The view from the southwest corner of Markham and Lennox streets around 1 a.m. this morning. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist.
Well the wait is finally over. It’s hard to believe Scott Pilgrim has been in our lives for eight years now. And it’s impressive to see just how much the popularity of the plucky Torontonian comic book hero has snowballed in that time. Judging by the winding column of tweens, teens, and twenty-oughts lining up outside The Beguiling on Markham Street for last night’s midnight release of Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, the sixth and final digest-sized comic in the series, Scott Pilgrim is big news. Like, huge news.
Folks started lining up as early as 6 p.m. last night and, as you may imagine, it looked like what it might looked like if The Phantom Menace, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and some other Twilight bullshit were all being released on the same night. Plenty of people showed in costume, which is weird considering that most of the characters in the Scott Pilgrim books are already archetypes of Toronto youngsters, meaning that people are basically coming in costume as manga-exaggerated caricatures of themselves.
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