How To Re-Read Scott Pilgrim

The best way to re-read the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels is to do it over the course of the entire year, loosely in step with the calendar events within the books, while residing in the city of Toronto. For extra points, try to visit the locations in the book!

tl;dr

Month	From The Start	Looping Around
March	Chapters 1-3 (Book 1)	Chapter 32 (Book 6)
April	Chapters 4-8 (Book 1, Book 2)	Chapters 33-34 (Book 6)
May	Chapters 9-15 (Book 2, Book 3)	Chapters 35-37, first half of 38 (Book 6)
June	Chapters 16-18 (Book 3)	Second half of Chapter 38 (Book 6)
July	Chapters 19-20 (Book 4)
August	Chapters 21-25 (Book 4)
September	Interlude (Book 5)
October	Break!
November	Chapters 26-31 (Book 5)
December	Break!
January	Break!
February	Break!

Chronology

Chapter 1 kicks it off. Start a re-read sometime in March or early April. Chapter 4 takes place during “like, April”, and the next few chapters take place over a few subsequent days. Read until the end of Chapter 5, which finishes Book 1.
Chapter 6 (the first of Book 2) is a flashback, feel free to tack it onto Chapter 5, tack it onto Chapter 7, or read it somewhere in the middle of them as a snack
Chapters 7 still feels firmly like April, but Chapter 8 starts to feel like May! The trees have leaves now, and the characters are wearing light jackets. Try reading Chapters 8, 9, 10, during the April-May transition
Chapter 11 has the “first real t-shirt day of the year” which, to me, is optimistically late May. This wraps up Book 2. Book 3 picks up immediately afterwards. Chapters 12, 13, 14 are all close together
Chapter 15 is a little later, maybe late May to early June is a good time for this
Chapter 16 feels even warmer, characters are wearing t-shirts. June? June. Keep reading Chapter 17, and 18 which ends with “next up, summer!” No more Scott Pilgrim until true summer
Chapter 19 starts on a beach. Scott says that it’s been “almost two months” since he head-butted Todd, which means we are probably sometime in July by now, especially since one of the panels declares the start of August. You can rip through Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 i one huge sitting because the next chapter (in the next book) kicks off on September 27th!
Between Chapter 25 and 26 there is a small interlude for Scott’s birthday on September 27th. Just a snack, unfortunately, because the next chapter is a month later
Chapter 26 strongly implies it’s slightly after Halloween because Halloween is mentioned, and they’re at a Dia de Los Muertos party, which is usually the start of November. So, start Chapter 26 at the start of November. Wait until mid-November to read Chapter 27 (which takes place around November 14th). Keep reading Chapter 28, 29, and 30
Chapter 30 is definitely the late fall, since the Chaos Theatre is opening “Next Spring”
Chapter 31 looks suspiciously like late November or early December to me, weather-wise. There’s a scene at the Dundas St. bus terminal at ~5pm and it’s still kind of light out, and then Book 5 ends!
Chapter 32 is later than before, and seems to be the next year. There are many hints that it’s early spring. Wallace tells Scott that “it’s been months”. Knives Chau says that she’s graduating in three months, and confirms that they met on her birthday the previous year (which was in March-ish). Read over the course of March and April, and keep reading Chapter 33, and 34. According to the calendar, you can simultaneously start a fresh re-read!
Chapter 35 is canonically on May 1st, because that’s when Envy’s album release happens according to an in-comic billboard. 35, 36, 37 and the first half of Chapter 38 are the big battle, so read them all together! Halfway through Chapter 38 there is a time-skip that ends during much warmer weather, so stop before then
Read the second half of Chapter 38 sometime in late May or early June, and … it’s the last one! Your re-read is tragically over, but happily you have started another re-read

Chapters

Chapter 1: Dating a High Schooler
Chapter 2: Do You Know Her?
Chapter 3: This One Girl…
Chapter 4: Ramona Come Closer
Chapter 5: Everything’s Starting to Get Complicated
Chapter 6: The New Kid
Chapter 7: Dating a High Schooler, Part II
Chapter 8: The Late Scott Pilgrim
Chapter 9: As Long as the Road Lacks Perspective
Chapter 10: Nothing’s Ever Over
Chapter 11: Things Keep Happening
Chapter 12: I Envy You
Chapter 13: It’s Only Divine Right
Chapter 14: About to E-X-P-L-O-D-E
Chapter 15: Bad Old Days
Chapter 16: Frail & Bedazzled
Chapter 17: The Infinite Sadness
Chapter 18: Destroy All Vegans
Chapter 18a: Before You Leave
Chapter 19: Two Months Off
Chapter 20: The New Hotness
Chapter 21: Getting it Together
Chapter 22: Comes a Time
Chapter 23: You Got Me Running
Chapter 24: Terrible Vision
Chapter 25: Still Getting it Together
Chapter 26: Precious Little Life
Chapter 27: Can’t Face Up
Chapter 28: The Glow
Chapter 29: The Universe Fights Back
Chapter 30: The Glow, Part Two
Chapter 31: World of Ruin
Chapter 32: Things Stop Happening
Chapter 33: She Says What She Means
Chapter 34: A Link to the Past
Chapter 35: Love Hurts
Chapter 36: Don’t Let it Get You Down
Chapter 37: It’s Not the End of the World
Chapter 38: Music Sounds Better with You