BENN ROBBINS
@bukket1138 | robbins-studios.com | facebook.com/robbinsstudios
Best Movies: Birdman, Guardians of the Galaxy, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Obvious Child, Snowpiercer, The Imitation Game
Best TV Shows: Bob’s Burgers, Blacklist
Best Video Game: Alien: Isolation
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Sex Criminals V. 1, Trekker Train To Avalon Bay TPB, Lazarus V. 2, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Barbarella Deluxe Hardcover
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Batman ’66 TV Series, A Hard Day’s Night Criterion, Eraserhead Criterion
Most overrated thing about 2014? Ello
Most underrated thing about 2014? Snowpiercer
Thing that you were most excited about in 2014? Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser Trailer
Thing that disappointed you most in 2014? Tie: All the Movie remakes/The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2015? Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Texas 25 Deluxe Edition 2-disc album
Benn Robbins is a contributor to Forces of Geek.
ATLEE GREENE
@MidnightLogicGo | thegreenescreen.net
Best Movies: Guardians of the Galaxy, Dawn of The Planet of the Apes, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Gone Girl, The Lego Movie, Edge of Tomorrow
Best TV Shows: Scandal, House of Cards, The Flash, The Blacklist, NXT, Star Wars: Rebels, Intruders
Best Books (fiction): Star Wars: Tarkin by James Luceno
Best Video Game: Mario Kart 8
Best Songs: ‘Legacy’ (Eminem), ‘Shell Shocked’ (Wiz Khalifa), ‘Centuries’ (Fall Out Boy)
Best Albums: Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Coldplay: Ghost Stories
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, The Bunker, Evil Empire, Red Sonja
Most overrated thing about 2014? X-Men: Days of Future Past, Big Hero 6
Most underrated thing about 2014? Edge of Tomorrow
Thing that you were most excited about in 2014? Captain America: The Winter Soldier, WrestleMania 30
Thing that disappointed you most in 2014? The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers 4, WWE Payback, Geoff Johns & John Romita Jr’s Superman ongoing series
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2015? Avengers: Age of Ultron, UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which I already have the day requested off of work).
Atlee Greene writes the column, The Pull List, for Forces of Geek.
VINCENT ALEXANDER
Best Movies: Boyhood, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Snowpiercer, The LEGO Movie, 22 Jump Street
Best TV Shows: Too Many Cooks (Casper Kelly)
Best Books (Non-Fiction): Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books (Michael Barrier)
Best Albums: ‘St. Vincent’ (St. Vincent), ‘Lazaretto’ (Jack White), ‘Super Critical’ (Ting Tings), ‘Mandatory Fun (Weird Al Yankovic)
Best Music Videos: ‘The Writing’s On the Wall’ (OK Go), ‘Organs’ (The Uncluded), ‘Freak of the Week’ (Freak Kitchen), ‘Sound of Horns’ (Candice Gordon), ‘Moving On’ (James)
Vincent Alexander writes the column, Squash and Stretch, for Forces of Geek.
BEN CHAPMAN
@geninben
Best Movies: Interstellar, Big Hero 6, The Lego Movie, Wish I Was Here, The Fault in Our Stars
Best TV Shows: The Walking Dead, The Flash, Survivor
Best Video Games: Pokemon X & Y, South Park: Stick of Truth, Minecraft PS4 Edition
Best Song: ‘Everything is Awesome’ – Tegan and Sara with The Lonely Island
Best Album: ‘Pop Psychology’ by Neon Trees
Best Music Video: ‘Word Crimes’ (“Weird Al” Yankovic)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel: Seconds (Bryan Lee O’Malley) The Wicked + The Divine, Batman – Zero Year, Lumberjanes, Locke and Key: Alpha & Omega
Most overrated thing of 2014: Taylor Swift
Most underrated thing of 2014: The American Dollar
Thing I was most excited about in 2014: Emerald City Comic Con
Thing that disappointed me the most in 2014: The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
Thing I am looking forward to in 2015: Emerald City Comic Con
Ben Chapman writes the column, Among The Panels, for Forces of Geek.
ELIZABETH ROBBINS
Best Movies: Under the Skin, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy
Best TV Shows: Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Blacklist, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Best Song: ‘Kansas City’ (New Basement Tapes)
Best Albums: ‘El Pintor’ (Interpol), ‘Islands’ (Bear’s Den)
Best Music Video: ‘Take Me To Church’ (Hozier)
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky.
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Most overrated thing about 2014? That ridiculous teaser trailer for Fifty Shades of Gray
Most underrated thing about 2014? Snowpiercer
Thing that you were most excited about in 2014? Games of Thrones season finale (aka the Father’s Day episode)
Thing that disappointed you most in 2014? The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2015? Mad Max: Fury Road, The Avengers:Age of Ultron
Elizabeth Robbins is a contributor to Forces of Geek.
BILL MACHON
Best Movies: Guardians of the Galaxy, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Ida
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Space Battleship Yamato, A Field In England
Best TV Shows: Orphan Black, True Detective, Game of Thrones
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Saga, Annihilator, Wonder Woman (Azzarello), Rocket Raccoon, Thanos: Infinity Revelation
Best Albums: Bryan Ferry ‘Avonmore’, D’Angelo & The Vanguard ‘Black Messiah’, Aphex Twin ‘Syro’, HTRK ‘Psychic 9-5 Club’, Francis Harris ‘Minutes Of Sleep’, Gesloten Cirkel, ‘Submit X’
Thing that you were most excited about in 2014? Guardians of the Galaxy
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2015? Star Wars: The Force Awakens, High Rise (Ben Wheatley film based on J.G. Ballard book)
Bill Machon is a former columnist for Forces of Geek.
JOSH LATTA
@JoshLatta | lattaland.com
Worst Movie: Tie: Interstellar and Boyhood: Cripes, doesn’t anyone pee anymore? If you can’t tell a story in 90 minutes, it ain’t worth telling.
Worst TV Show: Gotham. Huh. I guess you DO need Batman.
Worst Video Game: Simpsons Tapped Out. This game has cost me everything.
Worst Song: ‘All About the Bass’. What a terrible message. I think Americans might try being LESS okay with themselves.
Worst Album: ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’. Way to break my heart, Morrissey. I’m with ya, but this one wasn’t worth the wait.
Worst Music Video: All of them are awful.
Worst Comic Book / Graphic Novel: Uncle Scrooge by Don Rosa Overdrawn and overwrought. Ducks don’t need knuckles or a pretentious timeline.
Worst Blu-ray/DVD Release: Her. We turned this movie off twice. I get embarrassed hearing cooing couples.
Most overrated thing about 2014? That link you posted on my wall that was ‘fuckin’ hilarious.’
Most underrated thing about 2014? Me. My comics. My hair.
Thing that you were most excited about in 2014? Playing with butts.
Thing that disappointed you most in 2014? The futon I bought.
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2015? One year closer to the great hereafter.
Josh Latta is an intergalactically recognized cartoonist, the creator of Rashy Rabbit and the proprietor of Lattaland, the surliest theme park on Earth.
BRIAN SAUR
@Bobfreelander | rupertpupkinspeaks.com
Best Movies: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Out of the Past (Warner Archive)
Brian Saur, aka Rupert Pupkin, aka Bobfreelander, runs the film blog Rupert Pupkin Speaks and is currently working on a documentary about the impact & influence of Danny Peary’s film books.
