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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe
DouglasDanger
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Douglas. Sell me on Scott Pilgrim.
WHO THE HELL IS SCOTT PILGRIM AND WHY THE HELL SHOULD I CARE?
Scott Pilgrim is a 23-year-old guy living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to make his way in this crazy world.
Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Wait, what?
Scott Pilgrim is named after a song by the late great 90's all-girl Canadian indie rock band, Plumtree.
Scott Pilgrim is a critically acclaimed, award-winning series of graphic novels by Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley. VOLUME 5 is released FEBRUARY 2009. There will be six volumes in all. They are published by Oni Press and released approximately once per year. (Ages 13 and up!)
Scott Pilgrim is a goofy thing. It is hard to pin down exactly what it is. It is a slice of life thing, with really awesome cartooning and dialog and everything. It is influenced by old school video games like River City Ransom, but you don't have to be a "gamer" to love Scott Pilgrim.
Check out the previews, start at the first one, duh. Volume 1 is quite a bit different, rougher and the tone is a little different from the rest of the books in my opinion. So check out the previews there. You can actually read the Free Comic Book Day Scott Pilgrim without really spoilering anything. It gives a pretty good glimpse of what Scott Pilgrim is like.
So Scott Pilgrim vol 5 came out last week. Scott Pilgrim is pretty much my favorite comic series ever. It is fun and goofy and serious and great. Buy from Oni directly, or get it off of Amazon!
There are also Scott Pilgrim Cubee-thingee's-- here and here. I am thinking about trying to make one later today.
Seriously, I spoil the whole freaking book, think about what you are doing!
It starts off with Scott vowing to be the most awesome 24 year old in the world, all optimistic and smiling. Kim and Scott and Ramona hanging out was cool, but everything after that is rough stuff. And then terrible shit starts happening.
His friends are in bad shape-- Knives is somehow even more pathetic, Julie Powers is a bitch with 0 redeeming features and breaks up with Stephen Stills again (although it seems like he is done with her), Young Neil is some kind of depressio asshole... stoned Young Neil was the saddest thing. The circle of friends is drifting apart, and it really feels like there will not be a renewal of their circle.
Ramona reveals she doesn't care about Sex Bob-omb, which devastates Scott and SHE LEAVES! Scott really let her down with the revelation from Knives about how he dated both of them for a while. That was a pretty dick move. Maybe Ramona had put Scott on a pedestal.
It was interesting how the fights were not really the focus at all in this volume. The twins were cool, using their robots to decide if Scott was worth their time. The actual Scott vs Twins fight could have been longer and cooler I though. He should stunned them somehow before the double muay thai knee to the face thing. Ramona vs Knives rematch was more sad and brutal than fun and awesome.
I think Kim moved away--
-- because she was falling for Scott. Am I way off?
Scott after Ramona leaves was so sad. Especially him locking himself out and Gideon getting away. All trying to catch him in the yard for days. So sad.
Seeings his parents and his brother and getting a new place... ended on something more positive.
His friends are in bad shape-- Knives is somehow even more pathetic, Julie Powers is a bitch with 0 redeeming features and breaks up with Stephen Stills again (although it seems like he is done with her), Young Neil is some kind of depressio asshole... stoned Young Neil was the saddest thing. The circle of friends is drifting apart, and it really feels like there will not be a renewal of their circle.
Ramona reveals she doesn't care about Sex Bob-omb, which devastates Scott and SHE LEAVES! Scott really let her down with the revelation from Knives about how he dated both of them for a while. That was a pretty dick move. Maybe Ramona had put Scott on a pedestal.
It was interesting how the fights were not really the focus at all in this volume. The twins were cool, using their robots to decide if Scott was worth their time. The actual Scott vs Twins fight could have been longer and cooler I though. He should stunned them somehow before the double muay thai knee to the face thing. Ramona vs Knives rematch was more sad and brutal than fun and awesome.
I think Kim moved away--
-- because she was falling for Scott. Am I way off?Scott after Ramona leaves was so sad. Especially him locking himself out and Gideon getting away. All trying to catch him in the yard for days. So sad.
Seeings his parents and his brother and getting a new place... ended on something more positive.
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I liked how the twins were almost an afterthought in the book. The book was really about everything around Scott changing and none of it being held together. I can't wait to see the sixth book as I expect a lot to be brought back together.
Speculative spoilers for the last book:
I really liked Scott's line right before Ramona took off, "People can change, Ramona" because I think that is what it comes down to, she doesn't think she can change.
Also, I think Nega-Scott is the part of Scott that could become an evil ex-boyfriend and will probably be the last thing he has to deal with.
Who he ends up with, I'm not sure at this point. Since I think it's all about Kim, I put about 50/50 on it being Kim or Ramona in the end. A lot of that depends on how deeply Ramona is a part of it.
Those are my thoughts, some might be wildly off, others might be good, who knows.
Please elaborate. Scott is also kind of a selfish goofball slacker asshole.
Kim pretending to get a text from Ramona during the Twins fight to encourage Scott was the sweetest thing in the whole world.
It's always been six. People always kind of assumed it was seven because of the seven ex-boyfriends, but, well, yeah.
I day one'd this book and read it twice in about an hour.
It may not be as good as some of the others but damn was it emotional
I read it too fast, and now I'm probably going to have to wait a really long time for the last one
That is all there is to it.
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I can't wait to see how this ends.
I'm really sad about Kim leaving.
Everything I've seen about the movie is making me excited for it so far.
Also, after you've read Volume 5, go back and read 3 if you haven't done so recently, especially like 10 pages from the end.
Fables
Y The Last Man
Girls
The Walking Dead
MegaTokyo
Black Panther
So do I have to pick up one book at a time, or is there a collection of the ones out right now?
The rate has been one book per year. So one to go.
I read the whole thing in an hour... and now I am left waiting for volume 6. I'm sure it'll be out before the movie, but I may kill myself if I have to wait another year. I'll be all emo like Young Neil, I swear.
ALSO, is that Knives' best friend that Neil is now dating? Or does she just look familiar for no reason at all....
" No, I'm eccentric... only poor people are called crazy."
Actually, there are two uncollected issues. One was from Free Comic Book 2006, the other was an exclusive Color Scott Pilgrim thing. FCBD2006 might be in that color thing, not sure. But none of those really matter, they are side stories that do nothing to the plot.
So I just reread all 5 volumes back to back, and it worked a lot better. The 16 month layoff between 4 and 5 hurt things, for me. I hope that the last one comes out a little more quickly.
Anyway, the series as a whole: (still) so good! I heart Wallace and Kim most of all. Though Kim wouldn't like me, since she doesn't like anyone.
Next on the to-reread-in-large-chunks list: Promethea, and Morrison's Batman.
You can also try Sidescrollers, which I wasn't a fan of, but was trying really, really hard to be a pseudo Scott Pilgrim.
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I'd say in all probability yes.