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Ghost World is a pretty good little movie: nothing much really happens in it and yet somehow, it succeeds. Somehow. I can't quite put my finger on why. Despite that though, I felt that the comic book had the edge ... a bit more punch and bit snappier on the whole. The site says this to say in its FAQ:

Q. How is the movie different from the comic?
A. For one thing, the comic is made up of bound pieces of parchment on which reproductions of hand-drawn pictographs have been imprinted, while the movie is actually made up of thousands and thousands of tiny transparent photographs.

Which is as good an answer as any I guess.

Watch out boys ... it's lamé lovely Miss Kitty!

One highlight was the discovery of Gumnaam, a 60s Bollywood product which is used in the opening scene. Apparently it's an Indian reworking of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians ... but with music! (bien sûr) And in the above-pictured scene, an excellent jangly-surf-guitars-trumpets-drums-meet-60s-Batman-fight-scene-style number with much jumping around and shaking of loose limbs to boot. Sheer genius I tell you. And you can hear a little bit of it here.
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