The one hundred seventh album: #107 The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Starting off with Sympathy of the Devil, the expectation for Beggars Banquet is set as something high energy, dark and feeding into the aggressive nature the Rolling Stones would stand to promote. Following up with No Expectations, that gets squashed as it's a quieter blues number, a ballad that takes that quieter direction.
And that's the contradiction at the heart of this album - while the songs the Stones became most famous for (at least in my mind) are like the first track, they seem at their most comfortable moving towards blues (often blues rock) and mixing in these heavier songs where they seem right - often followed by a lighter ballad.
The fourty-ninth comic: #497 Zot!
Superhero comics can often end up in a pretty repetitive structure, like Captain America, where the characters move on enough but the world doesn't change that much - all of that to create an ongoing monthly storyline that can last decades. Zot isn't that, instead it's a superhero with its own arcs, where Scott McCloud took breaks between storylines to let them breathe. In particular, the shift from colour to black and white is a significant shift that turns the comic from a "better in another world" superhero story to something that examines more what it's like to be a superhero, how one would fare in the real world and examining how it fits with other social issues. It's an interesting setup, and been lauded as a great deconstruction of the genre. I don't think that was the original intention, but it works well here.
Beyond all that, Zot stays readable, with very expressive art and worth reading through at any point - as a thought through superhero construction or as a commentary on that, as well as at least some more in depth teen school drama.