![]() The Shards, Ellis’s hypnotic, prodigious, and unsettling new novel-his first in 13 years-is a time machine back to that early 80s milieu. 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.Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel, Less Than Zero, published in 1985, is hard to shake-a drifting, menacing story about Los Angeles private school kids with monosyllabic names (Clay, Blair, Trent, Rip) who go to parties, do drugs, have sex and try to feel something about any of it. 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. 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). 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). Of course, going even more narrow, DC had 2 of the top five to Marvel's 1). 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. 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). 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. Some interesting observations about the countdown now that it's finished. The Other History Of The DC Universe (DC Comics)ģ. The Many Deaths Of Laila Star (BOOM! Studios)Ĩ. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (DC Comics)ġ5. Dreaming: The Waking Hours (DC Comics)Ģ2. The Wrong Earth: Night And Day (AHOY Comics)Ģ3. Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow (DC Comics)ģ1. Superman And The Authority (DC Comics)ģ4. Second Coming: Only Begotten Son (AHOY Comics)ģ6. Girl From The Sea (Scholastic/Graphix)Ĥ1. United States Of Captain America (Marvel Comics)Ĥ2. Barbalien: Red Planet (Dark Horse Comics)Ĥ3. All Time Low Presents: Young Renegades (Z2 Comics)Ĥ5. Iron Fist: Heart Of The Dragon (Marvel Comics)ĥ0. ![]() ![]() Night Of The Ghoul (ComiXology Originals)ĥ1. Cyclopedia Exotica (Drawn & Quarterly)ĥ7. Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo (Z2 Comics)Ħ1. Jonna And The Unpossible Monsters (Oni Press)Ħ6. Hellboy - The Bones Of Giants (Dark Horse Comics)ħ1. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (Archie Comics)ħ7. ![]() Stargirl: Spring Break Special (DC Comics)Ĩ4. As an aside, let me thank Morena Perez Vitale for the awesome headers for this countdown. 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. ![]()
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