3) 3 #1-15, 19-56

When "Avenger"s returned to Marvel after the "Heroes Reborn" storyline ended, putting Kurt Busiek and George Perez on the title was practically screaming, “Everything is back to normal, people! Please come back!”

In the first storyline, more or less every Avenger who ever was participated in the story, with Busiek choosing through all of them to pick his initial “perfect” team lineup, which included Busiek’s attempt to bring Carol Danvers back to prominence, as well as elevate Justice and Firestar to a bigger place in the Marvel Universe.

Busiek’s knowledge of Marvel history helped inform a lot of his stories, but his great attention to characterization was probably his strongest suit, as the book was filled with a lot of interesting character interactions. I especially liked the issue where Beast returned when he heard the news that his old friend, Wonder Man, was back from the dead.

While there was characterization work, there was also a ton of action, and George Perez did a fine job depicting it all, with the most notable storyline likely being the big Ultron storyline, "Ultron Unlimited," which contained the classic scene with Thor and a bunch of battered Avengers burst through a wall at an opportune time to tell Ultron – “Ultron… we would have words with thee.” Probably the acme of Busiek and Perez’ run, as it perfected that fascinating mixture between appreciating the Avengers’ long and sometimes convoluted history and just doing awesome modern superhero stories…

It has to be noted that in order for Perez to hit such a timely deadline, he often did layouts that the great Al Vey would then finish (the pages above, for instance, were drawn in that style). Right before Perez left the series after about three years’ worth of story, Perez would do looser layouts that Paul Ryan would then pencil and Vey would then ink Ryan’s pencils.

After Perez left, Alan Davis had a quick run but Busiek’s run ended with a series of artists, including Ivan Reis and Kieron Dwyer. The majority of Busiek’s final issues were involved with the massive "Kang War."

During his run with Perez on Avengers, Busiek also wrote the popular mini-series, Avengers Forever, with Carlos Carlos Pacheco. You'll likely see that one next year in our Top 100 Comic Book Storylines countdown!

38. Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum's X-Men -353 points (2 first place votes)

X-Men #94-107 (and I guess Uncanny X-Men #145-164)

Dave Cockrum helped create most of the All-New, All-Different X-Men that debuted in Giant Size X-Men #1, but the writer he worked with on that issue, Len Wein, was easing off of the book right away. Wein only did one more story, which appeared in X-Men #94-95, and that was co-written with incoming writer Chris Claremont. That issue was notable for shockingly killing off one of the new members of the team RIGHT away.

Claremont then took over as the full-time writer, and he and Cockrum quickly got into a groove on the series, especially the story arc in X-Men #98-100, which saw the Sentinels capture a group of the X-Men and take them into outer space. This was the first time that we had seen Wolverine without his face mask and this was the debut of a lot of Wolverine's character traits, including his flirtation with Jean Grey...

Cockrum and Claremont worked beautifully together, but as their work became more and more popular, Cockrum was almost a victim of his own success, as Marvel wanted to make the book a monthly title and Cockrum wasn't able to keep up with the pace of a monthly book. In fact, he would need occasional fill-ins on the bi-monthly book, so just as the book was kicking into high gear after introducing the Phoenix and pitting the X-Men against the Shi'ar Imperial Guard (who were based on Cockrum's previous team series, the Legion of Super-Heroes), Cockrum left the book.

After his replacement, John Byrne, had even more success and then left the series himself, Cockrum had a second chance and returned to the book for a second run. He left to do a creator-owned series after about twenty issues (this time around, Cockrum did looser pencils with finishes by Joe Rubinstein and Bob Wiacek so that he could keep up with a monthly schedule).

37. Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men – 360 points (5 first place votes)

Astonishing X-Men #1-24, Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1

When Grant Morrison left New X-Men, Marvel had some big shoes to fill,. Luckily, Joss Whedon, popular writer and creator of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (plus Firefly), was a big X-Men fan, so he accepted the task of following Grant Morrison’s run, and Marvel gave him his own title to do so, pairing him with acclaimed artist, John Cassaday.

Whedon’s first task was to introduce the idea that the X-Men felt that they needed to be more public as superheroes, so Cyclops insisted that Kitty Pryde, one of the best public faces of the X-Men, join the main team (made up of Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast and Emma Frost).

Their debut as superheroes with costumes again was really well handled...

Whedon’s first storyline dealt with a “cure” for the mutant gene being developed, and how such a cure would effect mutants all over. This turned out to be some plot involving some bad aliens, and it all tied to the return of…Colossus!!

See, the Russian mutant, long thought dead (or, rather, fairly recently thought dead) was not actually dead, he was caught up in some big alien conspiracy. Colossus and Kitty had a tearful reunion.

The next storyline involved the Danger Room coming to life and fighting the X-Men. This storyline involved Professor X, as well.

Next, Whedon and Cassaday began a really long storyline that resolved the big alien conspiracy.

Whedon’s sense of humor and his good ear for dialogue made the book a great place to look for nice character interactions. Cassaday’s artwork, meanwhile, was good for both character work AND for action scenes, making the book a visual delight.