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BEST OF 2015: Part Three

Sharon Knolle
FOG! Contributor
@sknolle

Best Movies: There’s still a lot I haven’t seen, but from what I have: Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, Sicario, Cop Car, Grandma, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best TV Shows: Jessica Jones, Mr. Robot, Happy Valley, Bloodline, Public Morals
Most overrated thing about 2015? Blindspot, The Revenant
Most underrated thing about 2015? Cop Car: A really solid little thriller with great performance by Kevin Bacon.
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? The Force Awakens.
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? Avengers: Age of Ultron. What a horrible mess!
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? The Nice Guys, Bourne 5

Marvin C. Pittman
FOG! Columnist 
@marvinpittman

Best Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road, The Force Awakens, Furious 7
Best TV Shows: The Flash, iZombie, Fargo, Steven Universe, UnREAL, Blackish, Fresh Off The Boat, Key & Peele, South Park
Best Books (non-fiction): Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 by Noah Berlatsky
Best Songs: “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar, “Classic Man” by Jidenna, “Confident” by Demi Lovato, “Warm Blood” by Carly Rae Jepsen, “Delirious” by Susanne Sundfor, “I’ll Be There” by Chic, “Crack in the Pearl” by Mark Ronson featuring Andrew Whyatt
Best Albums: Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfor, To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Uptown Special by Mark Ronson, The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam by Thundercat, Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen, Unbreakable by Janet Jackson
Best Music Video: “WTF (Where They From)” by Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell Williams
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Bitch Planet (Image), March (Top Shelf), Batman ’66 (DC),
Most overrated thing about 2015? Adele’s “25” album … and I like her voice a lot. (Bought her first album after she quietly tore up Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2009.) Her songs since then, not as much.
Most underrated thing about 2015? Pretty much all R&B albums released this year
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Mad Max: Fury Road
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? Gotham
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Mark Millar 
Writer / Chief Architect of the Millarverse / co-creator Kick-Ass, Wanted, Kingsman: The Secret Service
@mrmarkmillar | millarworld.tv

Best Movies: I want to say Kingsman, but I’m possibly slightly biased so I’ll opt for two Adam Driver movies. When We Were Young, which is great, and a little movie called Star Wars.
Best TV Shows: I haven’t really watched TV much since I was in my mid-teens. Maybe a box-set every year or two. The Mad Men finale I think the only thing I watched this year and it was great. Doe Netflix original count? If so I also loved Daredevil. No, make that worshiped. It was flawless.
Best Books (fiction): We’re working our way through all the Enid Blyton books with the children right now. So I’m a big fan of them.
Best Books (non-fiction): I’m reading Burt Reynolds autobiography today, which I’ve almost read in a single sitting.
Best Video Game: I haven’t played games since Sonic, circa 1992. Just not my thing.
Best Songs: I’m a Dad. You don’t want to know.
Best Albums: See above.
Best Music Video: See above.
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Anything by Ian Culbard. Also anything by Scott Snyder and Jason Aaron and Jeff Lemire and Kelly Sue DeConnick. They’re my American Fantastic Four.
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Kingsman. I got royalties.
Most overrated thing about 2015? Any sporting event. I loved Star Wars because the overkill let jocks know how I feel during the World Cup.
Most underrated thing about 2015? Hmm. Not sure. One of the nice things about social media is that anything good is rated. It’s hard for quality to slip under the radar now, which is terrific. The small companies have the same chance as the big guys, which is why creator owned is thriving
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Leicester Square premiere of Kingsman was hugely exciting. I didn’t even get to be in the crowd for that growing up as I lived so far away. I could only see it in the papers. We went to the Star Wars premiere in the same place a couple of weeks back with Mark Hamill, whom we became pals with during Kingsman, so that was very exciting too. It’s been a really fun year.
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? Ach, it would be rude to say. Whether comics or movies or whatever it’s still people working their guts out and trying their best. People always see this stuff when they google and I’d hate to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Oh my God. Where do I started? Personally, working with Greg Capullo and Stuart Immonen and Sean Murphy again for Chrononauts 2 and Jae Lee at the end of the year plus Frank Quitely monthly. The Kingsman sequel starts shooting in late April and we’re hopefully shooting Starlight, Superior and Huck this year too. As a fan I can’t wait for more Scott Snyder creator owned and Jeff Lemire’s new stuff and the Apocalypse and Deadpool movies, the Dr, Strange movie. Civil War looks good. Batman v Superman I’m keeping my fingers crossed for. A friend said to me years back that it must be weird not being into geek stuff because we have so much to look forward to and she was right. Every year.

Atlee Greene 
FOG! Columnist
@AtleeGreene | thegreenescreen.net 

Best Movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Spotlight, Inside Out, Creed, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Peanuts Movie, The Martian, Straight Outta Compton, Southpaw, Ex Machina, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Mad Max: Fury Road.
Best TV Shows: The Flash, Arrow, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Empire, Game of Thrones, Supergirl
Best Books (fiction): Star Wars: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
Best Video Game: Batman: Arkham Knight, Splatoon, Fallout 4, Super Mario Maker
Best Albums: Creed Movie Soundtrack, Halsey: Badlands, Dr. Dre, Compton, Adele: 25
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Secret Wars, Star Wars: Shattered Empire, Darth Vader, Wytches
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Birdman or (The unexpected virtue of ignorance)
Most overrated thing about 2015?: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics)
Most underrated thing about 2015? Avengers: Age of Ultron
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015?: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? DC Comic’s Convergence, WWE Monday Night Raw, Entourage, Tomorrowland, Star Wars: Aftermath, Gotham, Joy, Sleeping with Other People
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Batman vs. Superman, Star Wars: Rogue One, UFC 200, WrestleMania 32, Independence Day 2, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10.

Kate Davis
FOG! Columnist
@katedangerously | katedavisart.com

Best Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road, Hateful Eight
Best TV Shows: Scream Queens
Best Books (non-fiction): Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Best Video Game: Fallout 4 aka the Love of My Life
Best Songs: Nick Jonas “Levels” because I am a 12 year old girl.
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Magic Mike XXL solely because it exists.
Most overrated thing about 2015? The whole Cubs/Back to the Future hooha.
Most underrated thing about 2015? McDonalds all day breakfast.
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Halloween!
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? The secret rage for Bryce Dallas Howard’s character in Jurassic World that I have.
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Continuing to be alive and keeping up with Guardians of The Galaxy Volume 2!

Joe Peacock
FOG! Contributor, Author, Akira Expert
@joethepeacock | medium.com/@joethepeacock

Best Movies: Star Wars Episode VII, Spectre
Best TV Shows: Rick and Morty Season 2, Mr. Robot
Best Books (fiction): Sadly I didn’t get to read much fiction. Oh wait, yes I did, the transcriptions of every Republican Presidential Debate
Best Books (non-fiction): The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong
Best Video Game: Fallout 4 without question x50
Best Songs: Faith No More: Separation Anxiety,
Best Albums: Faith No More: Sol Invictus, Carly Rae Jepson: E-Mo-Tion, Honeyblood:Honeyblood, Holly Miranda: Holly Miranda, Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly
Best Music Video: All the Adele spoofs were so funny omg. Thank god people like generic humor, cause I sure do, and I get to see plenty of it!
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Red Thorn, Beauty, Tokyo Ghost
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series
Most overrated thing about 2015? People’s bullshit need to react to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Most underrated thing about 2015? That we all made it through, given how fucking insane it was
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Martin Shikreli getting arrested
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? That Martin Shikreli didn’t get pied in the face during his perp walk
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? My new book, and also President Trump, so I can finally have that excuse to move to Germany I’ve needed

Rich Handley 
Author, Publisher
@HassleinBooks | HassleinBooks.com | facebook.com/rich.handley

Best Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Kingsman: The Secret Service
Best TV Shows: I Zombie, Jessica Jones, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones
Best Books (fiction): Sadly, I haven’t had any book-reading time in 2015.
Best Books (non-fiction): All of the non-fiction books I read in 2015 I contributed to, so I can’t really comment. 🙂
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: John Byrne’s Star Trek photo-comics
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Don’t know–I’ve mostly been watching Netflix this year
Most overrated thing about 2015? hoverboards, selfie sticks, the Kardashians, Batman vs. Superman, Marvel Universe films
Most underrated thing about 2015? Star Trek Beyond trailer
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? The Force Awakens, SPECTRE, Star Trek Beyond trailer
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? SPECTRE‘s second half
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Star Trek Beyond, Game of Thrones, War for the Planet of the Apes, Rogue One

Des Taylor 
POP Artist and Comic Book creator
@DESPOPART | despop.co.uk

Best Movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mission: Impossible Ghost Nation, Avengers: Age of Ultron (I was in it!) Ant-Man, SPECTRE
Best TV Shows: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Supergirl
Best Books (fiction): Modesty Blaise, The Rise Of Darth Vader, Homeland: Carrie’s Run
Best Video Game: Pro Evo Soccer
Best Songs: Mark Ronson, Mystikal: “Feel Right”
Best Albums: Best of Bruno Mars
Best Music Video: Uptown Funk
Best Comic Books / Graphic Novels: Batman, Scarlett Couture (hardcover available today!), Batgirl of Burnside.
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Mission: Impossible Ghost Nation
Most overrated thing about 2015? Anything Kim Kardashian and Kanye!!!
Most underrated thing about 2015? Agent Carter!!
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Star Wars-PERIOD!
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? Mainstream Comics
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Getting back on the road and promoting my new projects.


Seth Levi
FOG! Columnist
@von_levi

Best Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best TV Shows: The Americans, Veep, Game of Thrones, Making a Murder, BoJack Horseman, Inside Amy Schumer, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Best Books (non-fiction): Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Book by Erik Larson
Most overrated thing about 2015? Marvel movies and tv shows
Most underrated thing about 2015? NPR Podcasts
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? Go Set a Watchman

Dean Galanis 
FOG! Contributor

Best Movies: Mad Max: Fury Road, Inside Out, Creed, The Gift, Hitchcock/Truffaut, SPECTRE
Best Books (fiction): Absolutely True Lies by Rachel Stuhler
Best Books (non-fiction): I Must Say by Martin Short
Best Songs: “Sister of Pearl” by Baio
Best Blu-ray/DVD Release: Mad Max: Fury Road, The Phantom of The Opera (1925, Kino Lorber), Inside Out, The Fisher King (Criterion)
Most overrated thing about 2015? It Follows
Most underrated thing about 2015? In The Heart of The Sea, SPECTRE
Thing that you were most excited about in 2015? Mad Max: Fury Road
Thing that disappointed you most in 2015? It Follows
Thing that you’re most looking forward to in 2016? Sherlock on January 1st!

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