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Doth Scott Pilgrim Not Rock Your World?

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Mysterious Transfer Student

19:22 / 16.06.06

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread, directly leading me to buy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World from my local comic shop today and spend the remainder of the afternoon laughing immoderately.

Just the rhythm of a throwaway line like this had me sold:

"He is as hot as the flames of the hell you bitches are going to."

Matthew Fluxington

15:38 / 17.06.06

Oh man I love that character and his soft-spoken intensity!

Phex: Dorset Doom

22:36 / 17.06.06

Speaking of softly spoken intensity, the guy with the dark hair who appears twice in Vol.3 (once in Todd's flashback, again at the end where he says 'no comment' and smashes a bottle), that's got to be Gideon, right?

22:55 / 17.06.06

That's what I'm suspecting at present...

12:03 / 18.06.06

There's also the flashback to Kid Chameleon where they're arguing with Envy about how they asked someone named Cole to play on drums. There's one panel of them playing with a guy that looks suspiciously like him behind the kit.

I'm going to get back to this soon, because Scott Pilgrim doth indeed rock my world, and I want to say why.

14:34 / 03.07.06

when the item box containing the mithril skateboard popped into existence, my heart burst in an explosion of the purest rapture.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:20 / 04.07.06

Speaking of softly spoken intensity, the guy with the dark hair who appears twice in Vol.3 (once in Todd's flashback, again at the end where he says 'no comment' and smashes a bottle), that's got to be Gideon, right?

I was under the impression that was Simon, the fella that kidnapped Kim Pine in highschool, who also appeared in the funeral dream.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

18:25 / 08.07.06

I've just started reading Book One and I'm not sure how long it's been since I've read something as fun as this. I'm only 30 pages in and I could spend the rest of this year quoting what I've read so far...

Jake, Colossus of Clout

07:23 / 10.07.06

I was under the impression that was Simon, the fella that kidnapped Kim Pine in highschool, who also appeared in the funeral dream.

Me, too.

I've recently bought and devoured all three volumes of this, and it is truly wonderful. So much funfunfun. So much, in fact, that I just today sent my best buddy the complete set for his birthday. He doesn't read a lot of comics, but I'm convinced he'll love this.

I was very skeptical when I first heard about this comic, mainly because the terms "emo" and "hipster" make me see red, but I've come around to wishing a new volume came out every month.

Next one's not due out until next spring, eh? Fuck.

Janean Patience

09:04 / 19.07.06

Got sucked into rereading v3 the other day and it's far better than I remembered. I'd been anticipating it so keenly I was slightly disappointed first time thru, but second time thru I'm castigating my first-time self as an idiot. If I had some kind of time skateboard I'd go back and kick his ass hard.

Recommending it to others, I couldn't remember if it had swearwords in. It's pretty teenager-safe, isn't it?

Phex: Dorset Doom

09:57 / 19.07.06

Actually I think O'Malley lets the (very) occassional swear in. I distinctly remember a 'shit' and a 'cock' (Please, please don't quote that sentence out of context), probably because they stood out amongst all the PG funness like Mr. Rogers killing a stripper. There haven't been any f-bombs though.

Mysterious Transfer Student

16:55 / 19.07.06

I've now caught up with volumes one and three... enormous resources of natural joycore. Seriously beginning to love these characters - in particular, Stephen Stills' endless, hilarious crises of confidence and Knives' heartbreakingly vulnerable conversations with Scott. It's just good, underplayed characterisation.

One thing I find terribly refreshing is the near-total lack of real-life musical references which in lesser hands would be used as signposting to indicate the unimpeachable cool, good taste and punk rock credentials of the characters and therefore the author. Quite to the contrary, Scott Pilgrim seems to take place in a cultural parallel universe where the musical developments of the last dozen years don't really seem to signify. Or am I wrong and the Toronto music scene is exactly like that (?).

All I know is that I have a very strong urge to listen to some music that sounds like what I imagine Clash At Demonhead to sound like. I'm thinking of undervalued, mid-90s Britpop also-rans like Salad or These Animal Men, with maybe a 4AD-esque ethereal gothic vibe to draw in the teenyboppers*. Any recommendations?

*I am an absolutely lousy writer on the subject of music. Flux's crown is in no danger at all.

Phex: Dorset Doom

17:47 / 19.07.06

Weird, I always thought of Clash at Demonhead as sounding a little like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with a more angular, almost funky indie-disco sound. Yeah Yeah Yeahs meets Hot Hot Heat with a little Tapes 'n' Tapes. Sex Bob-omb are clearly Plumtree (click this magic singing interweb link to hear their song 'Scott Pilgrim'). Crash and the Boys are indefinably weird, the closest we'll probably get is Melt Bannana, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Deerhoof.
Anybody else want to chime in on the all-important 'What do bands in Scott Pilgrim sound like' question?

18:11 / 19.07.06

I think of The Clash At Demonhead as being a hybrid of the two views described above, actually: basically a 4AD indie-disco band, with some slight Goth tinges (but not super-Goth, more "The Rapture when they sound like The Cure" kind of Goth).

I'm kind of torn about Sex Bob-omb, namely that I'm not sure if they really, truly suck or not. They may secretly be quite good. I do kind of doubt they have any songs quite as brain-meltingly great as Plumtree's "Scott Pilgrim," but it'd be nice if they did.

Matthew Fluxington

14:23 / 22.07.06

I always just imagine that The Clash At Demonhead sounds like a progged out version of Metric.

01:07 / 23.07.06

oh, what happened to the Scott Pilgrim music link above (Plumtree)? I listened to it a few days ago and it was working; now, not so much working.

Matthew Fluxington

03:01 / 23.07.06

It shouldn't have even been up that long, I just took a lot longer than usual to delete songs that had fallen off my front page.

Mysterious Transfer Student

22:40 / 27.07.06

Enjoyable interview with mooted Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright, in which he discusses, among many other things, the potential challenges in casting a film in which all of the female characters look virtually identical.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:58 / 19.08.06

I sort of imagined The Clash At Demonhead sounding like You Say Party! We Say Die! - but then it occurred to me that TCAD are evil, and therefore I should imagine them sounding like a band that sucks - so now I reckon maybe it's Sex Bob-omb that sounds like You Say Party! - Kim's songs, anyway...

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:01 / 20.08.06

Except that Sex Bob-omb do kind of suck, whereas the Clash at Demonhead are, if evil, still good...

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:31 / 20.08.06

I dunno, I think we're supposed to believe that by the end of volume three Sex Bob-omb are pretty good. They just always think they suck, and probably don't practice enough, and kind of have a sucky bass player...

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:59 / 21.08.06

You may well be right. The crowd were reasonbably enthusiastic, and Scott's relentless drilling of the setlist may well have imnproved their performance.

I'm getting quite serious Pilgrim withdrawal now that I have caught up with the release schedule. "Lost at Sea" was not in itself enough. Also, my desire to be Wallace Wells is ameliorated only by the fact that I am, in fact, Wallace Wells.

Did you get the others over the weekend, Flyboy? If not, I can loan, at which point "we're ducking arbitrary tasks set by people who hate us" may be our watchword.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:12 / 21.08.06

Yes, got 'em all now, can give you the first volume back whenever. Perhaps at You Say Party! We Say Die! gig this Wednesday if you fancy it?

11:57 / 21.08.06

I got the first one on Friday, and loved it so much I went back Saturday and bought the second one, even though I totally couldn't afford it; and loved that so much I went back today for the third and will now be eating nothing but rice with sugar for the rest of the week.

One thing I really love is how well developed the supporting cast is - they all have clearly drawn relationships with people other than the central characters, so it feels much more like a real world where you know some people well, and you sometimes see their friends and housemates, etc.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:06 / 21.08.06

Also, I love the concept of Michael Comeau, the boy who knows everyone - because we all know a person who seems to be like that.

08:29 / 22.08.06

This comic is so good I spontaneously developed crushes on the two comic shop employees who sold it to me. And neither of them was my type!

Mysterious Transfer Student

05:04 / 23.08.06

Well, having seen You Say Party! We Say Die! live just last night, I can confidently state that they're in the front-running in the "Real-World Band Potentially Most Similar to The Clash at Demonhead [Canadian Contenders]" stakes. Although I doubt that the winsomely balletic Becky Ninkovic is capable of the icy evil exhibited by Envy Adams... and they should probably have some longer songs for the prog element detected by Flux... but they do have a very good bass player.

Tonight, Metric! See how this thread and its subject matter are totally running my life at the moment?

Matthew Fluxington

13:12 / 27.08.06

It warms my heart to see this book slowly catch on, and that pretty much everyone who comes to it ends up loving it. It could very well be the perfect comic, you know?

13:30 / 27.08.06

I'm pretty convinced it is. Certainly the best time I've ever had in page and pictures form.

It's fun hundred and fun times fun to the power of fun funned.

Matthew Fluxington

20:26 / 27.08.06

It's also something that could only be done well as a comic, and thus makes virtually everyone else working in the medium seem like a bunch of clueless chumps.

21:13 / 27.08.06

Its so great to lend it to people who don't normally reading comics, especially when they give it back and are all excited about getting the other volumes.

By the way, I picked this up after reading about it on your site, Matthew, so thanks heaps for mentioning it!

01:40 / 28.08.06

Aye, but I should thank Finder too.
Read the first posts here, independantly stumbled on the Fluxblog interview and then went and bought all three at once 'cause I reckoned it'd be my sort of thing.

I was not wrong.

15:50 / 17.09.06

I picked this up on the recommendation of this thread and I just finished volume 2. It's excellent stuff, though I think the final fight scene jarred a little with the rest of the book, but by the time it's seen in the context of vol. 2 it makes more sense.
Oh, and any comic that references Monkey Island can't be bad, not without a major re-write of the fundamental laws of the universe.

Phex: Dorset Doom

18:00 / 17.09.06

If any of you use Last.fm, try searching for the tag 'Scott Pilgrim OST'- I've been tagging all the tracks from O'Malley's 'blog' in the back of '...and the Infinite Sadness' and some others that kinda fit the mood (Broken Social Scene, Sloan), so start tagging tracks you think should go on the Scott Pilgrim OST and soon we'll have enough content for a playable station.

00:09 / 18.09.06

Oh, and any comic that references Monkey Island can't be bad, not without a major re-write of the fundamental laws of the universe.

Yes!

YES!

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