The Comixology app, the mobile incarnation of the digital comics platform owned by Amazon since 2014, has finally shuffled off this mortal coil. On Dec. 4, individual Comixology libraries and Comixology Unlimited subscriptions were swept into users’ corresponding Kindle libraries, where those comics can now be read using the Kindle app or the read.amazon.com browser experience (still in beta).
Scott Pilgrim was never the guy the movie made him out to be
14.11.2023 - 19:11 / polygon.com / Arnold Schwarzenegger / Edgar Wright / Scott Pilgrim
Scott Pilgrim isn’t getting any older. That’s really his problem, when you get right down to it. In 2010, the year the character made his big-screen debut in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, he was a youthful but dissipated 22 years old — a typical product of millennial slacker culture, energized out of his torpor through his quest to win the heart of his dream girl, Ramona Flowers. That quest, and the self-discovery that resulted from it, turned Scott Pilgrim (both the character hailing from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s early-2000s graphic novels and the Edgar Wright-directed adaptation thereof) into a touchstone for a whole generation of semi-sensitive young men who came of age in the early 2000s. For them — for us — Scott was the quintessential Nice Guy: quasi-living proof that the sensitive, needy, guitar-strumming mediocrities among us could inherit, if not the Earth, then at least a girl with really good taste in CDs.
Thirteen years later, Scott Pilgrim remains just as young as he ever was, but the world hasn’t — and therein lies the trouble. Because 2023 isn’t 2010, and the version of Nice Guyhood Scott embodied has, through the passage of time and societal reckoning, turned out to be a lot less charming than we originally suspected. Looking back from our vantage point a decade later, we have to wonder: Was Scott really ever the nice guy we imagined him to be? Or were we always just trying to make him a reflection of the same weird, flawed guyhood we were living in at the time? As the franchise prepares to make its return to screen life on Netflix soon, it’s worth asking the question: What does Scott Pilgrim’s fight against toxic masculinity look like in the world of today?
If we want to understand what kind of guy Scott Pilgrim is, we need to remember something about the world of 2010. Edgar Wright’s movie hit at an odd moment for the culture of guyhood. Over the course of the ’90s and early 2000s, the old, macho ideals of manly appeal — the muscular, jock-oriented sex symbology of the Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger ’80s — had been challenged by a newer, softer stereotype. This was the inward-looking, unthreatening guyhood of Dawson’s Creek, Daniel Clowes comics, and acoustic rock. The new Nice Guy was shy, thoughtful, deeper than girls think (if only they would get to know him), and, most importantly, willing to take no for an answer. And the new pop culture that emerged around him all revolved around the same central idea: Maybe he didn’t have to finish last after all.
Enter Scott Pilgrim, vulnerable slacker par excellence. The Scott we meet in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a kind of inward-looking, rock-obsessed doofus: physically and financially unimpressive, but, at the same time, lacking in
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IGN UK Podcast 724: Scott Pilgrim's PlayStation Portal
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