If it's the end of a decade, then it's time for multiple Best Of The Decade lists. This isn't exactly one of them, though, despite what it looks like; for one thing, even if it was, you'd all disagree with it and complain that we left off something essential - although anyone arguing for the inclusion of Ultimatum, we believe that can be disproven through the use of science and charts - and for another, we've not read every single thing published in the last decade, so for all we know, there's something really obvious that we'll have somehow overlooked through accident instead of malice. Instead of The Ten Best, then, these are Ten Of The Best (Click on the titles for our explanations why and, in some cases, runners-up to the list that we couldn't help but sneak in):

100% by Paul Pope (DC/Vertigo)
All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC Comics)
Black Hole by Charles Burns (Pantheon)
Casanova by Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon (Image Comics)
Laika by Nick Abadzis (First Second Books)
Planetes by Makoto Yukimura (Tokyopop)
Pluto by Osamu Tazuka and Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press)
We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC/Vertigo)
Y The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra and many more (DC/Vertigo)

(Thanks to Lauren, David Brothers, Jeff Lester and all who offered advice and good reasons why we were entirely wrong in some original choices.)

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Ubisoft has announced that it plans to make a game based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's six-book series, and it's certainly a game tie-in that makes sense. After all, the entire Scott Pilgrim universe seems to be trapped inside an indie rock arcade game. In each book, Scott must defeat one or more of his girlfriend Ramona's evil exes, who each present special challenges and possess otherworldly abilities. And whenever Scott defeats an enemy, he vanishes leaving behind some sort of reward (the most creepy being the extra life, shaped like Scott's head).

Ubisoft is looking to retain the character and charm of the books, opting for a classic side-scrolling design and working with O'Malley to develop the gameplay. As much as I'm geeking out over Edgar Wright's daily dispatches from the Scott Pilgrim film set, I suspect the game might prove a more apt adaptation, since the structure of the books is more suited to a video game. And O'Malley has promised plenty of fun gaming treats for fans:

It's still in the really early stages, but we're talking about having lots of characters, lots of Easter Eggs for readers of the books – a lot of stuff that couldn't fit into the movie but is more suited to the game. That's what I'd like to see and what we're working on.

[Comic Book Resources]

The latest video from the set of Edgar Wright's adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's series of graphic novels about a boy who just so happens to fall for a girl who has seven evil exes he has to defeat in order to win the day shows the kind of work that goes on behind the scenes of those effortless movie party scenes:


Of course, you may be more interested in watching even more effort go into making one of the movies' superpowered fight scenes come to cinematic life:



(EvlSushi, this is for you.)

[Scott Pilgrim The Movie]

The first of the video diaries doesn't really reveal anything about the adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's series of graphic novels that we don't already know, but we do get to see some stunt rehearsal and training for some of the movie's many fight scenes, as well as find out more about Wright's facial hair dilemma:

Blog One - Introduction - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World from Scott Pilgrim The Movie on Vimeo.

[Scott Pilgrim Versus The World]

The movie, Scott Pilgrim Versus The World, adapts the entirity of Bryan Lee O'Malley's award-winning Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels - including the as-yet-unreleased fifth volume (Scott Pilgrim Versus The Universe, out next month) and the as-yet-unfinished untitled sixth - telling the complete story of twenty-something Scott Pilgrim, who has to defeat the seven ex-boyfriends of the object of his affections before he can date her. Or as complete as one movie can fit, at least. Michael Cera will play Scott, with Death Proof's Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Ramona Flowers, she with the evil exes.

For those of us who adore the books, even Wright's immediately apparent awesomeness (Exhibit A: Spaced. Exhibit B: All of his movies. Should I continue?) wasn't enough to entirely dismiss fears that the movie won't live up to the original, but two pieces of casting news have gone a long way to quelling fears. Firstly, Chris Evans has signed on to play one of the evil ex-boyfriends, former pro-skateboarder-turned-actor and sellout Lucas Lee - And anyone who's ever seen either of the two Fantastic Four movies knows that he can do comedic egotistical asshole pretty well - but more excitingly, The United States of Tara's Brie Larson will play Envy Adams, Scott's ex, and, in Larson's words:

[T]he worst ex-girlfriend ever that you just can't get away from... [H]er basic purpose is to make his life miserable and she's a constant reminder of everything that he's not and he'll never be.

The fact that Envy is in the movie at all gives me stupidly nerdy hope that we'll get to see a cinematic version of this:

Scott Pilgrim Versus The World begins shooting later this year.

Edgar Wright Draws A Formidable Lucas Lee For SCOTT PILGRIM! [Ain't It Cool], Brie Larson: Meet "Tara's" Teen Daughter [Teen Hollywood] (Thanks, Bryan!)

The video, remixes the already very disturbing Lucky Star Decepticons video before giving it a new soundtrack that happens to be a cover of Underworld's "Born Slippy" by Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley. Why does it do any of these things? I have no idea. And for some reason, that makes it all the more perfect.

O'Malley commented on the mix:

It's just weird at first, but once the beat kicks in it gets kind of great.

He's not lying.

Decepticonboooy AMV (Kupek's Born Slippy Cover) [YouTube]