First off, I wasn't really sure how I felt about the artwork. At first it annoyed me, as being overly simplistic, and almost lazy in a manner. Thing is, through reading the whole story, it just made it flow. With the plot, and dialog, the artwork worked.
Scott Pilgrim is not your ordinary slacker. Nope, he's extraordinary at what he does. He shares a tiny studio apartment with Wallace. It's so small, they actually share a bed. Another major point to bring up is that almost nothing in the apartment is actually Scott's. Keeping with the slacker theme we have going here, Scott has no job, isn't in school, but is in a band. He plays bass. The band's name is Sex Bob omb. Fantastic name if you ask me. And you're reading this right now, so it's a fucking fantastic name. And of course Scott is "dating" a 17 year old high school girl. I'm not really sure how things work in Canada, but according to Pilgrim they hadn't even held hands, cause Knives was too embarrassed. Yup, that's the girl's name, Knives Chau. Scott meets here almost every day after school and they hang out. One day Knives goes to one of the band's practices, and instantly becomes their biggest fan. Which sends their former biggest fan into tears running into his room.
But all ruts must come to an end.
Scott begins having dreams about a hot girl on inline skates who delivers Amazon.ca packages to the Toronto area. Then he sees her at the library, and a party, where he asks about her shoes. Scott is seriously interested. Yet begins receiving emails and letters from someone wanting a fight.
Scott decides to order some cds from Amazon to try and meet this young woman who has been identified as Ramona Flowers. Moments before she knocks on his door, Scott dreams of Ramona. When they finally speak, Ramona reveals that there's this internal super highway. A mode of travel that leads through the subconscious of others. They begin hanging out that night, when snow forces them inside. Ramona lets Scott sleep over only to kick him out first thing in the morning. No sex was had. Scott invites Ramona to Sex Bob omb's next gig. Strange, since he hadn't ended things with Knives, and she was gonna be there as well.
Crash and the Boys open the gig, and put the crowd to sleep. Literally. Sex Bob omb goes on and suddenly, Matthew Patel, the writer of the letters, crashes the gig. The fight with Ramona's seven evil exes commences. But Scott is the best fighter in the province, so even though Matthew Patel has mystical powers, Pilgrim and his entourage, including Knives fights off the first of many battles to come. Pilgrim and Ramona leave via subway and things intensify.
This book was as good as the hype it brought. And it's fucking 6 years old. Published in 2005 by one man band Brian Lee O'Malley through Oni Press, Scoot Pilgrim has taken the comic book world by storm. The series is done now, and I intend to read the other five volumes of WOW! That's pretty much all I can sum this up as folks, FUCKING WOW!
Scott Pilgrim is worthy of a moment in wrestling history equal to something fully changing the face of things and the status quo. The year was 1996, and both Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had been released by the World Wrestling Federation. The two made their way to World Championship Wrestling, where they staged an invasion. And invasion that culminated at that year's Bash at the Beach. Nash and Hall, took on Sting, Luger and Savage with their third man to be revealed. During the course of the match, Hulk Hogan came out, and dropped a leg onto Savage, his friend. Hogan betrayed WCW and made what might be one of the most important promos of all time. "This is the new world order of wrestling brother." I know, I said that anything involving Hogan would never be hardcore, but truth be told, this was possibly the most defining moment in wrestling history of the past twenty years.
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