Scott Pilgrim

Title: Scott Pilgrim
Creator: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Published: From 2004 to 2010 by Oni Press
Genre: Comedy, action and romance.
Pages: 6 x 150-250 pages. Mostly ~180 pages a pop.


Despite having worked in a comic shop, and seeing the first, oh, five of the albums there every day, I didn't read the comics until I saw the movie. Shame on me. Shaaaame. Aaaaand I actually read them sometime late November/early December, first five in one sitting, with beer, and the last one the following morning, wishing I hadn't drunk so much beer. So what I'm capable of saying about the comics is somewhat distorted both by time and beer.

Damn, now I want a beer.

If you're not familiar with Scott Pilgrim, he's a young man in his early twenties, plays bass in a band called Sex Bob-omb, and is dating a 17-year-old. At least until this cool girl Ramona literally gets into his head. Little does Scott know, Ramona had seven evil exes, and Scott will have to fight all of them. He would actually have known about it, had he not deleted the exes' introductory e-mail as boring. Then the fight is on.

The series has won several awards, and no wonder: the art is very enjoyable, the story is amusing and touching, and the fun is awesome. And I haven't come up with anything intelligent to say in about 20 minutes, so I'll just upload this like it is. No quote, since I don't have the comics here. Would be nice to buy them sometime.

Read Scott Pilgrim!