Minnesota Reads

I drank the Jodi Chromey Kool-Aid and readers, it was delicious. As anyone who has ever lurked the hallowed halls of Minnesota Reads knows, when Jodi likes something — I mean REALLY likes something — she damn near holds her very own Fourth of July celebration for that thing. Under these circumstances, I tend to [...]

I was so excited to read Scott Pilgirm’s Finest Hour, the sixth and final volume in the series, that even though I had ordered it for ridiculously cheap, the moment I got near Big Brain Comics last Tuesday I caved and bought another copy. There was no way in hell I was going to be [...]

So, I have books I can review but I’m just not in the mood today. So here’s some book news type things. First, Ben Greenman is reading at The Loft tonight at 8 p.m. You should go. I’m going, Jeff (who answered our 6 questions yesterday is going, my friend Karlyn is going. Why don’t [...]

The last time we visited our favorite Canadian Hipster doofus, he was getting in deep with Ramona Flowers, she of the seven evil exes. So deep that the couple has shacked up. What? Our favorite slacker has gotten a job and a live-in girlfriend? How can this be. Alas, it is s. But no need [...]

Every time I start to write about one of the books in the Scott Pilgrim series, I thumb through the book to refresh my memory. Without fail, each page I land on brings a giant smile to my face. It’s probably my job as a “reviewer” (in quotes because I’m not sure I really review [...]

When we last left our favorite Canadian Hipster, he was trying to clean up after a few ex-girlfriends. In Volume 3 Scott Pilgrim vs. The Infinite Sadness, Scott’s dealing with the grand poobah of exGFs, Envy Adams. Envy’s back in town toting a vegan boyfriend named Todd who also plays in her fabulously successful band, [...]

Right around the time I closed the back cover on Scott Pilgrim Volume 1, I went right out and bought Volumes 2-5. I’d have bought Volume 6, but it doesn’t come out until July. I am hoping I survive that long. The withdrawal might not be pretty. These books, at least the first two, are [...]

Scott Pilgrim is a twenty-three-year-old hipster doofus living in Toronto, playing in a band called Sex Bob-Omb, sharing a bed with his BFF Wallace, and “dating” a seventeen-year-old high school student named Knives Chau. He doesn’t sound like a very likable guy, yet on paper in Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, [...]