After reading and enjoying Seconds, I decided to embark on the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series. What a zippy little book is Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life. The book is in black and white and is the closest thing to a comic that I have read since I was a kid. Total fluffy, no brain required fun, which was perfect after House of Leaves.
Scott is 23 and pretty much mooching off his roommate, Wallace. Scott has loser written all over him. He is in a terrible band called Sex Bob-Omb. He is dating a seventeen-year-old high school girl named Knives Chau. And then he meets Ramona Flowers. She is so out of his league but for some reason she likes him back. But in order for Scott to truly win Ramona, he has to fight all of her seven evil ex-boyfriends. This first volume has him taking on ex-boyfriend number one.
Like I said, fluffy, comic-y fun. That’s pretty much all there is to say. Except, even though I have the drawings in front of me as I read, I can’t help but picture Michael Cera in my head, the actor who played Scott Pilgrim in the movie. I wonder if his face will still be there by the time I make it to the end of the series? I have nothing against Michael Cera, but I hope his face eventually dissolves.
It is election day here so now I am off to cast my vote.
I am quaint and I have never heard of Scott Pilgrim either (Gosh!! My intellectual habitat must be like in Stone Age!) but sounds fun…Archie Comics kinda thing!
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cirtnecce, well I wouldn’t worry about your intellectual habitat when it comes to Scott Pilgrim, it’s not exactly high art and it floats in the realm of really geeky. It is fun though.
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I love Geeky!! 🙂
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Then you and Scott Pilgrim would probably get a long pretty well!
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I see it, Stefanie vs. Michael Cera in mental space. Love your review of this lighter read. Such are the blockbusters nowadays, movie adaptations of comics and graphic novels and superheroes. But I’d tend to cheer for Michael Cera because he is always that adorable underdog.
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Arti, ha! I wonder who will win? Maybe my vegan super powers will finally manifest! As annoying as Cera can be, I usually cheer for him too. I really liked him in Scott Pilgrim and Juno.
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I don’t know Scott Pilgrim either. Interesting to see that graphic novels don’t have to be heavyweight efforts a la Maus or Watchmen. I loved comics when I was small and can remember The Silver Surfer and Thor from America. Also loved the comics that came from DC Thomson in Dundee- The Bash Street Kids, Desperate Dan, Beryl the Peril. Also the old Greyfriars school stories with the wonderful Billy Bunter. The potency of cheap literature1
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Ian, I believe the author is Canadian. I wouldn’t have known Scott Pilgrim either if a coworker of mine hadn’t told me to watch the movie a couple years ago. You are so right about the potency of cheap literature. Who says it all has to be James Joyce all the time and the rest is meaningless? You might get a kick out of the Scott Pilgrim books given your comics background.
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Comic novels are something I’ve not explored. somehow I think i will get the same reaction as with short stories which leave me feeling as if I only ate the appetiser
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BookerTalk, graphic novels are generally entire stories and I have found them to be quite satisfying. The Scott Pilgrim books are more comic-y and are a series instead of a stand-alone so there’s an ending, but also the anticipation of the story continuing.
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I hope your local elections turned out the way you had hoped. For once my (one of them anyway) vote counted and a republican who has been in office for 16 (long) years was finally voted out. Otherwise, I guess the one thing to be happy about is no more political ads…. Sounds like a fun book–I finished the first Maus book and now must start the second–though definitely not light and fluffy. Light and fluffy is good sometimes–like a palate cleanser! 😉
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Danielle, thanks, they did mostly. I am just glad to no longer be getting political phone calls 50 times a day! I’ve got to read Maus sometime. I hope your discussion for it is interesting!
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