17. His Run in Comics
Along with his world-expanding work on comic book versions of his various T.V properties, which provided many with the fix they needed after Buffy, Angel and Firefly went off air, Whedon has also spent time on various other lines including an extremely well received run with Astonishing X-Men. When you look at this facet of the mans career, the unbelievable success of The Avengers movie starts to make sense. For once, they got a full on comic-book guy to make a comic book movie that was exactly like a comic book. And my word, did it work out well for them.