The Hollywood Reporter prints a story hastily sent in by someone's publicist. Nobody fact-checks anything. The rest of the internet / world hastily copies the facts in the article into their own hastily-published articles. It's amazing!

Anyway, I can "confirm" that Michael Cera is going to play Scott Pilgrim in this movie adaptation.

It is not called "Scott Pilgrim's Little Life", as the whole internet has been saying. Gee, I wonder why they took out "precious", the internet wonders? Maybe because some idiot made an error while filing the story? No, couldn't be. There must be some deeper meaning.

It isn't even called Precious Little Life, but I defer to the film's creators as to when and how they want to make their announcements.

Yes, there is a screenplay (sorry, imdb). I can tell you that I read the first draft in March 2006, and the second draft was submitted in October, just before the writer's strike. Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright co-wrote it. Edgar Wright is directing the film.

Any script reviews you've seen online were probably of the first (2006) draft.

Yes, the studio (Universal) is "eyeing a fall start".

Yes, it is based on the entire story arc, not just the first book, and yes we talked a lot about what should happen in the later parts of the story, but at the same time we have already diverged significantly. It is a complimentary story, not an exact copy.

Yes, Edgar Wright is a fine fellow who has included me since the very start (late '04 / early '05).

Blah, blah, blah.

I honestly had no idea this was going to be announced this week. I am in LA for no reason connected to this movie thing. We just came out here for fun!

As I am Unimportant, I seriously doubt many people care what I have to say on this subject, but there you have it. The truth as it stands, for my readers.

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Reminder: I am signing at Meltdown tomorrow from 2-4 PM. Los Angeles.

An early version of the Scott Pilgrim V3 cover, scrapped. It went around the internet fifty times before I scrapped it, of course. I still see it all over the place to this day. The internet is a horrible place.

Thumbnails: pages 168-185 (minus a few)

This is how I was thumbnailing for most of Volume 2. It looks nice, but it's kind of a waste of time for me, so I gave up on it.

These were drawn straight to pen. The dark grey marker indicates black fills, and the light grey marker supposedly indicates screentone. I mean, it works, I guess, but it's kind of like you could spend more time on these than the actual pages. They're more show-offy than practical, I think. (So I'm showing them off! Go me!)

Note how I skipped pages I wasn't sure about, figuring I'd come back to them later. I know 179-183 (mostly blank on this page) were the very last things I drew for this book.

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Thumbnails: pages 84-87

Thumbnails to one of my favourite scenes.

When I penciled the scene, I ended up drawing Ramona on the recliner in a few panels, moving back and forth fluidly, depending on how deep in the doghouse Scott is at the moment. I think that little change made the scene way better. It's just a thing that happened on the fly, without a lot of thought. The characters' personalities come out at different stages sometimes.

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Breakup scene, In-depth (pages 48-51)

In the script, they broke up and then it went right to the next scene. On the script I seem to have drawn a line below the scene and scribbled "INSERT 2 PAGES of SCOTT on the bus alone".

The first run-through of thumbnails is pretty shakey as to what I wanted to get out of the scene. I left it alone for a while -- my files say page 47 was finished January 7th 2005, and page 48 was finished February 9th -- and I guess I came up with a visual idea that I think works pretty well.

Unfortunately, I don't have much more insight than that! They... Scott's on black and Knives is on white and they get smaller and smaller? And then there's this weird pseudo-symmetrical scene of him riding the bus (two of my favourite pages in the book, I think).

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Vol. 2 Trivia

• I finished 35 pages in my last 5 days of work. >:O
  
• The last pages I did were the skateboarding spread and aftermath (pages 122-127) and the burrito restaurant flashback leading up to (and including) the Lee's Palace spread (pages 178-183). The spreads got left til last because I was dreading them, and yet they both turned out really well. The restaurant thing got left because I wasn't quite sure what I was doing with it.
  
• I jumped ahead and did the ending (the last 20 pages or so) about halfway through the book. I think my reasoning was that I wanted to draw that stuff while still feeling fresh, and not have to rush through it (probably because the ending of Volume 1 was incredibly rushed).

It was a dark and stormy night, and I decided to continue my Annotated Pilgrim series with some more of Volume 2. The rest of Vol. 2 will follow eventually. I got through a little more than this, but I thought I should quit while I'm ahead.

I'm thinking of printing up the annotations from Vol. 1 and 2 and offering them as a sort of minicomic zine thing at APE and MoCCA this spring, hopefully with added art and possibly short comics.

Previous installments are here.

( Volume 2, Part 2 )

I wrote this up a while ago, so maybe if I clean it up and post it, it'll encourage me to continue.

Poll #815281 Scott Pilgrim 'shipping'
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

which relationship are you hot for?

Poll #806629 Random questions for no reason
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What was the first book of mine you ever read?

How have you acquired my books? (check as many as necessary)

Who is your favourite character in Scott Pilgrim as of this moment?

BONUS QUESTION! How soon do you think Scott Pilgrim Volume 4 will come out? (1 is Very Soon, 10 is An Extremely Long Time From Now)

Uploaded this earlier: some of the first thumbnails from Scott Pilgrim Vol 1.



Another thing: I posted this script excerpt (from Scott Pilgrim Vol 1) in the comments of the Q&A thread earlier, and it got 400+ views just from that! So here it is for the rest of you.



Click through both for more information and larger images.

I just noticed there that i have 710 "friend ofs" at this point. whyyyyy???

In honour of me being so popular, I want to do another SCOTT PILGRIM Q&A thread. Or you could also ask questions about Lost at Sea or my other work (what other work?).

There will definitely be SPOILERS about my existing books, so if you're planning to read them and don't want to be spoiled, please avoid! I will make sure not to spoil anything about future books. And as always i reserve the right to answer only the questions I feel like answering.

I'm working on my script and stuff, so some mind-prodding couldn't hurt, i guess. You could say i'm morbidly curious to see what people say in here.

(I never did a post-vol-3 character popularity survey, probably because I stopped being interested. I may do one eventually, though.)

I need some more juice to make the last push and finish this thing, so I'm opening the floor for general questions about any aspect of Scott Pilgrim. Story, characters, the "behind the scenes" stuff, or whatever you can come up with. I promise not to spoil anything that's going to happen in Volume 3, but I'm hoping people will ask some questions that get my mind working. My mind is very tired of working and it needs a bit of help.

Don't ask if it's okay to ask something, just go ahead and ask it. I'll answer what I feel like answering!

Something I didn't realize about being a nerd is that just because you stop watching Star Trek and stop buying a stack of comics every Wednesday, it doesn't mean you're Cured. I think in my case it just means the focus of my nerdiness is shifting.

( don't read this )

Someone sent me a Career Fair type of survey for a school project, and I answered it. How terrible to think of my life in these terms!

( Pathetic! )