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"Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together" - SP Vol 4 is out this week (11/14)

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Not sure who else here reads Scott Pilgrim, but thought I'd give everyone a heads up that Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim vol 4 entitled Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together is out this Wednesday, November 14th. It should be availabe on Amazon and the other usual places. I'll be picking this up later in the week.

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WHO THE HELL IS SCOTT PILGRIM AND WHY THE HELL SHOULD I CARE?

Scott Pilgrim is a 23-year-old guy living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to make his way in this crazy world.

Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Wait, what?

Scott Pilgrim is named after a song by the late great 90's all-girl Canadian indie rock band, Plumtree.

Scott Pilgrim is a critically acclaimed, award-winning series of graphic novels by Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley. VOLUME 4 is new for 2007. There will be six volumes in all. They are published by Oni Press and released approximately once per year. (Ages 13 and up!)
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Links:
The Official Site with fun wallpapers, etc...
Bryan Lee O'Malley's interview with The Onion AV Club.
Interview with CBR (some spoilers)
A few reviews over on Onipress.com
GAF-friendly Amazon link.

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just read the review and interview at the onion av club


couldn't get into it until volume 3, then everything clicked and i cannot WAIT to get this
 
The Onion AV Club gives it an A-.
Onion AV Club said:
Bryan Lee O'Malley—perhaps jokingly—once described his Scott Pilgrim series as "cruddy, lo-fi manga." But that won't fly any more. The book's fourth installment, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (Oni) is a marked leap forward for O'Malley's already formidable cartooning. Gone is the subtly ragged linework of previous volumes; instead, O'Malley's draftsmanship has become as bold, crystal-clear, and richly detailed as Jeff Smith's or Jamie Hewlett's. Thankfully, the visual improvement is matched by O'Malley's storytelling. While Scott Pilgrim's breezy mix of indie culture, video games, science fiction, and twentysomething romance is the same as always, Gets It Together moves the characters—including, of course, the bewildered, self-absorbed, titular hero—into more introspective and even mature places. There's no dearth of sight gags, ninja battles, and rock action, but O'Malley's flair for dialogue and compact, nuanced characterization has never felt so organic and effortless. Sure, it's funny stuff, but the cute never gets cutesy, and the plastic-y pop-culture backdrop only makes the sweet human moments that much fuller and more vivid… A-
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if you guys like scott pilgrim, i'd like to also suggest Sidescrollers, also from Oni

Brian, Brad, and Matt are three best friends who have stuck with each other through thick and thin, despite the fact that they love to tease each other constantly. It's a sweet summer off from the bummers of high school in their small boring suburban town in Connecticut. They are the losers at their high school, the oddities of their town. When they're not working at the local fast food joint, you can find them either playing video games, eating junk food, or collecting comics.

"SIDESCROLLERS is a story about the kids who in school were considered either the nerds or the screw-ups," explained Loux. "These three guys are best friends going nowhere, but they're totally okay with that. Until of course, one fateful day when life takes them on an unexpected adventure they will never forget."

This day starts out like any other, with an innocent game of Street Fighter. But trouble brews when our perpetual losers discover that the new girl in town, Amber (of whom Matt is sweet on) is going to the big local rock show that night with Richard, the epitome of perverted, mean, and annoying high school football jocks. Our three heroes suspect that Richard (or "Dick", as he is known to them) has some creepy plans for the innocent girl he is preying on, and so they take action in the best way high schoolers can: by vandalizing his car!
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Hey! I know the real Scott Pilgrim! And I have the Plumtree/Inbreds split 7" with the original version of the song!

Am I rich?
 
So I was bored and tired in a rainy morning. Then started reading the OT on GAF. And because of this thread I searched for Scott Pilgrim's scans, found the first book and devoured it because it's amazing and it made my tiring go away a little because of how good it is. And then I searched for the following ones, and they're not scanned. And now I hate GAF for making me discover awesome things and then myself for living in the bottom of the world.

(And no, this isn't and will never be published in my country. I have no other means to get it, if I had I would buy it in a heartbeat. If what I said is bannable, so be it.)
 
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So I was bored and tired in a rainy morning. Then started reading the OT on GAF. And because of this thread I searched for Scott Pilgrim's scans, found the first book and devoured it because it's amazing and it made my tiring go away a little because of how good it is. And then I searched for the following ones, and they're not scanned. And now I hate GAF for making me discover awesome things and then myself for living in the bottom of the world.

(And no, this isn't and will never be published in my country. I have no other means to get it, if I had I would buy it in a heartbeat. If what I said is bannable, so be it.)
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You can't order it on the internet?

Anyway. When you all stop into the shoppe this week for Pilgrim, you'll find just one of the best New Comic Book Days in the medium's history. Along with Pilgrim:

All Star Superman #9
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
JLA: Ultramarine Corps (all Morrison late-era JLA)
100 Bullets #86
Punisher War Journal #13
Wonder Woman #14 (1st Gail Simone ish)
DMZ #25
Ex Machina vol. 6
Thor #4
New Avengers #36
Booster Gold #4
World War Hulk #5

It's fucking rad. Fnord, thread engage.
 
oh man, totally forgot about this, AWESOME. except for the fact i only own the first one. i need to get 2,3 and 4.
 
Wait until you guys see the back cover.

Oh. My. God.

Also, you guys know how the lead story in Shonen Jump will have about six or seven full color pages to start off its chapter?

:D

ETA: Also, Yavin IV is, for the first time, unanimous (if occasionally creepy) in their praise.
 
This was a really nice follow-up. I particularly enjoyed how visually auditive the sequential storytelling was this time around, a whole deal more playful with sounds and frame composition. It was also interesting to see Scott's little quirks being developed as actual character flaws, the characterization feels more

I do felt the beginning of the book as somewhat lacking, like if he was trying to force some kind of "warm-up" for the rest of the book as if the reader had forgotten how the gang acts around each other and their individual traits. I guess this are the effects of yearly published novels. Nevertheless, the actual development felt smooth and realistic. As youthful as ever.

Even if I wouldn't call it my favorite Pilgrim entry, it clearly shows certain cartoonist maturity in O'Malley's style as the overall narrative felt as a whole much more concise yet still with the simplistic lo-fi charm of the older volumes. For sure recommendable in its own right.
 
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