Fandomonium! – Episode Three
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Its that time of the week again, and we’re back for more of that Fandomonium! goodness. In this episode its time to get down to business, what business you ask, comics. That’s right find out what we’ve been reading what you should be reading and everything in between. All this and more in this episode of Fandomonium!
Music – “You Make My Dreams” – Hall & Oates
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Book of the Month
Y The Last Man Vol. 5In this final Deluxe Edition hardcover collecting Y #49-60, Yorick and Agent 355 prepare for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed. Then, Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to its dramatic, unexpected conclusion.
Perhaps Ben likes tall characters because he can relate.
Dude! Love Scott Pilgrim, glad you hear you guys talk about the series. I’m just now loaning Will the books and he’s really liked it so far
Nobody doesn’t fall in love with Scott Pilgrim, he’s the modern day Lloyd Dobler.
I didn’t. I guess that makes me Nobody. :) Seriously though, I read the first book and that was enough for me. There were some clever bits and nice creative touches that I liked, but overall it didn’t work for me. I found the Scott Pilgrim character to be kind of a selfish jerk, to the point where I didn’t want to follow him through his arc of hopefully becoming a decent guy. The spastic randomness of it all was too messy. It didn’t establish its own world and rules well enough. Stuff would just happen and I’m supposed to just accept it and go with it?
Also, the art would range from nice to crappy, almost from panel to panel. It was like I could totally see where O’Malley was taking time and care one minute and then rushing through the next. Overall, there was just never any consistency for me to grab hold of, whether it be tone or presentation. Most importantly, I didn’t buy the “relationship” between Scott and Ramona. It felt too contrived and shallow, not to mention how quickly it moved. “Hey, you’ve been LITERALLY rollerblading through my dreams!” “Yeah, it’s totally awesome and quirky, right? Let’s go to my house, get caught in a snow storm and then get in to bed together!”
Having said all that, I am actually looking forward to the movie adaptation, because I trust that Edgar Wright can and will make some semblance of all this and present it to me in a fun, energetic and satisfying way that goes down much smoother than this self-indulgent mess.
Oh Kev, really dug the I Love Movies shout out at the end! haha