We at borg.com want to wish you a festive and safe New Year’s Eve and a spectacular 2017.  We’re entering our seventh calendar year of daily updates here, and we want to say thanks for reading.  We wish everyone a great new year.

We can all look forward to plenty of anniversaries ahead in 2017:

In the film industry John Ford, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, and Bela Lugosi had their film debuts 100 years ago.

Charles Schulz’s Woodstock from Peanuts turns 50.

The comic book characters Ghost Rider, Barbara Gordon, Deadman, Blue Beetle, and Ronan the Accuser turn 50.  Huntress, Cerebus, and Judge Dredd turn 40.

Valerian, the lead character in the new Luc Besson movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, turns 50.

Star Wars turns 40.  Look for a volley of marketing from Disney about this throughout the year to rival Star Trek’s fiftieth observance last year, including 48 variant covers from Marvel Comics, like this Stuart Immonen artwork:

Image Comics turns 25 in 2017.  Look for some titles including The Walking Dead to drop to 25 cents for the month of February.

The Jungle Book, The Dirty Dozen, and the original Casino Royale turn 50.  Along with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind turns 40. E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, Tron, and The Dark Crystal turn 35.  Predator, The Princess Bride, and RoboCop turn 30.  Unforgiven, A Few Good Men, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and My Cousin Vinny turn 25.

Fifty years ago–in 1967–The Beatles released its Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, and Rolling Stone magazine published its first issue, and Marx Toys released their line of Best of the West toys, including Geronimo and Fighting Eagle, and the Fort Apache metal playset.

In science news from 1967, the world’s first heart transplant was performed, and NASA faced one of its lowest points as astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffey, and Ed White perished in the fateful launch of Apollo 1–all 50 years ago.

So there’s plenty to reflect on throughout 2017.  But back to New Year’s… Six (yep, six!) years ago we posted a YouTube clip we thought we’d re-post here to welcome in the new year, from Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (and it’s now been watched nearly 18 million times!):

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Happy New Year!

C.J. Bunce
Editor
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