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This could have– perhaps should have– been the final volume in the series. Yeah, there’s still two more to go, but, spoilers, Read the rest of this entry »

OK so the third volume is pretty much where it goes from being fun to awesome, right around where I decided this book, despite its awful first volume, was a truly inspired story.

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Much, much better. Spoilers below. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m a late convert to Scott Pilgrim. Oh, I bought volume 1 the day it came out waaaaay back in 2004. But I hated it. Hated, hated, hated it. I ignored all the Internet hype for the following volumes (but enjoyed O’Malley’s art enough to grab a sketch at SPX in 2008) and pretty much dismissed Scott Pilgrim as cutesy crap for people who had no idea what consisted a good story.

Fuck was I wrong.

Last summer, after much prodding and gushing, my buddy Dave lent me volumes 2-5. (The sixth and final issue came out last week). I’ve been rereading the series in anticipation of the upcoming movie, directed by Edgar Wright(”Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz”). I’ll be discussing each volume here as I reread.

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It’s going to be a LONG time before this book sees the light of day. Unlike “Assholes” it’s not serialized. It’ll probably run about 200 pages or so– and considering it took me 3 years to do 75ish pages of “Assholes”… well, you do the math.

But I’m not doing grayscales with this one and hope to finish it sooner than that. For now, here’s a tease of the first panel I’ve drawn (although not the first panel of the book– this is page 175 or so– I’m drawing out of sequence). I’ll be posting more teases from time to time to give you an idea of what the book is about… but this is a major location in the story.

My friend Ashley made a video of us movie nerds hanging out on the 4th of July. I’m stealing this from her Web site.

Here’s an old favorite.