Scooter Girl is a limited series comic by Chynna Clugston Flores, creator of Blue Monday. It follows Scooter-Riding Mod Ashton Archer, whose life as Big Man on Campus is shaken up and destroyed by the appearance of Margaret Sheldon, the only girl who resists his charms. After high school, Ashton moves to San Diego to get away from her, but she shows up in his life again.
The six issues were originally published by Oni Press in 2003, and in collected book form in 2004. Image Comics reprinted it in color in 2017.
Contains examples of the following tropes:
- Big Man on Campus: At the beginning, Ashton is the most popular guy in school, able to charm the pants off any girl, coast through classes on his charm and paying his classmates to do his assignments, and is also a star athlete and student body president. All this comes crashing down after Margaret arrives.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Ashton does this a few times, and his friend Desmond does once to set the record straight.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Ashton does this after Margaret kisses him but then rejects him. He arrives at Margaret and Drake's house to find Drake completely wasted from doing the same thing over his crush on Kitty. He helps Drake calm down and drags him into his bed.
- Hereditary Curse: Ashton's grandpa tells him that in Elizabethan times, their ancestor was cursed by a coven of witches, making women of the Sheldon line their Familial Foe. Subverted later when Ashton realizes it was just the ramblings of a senile old man.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When Ashton tries to shoot Margaret with a poisoned dart, he misses, and eventually stabs himself with it, knocking himself out.
- The Jinx: Ashton thinks Margaret is one solely affecting him, and his grandpa seems to confirm it with his story.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Given Ashton's previous personality and behavior, it's hard not to see his misfortune as anything but deserved, at least at first. Margaret later lampshades how she wasn't much better than him, kicking him while he was down.
- Ladykiller in Love: Ashton, though he doesn't realize he loves Margaret until near the end.
- Private Tutor: Ashton hires Margaret's twin brother Drake to tutor him so he has an excuse to hang around their house.
- Scooter-Riding Mod: Both Ashton and Margaret are members of the Mod Revival subculture, as are most of their friends.
- Unluckily Lucky: Desmond has a reputation as a badass killer, but all three times he's supposedly "killed" someone have been freak accidents.
- Woman Scorned: After Margaret tells all of Ashton's conquests that he's been seeing them all behind each other's backs, his popularity with them instantly plummets. The male students aren't too happy either to find out he'd slept with most of their girlfriends.
