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By: Scott Pilgrim Movie Site » Comics Worth Reading

Scott Pilgrim Movie Site » Comics Worth Reading — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:29:04 +0000

[...] welcome from director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead). The film, based on the popular graphic novel series, is scheduled for release later this year. [...]

By: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together » Comics Worth Reading

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:34:40 +0000

[...] The third: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness [...]

By: O’Malley / Larson Signing in Chapel Hill » Comics Worth Reading

O’Malley / Larson Signing in Chapel Hill » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:39:10 +0000

[...] I’m just close to enough to Chapel Hill to make for a long day trip. Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim) and Hope Larson (Gray Horses, Salamander Dream) will be signing at Chapel Hill Comics on Saturday, [...]

By: A Detailed Harvey Awards Ceremony Writeup » Comics Worth Reading

A Detailed Harvey Awards Ceremony Writeup » Comics Worth Reading — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:04:58 +0000

[...] Paul Pope accepted on behalf of Bryan Lee O’Malley when Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness won the Special Award for Humor in Comics. Pope then awarded Best New Talent to Brian Fies [...]

By: Comics Worth Reading

Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:50:41 +0000

[...] Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness — great book, but didn’t hit me as powerfully as the first two. That’s the problem of a series by such a talent: how do you keep raising the bar? [...]

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:45:13 +0000

Clearly, my attempt at dry humor didn’t work, so I’ve removed it. Sorry about that.

Shawn, great comments and comparison!

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Comics Worth Reading — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:42:11 +0000

[...] I’m really surprised I came off as well as I did. When I talked with the writer, I wasn’t sure I was explaining things well, and I let myself get a little distracted, but the blurb on my blog and why I like manga is good. For summer reading, I listed The Rabbi’s Cat (still on the to-read list), Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness, and Lost Girls, which they described as “putting the ‘graphic’ into graphic novel”. I also plugged Tramps Like Us as the perfect beach book. [...]

By: ~chris

~chris — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:43:29 +0000

I didn’t infer a dislike of vegans either. Remember the vegan shepherd’s pie in #2? (I tried that at home. Yummy.) High-and-mighty holier-than-thou hypocrites of any kind… well they are fair game for ridicule.

By: Shawn Fumo

Shawn Fumo — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:53:41 +0000

Also, I think the ending implies him being a “student gone bad” kind of thing ala the jedi/sith dynamic, though that’s probably putting too much thought into it.. ;)

As an aside, though I found it slightly jarring at first when reading the original volume, I’m now liking the “pulling stuff out of nowhere” feeling of the books. It actually reminds me of the first couple of Wizard of Oz books. If you’ve ever read those, they feel really dreamlike with a feeling that anything can happen and states (like animate versus inanimate) are not clearly defined. It is only really in the later books that rules get set down.

I really like all of the character revelations in volume 3. It almost makes me afraid that the next oens won’t be able to get into that much depth, but then again I’m sure there’s more from the past (like Gideon) to stir things up.

Good stuff…

By: Rich Johnston

Rich Johnston — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:27:30 +0000

I don’t think there’s any dislike of vegans or veganism in Scott Pilgrim. It’s just a surreal use of the phrase for comic effect, akin to Vic Reeves.