Comics
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The Arrival – Shaun Tan
Ball Peen Hammer – Adam Rapp and George O’Connor
Berlin Volume 2 – Jason Lutes
The Education of Hopey Glass – Jaime Hernandez
Ex Machina: Dirty Tricks; Ring Out the Old – Brian K Vaughan & Tony Harris
I Kill Giants – Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura
I Killed Adolf Hitler – Jason
Low Moon – Jason
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier – Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
Omega the Unknown – Jonathan Lethem and Farel Dalrymple
Planetary: Spacetime Archaeology – Warren Ellis & John Cassaday
Powers: The Sellouts; Forever; 25 Greatest Dead Superheroes of All Time – Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming
Scalped: The Gravel in Your Gut – Jason Aaron & R M Guera
Stitches: A Memoir – David Small
Usagi Yojimbo: Tomoe’s Story – Stan Sakai
The Walking Dead – Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
The Complete Zot! – Scott McCloud
A bit sad to see the end of Planetary and Ex Machina but The Walking Dead and Scalped carry the torch onward.
Books
- Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
The Constant Gardener – John Le Carre
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-city Neighbourhood – David Simon and Ed Burns
Crafty TV Writing – Alex Epstein
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon
Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
I suspect Blood Meridian has ruined all other western fiction for me.
Scripts
- 30 Rock – various
The 40 Year Old Virgin – Judd Apatow and Steve Carell
The American – Rowan Joffe
The Blind Side – John Lee Hancock
The Book of Eli – Gary Whitta
Green Zone – Paul Greengrass
Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
Out of Sight – Scott Frank
Scrubs (pilot) – Bill Lawrence
Starting Out in the Evening – Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner
The Shield: Circles – Shawn Ryan
Three Kings – David O Russell
Valkyrie – Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander
I’m pretty sure Out of Sight and Three Kings are re-reads, but I just can’t remember for sure. And if they were, they were just as enjoyable this time ’round.
Theatre
- His Mother’s Son – Leilani Unasa
Le Tauvaga – Louise Tu’u
Raising the Titanics – Albert Belz
Two Old Women – Velma Wallis
I suspect I may be cheating here by having just one actual production – Belz’s Titanics – surrounded by three readings but… these were the ones I marked as having made an impact.
