a post that will appeal to only about, like, five of you

[thehefner]

I just read the first volume of Scott Pilgrim. Now, maybe I need to read the second to see just why it is that everyone, and I mean it really feels like *everyone*, is so frickin' orgasming over this comic. Beacause what is the frickin' DEAL, people?!

Comments

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I read some excerpts and I thought it was kinda cute, but that's about it.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

*waves at a familiar face from scans_daily*

Hi!

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Y halo thar! :D

*waves back*

Nice to see that I comment enough in that comm to register as familiar. Of course, I should probably find some scans to post...

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm starting a collection of scans_daily fangirls, you see...

[kali921.livejournal.com]

*in hystericas at icon, as usual*

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Hallo back! Yes, you registered on the radar, and I recall your comments being sensible and perspicacious, which is why I remember you. :-)

Also, I'm stalking our mutual friend here. Apparently I'm not a very good stalker, because he's noticed me.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

*looks up "perspicacious" while Kali isn't looking*

Ooh! Why, thank you! Most of that's probably a bit of a bluff though, as I'm terribly n00bish when it comes to American comics. :)

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Well, I need to fork over my cool credentials because I've never even heard of this comic, or I've seen it and it hasn't registered to mine eyes in my LCS.

What, pray tell, is it?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Slice-of-life mixed with romance, videogame sensibilities, rock music, and sudden random manga style fights with campy characters suddenly interrupting the generally "serious but fun" main story. It's so painfully "look at how hip and indie we are!" I wouldn't dislike it so much if people weren't hailing this as, like, the indie SANDMAN or something.

Then again, you're talking to the guy who seriously does *not* get why people are completely totally orgasming themselves over FIREFLY, a show I liked... but dude, I don't get it.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I shall have to check it out, so I can deride it along with you. Painfully and redundantly and self-consciously hip isn't hip. It's wanking, you see. "Look how many sly things I can throw into this page! Why, I am a veritable cultural cognoscenti!"

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

However, I speak as the grumpy minority. Because everyone loves this book. I may just be the grumbly only one yet again.

If there hadn't been so much hype, I'd have thought it was fun and light, nothing more.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Gert is a snot.

I repeat, Gert is a snot.

See? You are not alone in your grumbliness.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

It's possibly over hyped syndrome then. I only discovered Firefly after catching a rerun on SciFi. If I had heard about all the fan carping (I'm now guilty of doing this though XP) first I probably wouldn't have liked it as much as I do. And I think it was a great show, but not as good as it could have been. If only it had been allowed to develop...

The more you try to push people onto something by declaring it the second coming of [insert really really good thing here] you're probably stand a greater chance of putting them off rather than making them fans. The same thing happened to me with Transmet. I kept hearing about how omgamazinggasm it was that by the time I got around to reading it I don't think I could have been anything except disappointed. Compare that to a series like Planetary, or Preacher which I picked up and fell hard for after reading a loy-key S_D post where the posters just let the comics speak for themselves. I'd rather people just give me the gist of something and let me make my own mind, you know?

Of course, sometimes I can put myself in a very "do as I say, not as I do" situation with these things. I understand the feeling of finding something that you think is totally awesome and omg I must share it with the world! But you risk coming on too strong. Something I learned the hard way when I tried to push V for Vendetta on my American comic-disliking friend. Even though it has the key things that she hates about Americomics*, in my misguiding fangirlism I figured that the story was so good, she would just have to like it. Nope, if anything I managed to even further her prejudices against the medium. D'oh.



*Heavy black inks (especially when used for shading) and lots of words/speech bubbles on the page. Yeah. I haven't given up, because I'm confident in comics as a medium that there has to be something for everyone.

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it, but it doesn't look particularly appealing. You're not the only one who's read it and feels that way, though, so don't despair. heykidzcomix hated it and she's got, like, critic cred or something.
I also didn't like "Blankets", though. Comics about how smart and poetical and underappreciated their creators are just don't do it for me. I prefer the "Action! Splode!" school of indie comics.

[pondering-duck.livejournal.com]

I guess I was not one of the five...oh poo