Sunday, October 13, 2024

Top 10 TV Movies and Specials of 2023

TV Movies:
1. David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived
2. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
3. Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
4. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
5. Being Mary Tyler Moore
6. Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
7. Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
8. Prom Pact
9. Stan Lee
10. Zoey 102
Honorable Mentions:
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
The Heist Before Christmas
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
The Slumber Party

Specials:
1. 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors
2. Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
3. Disney 100: Remember That
4. Manifest finale
5. Doctor Who: The Giggle
6. Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limited Future
7. 20/20 Disney 100: A Century of Dreams
8. Great Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
9. Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
10. Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian-The Making of Season 3
Honorable Mentions:
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas
Invincible: Atom Eve
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 20th Anniversary Special
A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always
My Dad the Bounty Hunter finale
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
My Adventures with Superman premiere
Entertainment Tonight-A Salute to NCIS: Los Angeles
80th Golden Globe Awards
The Last Last Late Show Carpool Karaoke Special
Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental
The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday
Breaking Ooze - An Inside Look at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXXIV
22nd AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
The Year: 2023
65th Annual Grammy Awards
Willie Nelson's 90th Birthday Celebration
Making The Witcher: Season 3
29th Screen Actors Guild Awards
76th BAFTAs
28th Critics' Choice Awards
2023 MTV Video Music Awards

Friday, October 11, 2024

Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #48

Comics in the 1960s during the Silver Age of the medium didn't come much bigger than with Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #48. The comic sees the first family of Marvel dealing with the aftermath from a confrontation with the Inhumans only to be greeted and warned by the Watcher who warns them about the Silver Surfer and the coming of Galactus. Being the first part of the Galactus Trilogy, this issue does an absolutely fantastic job at setting up the stakes and the grave threat that the cosmic giant serves in the Marvel universe. Thanks to the combination of Stan Lee's writing with the art and coloring from Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, you get a highly memorable comic with good pacing and detailed, brisk art. It does, as typical for its time, tend to over-rely on large expository dialogue and characters often posing in very dramatic ways. But, that's part of the charm of 60s Silver Age comics, and the silly things like Galactus appearing green and red or the Watcher with a square head don't keep this classic issue from being so influential. Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #48 is a fun issue not just because it introduces iconic aspects to the Marvel mythos, but because of the people who worked on it giving it their best. Over all: 100%
Top list so far for 3rd set of comics:
1. The Complete Peanuts Vol. 15: 1979-1980
2. Daredevil Vol. 1 #170
3. The New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #1
4. Green Arrow Vol. 1 #1
5. Star Wars: Dark Empire #1
6. Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #48
7. Deadman: Love After Death #1
8. Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library Vol. 1
9. Blue Beetle Vol. 5 #1
10. Showcase Vol. 1 #75
11. Detective Comics Vol. 1 #441
12. Marvel Super-Heroes Vol. 1 #18
13. Eternals by Jack Kirby: The Complete Collection (Eternals (1976-1978))
14. Hulk Vol. 5 #1
15. Avnegers: War Across Time #1
16. The Yellow Kid
17. Sabrina the Teenage Witch Vol. 1 #8
18. Archie and Me #132
19. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1
20. Action Comics Vol. 1 #674