Results: X-Books Awards voting 2021

[Master of Sound]

Here we go people the results of the X-Books Awards voting 2021.

You were able to vote for these the last weeks and as off today I will publish the results.

This also means you can not longer edit your submitted voted.

For those who did miss it: You can still vote here, but only for the yet unpublished categories.

[sunofdarkchild]

Funny how it worked out that the boards voting closed the same day the voting for the last member of the new X-team opened. Anyways, thanks for your hard work, Master.

[Master of Sound]

Favorite Ongoing Title of the Year

This year we went through the Realm of X'-era and will now be ready for the next era for the X-books. Some of the current titles will continue the upcoming year, some will end. So which were the most popular ongoings of 2021? Unfortunately all 3 winners have ended and have been relaunched, will be rebranded or have simply cancelled. The winner had more than a 100 points, which is quite unique.

NUMBER 1
Hellions
With 118 points and 24 number 1 votes (!)
This is the second year in a row Hellions won this category. Sad to see the title just ended. At least we will see some of the cast return is some Destiny of X titles.

NUMBER 2
S.W.O.R.D
With 59 points and 8 number 1 votes.
Quite a new series, launched late last year has made quite an impression. X-Men in space always had a lot of fans, but now, after waiting for many year, we got it. Sadly the title itself will be cancelled, but we will get a follow-up in Red X-Men, so let uus hope it is as good. Positive: we get the same creative team.

NUMBER3
X-Men (by Hickman and Dauterman)
With 38 points and 6 number one votes
The number 2 of 2020 made an impression till it ended. Sadly Hickman left us now. So far the New volume seems okay, let us wait and see how well it does in 2022. It was a great creative team and we hope the quality they initiated will remain.

Runners up: New Mutants and X-Factor.

[Master of Sound]

Least Favorite ongoing of the Year

Besides loving, we also disliked some of the ongoings that have been published in 2021. Like every year, some of the voters did not want to vote for least favorites, as they wanted to stay positive, I do like that positive attitude! Last years number one was Excalibur and honestly, this year that same title was also not many people's favorite. Here are the results;

NUMBER 1
X-Force
With 90 points and 17 number one votes
Was it the art, was it the writing, was it the characters, or was it simply all? If you put 3 of last years most disliked characters (Logan, Quintin and Hank) in a book, you are kind of asking for it. For me the stories were confusing, the villains like the tree people, the Russian dolls an surfers, were terrible. The title will continue, with largely the same cast. Will it become the least fain 2022? Guess we will see.

NUMBER 2
Excalubur
With 79 points and also 17 number one voters
It was not a big surprise to find Excalibur in this top 3, as it won this one last year and not much had changed. Though to me personally, it did improve the last few issues. The artist is quite good, let's hope the writing continues to improve when this is relaunched onto Knights of X.

NUMBER 3
Wolverine
With 23 points and two number one votes
This board has some anti-Wolverine members, who many times before managed to get a Wolverine solo title in this category. To me, so far, it is actually one of the best Wolverine volumes (except for the first ongoing decades ago). But with only 23 anti points, it is not as badly appreciated as Excalibur and X-Force. Now in 2022 Deadpool will be his sidekick and a rumored return of Danger. Will that make the series more appreciated? We will see.

Runner up: Marauders

[Master of Sound]

Pfff, all the counting, recounting, writing took quite some time. I will continue tomorrow.

[sunofdarkchild]

No real surprise that Hellions literally doubled the 2nd-place book. X-Force worked very hard to earn its title with the terrible Colossus story, completely incompetent heroes, and adamantium surfing, which I vote becomes the X-books equivalent of jumping the shark.

[Anduinel]

Honestly, when your security force is so bad at what they do that they're getting called out for it by other characters, you've probably taken a wrong turn somewhere...