COMICS 2007

I read quite a few comics in 2007, though I didn't really nearly as much as I wanted to (never do). I read a mix of ongoing comics and trades (or OGNs), so this list cobbles together the best of all of them...

1. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
2. Booster Gold
3. All-Star Superman
4. Nexus Archives
5. Fables/Jack of Fables
6. Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist Story
7. Doctor Strange: The Oath
8. Justice Society of America
9. 52
10. Batman

STORIES 2007

When you read over 200 stories a year, it's hard to remember all of them. I don't know that this will be a strict top ten, although the top story is definitely the best story I've read this year. Otherwise, these are the stories I remember most from the past year...

1. "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang
2. "Unpossible" by Daryl Gregory
3. "Urdumheim" by Michael Swanwick
4. "Jesus Christ, Reanimator" by Ken MacLeod
5. "Don't Ask" by M. Rickert
6. "Voluntary Committal" by Joe Hill
7. "Yellow Card Man" by Paolo Bacigalupi
8. "The Ice Dragon" by George R.R. Martin
9. "I, Row-Boat" by Cory Doctorow
10. "X-Country" by Robert Reed

TV 2007

I watched a lot of TV in 2007, which is nothing new. Here are the shows I liked the best and the characters from each show who are a big part of the reason I watch...

1. The Wire - Lester Freamon
2. The Office - Dwight Schrute
3. Lost - John Locke
4. Flight of the Conchords - Jemaine and Bret
5. It's Always Sunny in Phildelphia - Charlie Kelly
6. 30 Rock - Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy
7. Doctor Who - Rose Tyler
8. Chuck - Chuck Bartowski
9. Battlestar Galactica - Starbuck
10. Torchwood - Gwen Cooper

MOVIES 2007

I saw more movies in the theater this year than I have in years and years. However, I haven't been to the movies since the end of July. Thanks to Netflix I've caught some other movies that I missed, though I still haven't seen Superbad or The Bourne Ultimatum or No Country For Old Men or Juno or Walk Hard, to name five. I'm also going to include a movie on my list that didn't release widely until earlier this year, though it was nominated for Oscars last year...it's that good.

1. Knocked Up
2. Children of Men
3. Ratatouille
4. Zodiac
5. 300
6. Transformers
7. The Simpsons Movie
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
9. Once
10. Grindhouse

MUSIC 2007

I may be one of the last bloggers to get around to my list of top ten CDs for the year. That's okay, it's not like I'm on the cutting edge. I thought it was a really good year for music and it was hard to pare things down to the best 10. Or my favorite 10...however you want to call it. My favorite artist released a new album this year and it's quite good but it didn't make the list. Sorry, Bruce. Sorry also to Dinosaur Jr. and A.A. Bondy and Sea Wolf and Pela and Elliott Smith and Kings of Leon and John Vanderslice and Sloan and Bishop Allen (though you guys made it last year with different versions of many of the songs off your album). Here's what did make the cut...

1. Wilco/Sky Blue Sky
2. Spoon/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. New Pornographers/Challengers
4. The National/Boxer
5. Radiohead/In Rainbows
6. Arcade Fire/Neon Bible
7. The Broken West/I Can't Go On I'll Go On
8. Band of Horses/Cease to Begin
9. Okkervil River/The Stage Names
10. The Shins/Wincing the Night Away