X-Books Awards voting 2022

[Master of Sound]

Death of the Year
Even tough in this Krakoa era death is less drastic then before, some of them might actually stick. I still do wonder, which death made the biggest impression on you?

Nominees:
Betel the Red, by Cassandra
Cable by Uranus
Gambit by Merlyn
Henry Gyrich by Agent Brand
Hope
Idyll III by Isca
Kid Omega (over and over again)
Magneto by Uranus
Nightcrawler's multiple deaths in IXM
Progenitor, the Celestial
Pr!tz (dragon) the Red, eaten by own symbiote
Selene (Second death)
Sersi (Judgment Day)
Sinister (multiple, Immortal X-Men)
Sunspot by Isca
Tarn, the Uncaring by Magneto
Vulcan by Tarn
Xandra by Nobles of the Kin Crimson

[Master of Sound]

Most Missed Character
Oddly, we give out an award to the 'most missed character', who gets an award for not showing up in an X-book during the calendar year, even though we wish they did. Also, some you missed might have been in an annual (like Surge and Gentle in the Unlimited online series).

Note:*If you nominate someone who has appeared in a story (more than a cameo of course), they will not be valid

Some suggestions:
Apocalypse
Blink
Hellion
Husk
Indra
Lady (Regan) Mastermind
Lifeguard
Miss (Martinique) Mastermind
Morph (Ben Deeds)
Nocturne
Northstar
Phantazia
Prodigy
Quicksilver
Redroot, the Forest
Rockslide, the real one
Shola Inkosi/e
Skids
Trance
Transonic
Val Cooper
Wicked


Surge and Firefist were disqualified as they appeared in the Secret X-Men one-shot and the Infinity comic #62

[Master of Sound]

Most Shocking or Bizarre Moment of the Year
Choose three moments from 2022 that left you as a reader, shaking your head, and reading something again, and again, to believe it actually happened, or that caused a popping sound to occur in your cerebral cortex, not making sense, they were so bizarre or shocking.

Some Suggestions:
Beast enslaving Wolverine
Beast having test subjects
Casandra bounding with a Sybiote
Cassandra acceped on Marauders team
Cyclops telling the world about the resurrection protocols
Dr. Stasis is a Sinister
Evil Eany
Isca deheading Idyll
Kid Omega's corpse closet
Moira skinning, wearing and killing her long-time partner Banshee
Moira uses MJ's body
Nature Girl's continuing madness
Robo-Moira
Romeo's unexpected return
Sinster haviong Moira clones
Somnus slept years with Neutron and Red Lotus to gather knowledge
Stryfe 2 billion years in the past in Threshold
Sunspot revealed to be on the Night Table (Shocking)
The Caliban suit
They used symbiote ZZXZ his DNA to create the Wet Skin, a technology that allows their Nobles to weaponize their own blood
Uranus's genocide on Planet Arakko
Warbird get her own symbiote
Warpath swings Fang by his legs in a circle to take out in what has to be the most absurd mutant technology moment to date

[Master of Sound]

Funniest Moment of the Year
Whether the writers and artists were trying intentionally to be funny or not, choose three moments from the X-books in 2020 that made you LOL.


Voted for so far:
Boom Boom's striptease (X-Terminators)
Cable telling Thunderbird he has a plane to catch ( cause he died in a plane crash)
Destiny saying she’ll always remind Sinister he’s a monster
Everyone having an opinion on Dazzler's ass (X-Terminators)
Firestar getting teleported to Avengers mansion in the middle of a fight
Gambit/Destiny banter/bicker
Havok's reaction to Scott and Emma's thing
Isca duped into betting Sunspot
Jubilee is doing her best ok Dazzler
Jubilee's Boom-Boom zingers
Katrina becoming a worse person after J-Day
Magik flipping off a demon with an anime version of her face covering her finger
Magik's santa hat
Please let me know what you thought was hilarious by submitted your 3 best ones
Selene having a fit, attacking Krakoa, only to be killed by Hope & Exodus
Sinister doesn’t get judged and is pissed!
Sinister’s first 9 attempts to kill the quiet council
Sinister's conversation with Dark Beast
Somnus gathering powers via one-night stands (Marauders)
Suit Caliban
Sunspot asks to turn Magneto’s Arakko home into a disco palace
Syne the Memotaur's unexpected love of poetry in A.X.E
The Progenitor calling out Destiny on her bullshit
The Summers’ Protocol: Delaying Kaiju datapage

[Master of Sound]

Quote of the Year
Vote for 3 of the most memorable quotable lines uttered in an X-book from this fantastic year.

Some Suggestions by others:
"After everything how could we?" - Cyclops
"And I am the mother.” – Storm
"Did I pull a Frost family classic and invade your privacy to contact your ex and hit a soft spot? SorrynotSorry" - Christian Frost
"Do you see her, Ororo? She... she's smiling. Do you see?" - Magneto
"Get Bent. We don't sell out our own" Magik
"Hank used to be fun. Remember that?' - Kate Pryde
"Hssssss. No." (Cy-Cat)
"I been Death!" (Gambit)
"I cheated so good' Gabby during 'training' with Deadpool
"I do not fear a life that ends.” – Magneto/Arakko proverb
"I have total confidence that I will succeed". -Xavier
"I would be proud to become you' Little Illyana to Magik
"I'm living now. And I won't spend a single second of that as anyone but myself." (Somnus)
"I've been Wolverine longer than anyone alive." - Synch
"I've missed you so much." "Likewise, idiot." (Jubilee and Laura)
"Mutantkind does not need your permission to live or to thrive. Understand that and perhaps our miracles will surprise you less. Good day." -Storm
"Nope. Not dissecting that one.” Havok to Cyclops
"They have ne," Magneto
"When Dawn, Dusk and Day are split asunder... who's left Headmaster? The Night Seats." - Sunspot
"Why do I always miss the obvious things?" - Cyclops
"Yes, sometimes you are a saint, Jean Grey. But at other times, you are a violent bully" (Progenitor to Jean Grey)
"Yes. Yes, I can see her." - Storm
"You bitches," Boom Boom
"You had a plane to catch.” – Cable
"You look like if Barbie was a sex addict." - Jubilee
"You look like the last stop on a bimboification spectrum." - Jubilee
"You should have told me the dresscode was 'depression.'" (Boom-Boom)
"You will see what Uranos the Undying can do with an hour". -Uranos
"You're not even the darkest Beast anymore." - Sinister
"You're not even the darkest Beast anymore." - Sinister to Dark Beast
“Maybe we all carry a hell inside us.” (Oya)
“She’s proud of me. I’ll be right there my dove.” (Magneto)

[Master of Sound]

Best Romance/Kiss of the Year
What lip-locks caught your attention? Were there mutants playing tonsil hockey that you felt were beyond hot?Or which flirtations got you all exited? Vote here for your 3 favorites, which were actually shown on panel (so no suggestive, like threesome of Cyclops, Emma and Jean). Also since there were only a few, you do not have to vote for 3 if you can't. If your favoites arte not on the nominees, like every other category, jut vote for them and I will add them to the list.

Some Suggestions:
Cannonball and Smasher
Cap Britain Betsy and Prestige
Craig of NASA & us readers
Cyclops and Jean
Cypher and Bei the Bloodmoon
Daken and Aurora
Doctor Nenesis and Dazzler
Gambit and Marissa
Gambit and Rogue
Iceman & Romeo reunited
Mystique and Destiny
Northstar and Kyle
Rictor & Shatterstar
Rogue and Gambit
Somnus & Neutron
Synch & Vault Laura

[Master of Sound]

Best Single Battle/Fight of the Year
What would you say was the best scrum between two characters of the year? Or was there an all out team versus team brawl that you feel deserves the nod? Give me your best 3!

Some suggestions:
Cassandra vs. Pr!itz and Betel the Red
Cyclops vs. Doc. Stasis/Sinister
Cyclops vs. Progenitor Celestial
Exodus vs. Hex Eternals
Gambit vs Bounty
Gambit vs Intergalactic Bounty Hunters
Iceman vs. Terrax
Legion vs. Uranus
Magneto vs. Tarn
Marauders vs. Acolytes
Mr. Sinister vs. Quiet Counsil
Storm, Sobunar and Lactuna vs. Uranus' Death machines
Sunspot vs. Isca
Storm vs. Vulcan
Synch vs Bornan
Tarn vs. Vulcan
Uranos vs Druig
Uranus vs Great Ring
Wolverine vs Omega Red
X-Terminators vs. vampires
X-Men invade the Uni-Mind

[Master of Sound]

Low Point of the Year
Choose your three most groan-worthy moments of 2022, that would have made you embarrassed to be seen reading it by your friends.

Some suggestions:
Beast's continuing villainy
Books being put on hold and stories stalled out, for X Lives/Deaths of Wolverine
Caliban being “Suited” by Forge
Captain America is resurrected before Cyclops in Judgment Day
Cassandra Nova back and on a team
"Colossus still hypnotized"
Firestar elected to the X-Men
Firestar's new look
Gambit blowing himself up for nothing
Kid Omega dying
Knight of X turns out to be a mini
Magik just giving Madelyne Pryor control of Limbo
Moira joining Orchis
Moira murdering Banshee
Moira turning into an evil robot
No follow-up on X-Men Green
No one notices the horrific behaviour of Beast
No one noticing Sage's substance abuse
No sign of Deathbird's baby
Petra and Sway are illusions
Sage's substance abuse
The ancient mutants civilization Treshhold
Wolverine as Beasts' slave
Xandra's weak leadership

[Master of Sound]

Highlight of the Year
Choose the three moments that made you grin from ear to ear, and then come on CBR to sing the praises of the Choose your three moments that made you grin from ear to ear, and then come on CBR to sing the praises of the creative teams for giving you the goods. What moments this year in the X-books did you want to share with all your friends? No matter if they are caring for the X-Man or not. PS: Naming a favorite series being great does not qualify, as those are already in Favorite opngoings/mini.

Some suggestions:
Arakki culture being excellently developed under Ewing
Cerebra of X-Men 2099 making it to the X-books
Cyclops gets a thumbs up
Daken becoming a honorable Fang
Death of Magneto so well written
Destiny and Sinister as longtime frienemies
Deviants coming to help Mutants
Exodus and Hope's friendship
Exodus flexing his power during judgement day
Firefist (Rusty) finally resurrected
Gambit being competent in his mini
Gambit coming back almost immediately
Gambit's armour/costume being explained
Graig of NASA protecting Arakki kids
Great Ring opening themselves to change of tradition
Hellion cameos
Jean Grey failing her test and getting angry
Lodus Logos and Magneto combining powers
Magneto's death scene with Storm
Manifold seeing through Brand
Mystique is Sherlock Holmes, confirmed
No sign of Kid Omega, Glob Herman and Fantomex
Rachel's queerness going from subtext to text
Sinister manipulating any and all events with clones of Moira
Sunspot/Cable/ Storm outwitting Brand/Vulcan
Surge getting focus in Secret X-Men
Uranos devastates Mars in less than 60 minutes
Warbird get her own symbiote

[Master of Sound]

You can start voting now.

If you want to change your votes, just edit them.

Have fun!

[CGAR]

Categories:

Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1. X-Men Red
2. Immortal X-Men
3. X-Men


Least Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1. X-Force
2. Legion of X
3. Marauders


Favorite X-One-Shot
1. A.X.E.: X-Men
2. Unlimited: Hellfire Gala: Confessionals
3. Hellfire Gala 2022


Least Favorite X-One-Shot
1. Secret X-Men
2. X-Force Annual
3. A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment


Favorite X- Mini Series
1. Unlimited: Hellfire Gala (Secret X-Men)
2. Sabretooth
3. Gambit


Least Favorite X-Mini Series
1. Knights of X
2. X Lives of Wolverine
3. X Deaths of Woverine


Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event (any event or crossover where X-men were in) *in this category you do not require to submit 3 votes
1. Hellfire Gala 2022
2. AXE: Judgment Day
3. Dark Web: X-Men


Least Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event (any crossover where X-men were in) *in this category you do not require to submit 3 votes
1. Dark Ages
2. X Deaths of Wolverine
3. X Lives of Wolverine


Favorite Writer
1. Al Ewing
2. Kieron Gillen
3. Victor LaValle


Least Favorite Writer
1. Ben Percy
2. Tini Howard
3. Si Spurrier


Favorite Artist
1. Pepe Larraz
2. Russell Dauterman
3. Leonard Kirk


Most Missed Character of the Year
1. Hellion
2. Wind Dancer
3. Blink

[Anduinel]

Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1. X-Men Red
2. Immortal X-Men
3. New Mutants


Least Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1. Legion of X
2. X-Force
3. Wolverine


Favorite X-One-Shot
1. Giant Size Thunderbird
2. AXE: X-Men
3. Marauders Annual


Favorite X- Mini Series
1. X-Terminators
2. Sabretooth
3. Marvel Voices: Iceman


Least Favorite X-Mini Series
1. Unlimited: X-Men Green, vol 2
2. Deadpool: Bad Blood
3. X Lives of Wolverine


Favorite X-Book Cover
1. X-Men Red #4 (Sunspot's resurrection)
2. X-Men Red #2 (Storm vs Vulcan)
3. Legion of X #5


Favorite X-Men Storyline from a Single Title
1 The Broken Land
2 Marvel Voices: Iceman
3 The New Testament of Irene Adler

Favorite Writer
1 Al Ewing
2 Leah Williams
3 Vita Ayala

Least Favorite Writer
1 Rob Liefeld
2 Ben Percy
3 Si Spurrier

Favorite Artist
1 Lucas Weneck
2 Pepe Larraz
3 Carlos Gomez

Least Favorite Artist
1 Rob Liefeld
2 Eleonora Carlini
3 Emilio Laiso


Hero with the most outstanding performances this year
1 Sunspot
2 Iceman
3 Storm


Hero with the worst performances this year
1 Beast
2 Nature Girl
3 Nightcrawler


Favorite Villain or Villain Team
1 Abigail Brand
2 Goblin Queen
3 Mr Sinister

Comeback of the Year
1 Thunderbird
2 Kylun
3 Romeo


Breakout Star of the Year
Note: A character returning from death or limbo, should be in the Comeback category.
1 Sunspot
2 Sabretooth
3 Tempo


Debut Character of the Year
1 Craig of NASA
2 Third Eye
3 Fisher King


Death of the Year * In this category there are not 3 votes are required
1 Magneto
2 Henry Gyrich
3 Vulcan


Most Missed Character of the Year
1 Northstar
2 Prodigy
3 Hellion


Most Bizarre or Shocking Moment of the Year
1 Beast enslaving Wolverine
2 Nature Girl's continuing madness
3 Romeo's return


Funniest Moment of the Year

1 Boom Boom's striptease (X-Terminators)
2 Somnus gathering powers via one-night stands (Marauders)
3 Everyone having an opinion on Dazzler's ass (X-Terminators)


Quote of the Year
1 "You should have told me the dresscode was 'depression.'" (Boom-Boom)
2 "I've missed you so much." "Likewise, idiot." (Jubilee and Laura)
3 "I'm living now. And I won't spend a single second of that as anyone but myself." (Somnus)


Best Romance/Kiss of the Year
1 Mystique and Destiny
2 Daken and Aurora
3 Iceman and Romeo


Best Single Battle/Fight of the Year
1 Iceman vs. Terrax
2 X-Terminators vs. vampires
3 Magneto vs. Tarn


Low Point of the Year
1 Beast's continuing villainy
2 Firestar elected to the X-Men
3 No one noticing Sage's substance abuse


Highlight of the Year
1 Rachel's queerness going from subtext to text!
2 Craig of NASA protecting Arakki kids
3 Arakki culture being excellently developed under Ewing

[sunofdarkchild]

Taking stock and trying to think about these categories really makes me realize how 'meh' pretty much everything has been all year. There isn't a single writer or book which I think has been consistently excellent enough to rank as the 'best' in either category.



Favorite X-Book Cover
1. New Mutants 26 variant cover by Carmen Carnero
2. New Mutants 27 variant cover by Marcus To
3. X-Men Red 6

Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event
The Midnight Suns videogame if it's allowed, (It is much better than any of the crossovers the comics have seen so far this year).
Way too early to judge Dark Web since only the introductory issue is out so far. It may be impossible to judge in time to vote since the event will continue into 2023.


Favorite Artist
1. Rod Reis
2. Pepe Laraz
3. Jan Duursema (New Mutants backup stories from issues 25-28)


Hero with the most outstanding performances this year
1. Nightcrawler in Judgement Day
2. Magneto in Judgement Day

Quote of the Year
1. 'I would be proud to become you' Little Illyana to Magik
2. 'Get Bent. We don't sell out our own" Magik
3. 'I cheated so good' Gabby during 'training' with Deadpool


Funniest Moment of the Year

1. Magik flipping off a demon with an anime version of her face covering her finger
2. Magik's santa hat
3. Firestar getting teleported to Avengers mansion in the middle of a fight


Highlight of the Year
1 Magik getting mcuh-needed closure by meeting and embracing her past self
2 Again, the Midnight Suns videogame if it's allowed
3 Magik's new costume

[jwatson]

I am only ranking books that i am actually reading so certain books won't appear even in least because it doesn't make sense to rank something i won't read.
Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1 X-men Red
2 New Mutants
3 Marauders


Least Favorite Ongoing X-Title

1 Immortal X-men (i did read the first few issues and some here and there)
2 Legion of X
3


Favorite X-One-Shot
1 Giant Sized X-men Thunderbird
2 Marauders Anual
3 Secret X-men


Least Favorite X-One-Shot
1 A.X.E. Judgement Day. (to be fair i only read issue 4)
2
3


Favorite X- Mini Series
1 Sabretooth
2 X:Men 92: House of XCII
3 Gambit


Least Favorite X-Mini Series
1 (i didn't outright dislike any that i actually read.)
2
3




Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event (any event or crossover where X-men were in) *in this category you do not require to submit 3 votes
1 Dark Ages
2 Hellfire Gala
3 Devil Reign


Least Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event (any crossover where X-men were in) *in this category you do not require to submit 3 votes
1
2
3


Favorite X-Men Storyline from a Single Title
1 The Broken Land, X-Men Red (opening arc)
2 Extinction Agenda, Marauders vs Kin Crimson
3 Eany Come Home (Unlimited, Maggot story)




Favorite Writer
1 Al Ewing
2 Vita Ayala
3 Chris Claremont


Least Favorite Writer
1
2
3


Favorite Artist
1 Adam Kubert
2 Leonard Kirk
3 Pepe Larraz


Least Favorite Artist
1
2
3


Hero with the most outstanding performances this year
1 Storm, X-men red has been a gift to me.
2 Magneto. He did that.
3 Nova. A real hero.


Hero with the worst performances this year
1 The mutant CIA that has stopped nothin in any book.
2
3


Favorite Villain or Villain Team
1 Sabretooth
2 Brand
3 I mainly using the nominee list to be honest but i would say the grand daughter from holderculture that is like posion ivy now i think harriet.


Least Favorite Villain or Villain Team
1
2
3


Comeback of the Year
1 Thunderbird
2 Birdy
3 Cassandra Nova


Breakout Star of the Year
Note: A character returning from death or limbo, should be in the Comeback category.
1 Sunspot
2 Cable
3 Tempo


Debut Character of the Year
1 Craig of Nasa
2 Fisher King
3 Threshold


Guest Star of the Year * In this category there are not 3 votes are required
1 Nova
2 Mary Jane Watson
3 Dr. Doom


Death of the Year * In this category there are not 3 votes are required
1 Magneto
2
3

[Uncanny X-Man]

Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1 X-Men Red
2 Immortal X-Men
3 X-Men


Least Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1 Legion of X
2 Marauders
3 X-Force


Favorite X-One-Shot
1 Hellfire Gala 2022
2 A.X.E.: X-Men
3 Giant Size Thunderbird


Least Favorite X-One-Shot
1 Marauders Annual
2 Secret X-Men
3 X-Force Annual


Favorite X- Mini Series
1 Gambit
2 X-Men '92: House of XCII
3 Devil's Reign: X-Men


Least Favorite X-Mini Series
1 Deadpool: Bad Blood
2 Sabretooth
3 Knights of X


Favorite X-Book Cover
1
2
3


Least Favorite X-Book Cover
1
2
3


Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event
1 AXE: Judgment Day
2 Hellfire Gala 2022
3 Dark Web


Least Favorite X-Men Crossover/ Event
1 X Deaths of Wolverine
2 X Lives of Wolverine
3 Dark Ages


Favorite X-Men Storyline from a Single Title
1 The New Testament of Irene Adler, IXM
2 The Broken Land, X-Men Red
3 The Hour of Uranos, AXE 1,2 and X-Men Red


Least Favorite X-Men Storyline from a Single Title
1 Extinction Agenda, Marauders vs Kin Crimson
2 Hated and Feared, Knights of X
3 Pillow Talk, Legion of X


Favorite Writer
1 Al Ewing
2 Kieron Gillen
3 Chris Claremont


Least Favorite Writer
1 Simon Spurrier
2 Tini Howard
3 Rob Liefeld


Favorite Artist
1 Russell Dautermann
2 Lucas Werneck
3 Pepe Larraz


Least Favorite Artist
1 Rob Liefeld
2 Bob Quinn
3 Salva Espin


Hero with the most outstanding performances this year
1 Storm
2 Magneto
3 Sunspot


Hero with the worst performances this year
1 Beast
2 Sage
3 Omega Red


Favorite Villain or Villain Team
1 Uranus
2 Tarn
3 Abigail Brand


Least Favorite Villain or Villain Team
1 Moira McTaggert
2 Kin Crimson
3 King Arthur


Comeback of the Year
1 Thunderbird
2 Birdy
3 Kylun


Breakout Star of the Year
1 Sunspot
2 Firestar
3 Vulcan


Debut Character of the Year
1 Fisher King
2 Ora Serrata
3 Weaponless Zsen


Guest Star of the Year
1 Nova
2 Spider-Man
3 Iron Man


Death of the Year
1 Magneto
2 Cable
3 Tarn


Most Missed Character of the Year
1 Hellion
2 Rockslide
3 Husk


Most Bizarre or Shocking Moment of the Year
1 Dr. Stasis is a Sinister
2 Beast having test subjects
3 Isca beheading Idyll


Funniest Moment of the Year
1
2
3


Quote of the Year
1
2
3


Best Romance/Kiss of the Year
1 Mystique and Destiny
2 Cyclops and Jean
3 Rictor & Shatterstar


Best Single Battle/Fight of the Year
1 Magneto vs Tarn
2 Storm, Sobunar and Lactuna vs Uranus
3 Tarn vs Vulcan


Low Point of the Year
1 Moira joining Orchis
2 Beast turning evil
3 Knight of X turns out to be a mini


Highlight of the Year
1
2
3