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You might be sick of the hype for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie, but there’s a reason why comics fans are so excited. The books are just about the most fun comics out there at the minute.
They follow the ups and downs of Scott Pilgrim, bass player and general layabout. In short, he meets a girl, falls in love, makes social faux-pas left, right and centre…
Sounds crap, yeah? Well, it’s great for a load of reasons.
1. The art is super-stylised manga-esque, yet the writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley has an uncanny knack for getting characters to emote with way fewer lines than most artists. Even if you think you don’t like manga, or that it’s for girls, or whatever - you have to give Scott Pilgrim a chance. I was wary myself, to be honest, but I’ve fallen deeply in love with it. Many of you are sporting Pilgrim Avatars in your Twitter feeds. Embrace it.
2. It’s hilariously funny. Scott is an idiot, yet charming with it. His circle of friends and the life he leads seem to provide pant loads of opportunity for humour. One of the few books that is genuinely hard to read in public for fear of people looking at you like you’re some kind of loon.
3. It’s frigging weird. Without giving away any spoilers, the end of the first volume takes the story in a VERY off-beat direction. It’s such a bizarre twist that I just started laughing out loud when I realised I was reading something that comes from a very different place to other comics.
Look, it’s really cheap to buy it. I’ll post an affiliate link here - I’m going to make all my links Amazon ones, so if you buy something I’ll get a teeny tiny bit of scratch for it. Not much. Not much at all to be honest. But it’ll give me incentive to keep doing this.
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Ron reads comics. In fact, he's read rather a lot. So, rather than keep all this knowledge to himself, he wants to share it with you. Yes, you. And you. Even you.
Tell him what you're interested in, and he'll try and point you in the right direction. All he asks is that if you're going to buy it, you go through the Amazon link he gives you.
He's grown rather fond of eating, see...
