Comic Of The Week: Scott Pilgrim

An exquisite elderly gay gentleman from Alabama with white hair and beard, jocular face, and mischievous smile showed up unexpectedly at my birthday party this year and pressed Scott Pilgrim into my hand. Leaning in close he whispered into my ear that this book needed to be mine.

"Odd," I replied, still taken aback by his presence/presents. "What is it?"

"Canadian manga."

"Really?" Disdain acridly hanging between us.

"Oh shut the fuck up and read it you ungrateful bitch!" And with that he was gone, and the absinthe flowed and I don't remember much of the rest of the night.

Months later I did finally, in a fit of boredom brought upon by the successful completion of BioShock and the utter lack of anything else on the market, spy Mr. Pilgrim peeking up at me from under back issues of Genre, XY, and Instinct. I relented and reluctantly cracked open the cover. I was doomed. I could not put the damn thing down. Seriously screwed up characters, total blurring of gender roles and identities, smart clever writing, physic powers...God I love this so much I must need therapy! Well, aside from that obvious statement, I wholeheartedly recommend this eventual six part series.