Scott Pilgrim

[joerules]

LOL!

I love knives. She was so awesome in the first book. she's so bat shit crazy now...

[Pogues]

Haha. Nice Phil.

Alright, so I have a question then since we are all on the same page:

What do you think Envy was talking about when she said she had been to New York and heard about Ramona? She mentions Gideon and Ramona wanting to try and pretend to be something cool and mysterious. What do you suppose all that is?

Plus did you notice Scott apparently meet Wallace in the same way he meet that girl in highschool....the one that's not Kim. I can't remember her name.

And it looks like the guy Scott beat so he could date Kim is going to show up. I'm looking forward to the next volume that is for sure.

"Fine I had to fight this guy who was like 9 feet tall and I had to beat 99 other people to get to him and then I kicked him so hard he saw the curvature of the earth!"

[chamber715]

It's been a while since I last read Scott Pilgrim... I think I'll need to reread it.

[matt!]

i finally got around to reading the first volume of scott pilgrim this week. before that, i'd only read bryan lee o'malley's free comic book day offerings, which were great and inspired me to pursue his flagship series.

SP was great, and i will definitely read the the whole run.

after i finished volume one, i also read BLM's first graphic novel, "lost at sea," which i was happy to discover on my recent trip to portland. this was also impressive, but in a pretty different way. both SP and LAS are very realistic (when they want to be), with natural dialogue, but where SP is really funny, LAS is vaguely sad instead.

i was most impressed with o'malley's decision to tell the story from the female perspective, which is sort of a bold risk. being male myself, i am not in a position to say how accurately he captured the young female mind, but i like to think he was very careful not to make this a sexless character, and i loved the result.

the other thing it did well was to capture the high school age sense of despair, without actually being that way itself. you feel like this sullen 18 year old girl is real, not that she's just saying what the author wants to say. and she is very different from scott, as is the whole atmosphere of the book.

highly recommended.

i'd be curious to hear a female reader's thoughts.

[Pogues]

I don't know if LAS's story was really important to be told from a girl's view. The story is about being confused, being love and not knowing what to do and what it means. That story is genderless. I really liked it cause I could empathsize with a confused person who's life isn't really what they want, but they don't know what to do. It is a great read.

O'Malley=Awesome.

[matt!]

maybe he chose to tell the story from the female perspective not because males can't feel that same way, but because readers would be more likely to accept such sensitivity from a girl. lots of us have felt that way before, but i think i might have interpreted it differently if it came from a high school boy, instead.

i think it may be my instinct to sympathize with a female, especially such a real one, while i might not like to hear the same complaints from just some guy, even if it were a younger version of me.

when i think back on my sullen attitude in high school, i want to tell me to shut up.

but when a girl feels bad, or a cute little drawing of one, i want to help.

but the point is, once that decision was made, once the main character was going to be female, i think he did a particularly good job adjusting it. i don't think it would be very true to life if he created a character that would be exactly the same whether it was male or female. there are subtleties there, which i think he realized.

[Pogues]

Oh no, he does a great job writing the girl. I just meant that the crux of the story doesn't depend on her gender. He definitely does a great job writing things from a teenage girls perspective.

[chamber715]

The fourth book should be out either next Wednesday or the Wednesday after according to Oni... and there's an 11 page preview of it up on the site:
http://www.scottpilgrim.com/index.php?id=previews

[matt!]

i can't wait, even though it probably won't show up in VA shops for several weeks.

[joerules]

Awesome. The new art looks great too.

[joerules]

The new book came out today. It's all I can do not to break into it right here at work. Looks so good!

[chamber715]

I went to the store during lunch and they didn't have it... I think I'm going to have to hit one of the other stores after work.

[chamber715]

This didn't occur to me until I read the Bryan Lee O'Malley interview over at the Onion AV club, but... a live action Scott Pilgrim would totally be like Spaced.

[Pogues]

The guy who directed Shaun of the Dead was attached to maybe direct it. That would be awesome.

On a seperate note the new volume was good, the art is so good. I wish I had this ability to draw fashion the way he does, my clothes never look that good. And he does it so simple. And how cute was grown up Lisa Miller? Hhaa.

did anyone else think that Ramona is sort of becoming a bitch? I mean she apparently made out with that fat lesbian and what the fuck was with inside her head? That was super creepy. I'm pretty sure gideon is the guy from the end of volume 3 and who was the guy scott fought in the flashback with kin in volume 2. Oh and Stephen Stills is totally got a thing for Knives...that thing is his weiner. Opinions?

[Pogues]

Damnit Joe, you put reading SP in a comic. Discuss!!!!! Very few people I know read it. Discussssssssss! Haha.