Top Five _______ (I like lists, gosh darnit)

[iGotKittyPryde]

So I was watching the most recent of the longer weekly iFanboy video podcasts and they were asked the question 'what are your five favorite books coming out right now?' and I thought, wow, interesting, because while a bit generic of a question I don't remember the last time we had a thread of that sort on here (it probably wasn't that long ago, but oh well)

Anyway, mine goes like this, in no certain order:

Monthly Ongoing Comics

Captain America
Criminal
New Avengers
Ultimate Spider-Man
Thor

That got me thinking to books that USED to be in that catagory but have fallen off or ended:

Astonishing X-Men (judging from this week's issue, anyway)
Immortal Iron Fist
X-Factor
Y: The Last Man
She-Hulk (David just isn't up to snuff with Slott in my book, as far as this character's concerned)

And then there are books that aren't monthly or aren't ongoing or are on hiatus:

Non-monthly, non-ongoing or on hiatus
All Star Superman
Atomic Robo
Casanova
Secret Invasion
Young Avengers

Then there are the books that are consistently good but just not on that level:

Consistently good
Detective Comics
Nova
Amazing Spider-Man
Mighty Avengers
Daredevil

And new books, that just haven't been around long enough to be 'the best' but might heading there:

Best New Comics
Captain Britan and the MI-13
Young Liars
Invincible Iron Man
Guardians of the Galaxy
Astounding Wolf-Man (the last few have been pretty great and made me glad to have stuck around)

And then there are those books that go through arcs and/or issues that are AWESOME and arcs that are mediocre:

Inconsistent Comics
Batman (RIP is SO fucking good, not to mention batshit crazy, but the run has been all over the place, quality wise. Never BAD but often not great)
Thunderbolts (the first Ellis arc started 'eh' turned amazing, then the next one did the same thing but ended poorly... it's all over the place)
Amazing Spider-Man (but then that makes sense, considering it's all different creative teams)
X-Factor
Avengers: The Initative

Upcoming things, I'm looking forward to:
Captain America: White
Bru and Fraction Uncanny X-Men
Secret Warriors
Daredevil: End of Days
Spider-Woman: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

And finally, as far as comics go:
Comics that should be better, dammit!
THE FLASH (!!!!!!!!!)
Supergirl
Justice League of America
Titans
Cable

And now for other stuff, while I'm already going on far too long:

MUSIC!

Top 5 Albums from 2008
Lie in the Light by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Hold On, Youngster by Los Campesinios
On Mount Zoomer by Wolf Parade
Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit

So! Feel free to chime in on any of those, or add any of your own! Or ignore this entirely because it's too long and involved!

[Icaruss]

Thunderbolts (the first Ellis arc started 'eh' turned amazing, then the next one did the same thing but ended poorly... it's all over the place)

The Green Goblin walking around naked and telling Swordman he's the product of a pig caughing is not good enough for you?

[iGotKittyPryde]

The Green Goblin walking around naked and telling Swordman he's the product of a pig caughing is not good enough for you?

Apparently not! I LOVED the second to last issue, and the last one was fine, it just wasn't up to snuff, I didn't think.

I also didn't like the first issue or two.

I'm not saying any of it was bad, my enjoyment of it is wildly different issue to issue though.

[JoeE]

Top Five TV Shows (still airing):

Mad Men
Lost
Big Love
30 Rock
Flight of the Conchords

[AndrewG]

Current Comics:
1. 1985
2. Walking Dead
3. True Story, Swear to God
4. Star Wars: Legacy
5. Amazing Spider-Man

Current TV Shows
1. Californication
2. Office
3. Lost
4. Simpsons
5. Entourage

Movies Ever
1. Star Wars Episode IV
2. Die Hard
3. A Christmas Story
4. Stand By Me
5. Pulp Fiction

TV Shows Ever
1. Cheers
2. Simpsons
3. All in the Family
4. Happy Days
5. Sopranos

Comics Ever
1. Roger Stern Spider-Man run
2. DeMatteis Spider-Man run
3. Cerebus
4. Preacher
5. The Waiting Place

[SgtPepper]

Laurel Canyon Artists
1. Love
2. Frank Zappa
3. The Byrds
4. The Doors
5. Buffalo Springfield

[GrandeMaestro Fünke]

I'd say X-Factor's pretty consistent. Not as good as it was pre-MC, but still consistent. I'd also say Cable's been really good so far.

[Fygar]

Top Five Current Comics (Some of these I trade wait)

100 Bullets
New Avengers
Kick Ass
Walking Dead
Invincible

Y the Last Man and Local were in that list, but of course they ended.

Oh shit! I forgot about Scott Pilgrim. That's my favorite book currently being published.

[MAK15]

top 5 stuff is hard...

Top 5 Godzilla movies (showa era):
Destroy all monsters
Ghidorah, the Three headed Monster
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Godzilla (sans Raymond Burr)
Godzilla vs. Mothra

Top 5 Godzilla Movies (Heisei era)
The Return of Godzilla
Godzilla Vs. Destroyah
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Godzilla vs. Mothra: Battle for the Earth
Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla

Top 5 Godzilla Movies (Millennium era)
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla vs. Megaguiras
GMK
Godzilla Tokyo SOS
Godzilla 2000

[iGotKittyPryde]

I'd say X-Factor's pretty consistent. Not as good as it was pre-MC, but still consistent. I'd also say Cable's been really good so far.

I think part of it is the art, there has to have been like 10 different artists. And the last arc and the arc before Messiah Complex were a bit of a letdown. If I didn't like it so much to begin with, I might have dropped it, but I have hope that it'll come back strong coming up with it's few new characters and eventually, I'm hoping, the return of Layla, who was a VERY strong part of the cast.

Cable should be awesome. I like the set up in Messiah Complex a lot. But so far it feels glacially paced. I'm going to get the Bishop POV story in the Annual (or whatever it is) and the first issue of the next arc and if they aren't peaking my interest I'm dropping it, which is a shame because I wanted to like it.

[Matt O'Keefe]

I'd say X-Factor's pretty consistent. Not as good as it was pre-MC, but still consistent. I'd also say Cable's been really good so far.

It was great when allowed to operate in its own little world. But lately the character development is being replaced by plot.

[iGotKittyPryde]

Top 5 comics I want to get into but have to buy trades of and catch up:

Walking Dead
Invincible
(may I digress? I want to like Invincible, and probably WOULD have bought the trades and caught up if it wasn't for the Marvel Team-Up issue I bought totally spoiling like... several trades worth of storyline for me. I stopped like midpage on the page where it's just a storyline recap and stopped but it still felt like I'd not be getting the same shock reading the early trades that I would have otherwise)
Fables
Scalped
Green Lantern (I'm on board for Secret Origins because it doesn't spoil anything, but I want the other stuff before the big event next year, especially since everything I've read is pretty great)

[jason hissong]

My favorite Top 5 comics publishers:

1. :01
2. Top Shelf
3. Drawn and Quarterly
4. Marvel Comics
5. Light Speed Press

[Ray G.]

Top five current comics:

1. Fables
2. Green Lantern
3. USM
4. JSoA
5. This will change by the day, but either Action Comics, Teen Titans, or Booster Gold.

[Bryan H]

Comics:

1. Ultimate Spider-Man
2. Action Comics
3. Green Lantern
4. Avengers: The Initiative
5. Blue Beetle

[HOOKS]

Top Five Transformers Eras
The Beast Era - Transformers Beast Wars and Transformers Beast Machines TV Series
Simon Furman's Marvel U.S. Transformers Run - Transformers #57-80 and Transformers Generation Two #1-12
IDW's Transformers G1 Reimagining - Infiltration, Stormbringer, Escalation, Devastation, Revelation (with Spotlight)
Simon Furman's Marvel U.K. Transformers Run - Various
Transformers Animated - Episodes -29

Top Five X-Men Runs
Grant Morrison's NEW X-MEN
Chris Claremont's X-MEN (GIANT SIZED X-MEN + #94-137)
Joss Whedon's ASTONISHING X-MEN
Peter Milligan and Mike Allred's X-FORCE/X-STATIX
Warren Ellis and Steven Grant's X-MAN

Top Five Current Ongoing Comics
Ed Brubaker's CAPTAIN AMERICA
Ed Brubaker's CRIMINAL
Brian Azzarello's 100 BULLETS
Brian Bendis' NEW AVENGERS
Grant Morrison's ALL STAR SUPERMAN

Top Five Women I Haven't Slept With Yet
Megan Fox
Meagan Good
Jessica Biel
Scarlett Johanson
Gabrielle Union

[JoeE]

Top five books recently read:

A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Sacred by Dennis Lehane
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane

Basically, I think you should read Dennis Lehane books.

[Special Agent Bachman]

Top 5 Superheroes:

Spider-Man
Darkhawk
Daredevil
Captain America
Grifter

Top 5 Movies:

The Crow
The Departed
Black Snake Moan
Any Given Sunday
Payback

Top 5 Books:

Shogun
The Running Man
The Gunslinger
Black Hawk Down
Killing Pablo

Top 5 Videogames:

Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario 64
Blaster Master
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Metal Gear Solid 3

Top 5 Current Comics:

Thunderbolts
New Avengers
Daredevil
Captain America
Punisher MAX

Top 5 Comic Artists:

Travis Charest
Todd McFarlane
Walt Simonson
Joe Mad
Alex Maleev

Top 5 Comic Writers:

Stan Lee
Chris Claremont
Walt Simonson
Brian Bendis
Ed Brubaker

Top 5 Letterers:

Tom Orzechowski
Rick Parker
Richard Starkings
Dave Sim
Tom Mauer

Top 5 Colorists:

Travis Charest
Marie Severin
Brian Haberlin
Frank D'Armato
Dave McCaig

Top 5 Inkers:

Richard Friend
Danny Miki
Scott Williams
Tim Townsend
Travis Charest

Top 4 Ninja Turtles:

Donatello
Raphael
Leonardo
Michaelangelo

Top 5 Comics Magazines:

Not Wizard
Not Wizard
Not Wizard
Not Wizard
Not Wizard

Top 5 Favorite Bands:

Nirvana
Soundgarden
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Nine Inch Nails
Stone Temple Pilots

Top 5 Botched Comic Runs:

Austen's X-Men stuff
Morrison's Batman
Bendis's NA Collective arc
Miller's Dark Knight Strikes Again
Bendis's Avengers Disassembled/Finale

Top 5 Best Comic Runs:

Lee/Kirby's Fantastic Four
Any Stan Lee ASM
Bendis/Maleev's Daredevil
Ellis/Deodato's Thunderbolts
Michelinie/McFarlane's ASM

That's all I've got for now.

[ImLactoseIntolerantUJerk]

How have you heard the Hold Steady's new album? I don't think it's out yet, unless it was leaked somewhere and being a med student, i'm just not up to date with things.

[iGotKittyPryde]

How have you heard the Hold Steady's new album? I don't think it's out yet, unless it was leaked somewhere and being a med student, i'm just not up to date with things.

It did leak but it's also available on iTunes (though nowhere else, legally) and that's where I obtained it.

The physical copy is going to have like 4-5 bonus songs, once it's released a few weeks from now, though, so perhaps you'd want to wait for that. I'll probably just buy that too...

[Masculine Todd]

Top 5 Favorite Comics At the Moment:


Ultimate Spider-Man
New Avengers
The Vinyl Underground
Wasteland
Robin


Top 5 Comic Pencilers:


Darwyn Cooke
Bruce Timm
Cliff Chiang
Brian Lee O'Malley
Joe Mad


Top 5 Comic Writers:


Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Wood
Brian K. Vaughan
Brian Azzarello
Brian Lee O'Malley


So many, Brian's.

Top 5 Favorite Comic Books/Runs:


Demo
Black Hole
Scott Pilgrim series
Brian Bendis/Alex Maleev's Daredevil
Y: The Last Man


Top 5 Favorite Films of All Time:


High Fidelity
Garden State
The Way of the Gun
Rushmore
Sixteen Candles


Top 5 Favorite Books/Novels/Collections:


A Catcher in the Rye
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Naked Lunch
On The Road
Sex, Lies and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto

[jason hissong]

The Top Five Books that Changed my Life

1) Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
2) The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
3) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
4) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5) Shalimar the Clown by Rushdie

[PimpSlapStick!]

Monthly Ongoing Comics

Avengers: Initiative
Dare devil
Captain America
Blue Beetle
Green Lantern Corps
Captain Britian: MI15
The Boys

Non-monthly, non-ongoing or on hiatus

All Star Superman
Young Avengers
Cassanova
Fell

Consistently good

Daredevil
Immortal Ironfist
Avengers: Initiative
Captain America

Best New Comics

Captain Britan and the MI-13
Guardians of the Galaxy

Inconsistent Comics

New Avengers
Hulk

Upcoming things, I'm looking forward to:

Captain America: White
Secret Warriors
Spider-Woman: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
RunAways

Comics that should be better, dammit!

All the X-titles (Exception being X-factor)
Flash
Black Panther
Black Panther
Black Panther

and oh yeah, Black Panther

My Top 5 Writers

Dan Slott
Ed Brubaker
Garth Ennis
Robert Kirkman
Christopher Priest

My Top 10 Artists

Frank Quitely
Steve McNiven
Timothy Green II
Scott kolins
Bryan Hitch
Humberto Ramos
Tim Bradstreet
Doug Mahnke
Adi Granov
J.G. Jones

Top Albums from 2008

Graduation - Kanye West
Finding Forever - Common

[jason hissong]

Top Five Favorite Comics Creators

1) David Mack
2) Will Eisner
3) Jack Kirby
4) Eddie Campbell
5) Paul Hornschenmeier

[HoldFastNow]

Top 5 albums of 2008 (so far)

Gaslight Anthem - The 59 Sound
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Los Campesinos! - Hold On, Youngsters!
The Loved Ones - Build and Burn
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


5 Current Comics

Criminal
Scalped
Echo
All-Star Superman
Walking Dead


All-time TV shows

The Wire
LOST
Arrested Development
Buffy
Futurama

[MAK15]

Top 5 people I want to see The Hood shoot in the crotch:
Daredevil
Wolverine
Doctor Doom (Doom always wears a metal cup, cretin!)
Galactus
Frank Castle. Man can survive 'bout anything. but would his will to complete his mission hold without a dick?

[Kingsumo]

Top Five comics that make me happy

1. Nova
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Zorro
4. Omega the Unknown
5. Ghost Rider

Top Five comics that are really well written

1. Iron Man D.O.S.
2. Captain America
3. Thor
4. New Avengers
5. Punisher MAX

[jason hissong]

Top Five Favorite Legion of Superher Members

1) Brainiac
2) M'Onel
3) Shrinking Violet
4) Timber Wolf
5) Light Lass

[Bryan H]

Top five video games I'm currently addicted to:

1. World of Warcraft (We're on Illidan! Woohoo!)
2. NBA 2K9 (I play this with a friend, we have a franchise going. Good times)
3. Professor Layton and the Curious Village
4. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
5. Grand Theft Auto 4 (I've been slacking a lot, though)


Top five current favorite wrestlers:

1. CM Punk (World Champion CM Punk, that is!)
2. Bryan Danielson
3. Santino Marella
4. John Morrison & The Miz
5. Edge


Top five favorite numbers:

1. 13
2. 7
3. 2
4. 42
5. 3

[HoldFastNow]

Top 5 seasons of The Wire

Four
Three
One
Two
Five