Things We Saw Today: This Boy and His Tauntaun Costume Will See You in Heck
This little kid has the best Halloween costume.
Read MoreThings We Saw Today: Nolan’s Batman Mashes Up Perfectly With Scott Pilgrim
Sometimes a mashup just kind of works.
Read MoreScott Pilgrim vs. The World‘s Honest Trailer Reminds Us All to Re-Read the Source Material
There are a few reasons why the movie version of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World did not work as well as the comic books, most of which make it into this Honest Trailer send-up. Even the Screen Junkies' jokesters have to admit that this movie's fun, though, provided you fit within its extremely niche target demographic.
Read MoreScott Pilgrim‘s Satya Bhabha Cast As Smee In The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy
Secondly, this version of Smee is LGBTQ! This facet of the character was first revealed in The Advocate, when they covered Peter and Wendy's successful Season 2 IndieGoGo campaign:
Read MoreStudent Filmmaker Blames “SJW”s for His Film Festival Defeat
He's an SJW: Social Justice Whiner.
Curse you Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) and your objective standards of movie quality!
Read MoreHarry Potter Meets Scott Pilgrim In This Super-Rad Mash-Up Trailer
Cauldron cakes make you fat?!
What if Harry Potter had been adapted from a Bryan Lee O'Malley graphic novel instead of J.K. Rowling's epic saga? We'd probably have gotten a series of films that look something like this. I'm in Lovegoods with this trailer.
Read More#FollowFriday: Bryan Lee O’Malley (@radiomaru)
Hey, it's that one guy! Maybe you should follow him.
It's that time again! That's right, we're about to attempt to improve your Internet experience by suggesting a person we think you should be following on Twitter. That person is Scott Pilgrim creator, author, and artist Bryan Lee O'Malley, because he's still writing comics and being hilarious, and you can get in on it.
Read MoreHere Are the Winners for Our Scott Pilgrim Vinyl Contest
So what do you think, Jimmy? Do they rock or suck?
Last week we asked for your best video-game themed band names as entries in our contest to win a Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World OST vinyl from ABKCO Records. Today, we've rounded up our five favorite picks. Seriously, if these were all actual bands, we would totally listen to them.
Read MoreScott Pilgrim Vs. The World OST Finally Getting Reprinted On Vinyl
I'm in lesbians with this news.
Whether or not you actually like the movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (side note, if you don't like it then you're totally wrong), you have to admit that the soundtrack is frickin' amazing. Now, after being completely sold out and impossible to get since the movie was first released, they're starting to reprint it on vinyl again.
Read MoreScott Pilgrim Special Edition and “Evil Edition” Books Announced With Tons of Goodies
Scott Pilgrim is Back in Glorious Full Color
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Toddler is Kim Pine, Scott Pilgrim’s Drummer [Video]
This little girl, captured here adorably yelling "We are Sex Bob-Omb!" apparently wants to be Kim Pine when she grows up.
Unsure of what little girls want to be when they grow up, Geekosystem jumped into the field and surveyed a four-year-old girl, who shed light on the subject by telling us she wants to be either a mommy, a teacher, or a Christmas tree when she grows up. Really. She's awesome.
(via BuzzFeed)
Read MoreGeekolinks: 9/18
Geekolinks: 8/18
Your Fears About Hollywood Overreacting to Scott Pilgrim’s Bad Box Office May Be Justified
With a weekend box office of $10.5 million, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which cost about $60 million to make, had the alarmingly bad opening that fans feared it would. While a few (generally older) critics slammed it, it was really a stellar movie, and one needn't have read the graphic novels it's based on (I didn't) to appreciate it.
There are plenty of theories as to why such a buzzed-about, well-marketed, solid movie performed as weakly at the box office as it did: CinemaBlend surmises that it existed in a no-man's land, with people above 30 not 'getting' it, but people too far below 30 not 'getting' the retro gaming references either; it being a geek movie that most geeks don't actually relate to ("This is a movie about a slacker musician whose biggest problem is choosing which of the two hot girls he's dating he most wants to sleep with"); and, lastly, the 'everyone hates Michael Cera' hypothesis, which I don't entirely buy, but which is widespread enough that it has to be based on some reality.
In some respects, it doesn't matter why; what matters is the aftermath. Hollywood's backlash against 'geek' properties without a hit-you-over-the-head mainstream hook could be just as bad as we fear.
Read MoreScott Pilgrim Vs. The Box Office: It Doesn’t Look Good
Geekolinks: 8/13
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Bonus video: Adult Swim's Scott Pilgrim animated short:
Read MoreThe Scott Pilgrim Trailer Recreated Entirely from Comic Panels
If, like us, you've watched the various Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailers so many times they're burned into your retinas, you'll appreciate this work of inspired geekery by YouTuber theMrBlonde2010: The extended trailer for Scott Pilgrim reconstructed entirely from panels from Bryan Lee O'Malley's original graphic novel.
The 10 Worst Exes in Geekdom
While anticipating the release of the cinematic version of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, we thought of quite a few other horrible exes.
We mean, a few fictional ones. Anyway, its safe to say that you've never had an ex like the ones on this list.
And if you have, we're so, so sorry.
>>>Read the list.