{"id":1268,"date":"2011-01-10T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2011-01-10T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:00:28","slug":"2010-in-pictures-text-and-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2010-in-pictures-text-and-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 in Pictures, Text and Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Comics<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<em>The Arrival<\/em> &#8211; Shaun Tan<br \/>\n <em>Ball Peen Hammer<\/em> &#8211; Adam Rapp and George O&#8217;Connor<br \/>\n <em>Berlin Volume 2<\/em> &#8211; Jason Lutes<br \/>\n <em>The Education of Hopey Glass<\/em> &#8211; Jaime Hernandez<br \/>\n <em>Ex Machina:  Dirty Tricks; Ring Out the Old<\/em> &#8211; Brian K Vaughan &#038; Tony Harris<br \/>\n<em> I Kill Giants<\/em> &#8211; Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura<br \/>\n<em> I Killed Adolf Hitler<\/em> &#8211; Jason<br \/>\n <em>Low Moon<\/em> &#8211; Jason<br \/>\n<em> League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:  Black Dossier <\/em>&#8211; Alan Moore &#038; Kevin O&#8217;Neill<br \/>\n <em>Omega the Unknown<\/em> &#8211; Jonathan Lethem and Farel Dalrymple<br \/>\n<em> Planetary:  Spacetime Archaeology<\/em> &#8211; Warren Ellis &#038; John Cassaday<br \/>\n <em>Powers: The Sellouts; Forever; 25 Greatest Dead Superheroes of All Time<\/em>  &#8211; Brian Michael Bendis &#038; Michael Avon Oeming<br \/>\n <em>Scalped:  The Gravel in Your Gut<\/em> &#8211; Jason Aaron &#038; R M Guera<br \/>\n <em>Stitches: A Memoir<\/em> &#8211; David Small<br \/>\n <em>Usagi Yojimbo: Tomoe&#8217;s Story<\/em> &#8211; Stan Sakai<br \/>\n<em> The Walking Dead<\/em> &#8211; Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard<br \/>\n<em> The Complete Zot!<\/em> &#8211; Scott McCloud\n<\/ul>\n<p>A bit sad to see the end of <i>Planetary<\/i> and <i>Ex Machina<\/i> but <i>The Walking Dead<\/i> and <i>Scalped<\/i> carry the torch onward.<\/p>\n<p><u>Books<\/u><\/p>\n<ul> <em>Blood Meridian<\/em> &#8211; Cormac McCarthy<br \/>\n<em> The Constant Gardener<\/em> &#8211; John Le Carre<br \/>\n<em> The Corner:  A Year in the Life of an Inner-city Neighbourhood<\/em> &#8211; David Simon and Ed Burns<br \/>\n<em> Crafty TV Writing<\/em> &#8211; Alex Epstein<br \/>\n<em> Homicide:  A Year on the Killing Streets<\/em> &#8211; David Simon<br \/>\n<em> Notes from a Small Island <\/em>&#8211; Bill Bryson<br \/>\n<em> The Road<\/em> &#8211; Cormac McCarthy<\/ul>\n<p>I suspect <i>Blood Meridian<\/i> has ruined all other western fiction for me.<\/p>\n<p><u>Scripts<\/u><\/p>\n<ul> <em>30 Rock<\/em> &#8211; various<br \/>\n<em> The 40 Year Old Virgin<\/em> &#8211; Judd Apatow and Steve Carell<br \/>\n<em> The American<\/em> &#8211; Rowan Joffe<br \/>\n<em> The Blind Side<\/em> &#8211; John Lee Hancock<br \/>\n<em> The Book of Eli<\/em> &#8211; Gary Whitta<br \/>\n <em>Green Zone<\/em> &#8211; Paul Greengrass<br \/>\n<em> Michael Clayton<\/em> &#8211; Tony Gilroy<br \/>\n<em> Out of Sight<\/em> &#8211; Scott Frank<br \/>\n <em>Scrubs<\/em> (pilot) &#8211; Bill Lawrence<br \/>\n<em> Starting Out in the Evening<\/em> &#8211; Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner<br \/>\n<em> The Shield:  Circles<\/em> &#8211; Shawn Ryan<br \/>\n<em> Three Kings<\/em> &#8211; David O Russell<br \/>\n <em>Valkyrie<\/em> &#8211; Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure <i>Out of Sight<\/i> and <i>Three Kings<\/i> are re-reads, but I just can&#8217;t remember for sure.  And if they were, they were just as enjoyable this time &#8217;round.<\/p>\n<p><u>Theatre<\/u><\/p>\n<ul> <em>His Mother&#8217;s Son<\/em> &#8211; <b>Leilani Unasa<\/b><br \/>\n <em>Le Tauvaga<\/em> &#8211; <b>Louise Tu&#8217;u<\/b><br \/>\n <em>Raising the Titanics<\/em> &#8211; <b>Albert Belz<\/b><br \/>\n <em>Two Old Women<\/em> &#8211; <b>Velma Wallis<\/b><\/ul>\n<p>I suspect I may be cheating here by having just one actual production &#8211; Belz&#8217;s <i>Titanics<\/i> &#8211; surrounded by three readings but&#8230; these were the ones I marked as having made an impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comics The Arrival &#8211; Shaun Tan Ball Peen Hammer &#8211; Adam Rapp and George O&#8217;Connor Berlin Volume 2 &#8211; Jason Lutes The Education of Hopey Glass &#8211; Jaime Hernandez Ex Machina: Dirty Tricks; Ring Out the Old &#8211; Brian K Vaughan &#038; Tony Harris I Kill Giants &#8211; Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2010-in-pictures-text-and-theatre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2010 in Pictures, Text and Theatre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,4,23],"tags":[175,176,177,178,179,180],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-scriptwriting","category-theatre","tag-blood-meridian","tag-christopher-mcquarrie","tag-jason","tag-scalped","tag-scott-frank","tag-walking-dead"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}