Good Lord, I am Scott Pilgrim.

OK, there are some difference like I don’t have hair, and I’m not in a band but there are lots of other similarities.

Let me start off by saying that I cannot believe that I have slept on this book for 4 years. I think what had kept me away for so long was the artwork. It’s a little anime inspired, which I never usually gravitate towards, but it works.

The story follows Scott Pilgrim; useless unemployed Toronto’ite band member as he dates high school girls, dreams of cute delivery girls, rock’s out, and battles evil ex-boyfriends to the death. So what’s amazing about it? Everything.

The black and white anime inspired art fits really well with the light hearted flighty tone of hapless Scott Pilgrim as he proves to readers that you are just like him. Pilgrim is lazy, girl crazy, terrible at picking up, and most importantly a huge dork. He wears terrible “Canadian girls kick ass” T-shirts, openly admits to being into the whole school girl fetish thing to his younger sister, and rocks a self made X-Men patch on his winter jacket.

The story is really something else. It gives me the same special feeling I got after reading Craig Thompson’s Blankets or the first time I discovered something done by Jim Mahfood. It’s something you can curl up with and really relate to for the most part. The story focus is on Pilgrim’s social life, but things get wicked when you realize that Pilgrim does not inhabit the same world as you. After all this is a comic book.

No, no, no in Pilgrim’s world bands are able to decimate whole crowds into the morgue with their wickedness, girls fall for really bad honest dialog, and to win the heart of your dream girl you have to destroy her previous Evil Ex-boyfriends in hand to hand Capcom-esque 64 hit combos that end with the enemy evaporating into golden coins, in this case Canadian loonies.

I absolutely love this book and have added anything that artist/ writer Bryan Lee O’Malley does to my must get list. I demand you do the same thing.

-Questy.

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