Scott Pilgrim Review (the comic not the movie)

So I read all 6 volumes of Scott Pilgrim. I give it 2 1/2 explosions out of 4 3/4 explosions. The art started out pretty bad with everyone looking the same. Though the pencils did get cleaner as the story progressed all the characters still kind of looked the same. This is problematic when one of the main female's character traits is that she changes her hairstyle constantly. You lose tract of who she is sometimes.

The story was kind of "meh" volumes 3 and 4 were good, they felt like they built up to something in the individual volume and in the story arc as a whole. The last two volumes were okay but the characters become more shallow and unlikeable. The book really isn't one you read because you like the characters. But the overarching theme of getting over your emotional (and at times your physical) baggage was well told and quirky though. The whimsy was at times forced but not as forced as I thought it would be.

You can read all the volumes in an evening so if you are bored and not doing anything. Eh, what the hell give it a read. I realized that there wasn't enough snark in this post. A lot of people (like myself) call this comic hipster bullshit. And it's not accurate because it's not marketed to hipsters. The characters are unlikeable, shallow, and dumb, much like hipsters. We never know why Scott and Ramona like each other other than Romona says Scott is simpleminded and Scott says she is mysterious. So these young people are having "authentic experiences" and Scott's parents pay for his apartment.