![]() ![]() It’s a short-lived affair that ends essentially the instant Scott lays eyes on the mysterious Ramona Flowers, who Rollerblades through one of his dreams. The series, set in a Toronto populated with 20-something indie-hipster geeks, opens with Scott kind-of-but-not-really dating the 17-year-old Knives Chau (who admits to being so young that she “didn’t even know there was good music until like two months ago”). The Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of the “Scott Pilgrim” juggernaut, has been romping around in this sandbox, testing the limits of his comics environment, for six years, and with Volume 6, “Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour,” he brings the series to a close.īefore we get to the latest entry, some back story. Specifically, if “Scott Pilgrim” were a video game, it would be an open-world “sandbox” game, in which messing around in the fictional world is not only more fun than properly playing the game - it’s kind of the whole point. ![]() Reading “Scott Pilgrim” is like watching your (funny, immature) slacker friend play a video game in which the objective is to attain emotional maturity. ![]()
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