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!

56. Brian Michael Bendis' Avengers – 211 points (6 first place votes)

Avengers #500-503, New Avengers #1-64, Mighty Avengers #1-20, Dark Avengers #1-16, Avengers (Volume 4) #1-34, New Avengers (Volume 2) #1-34, Avengers Assemble #1-8, countless mini-series, one-shots and crossovers

One of the fascinating aspects of Brian Michael Bendis’ eight-year run on the Avengers franchise is how much he “put the pieces back together” before he left. Among the many changes he did to characters, almost all of them were reversed by the time he finished his run.

Instead, when Bendis left the titles, it was mostly his ADDITIONS that will be remembered, like the way that he transformed one of Marvel’s mid-level books into the biggest franchise in the entire company. It is fitting, then, that he left after getting to see the Avengers become one of the biggest comic book movie successes ever, something that would have seemed quite unlikely when he took over the book in 2004.

Bendis essentially blew up the original Avengers, taking them out of their comfort zone and replacing them with a new team that basically put together the most popular Marvel characters all on one team – Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Wolverine. Sentry, Luke Cage and Spider-Woman rounded out the roster and those last three saw their profiles significantly increased, especially Luke Cage, who Bendis clearly had a special affinity for.

One of Bendis’ major additions to the book was the introduction of the Illuminati, a group of the top Marvel minds who would meet to help shape the Marvel Universe…

That was what Bendis’ Avengers run did, in a nutshell, it shaped the Marvel Universe. Pretty much every major Marvel crossover of the past eight years has centered on the Avengers and Bendis himself wrote many of them (House of M, Secret Invasion, Siege and Avengers versus X-Men). And the ones he didn’t write himself he played a role in shaping (Civil War and Fear Itself).

As the Marvel Universe changed, so, too, did Bendis’ Avengers. After Civil War, he split the Avengers into the Mighty Avengers (the “official” team) and the New Avengers (the rogue team). After Secret Invasion, he saw the Dark Reign come over the Marvel Universe as Norman Osborn rose to power. He then had Osborn lead the Dark Avengers and hunt down the New Avengers. After Siege, the age of heroes returned and Bendis celebrated with the return of the flagship Avengers title. However, the New Avengers stuck around for more ground-level heroics. Then he launched Avengers Assemble, designed to tie-in with the movie franchise.

Along the way, Bendis has worked with some of Marvel’s hottest artists. David Finch launched the run with him, then Steve McNiven took over, then Frank Cho (who launched Mighty Avengers) and then Mike Deodato. Deodato later launched Dark Avengers and has been working on New Avengers for awhile now, as well. Leinil Francis Yu, Stuart Immonen and John Romita Jr. were the other major artists on the main books, but Bendis has worked with many other artists on short arcs or in the tie-in mini-series. Greats like Alan Davis, Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, Olivier Coipel, it is like a Who’s Who of great comic book artists.

When Bendis’ run came to an end, he left an indelible mark on the entire Marvel Universe. Not something many creators can truly say.

55. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal – 212 points (1 first place vote)

Criminal" #1-10, "Criminal" Volume 2 #1-7, "Criminal – The Sinners" #1-5, "Criminal – The Last of the Innocent" #1-4, "Criminal Special Edition" and "Criminal 10th Anniversary Special"

Criminal is a book about criminals. Brubaker and Phillips excel at producing high quality crime stories and Criminal is a perfect outlet for such stories.

The first arc, "Coward," was about a crook who was one of the best in the business, mostly because he always knew when to run. Here is the amazing opening scene introducing him to the audience, as he is running away from a robbery because he knows when it is time to get out of the way...

Of course, the story deals with said “coward” being forced into a situation that he COULDN’T run away from. That really describes a lot of the stories in Criminal, compelling characters being forced into tough situations where they must react a certain way to survive (or not) and the end result can often be heartbreaking but it is always compelling.

And the artwork, wow…Sean Phillips is just a master of noir. He can create a perfect scene like few artists working in comics today. And his character work is outstanding. Val Staples was the colorist for "Criminal" and he was excellent, as well.

The 2011 "The Last of the Innocent" arc was one of the series’ most acclaimed, as Brubaker and Phillips created characters based on classic Archie characters (although, really, just the archetypes of the characters, who have been around in media before they were Archie characters) and then put them through the wringer, exploring the idea of how powerful of a drug nostalgia can be while showing that “the good ol’ days” were rarely as good as you remember them, and you can’t force your way back to such an ideal. Phillips rocked with his stylized flashbacks of the characters (in a not quite Dan DeCarlo style, but clearly evoking an innocent worldview, even as they make it clear that these characters were NEVER “innocent”).

Phillips and Brubaker brought the series back recently and it was as excellent as always.

54. Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force – 219 points (5 first place votes)

Uncanny X-Force #1-35

Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force run was drawn by a LOT of different artists, with Jerome Opena being the initial artist on the book but the book shipped so frequently that there were a bunch of fill-in artists.

The book revolved under an interesting concept. Wolverine and Psylocke put together a secret black ops team with Fantomex, Deadpool and Archangel joining them. That conceit is not all that interesting, but what IS interesting is how Remender opened the book with them being a secret death squad and then had the rest of their entire series basically be about the ramifications of their actions.

The opening arc, with art by the brilliant Opena, involved the group trying to hunt down and kill a reincarnated Apocalypse while he is still a boy. Eventually, though, Psylocke decided that such actions wee wrong, leading to a conflict with her teammates, before Fantomex finished the conversation with some finality...

Fantomex then clones Apocalypse himself and raises the clone in a virtual reality scenario similar to Superman's Smallville upbringing, driven by guilt to see if his actions were correct.

Remender did an especially nice job with taking cool, under-utilized characters and, well, utilizing them. Fantomex, for instance. Also, Jason Aaron’s revamped Deathlok. In the epic "Dark Angel Saga," (where Archangel was forced to take over for Apocalypse in the wake of the death of the clone of Apocalypse) Remender brought the Age of Apocalypse characters back into play and one of the AoA characters joined the team.

The book was also notable in how heartfelt so much of it is. Remender can really tug at the heartstrings when he wants to, which is weird in such an action-filled series.

53. Grant Morrison's Invisibles – 239 points (3 first place votes)

The Invisibles #1-25, The Invisibles Vol. 2 #1-22, The Invisibles Vol. 3 #12-1

Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles was designed to deal with the edges of society, in a post-modern explosion/examination of pop culture and paranoia. It was a trippy series that was also a lot of fun.

We are introduced to the world of the Invisibles through the eyes of the latest addition to the Invisible College (a group designed to fight against evil, whether it be physical or mental), or more specifically, the specific cell of the Invisible College that is led by King Mob, Dane McGowan, who is a young man who disbelieves until he is confronted with the reality (or rather, unreality) of the world after King Mob frees him from a sinister facility where young men have their souls essentially stolen…

Dane takes the name Jack Frost, and joins up with King Mob and their other members, Ragged Robin, Lord Fanny and Boy.

The series opens with a time travel story involving the Marquis de Sade and then…you know what, giving the “plot” of the Invisibles really does not do it justice – it’s not really a plot-driven book, as the plot goes in all sorts of directions, and at times, Morrison even drops the main characters to focus on other people before returning to the main Invisibles.

So let’s just say that the Invisibles is an ambitious mind-blowing experience that you must see to believe.

So many artists have worked on the Invisibles that it is almost impossible to name them all, but I’d say Steve Yeowell, Phil Jimenez and Jill Thompson drew the most issues of the series.