ate-night Twitter stakling rarely leads to anything good. You do it because it’s late and you have nothing to do, and want to see what other people are doing. But more often than not, if people are on Twitter it’s because they don’t have anything to do, either. If they are doing something, it’s either something jealousy-inspiring, or they’ll talk about how awesome it was the next morning. No, Twitter-stalking rarely leads to anything good.

So imagine my surprise when my friends Skott of The Nerd Signal and Dan of Geekadelphia and the Suicide Girls Blog within minutes of each other tweeted about their intention to go to Brave New World’s midnight release party for SCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR, the sixth and final volume of Brian Lee O’Malley’s epic comic series (soon to be a major motion picture)! As a hardcore SP fan, I had to go.

“Hey,” I said, walking into the office where JR was being productive. “Wanna go to a SCOTT PILGRIM release party?”

“Sure! Right now?” she said.

I looked at the clock. “Actually…yeah. It starts now. But it goes ’till midnight.”

We wasted no time raiding Volumes 1-5 looking for appropriate costumes to attend the event. Our hopes of being Evil Exs were dashed, but we figured we could pull together kickin’ versions of Scott and Ramona’s Halloween costumes. And so we did:

We didn’t take any pictures ourselves, and this was the best pic I could find, yanked from Brave New World’s Facebook Gallery. As a bonus, Skott’s in the shot. Hello, Skott!

We had a good time at the event, despite arriving too late for the pizza. We did, however, win free passes to a preview showing of the SCOTT PILGRIM movie, which I take as clear proof that the universe loved our outfits. When we bought out book, the cashier said he was glad we won the tickets, “because you guys came all dressed up.” So let that be a lesson to us all.

Also, I clearly need to spend more time on Twitter. The evidence of it’s benefits are abundant.