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Doth Scott Pilgrim Not Rock Your World?

  
  

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Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)
23:58 / 25.07.07
BANG!

I mean, "bump."

I picked up the first two volumes of Scott Pilgrim this weekend while I happened to be browsing in a local bookstore and SHIT-YEAH, they're great. I was a little sad that Ramona seems to be less present in her delivery girl capacity in the second volume, with her strange powers no longer quite prevalent anymore. AWKWARD. Kim Pine is fine. Wallace Wells!

Scott's a bit of a shit, really, but he knows how to coordinate a choreographed dance sequence into the middle of an otherwise improvised battle sequence.

Got the third one on order and looking forward to it, utterly.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
00:30 / 26.07.07
I think it's more that he's a bit of an idiot than a shit.
 
 
I am a bat. I am a man.
(prev. Triplets)
23:01 / 26.07.07
What if Scott's one of her Seven Evil Ex-Boyfriends?
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
23:33 / 26.07.07
How would that work exactly? Mind-wipes? Skrulls? The great taste of Mountain Dew?

As for the 'is Scott a shit' thing: well, he kicked Knives to the kerb easily enough to pursue a relationship that even he admits could stem from Ramona roller-skating through his dreams, something happened with Kim Pine that they no longer talk about and that something could be Scott's fault, and there was the whole 'You just headbutted my best friend so hard he burst' thing from the last volume. Could be he's just not a very good person...
 
 
FinderWolf
23:42 / 26.07.07
well, he's still the hero of the book, though, and clearly presented as a 'likeable slacker' who is nevertheless a bit too selfish when it comes to his romantic entanglements. I predict he learns to be a tiny bit more self-aware over the course of the series, thereby enabling us readers to not feel like crap for rooting for him, providing his character with the appropriate growth/arc, and thus realizes that his One True Love is... Kim Pine, of course.
 
 
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00:02 / 27.07.07
I dunno. My urge would be to avoid Kim pairing off with Scott at the end and letting them both move on and explore new things. It was high school, man, and for some reason I see Scott walking off into the dusty sunset by himself. Breaking from his pattern, as it were.

Knives...Knives, Knives, Knives. I haven't read V3 yet but I really hope she gets over Scott. This is probably asking too much.
 
 
Caramel Danson
(prev. Transfer: Speedsubs Specialist)
08:00 / 27.07.07
Weell, she does and she doesn't. Thanks to some other factors, though, she does get to do some growing up... and it's heartbreaking. (Not a spoiler.)

I have to say, I know it's an obvious choice, but I think the scenes with Knives dying her hair and later fighting Ramona in the library are my favourite in book two, even trumping the Lucas Lee material.

"You're dead, fatty!"
 
 
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22:04 / 29.07.07
Having just finished book three...well. I like that while Scott battles Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends, Ramona's fighting Scott's morally ambiguous ex-girlfriends. Which doesn't bode well for her blooming friendship with Kim.

It's so...frenetic. Any idea can come screaming into the plot at any time. I enjoy that.
 
 
garyancheta
06:41 / 02.08.07
Oh my dear lord...I'm about to die. From the Scott Pilgrim Wikipedia:

"In 2005, Universal announced that they had optioned the property for a possible future film adaptation.[1] Edgar Wright is attached as director, and Michael Bacall is to write the screenplay. The film has yet to be scheduled."

This is one of the most brilliant things that I have ever heard in my entire life. After watching Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and Spaced for the 20th time, I'm soooo happy that Edgar Wright will be directing this movie. His movies always have a "video game" feel to them, so why not adapt a comic book that is sort of like Archie meets Mario Brothers, with a smidgen of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

This is lovely. I can't wait to see this in 2009 or so. This is going to be my Harry Potter.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:17 / 02.08.07
The problem is that the movie is likely to come out before the final book is finished, thus SPOILING IT since the movie is going to compress all six books into one film.
 
 
I am a bat. I am a man.
(prev. Triplets)
21:06 / 02.08.07
That does sounds like a problem doesn't it, Matthew.

A big problem.
 
 
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01:56 / 24.08.07
Out of curiousity, has anyone else read O'Malley's Lost at Sea? I'm fairly certain it was written before SP, but I could be wrong. I picked it up today and burnt right through it in about an hour. It's...sweet. Very emo, sharing some of Scott's wackiness but quite muted.
 
 
Sailor Warrior of Love&Justice
(prev. Damn, it's Pacific State again)
02:56 / 24.08.07
I read LAS not long after it was released, long before SP came out. It seems that everyone who read it after SP mentions that it's "like SP in this way, but less".

I honestly prefer Lost at Sea. It's a far more down to earth piece, which make the occasional bouts of total weirdness, and especially the way the satelite characters deal with them, far more affecting.

I just had to delete the last two paragraphs I wrote because It made me sound like a typical "I was here first, stop ruining the thing I am a fan of, Johnny-come-lately!" type, and that depressed me.

I think Scott Pilgrim is one of the greatest things I have ever read but I do, for personal reasons, slightly prefer Lost at Sea. I may detail that a bit more when I'm not so inexplicably fanatical.
 
 
Tuna Ghost will work for dope
07:11 / 24.08.07
I leave the country in one week. How will I get the fourth book when it comes out in the middle of next month? Why does god so enjoy the bitter taste of my tears? Is it because I told that seven-year-old to go fuck himself?

How would that work exactly? Mind-wipes? Skrulls? The great taste of Mountain Dew?

The boy's got memory issues, right? I'll bet Simon was involved somehow. Not that I think that particular scenario is likely...although I personally am placing a bet on a brother/sister team on the Evil Ex-Boyfriend list. I gots a feeling.
 
 
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07:57 / 24.08.07
Tuna, kiddo, I'm sure somebody on the great Barbechain can acquire you a copy and send it need be. Where oh where are you heading?

And I can't say I didn't enjoy Lost at Sea. It was a great read, even if the pace was completely different from the mania of Scott Pilgrim. I would have liked to haev seen more of the boys, what they thought about the world, but Steph was a wonderful character and I loved her dyamic with Raleigh.
 
 
Tuna Ghost will work for dope
04:02 / 26.08.07
Tuna, kiddo, I'm sure somebody on the great Barbechain can acquire you a copy and send it need be. Where oh where are you heading?

Japan, not far from Osaka. FedExing might a little pricey, so I may just demand that my brother handles it. The bastard may read it and keep for himself, though...who can deny the rad-ness of Scott Pilgrim? Reading it is like taking Rad Lessons*.

I haven't looked forward to a book like this in a long time.


*Where one goes to learn how to be rad. Things one learns in Rad Class: doing wheelies while not spilling your cocktail, leg wrestling bears while not spilling your cocktail, etc.
 
 
FinderWolf
21:56 / 01.10.07
Rich Johnston reports:

>> Pilgrim" #4 is finished. And out either the end of this month or the beginning of November.

>> Any stores doing a midnight opening?

-----------------------------------------------

GLOOORIOUS!!!! HAHAHAHHHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!

SO psyched for this.
 
 
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22:08 / 01.10.07
Me too! I'll have to reread, as I've lost track of how many evil ex-boyfriends (and evil ex-girlfriends) we've been through so far.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
23:19 / 01.10.07
I pre-ordered it on Amazon six months ago, and the day it arrives in my letter box will be a day of Win. I'm also going to pre-order Chinese Democracy and Duke Nukem Forever just to be perverse.

But anyway, and speaking of perversity, who has seen El Topo*? Anybody? I ask because perhaps Bryan Lee O'Malley has.
You see, one of El Topo's plots (there are several) has the titular Zen-gunfighter challenged by his lady-friend to defeat the four greatest gunfighters in the desert to win her love. Since they are all too skilled to be killed in a simple pistol duel El Topo is forced to use some, ah, innovative tactics to win. He cheats in other words. Sound like anybody you know?
Without giving the ending away, the story ends with El Topo realizing the futility of the whole thing, and I'd bet that Scott Pilgrim ends the same way.
It's not obvious yet whether O'Malley has El Topo taking up even a little bit of his headspace when he's writing Scott Pilgrim, but I wouldn't rule it out.

*Dig the tagline: "See the naked young Franciscans whipped with cactus. See the bandit leader disemboweled. See the priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby. What it all means isn't exactly clear, but you won't forget it."
 
 
Feverfew
22:00 / 10.10.07
For what it's worth;



Amazon are currently listing a release date of November 14th, 2007.


That's right, folks! Put down the video game controller! Skip that rehearsal for your band! Make whatever sacrifices you must to those comic gods you hold so dear! Just make sure you're ready because Bryan Lee O'Malley and Scott Pilgrim are back! Well, a couple months have passed since the last time we caught up with our intrepid hero, but what can change in a few short months? Well, not much has...Scott's still living with his roommate Wallace Wells. He's still playing in a mediocre rock band named Sex Bob-omb. And most importantly, he's still dating the lovely Ramona Flowers while working his way through the gaggle of superpowered, superstylish, superevil ex-boyfriends determined to take him down. But something is different. Don't look now, but Scott Pilgrim may actually be getting it together. And it's a good thing, too, because Scott is about to confront Ramona's most intimidating ex yet!

Shiny.
 
 
FinderWolf
04:45 / 11.10.07
awesomeness. Thanks for the date update/info. Cannot wait.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:03 / 15.10.07
O'Malley just updated his official website,

SCOTTPILGRIM.COM, with a preview of Book 4 and a bunch of other cool stuff. Check it out.
 
 
iamus
00:59 / 16.10.07
Ah Christ. I really shouldn't have read that. Now I'm not going to be able to sleep for a month.
 
 
Papers, anyone, anywhere?
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07:19 / 16.10.07
Yeah, I'm being a very good boy and not looking at the preview. Because otherwise I will go INSANE WITH LONGING!

I mean, I already am. Insane. With longing. But there would be capital letters and the sentence fragments would probably give way to long, winding run-on sentences that cried desperately in the night, cried desperately for Kim Pine to come and take them away from all of this, all of this suffering and...

Damn.
 
 
rizla mission
14:45 / 17.10.07
For what it's worth, I asked the guy behind the counter at Gosh Comics about pre-orders for Scott#4 a few weeks back, and he scoffed at my suggestion of a November release date, saying they're not expecting it to arrive until 2008.

At which point I'm sure we'll all read it in 40 minutes and begin rabidly demanding book#5.... the downside of straight-to-book comix publishing I guess.

That's assuming O'Malley doesn't follow the example of the other culturally significant Scott#4 and go into hiding for 20 years before releasing a book called "Tilt" anyway.
 
 
FinderWolf
00:33 / 05.11.07
new INTERVIEW! at comicbookresources, where they actually go so far as to say it's coming out 'next week'.

NEXT WEEK!?!?!? JOY!!
 
 
superdonkey
09:28 / 05.11.07
#4 is fantastic. I almost cried it was so good.
 
 
FinderWolf
15:52 / 05.11.07
you read it already?!?
 
 
superdonkey
19:07 / 05.11.07
heh. I have my sources. Getting to read it was a birthday present from someone in the know.
 
 
Tuna Ghost will work for dope
05:07 / 06.11.07
god I hate you so hard right now
 
 
Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)
07:20 / 06.11.07
You're not alone, Tuna Ghost. You're not alone.

I can has Scott Pilgrim 4 k thxbai?
 
 
FinderWolf
19:50 / 09.11.07
ok , it's not out this week. Or anytime soon, apparently, according to Midtown Comics in NYC.

Sad.
 
 
West Baltimore Hausing Project
20:00 / 09.11.07
I enjoyed it, although I think "and the Infinite Sadness" is still my favourite.
 
 
superdonkey
03:56 / 10.11.07
it drops this week, on the 14th.
 
 
I am a bat. I am a man.
(prev. Triplets)
05:23 / 10.11.07
*stands up*

Um, hello, my name's Hank Pym... and I'm a Scottoholic.

I couldn't be here today without the support of my lovely, unglassable wife Jan.
 
  

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