Scott Pilgram by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Interesting look at life in a 20 something guy from Canada who is just waltzing through life. It is all about to change.

Vol. 1 Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life. She is invading his dreams and making him obsessed. Now in order to date her he has to fit her seven evil ex-boyfriends! We meet boyfriend #1 in this volume. I'm assuming he fights a new exboyfriend each volume.

Vol. 2 Scott Pilgrim vs. the world
As this volume opens we get a peek into Scott's past: we see his early romantic troubles and the talentless band that sprang from them. In the present, Scott's new romance with mysterious messenger girl Ramona Flowers sends his former girlfriend, teenage Knives Chau, into a fury that culminates in an all-out kung fu battle between the two. In the surrealist twists that fill O'Malley's work, characters who are introduced in dreams end up playing major parts in the "real" life of the story, and you never know when the meandering lives of these Canadian 20-somethings are going to shift into high-action fight sequences. There is a brief moment where he fights Ramona's 2nd evil boyfriend - former skateboarder now famous actor. In which he skates so fast he compusts! We finally get to see the face of his former girlfriend - who is now in a very well-known band. As they are performing at the end Ramona tells who her 3rd evil boyfriend is.

Volume 3 - Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
This time, Scot is pitted against #3 of the evil ex-boyfriends, Todd Ingram, the current boyfriend of his ex, rock star Envy Adams; they battle at a discount department store and a rock club. Unfortunately, Todd's got psychic powers, because he's a vegan ("graduated top of his class from vegan academy and everything"), and he's also a much better bass player. On top of that, Scott's band, Sex BobOmb, can't quite get it together; 17-year-old ninja Knives Chau is still obsessed with him; and the mysterious Ramona Flowers is becoming envious of Envy. We learn more about Scott's past and his infatuation with Envy (aka Natalie). He has such loyal friends who will stand behind him even when it appears he cannot win. This was much more funny to me because of all the minor storylines going on. I had trouble with some of the artwork as characters blur and it becomes hard to tell who is who and when the flashbacks even end. But overall very happy with the storyline and I'm assuming 4 more volumes to go!