It was the year 2005...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:07 pm

Happy New Year to one and all. And how was 2005 for you? We've asked some of our friends and favourite creators for some of their top picks from the last year and it's right here for your reading pleasure (plus a couple of exclusive pics).

http://www.transfans.net/interviews_2005.php

Special thanks to Den & Smooth.

So, you've heard what they had to say... tell us some of your favourite movies, comics, books and music from the last 12 months...

simonf123 · Post by **simonf123** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:20 pm

And here's mine. Must've got lost in the email shuffle...

Favourite Films of 2005: Sin City, The Descent, War of the Worlds
Favourite Albums of 2005: Employment (by the Kaiser Chiefs) and You Could Have it So Much Better (by Franz Ferdinand)
Favourite TV of 2005: Casanova, Bleak House, Doctor Who, Lost (and, on DVD, Sopranos and 24)
Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Ultimates, Planetary
Personal Highlights of the year: IDW picking up the TF license, Marvel readers voting Death’s Head the next character for an Amazing Fantasy revamp

--Simon Furman

Post by **Denyer** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:43 pm

Sorted.

Right, I'm off to sort out this evening... have a good one, everyone!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:18 pm

Thanks for stopping by Simon.

spiderfrommars wrote:tell us some of your favourite movies, comics, books and music from the last 12 months...

In answer to my own question...

Favourite Films of 2005: Sin City, Batman Begins, Closer, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Favourite Albums of 2005: 'Leaders of the Free World' - Elbow, 'Employment' - Kaiser Chiefs
Favourite TV of 2005: Doctor Who, Extras
Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Mainly caught up with old stuff, including Preacher and Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing
Personal Highlights of the year: The BBC finally giving me a job! They finally saw sense...

Anyone else?

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:21 am

Admit it, Paul, your highlight was meeting me.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:08 pm

Heres me!

Favourite Films of 2005: Sin City, Batman, War of the Worlds
Favourite Albums of 2005: Hard-Fi, Stars Of CCTV
Favourite TV of 2005:Neighbours (because of the 20 year aniversary) PEEP SHOW, extras.
Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Dead Sun - Black Sky.
Personal Highlights of the year: Me getting into Uni to do a BAs at the grand age of 27!!

Hello Simon

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:20 pm

Favourite Films of 2005: Sin City

Favourite Albums of 2005: Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV, Editors - The backroom, Coldplay - X&Y

Favourite TV of 2005: Doctor Who, Peep Show, New Battlestar Galactica, Drawn togther (the world's first animated reality TV show)

Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: The Beast Wars preview comic, otherwise I feel 2005 was a bit bit dry comic-wise.

Personal Highlights of the year: Visiting New York and watching the Monty Python Musical.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:20 pm

sprunkner wrote:Admit it, Paul, your highlight was meeting me.

Close...

edit - i bloody love that Dan Reed pic. good stuff.

Thanks to all who participated, hopefully we can make this an annual event. Cheers.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:01 pm

Barely watched TV and saw about 2 (mediocre) movies in the theatre this year, so I'm going to pass on those, sorry.

Favourite Albums of 2005: I guess System of Down - Mesmerize/Hypnotize.

Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005:
Got turned onto Invincible and Runaways this year, love them both.
Ultimates 2.
The ever-reliable Punisher.
Fell and Rex Libris, which are only 3 and 2 issues each so far, but have been bloody great fun.
Any comic with Spider-Man in it that's not actually a Spider-Man title, it would appear.

Books…Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Banksy’s Wall and Piece. The former is an extremely tight and unusual love story and the second a gorgeous photo collection of Banksy’s graffitti/vandalisms.

Personal Highlights of the year:
Buying my first house.
The Brighton comic con was great fun.
(There was a moment relevant to here I haven't mentioned when, during the Marvel Q+A, a chap at the back shouted out “When’s Death’s Head coming back?” Guy got a bit of a shock when a couple of dozen people, including the panel, hit him with “He is back!” in reply.)

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:53 pm

OK, here's me:

Favourite films:
Hm, it's difficult to remember what I've seen and what I've missed. But I'll go for Narnia and Star Wars Ep 3.

Favourite albums:
I really don't keep up with any music scene, so I'll have to pass.

Favourite TV:
Doctor Who. Was there anything else on TV?

Favourite Comics/books:
I've not brought many comics in the last year. My favourite new book was probably The Gallifrey Chronicles, which concluded the eighth Doctor part of the Doctor Who range.

Personal highlight:
Ditching the job I was doing back in January for the one I've got now. I'm back to working sociable hours, getting paid more, and doing something that's that bit more enjoyable. Close seconds are moving into my own flat - it's the first time I've been on my own rather than sharing, and I now own furniture; and seeing my website take off.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:05 pm

Favourite Films of 2005: Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith
Favourite TV of 2005: Lost
Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Transformers #0
Favorite Books read: R.A. Salvatore's latest Drizzt Do'Urden series
Personal Highlights of the year:
-performing cataract surgery on a man who had been blind from congenital cataracts his whole life, and him seeing for the first time!
-IDW picking up the TF license,
-making the final of two local tennis tournaments after thinking I was washed up,
-visiting Hawaii for the first time
Worst Moment of the Year: Bush still in office

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:47 pm

Yaya wrote:
performing cataract surgery on a man who had been blind from congenital cataracts his whole life, and him seeing for the first time!

Wow.

Favourite Films of 2005: Serenity, Mirrormask, Batman Begins, Narnia
Favourite TV of 2005: Veronica Mars (didn't think it could get better than the first season) and Arrested Development. Oh, and that History Channel special on the Crusades.
Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Oh, geez... New Warriors, Ultimates 2, New Avengers and books: George RR Martin: A Feast For Crows and Fevre Dream, plus about a billion others.

Personal Highlights:
Going to London and Europe, seeing a buttoad of plays, buying French lingerie in Paris (ooh la la) seeing peace walls, murals and many many graves in Belfast, meeting Besty, Angloconvoy, Legion and Emvee, sleeping on Emvee's couch.

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:31 pm

Good to see Simon Furman is a fellow 24 DVD fanatic... And what BBC job is it he's got? And that most of the UK based peeps put Who on their lists.

As for mine (because I'm sure you all cared...)

Favorite Film: Batman Begins, with an honourable mention to Hitch Hiker's for not being as bad as it threatened to be, even if it wasn't as brilliant as it had the potential to be... Though I haven't seen King Kong or Serenity yet.

Favorite TV: Doctor Who and 24.

Favorite Album: Not really a big album buyer, but the new Robie one is rather good, as is Girls Aloud's lattest effort.

Favorite Comic: Read Watchmen for the first time. Yes it's old, but frankly deserves to win every year... I've also started buying Fantastic Four now JMS is writting, and I'm liking it so far.

Favorite Book: THUD by Terry Pratchett. Mans a genius. Also, Gareth Roberts Doctor Who: Only Human is the sort of spin of novel that makes you wish the writter was working on the TV show.

Personal Highlight of the Year: Finding the hitherto mythical 1994 Transformers Special that reprinted the Carnavic storyline on Ebay... Meaning I was able to show Cliffjumper somthing about the comic he didn't know about. Which rocked.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:27 pm

Favourite Films of 2005: King Kong, Serenity, Batman Begins, Sin City
Favourite Albums of 2005: Rammstein's Rosenrot
Favourite TV of 2005: I rarely watch TV.
Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Infinite Crisis, Y-The Last Man, Amazing Spider-Man.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:33 am

inflatable dalek wrote:an honourable mention to Hitch Hiker's for not being as bad as it threatened to be, even if it wasn't as brilliant as it had the potential to be...

I can forgive quite a lot because of all the bits featuring marine wildlife... and I think a lot of people switched off after the first segment on Earth was accelerated through with harsh cuts.

Bill Bailey deserves... well, anything he wants, really.

inflatable dalek wrote:Finding the hitherto mythical 1994 Transformers Special that reprinted the Carnavic storyline on Ebay... Meaning I was able to show Cliffjumper somthing about the comic he didn't know about. Which rocked.

Have we got a cover scan for that one?

*looks*

Have ye access to a scanner, by any chance?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:21 am

-Favourite Films of 2005: Batman Begins, naturally. Also liked The Brothers Grimm and Narnia - altough I watched the latter yesterday so it doesn't count.

-Favourite Albums of 2005: Umm, I don't really listen to this new stuff.

-Favourite TV of 2005: Justice Leage Unlimited season 2 and 3 (if only we'd get a TF show of that quality), Star Trek Next Generation (yes, they are airing it only now in Hungary - many thanks, great Soviet Brother

)

-Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005: Umm, I started downloading lots of old comics, and hardly any new ones. But I guess I liked the new Supreme Power series. And of course, IDW #1!

-Personal Highlights of the year: Moved to my own flat in May and started living on my own.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:01 pm

Favourite Films of 2005:
Crash, Batman Begins, Sin City, Serenity

Favourite Albums of 2005:
The Back Room ~ Editors; Stars of CCTV ~ Hard-Fi; Silent Alarm ~ Bloc Party; Mezmerize ~ System of a Down

Favourite TV of 2005:
Lost, Alias, House, CSI (Vegas and NY)...

Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005:
Astonishing X-Men; Exiles

Personal Highlights of the year:
Being at SMS for Saints' 4-3 win over Norwich. Though overshadowed by the fact that we still got relegated.
Little moments here and there that made me realise who my real friends were.
Reading the Transfest comic and seeing the reaction to it. That was fun.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:23 pm

Oooh this is great

Well done everyone.

Anyway, here's mine:
Favourite Films of 2005:
Sin City, Serenity, Land of the Dead (it wasn't that great but it was a new George A. movie and it's about time we had one of those)

Favourite Albums of 2005:
The Duke Spirit, Gorillaz, Maximo Park, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers have all stood out for me this year. Hard Fi. Oh, and Pop Will Eat Itself's "Sonic Noise Byte".

Favourite TV of 2005:
Lost (like everyone else), Doctor Who, South Park, Life in the Undergrowth.

Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005:
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, the Shaun of the Dead comic (it's about the only comic I bought this year), the first Darwin Awards book.

Personal Highlights of the year:
Finally getting a new job and going to San Francisco (as well as the Netherlands and Portugal), meeting sprunkner and Mrs. sprunkner, Transfest, Glastonbury...going to see Pop Wwill Eat Itself three times in three days and then having them release new material after 9 years of nothing was pretty good too

[edit] oh, and another little preview for 2006:
http://www.robleesejones.com/images/robotwar.gif

Spent a few hours working on this last night, it now runs about 30 times more quickly. Just need to add ammo, skills, building types and character classes other than "car" and "seeker". Definitely getting there, though.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:09 pm

thats so freaking cool!
Is it set on cybertron on earth... *hints at cybe*

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:20 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:thats so freaking cool!
Is it set on cybertron on earth... *hints at cybe*

I've just discovered how to input a graphical map into the database - that was the thing that was slowing me down - but now I've learned Python, I'm busy drawing up a map of Cybertron (Great Rust Sea, anyone?) and I'm planning some sort of space bridge technology. So yes, the first release should have two planets and two factions with more to come

Incidentally, this is the playing area for planet Earth (1 pixel = 1 game square):

This is all live now, I have exploratory seekers as far afield as Canada, Britain and New Zealand.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:49 am

That looks/sounds wicked, emvee, cheers for the sneak-peak!

Post by **Best First** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:47 am

simonf123
Neo-Knight. You have our condolences

i suddenly feel bad about our ranking system...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:52 am

Best First wrote:
simonf123
Neo-Knight. You have our condolences
i suddenly feel bad about our ranking system...

He brought it on himself, he invented them

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:04 pm

Best First wrote:
simonf123
Neo-Knight. You have our condolences
i suddenly feel bad about our ranking system...

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:13 pm

Simon Furman
Writer / editor, especially of Transformers stuff
www.wildfur.net

Favourite Albums of 2005:
Employment (by the Kaiser Chiefs) and You Could Have it So Much Better (by Franz Ferdinand.)

KCs were one of the better musical groups at Live8.

Chris Ryall
IDW Editor-In-Chief
www.idwpublishing.com

Favourite Albums of 2005:
System of a Down's Mesmerize/Hypnotize
Neil Diamond's 12 Songs
The Eels' Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Black Rebel Motorcyle Club's Howl
Turbonegro's Party Animals
Madness' The Dangermen Sessions, Vol. 1
Wilco's Kicking Televisions
Foo Fighters' In Your Honor
Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine
The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute
Queens of the Stone Age's Lullabies to Paralyze

Yeah, Fiona Apple's album is very good. One of the best albums I'd heard in 2005. Cat Power's "The Greatest" will be a good 'un in 2006 I'd say.

Richard Starkings
Marvel Transformers editor and letterer
www.hipflask.com

Favourite Albums of 2005:
AERIAL by Kate Bush. Well worth waiting for!

Yes! "An Architect's Dream" and "A Coral Room" being my preferred tracks from it.

Lee Sullivan
Marvel and Panini Transformers artist
www.leesullivan.co.uk

Favourite Albums of 2005:
Due to iPodding, mostly rediscovery of older stuff; currently Human League's 'Secrets', B52s entire catalogue, Goldfrapp, perennially Roxy Music's entire output (see below).

Personal Highlights of the year:
Accidentally meeting Brian Eno; playing sax/synth sax/theremin in Roxy Magic; the Roxy Music tribute band I'm in - it's a real blast (ho ho) to play to appreciative audiences the stuff that made me learn the instrument in the first place. The contrast of working in a band with immediate creative satisfaction/audience feedback is such a contrast to my primary career. See www.roxymagic.com .

Very interesting. Some say you should never met your idols. Roxy Music are a totally great band. They've a new album coming out in late 2006 (after a gap of 25 years or thereabouts).

Ryan Yzquierdo
Webmaster
www.seibertron.com

Favourite Films of 2005:
40 Year Old Virgin (funniest movie ever!), Batman Begins and (of course) Star Wars Revenge of the Sith.

40YOV was quite funny. Not consistently gut-bustingly so, but good nonetheless. Carrell is a good comedic actor (Anchorman is also good fun too).

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:58 pm

okay... though honestly, I think I've done enough reflecting, now that I've found, I want to add too.

Favourite Films of 2005:
HP, Batman, Sin City, Land of the Dead, HHGTTG... yes I'm referencing other people's lists to remember what I've seen and liked, thank you.

films I want to see: Chronicles of Narnia, Memoirs of a Geisha. At the moment.

Also, Pirates of The Carribean. Whenever I'm bored or feel like crap, I watch Pirates of The Carribean. I do end up watching it often.

Favourite Albums of 2005: Quite liked the new Trews and SOAD's "Mezmerize", though I've been listening to a lot of different stuff this year and I don't think much of it is current. Eels, mostly. 2005 was the year for new [to me] stuff, older punk music and a growing appreciation for Green Day.

I've also been going back through my collection as of late and have been listening to quite a bit of Tom petty and Alice Cooper, I don't know if that counts.

Favourite TV of 2005:

House. Lost. CSI's.

Favourite Comics and/or Books of 2005:

I don't know anymore! *sobs*

Books: Lessee... um... that I can remember, I've read part[s] of Mona Lisa Overdrive, Neuromancer, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Vampire Lestat, Pandora, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?, Memnoch the Devil and the Vampire Armand within the last two months of the year. All of them are favourites and all of them I've read before, except for the George Carlin book, which is newer.

Comics: Transmetropolitan, for one. I have a lot of comics that I'm reading/have read/still need to read. Mostly still need to read.

Personal Highlights of the year:
Moving. Having my mother a good 2 hours away from me [far enough for me, but not too far to visit on occasion] has improved our relationship by leaps and bounds. Developing a backbone has helped tremendously also.

Meeting the people I know. Finding a friend from ages ago I didn't think I'd ever see again was a pleasant surprise. Finally deciding that I will go back to school and deciding what I'll be going back for.

Oh. And [after a particularily booze-filled night] getting caught snogging it up with a guy friend at a bar by a chick whose [gossipy, gossipy] mother works with mine. That was... after the slight period of panic and paranoia... hilarious. It was a mental turning point in that I realized that I don't particularily care if anyone [parents] approves of the choices I make anymore. Which is a good thing, given that I've spent a good portion of my life hiding the choices I've made.

Did I mention it was hilarious?

Anyway. The way I see it, 2006=time to grow up some, I think. For me anyway. Stop living in the past and start thinking ahead, etc.

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:07 pm

Would just like to add to my "comics of 2005" bit: Fell. Just downloaded 1-3, just ordered 1-3. Utterly brilliant.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:21 am

Denyer wrote:Would just like to add to my "comics of 2005" bit: Fell. Just downloaded 1-3, just ordered 1-3. Utterly brilliant.

Excellent. I think #3 has been my favourite so far.

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:13 pm

Denyer wrote: Bill Bailey deserves... well, anything he wants, really.

He'd probably have made a better Ford... But then so would my two year old Niece. i enjoyed the film a lot more on DVD, but the real problem is that the two main charecters are just badly miscast (Which in Freeman's case is odd as he seemed a good bet on paper). Which is annoying as most of the rest were spot on- especialy Bill Nighy who showed it is possiable to reinvent an established charecter with such ease you forget he was ever any different.

Denyer wrote:Have ye access to a scanner, by any chance?

Sadly I don't (though I don't have the comic to scan anyway), I did point Cliffy in the direction of the auction though, and if he was quick enough he might have copied the photo. I came this close to placing a bid on it as owning the last ever Marvel UK TF title would be quite nice even if it was just reprints, but the cover was loose. It was the Death of a Decepticon! cover though, which is a wonder for the latter specials as that text made it very nearly relevent to the contents...

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