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50books_pocScott Pilgrim vs. the Universe (Scott Pilgrim #5), Bryan Lee O'Malley
2009, Oni Press
Oh, man, you've got to love Scott Pilgrim! This is totally another of those books I was going to have read anyway, but what the hey, they count too. (They do, right? They've got to.)
Since this is the fifth installment of a planned-6-volume series, it's hard to know how to give it a review in a way that will make sense to people who don't follow it. Allow me to point out, though, that everyone probably should try reading it, and if you don't like it that's fine. I mean, I don't usually like hip stuff either. I'm too old and cranky for that. But the series is so funny and odd, and the graphisme (sorry) simultaneously so minimalist and so creative, that it's really hard not to enjoy it. Even though I know I probably wouldn't like any of these people in real life. (Except Wallace Wells, maybe, and that's a weird thought all by itself.)
The series' protagonist is the eponymous Scott Pilgrim, who is 23 at the story's outset -- he turns 24 in the latest volume (NO PEOPLE THAT IS NOT A SPOILER) -- and is friendly, cute, charming, charismatic, super white, and also immature and really pretty dumb. But he has supportive parents and some interesting friends, and in the first book he falls for a much more mature and interesting (and American!) girl named Ramona Flowers, who is a subspace delivery person for Amazon.ca, and also Scott plays in a band, but Ramona has seven evil exes who Scott will have to battle if he wants to be able to date her, but fortunately that shouldn't be too much of a problem because... well, I guess you have to read Book 1 to the end to find out why. Also, Scott is dating a high schooler named Knives Chau, and lives with his gay best friend and sugar daddy Wallace Wells (but they don't sleep together (even though they sleep together)). But all things change.
Oh! And it's all in Toronto!
Book Five has lots more of our favorite characters, an ever-more-developed and assured graphisme, more Asian people, and robots. And I won't give anything beyond that away. Four out of five stars. I continue to groove on this series.
(One more question for the fans out there: Was I wrong in believing Wallace Wells is Asian? Or half-Asian, anyway? Because I read they've cast Kieran Culkin as him in the movie, and now I'm just baffled.)
2009, Oni Press
Oh, man, you've got to love Scott Pilgrim! This is totally another of those books I was going to have read anyway, but what the hey, they count too. (They do, right? They've got to.)
Since this is the fifth installment of a planned-6-volume series, it's hard to know how to give it a review in a way that will make sense to people who don't follow it. Allow me to point out, though, that everyone probably should try reading it, and if you don't like it that's fine. I mean, I don't usually like hip stuff either. I'm too old and cranky for that. But the series is so funny and odd, and the graphisme (sorry) simultaneously so minimalist and so creative, that it's really hard not to enjoy it. Even though I know I probably wouldn't like any of these people in real life. (Except Wallace Wells, maybe, and that's a weird thought all by itself.)
The series' protagonist is the eponymous Scott Pilgrim, who is 23 at the story's outset -- he turns 24 in the latest volume (NO PEOPLE THAT IS NOT A SPOILER) -- and is friendly, cute, charming, charismatic, super white, and also immature and really pretty dumb. But he has supportive parents and some interesting friends, and in the first book he falls for a much more mature and interesting (and American!) girl named Ramona Flowers, who is a subspace delivery person for Amazon.ca, and also Scott plays in a band, but Ramona has seven evil exes who Scott will have to battle if he wants to be able to date her, but fortunately that shouldn't be too much of a problem because... well, I guess you have to read Book 1 to the end to find out why. Also, Scott is dating a high schooler named Knives Chau, and lives with his gay best friend and sugar daddy Wallace Wells (but they don't sleep together (even though they sleep together)). But all things change.
Oh! And it's all in Toronto!
Book Five has lots more of our favorite characters, an ever-more-developed and assured graphisme, more Asian people, and robots. And I won't give anything beyond that away. Four out of five stars. I continue to groove on this series.
(One more question for the fans out there: Was I wrong in believing Wallace Wells is Asian? Or half-Asian, anyway? Because I read they've cast Kieran Culkin as him in the movie, and now I'm just baffled.)
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Date: 2009-05-14 02:24 am (UTC)Even though I know I probably wouldn't like any of these people in real life.
:D I found this hilarious for some reason.
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Date: 2009-05-14 03:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-14 04:17 am (UTC)One more question for the fans out there: Was I wrong in believing Wallace Wells is Asian?
Huh, I always assumed so. Maybe not?
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Date: 2009-05-14 05:29 am (UTC)(Chris Butcher, manager of the comic book store The Beguiling, on whom Wallace Wells is partially based, is not Asian .... but nor does he actually look anything like Wallace. So - shrug? I think it's perfectly cool if in your personal canon, he's Asian.)
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Date: 2009-05-14 02:00 pm (UTC)Anyway, Scott Pilgrim squee! I do think that Infinite Sadness was tbe best of them, and so I'm sad that the ones after it haven't quite lived up, but that's very much a "my latte isn't foamy enough" type complaint.