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I’m reading the new Scott Pilgrim and drinking, which brings two of my favourite things in the world together. And it doesn’t happen often enough, as there’s only one new Scott a year tops. Drinking is perennial. Pilgrim is irregular.

So, I’m drinking and reading. And, intermittently, laughing. And, intermittently, having to put the book down and think a bit, as it slices a little too hard to home (Scott Pilgrim remains the Optic Nerve for people who are a little too aware of how ridiculous they are). And occasionally texting McKelvie excitedly while simultaneously trying not to ruin the book as he hasn’t read it yet (We end up, inevitably, discussing the pleasure of intercourse with his mother instead).

And we hit the moment, lubricated by 3/4 of a bottle of house white. The volume’s called Scott Pilgrim gets it together. It’s the bit where Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together. It hits, and it’s brilliant and has a fantastic videogame logic pay-off gag. And then you turn the page, and the videogame logic… transcends. Apotheosizes. And I’m staring at the page, blinking, as everything in life suddenly makes sense.

At which point, the Juke Box drops Fell in Love With A Girl.

And everything collapses. The song, and all the memories and references that have attached to it, hammer into what’s Scott’s created, and turns 2D art into some kind of hologram of such condenced meaning that I can’t even imagine trying to explain what that art/human interface means to anyone else (Hell - the last time I tried to explain such a moment, I almost drove myself to distraction for a couple of years).

I’m blinking. When AK wanders over, I’m still clearly dazed. Drunk, yes, but also dazed.

After that, as fun as they were, CSS could only be a comedown.

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I’d rather kiss Lovefoxxx than O’Malley, though.

No offense to O’Malley.

If kisses were rocks, Lovefoxx would be the Himalayas.

That made sense inside my head.

I think what you’re saying is, you’d kiss her too.

My impression of SP4 was that it wasn’t only Scott Pilgrim getting it together.

HE SAID, METATEXTUALLY.

//\Oo/\\

If you ever want to come for drinks at Sneaky Dees one time, give me a call, man.

My friend Harry got it in the mail while I was over his place, despite ordering it after me. Harry’s a bastard.

I kept sneaking reads at it while I was there.

It looks really good and I want it yesterday.

I hoped I was the first person to write “Scott’s not the only one who got it together,” in a review, but I doubt I was.

I had a vaguely similar experience reading Watchmen for the first time, looking up from the first page of issue 12 to see that it was midnight. Then my brain snapped in half.

went to an o’malley/larson(admittedly like her work more) signing and there wasn’t anyone dunk. ‘merica stinks.
@jody:
similar reaction to Watchmen - although I look up and find i’ve been staring at the same page for half an hour and am completely exhausted - in a good way.

Did Grant Morrison ghostwrite that post?

I read Scott Pilgrim 4 whilst listening to Hefner and The Avalanches. Which worked for me. It may be my favourite of the Pilgrim books so far. The Moment In Question is indeed absolutely bloody divine.

Man, now you’ve set me off listening to the Avalanches.

Well then, I’ve done a good deed.

Those buggers should FINALLY release LP number 2 next year. I hope.

I’m stuck. I left SP4 on my Amazon Wishlist, then found that my mother has already bought it as a christmas gift. So now I can’t read it till christmas.
Mother +5 esteem for checking my wishlist, but -4 for witholding the goods!

while reading SP4 i practically wanted to shout OMG! I’VE BEEN THERE!! everytime the characters were hangin in a part of toronto i’ve been to. I’VE SAT IN THE SEAT IN SNEAKY DEE’S THAT SCOTT PILGRIM SAT IN etc.

i am knives chau.

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