THE FORCEYS (EMBASSY SUITES) This year's 8th Annual Forcey Awards took place on the last night of the 2013 Comic Con. We gathered with four other Strikeforce members represented and a slightly confused friend of Grace's trying to figure out what was happening. Cantankerous Chris commented on the weakness of this year's winners and Samsung Steve live tweeted the results to 10s of waiting fans. Without further ado - your 2013 Forcey Award Winners . . .
BEST MOVIE - Pacific Rim. A write-in wins in a landslide. Django Unchained and Skyfall can't even make a dent into the last minute Summer excitement of Pacific Rim.
BEST COMIC - Hawkeye. There was a close push from Batman '66 and Superman Family Adventures. But Hawkeye hit the bullseye and broke the hold that Buffy has had on this category.
BEST MUSIC - Daft Punk - Random Access Memory. Black Sabbath put up a fight but it couldn't beat the juggernaut of Daft Punk. The boys gave us the song of the Summer and brought home the Forcey. Plus, there was a call for this category to lose the "Best CD' title and we'll just go with music, no matter how you consume it.
BEST OF TV - Game of Thrones. In a sea of great TV shows, votes were all over the board but this one inched out a victory. We are full of quality shows and I wouldn't have been disappointed no matter who won. Votes came in for Network, Cable, Pay Cable and Netflix shows. Making a push was Arrested Development, Justified, The Good Wife and previous winners Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.
BEST OF THE WEB - Netflix / Twitter. Once again, votes were split amongst all nominees, but these two are worthy winners. This is the 2nd win for Netflix. Warner Archives and Comixology were strong in the runnerup status. Previous three time winner YouTube.com did not even make the final ballot.
COOLEST ITEM OF THE YEAR - Aw Yeah Comics. Chris tried to deflect this as a BS winner - that it qualifies under "personal" victories. But he was shouted down, it's cool. Others getting solid votes included Shout Factory's Scream Factory line, Supreme Court ruling DOMA illegal and Amercian Comic Book Chronicles.
STRIKEFORCE HALL OF DOOM - a record six inductees were added to our roster aka "The Kirby"
Ennio Morricone
James Bond
Jaws
Neil Gaiman
Rankin & Bass
Stephen King
All excellent choices and some that have gone years of coming close and finally got over the hump this year. This brings the total members of the Hall to 36. All worthy of their own wing. Another year just out of the voting . . . Star Trek, John Williams, Harrison Ford and Steve Ditko.
THE KINNEY - Women's Rights In Texas. Once again, no clear cut winner and this one pulled in one more vote than many other choices. Can't say we're proud of this victory in most of Texas. This even beat out Hurricane Sandy.
BLAST FROM THE PAST - BEST REISSUE - Jaws Blu-ray w/The Shark Is Still Working. Essentially this Hall of Doom winner got this award based on a most excellent "extra" on the disc. A doc worthy of a separate purchase if I didn't get it on the disc. And our first double winner is very important because of the affect it has had on so many of us from that generation. Bond 50 set and Clint Eastwood 40 Film Collection could not touch the single film of Jaws.
The post-Forcey parties are always legendary. This year included a great trip to the Hilton bar and after walking through parts of downtown San Diego I've never seen - we settled on some excellent after hours tacos. Because other than copious amounts of whiskey, nothing really says Forceys like a late night taco.
And with that we cast an eye towards Forceys 2014.
"So lets raise the bar.and our cups the the stars." Stay hard.
sb
BEST MOVIE - Pacific Rim. A write-in wins in a landslide. Django Unchained and Skyfall can't even make a dent into the last minute Summer excitement of Pacific Rim.
BEST COMIC - Hawkeye. There was a close push from Batman '66 and Superman Family Adventures. But Hawkeye hit the bullseye and broke the hold that Buffy has had on this category.
BEST MUSIC - Daft Punk - Random Access Memory. Black Sabbath put up a fight but it couldn't beat the juggernaut of Daft Punk. The boys gave us the song of the Summer and brought home the Forcey. Plus, there was a call for this category to lose the "Best CD' title and we'll just go with music, no matter how you consume it.
BEST OF TV - Game of Thrones. In a sea of great TV shows, votes were all over the board but this one inched out a victory. We are full of quality shows and I wouldn't have been disappointed no matter who won. Votes came in for Network, Cable, Pay Cable and Netflix shows. Making a push was Arrested Development, Justified, The Good Wife and previous winners Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.
BEST OF THE WEB - Netflix / Twitter. Once again, votes were split amongst all nominees, but these two are worthy winners. This is the 2nd win for Netflix. Warner Archives and Comixology were strong in the runnerup status. Previous three time winner YouTube.com did not even make the final ballot.
COOLEST ITEM OF THE YEAR - Aw Yeah Comics. Chris tried to deflect this as a BS winner - that it qualifies under "personal" victories. But he was shouted down, it's cool. Others getting solid votes included Shout Factory's Scream Factory line, Supreme Court ruling DOMA illegal and Amercian Comic Book Chronicles.
STRIKEFORCE HALL OF DOOM - a record six inductees were added to our roster aka "The Kirby"
Ennio Morricone
James Bond
Jaws
Neil Gaiman
Rankin & Bass
Stephen King
All excellent choices and some that have gone years of coming close and finally got over the hump this year. This brings the total members of the Hall to 36. All worthy of their own wing. Another year just out of the voting . . . Star Trek, John Williams, Harrison Ford and Steve Ditko.
THE KINNEY - Women's Rights In Texas. Once again, no clear cut winner and this one pulled in one more vote than many other choices. Can't say we're proud of this victory in most of Texas. This even beat out Hurricane Sandy.
BLAST FROM THE PAST - BEST REISSUE - Jaws Blu-ray w/The Shark Is Still Working. Essentially this Hall of Doom winner got this award based on a most excellent "extra" on the disc. A doc worthy of a separate purchase if I didn't get it on the disc. And our first double winner is very important because of the affect it has had on so many of us from that generation. Bond 50 set and Clint Eastwood 40 Film Collection could not touch the single film of Jaws.
The post-Forcey parties are always legendary. This year included a great trip to the Hilton bar and after walking through parts of downtown San Diego I've never seen - we settled on some excellent after hours tacos. Because other than copious amounts of whiskey, nothing really says Forceys like a late night taco.
And with that we cast an eye towards Forceys 2014.
"So lets raise the bar.and our cups the the stars." Stay hard.
sb
