Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound.
Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley
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Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn’t possibly be better! This means things are about to get infinitely worse. Suddenly, TWO of Ramona’s evil ex-boyfriends are in town, and they’re playing dirty. His band is in turmoil, and his own exes aren’t making things any easier. And what’s up with Ramona, anyway? She’s been acting kinda weird ever since they moved in together. It’s the SECOND LAST VOLUME of SCOTT PILGRIM: Scott’s precious little life is coming back around to bite him in the butt, and it may not be pretty!
The eagerly-anticipated new volume of the ultimate geek graphic novel series!
For those geeks still in the dark here’s the skinny:
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s excellent Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels tells the tale of the titular character and his struggles against his girlfriend’s seven evil exes. The four published volumes (Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life 2004, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World 2005, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness 2006, and Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together 2007) get progressively stranger as we learn more about Scott, his girlfriend Romona, and an increasingly odd cast of characters. Setting the series in Toronto, O’Malley uses comic book and pop culture tropes to illustrate his intelligently scripted stories. The unusual seems ordinary and common to the characters. When a ninja appears to challenge Scott, he opens a door and escapes into subspace, only to reappear somewhere else in the city. He takes it all in stride. It’s not uncommon for a character to relate a story and the say "then there was 50 pages of fight scenes." A movie, directed by Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) and starring Michael Cera as Scott and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Romona, begins shooting soon.
Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 1 written by Alan Moore Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben
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Writer Alan Moore’s seminal horror series is now published in hardcover for the very first time — including the never-before-reprinted SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20, in which Moore wraps up the previous storyline and sets the stage for the groundbreaking tales that were to come. Collecting SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20-27, this first volume features the stories that put Moore on the comics map in the 1980s thanks to his unique narrative style and deconstructive storytelling. Created by a freak accident, Swamp Thing believed he was once scientist Alec Holland — but when he discovers his true nature, it shatters his universe and sends him on a path of discovery and adventure.
Featuring the art of Stephen Bissette and John Totleben, this groundbreaking work features mind-blowing, genre-defying stories starring the rich, complex character that Neil Gaiman called "The No. 1 New Classic Monster" in Entertainment Weekly.
This beautiful book collects the amazing storyline that introduced Alan Moore to American audiences. A must-read for any horror fan.
Complete with a gorgeous front board image by Bissette, whose vision of Swamp Thing may be finer than Wrightson’s. Blasphemy, I know, but there you have it.
Bissette’s front board image