This whole series is awesome. It's like someone managed to condense everything that is awesome about independent music and comics, dried it, turned it into a powder, and laced it with cocaine. If you snort this up your brain nostrils, you will feel a high that lasts for days. Everything old will feel new again, and your underwear will even fit better. Why are you not dropping everything to read this series RIGHT NOW?

You will love this series. You will be totally gay for this series. You will want to take it for romantic picnics and moonlight swims. But the moonlight swims are a bad idea.

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Picked up this to get some idea of what the upcoming movie was about. I didn't really enjoy it much; the first half of the book is like a very bad, slow moving sitcom with characters introduced briefly, interacting and then disappearing offstage for a while. The art did not grab me; all the supposedly twenty-somethings look like elementary school students. The plot meanders in no particular direction for a while, then there's a rather large and inexplicably "super" fight scene (Scott is an out of work musician, and suddenly can fight like Batman?!) and then we're done. Pass. The movie looks like fun, though.

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Scott Pilgrim is a typical loser 20-something. He doesn't have a job. He shares a studio apartment and a bed with Wallace. He's dating a 17 year old. At least he has a band, though. His whole life gets shaken up when he falls for Ramona Flowers. He must defeat her 7 evil exes to be with her, and they keep popping up at random times.

Although the series is above average, this first book is decidedly average. O'Malley takes a bit too much time showing us what a loser Scott is before the action starts. Thankfully, the rest of the series doesn't face this short-coming.

Check out my spoiler-free review of the full series here.

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