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O'Malley, Bryan Lee - Scott Pilgrim, vol. 01-02
Sat, Mar. 3rd, 2007 09:02 pmArgh for genre-crossing books that wreak havoc with my tagging system! I have finally decided on comics instead of manga, but only barely.
I liked this, but I didn't love it like I wanted to. This is largely because it hit some of my love triangle triggers really, really hard.
Plot summary: Scott Pilgrim (23, unbelievably cool according to his own rating system) is currently dating high-school student Knives Chau (17, Chinese, yay!), along with playing in a rather bad band. But this tantalizing girl keeps rollerblading through his dreams (literally), and she turns out to be the local Amazon.ca delivery girl, Ramona Flowers (I forget her age, and I'm sure Scott Pilgrim rates her as unbelievably cool). Scott Pilgrim basically ends up with her, only to discover that to date Ramona Flowers, he has to defeat her eight evil ex-boyfriends.
To first get the bad out of the way: I hate love triangles. I particularly hate love triangles in which there is any kind of cheating, deceiving or lying involved. There's not that much in Scott Pilgrim, but there's enough to make me want to shake Scott Pilgrim really hard or bonk him over the head (granted, it doesn't take much for me to want that). Thankfully, pretty much all of his other friends feel the same way I do, which mitigates the ick factor. The other thing that I hate about love triangles is jealousy and revenge, particularly when it's two girls fighting over a guy. Unfortunately, Knives goes out for revenge out of jealousy. And I liked her too! She was Chinese and sort of bouncy, ditzy high-school girl, but one cannot expect a seventeen year old to not act like one.
On the other hand, the series has a completely insane and zany energy to it that I love, from the random referential notes to the guitar chords for Scott Pilgrim's band's lame songs, to the fight with Matthew Patel, complete with Bollywood ninja singers. Also, the energy of the art completely matches the tone of the series, and the entire thing is odd and funny and really not that much like anything else.
I liked this, but I didn't love it like I wanted to. This is largely because it hit some of my love triangle triggers really, really hard.
Plot summary: Scott Pilgrim (23, unbelievably cool according to his own rating system) is currently dating high-school student Knives Chau (17, Chinese, yay!), along with playing in a rather bad band. But this tantalizing girl keeps rollerblading through his dreams (literally), and she turns out to be the local Amazon.ca delivery girl, Ramona Flowers (I forget her age, and I'm sure Scott Pilgrim rates her as unbelievably cool). Scott Pilgrim basically ends up with her, only to discover that to date Ramona Flowers, he has to defeat her eight evil ex-boyfriends.
To first get the bad out of the way: I hate love triangles. I particularly hate love triangles in which there is any kind of cheating, deceiving or lying involved. There's not that much in Scott Pilgrim, but there's enough to make me want to shake Scott Pilgrim really hard or bonk him over the head (granted, it doesn't take much for me to want that). Thankfully, pretty much all of his other friends feel the same way I do, which mitigates the ick factor. The other thing that I hate about love triangles is jealousy and revenge, particularly when it's two girls fighting over a guy. Unfortunately, Knives goes out for revenge out of jealousy. And I liked her too! She was Chinese and sort of bouncy, ditzy high-school girl, but one cannot expect a seventeen year old to not act like one.
On the other hand, the series has a completely insane and zany energy to it that I love, from the random referential notes to the guitar chords for Scott Pilgrim's band's lame songs, to the fight with Matthew Patel, complete with Bollywood ninja singers. Also, the energy of the art completely matches the tone of the series, and the entire thing is odd and funny and really not that much like anything else.