![]() His drawing is simple but dynamic and charming, with lots of references to Japanese shonen fight comics and 8-bit video games filtered through his Canadian slacker aesthetic. ![]() Bryan Lee O’Malley’s funny dialogue and twisty-turny plotting captures the self-absorption, obsessions and engaging weirdness of the almost-adults who aspire to nothing more than a McJob that will earn them enough for new games, clothes, gigs and drinks. Scott has defeated the first of Ramona’s exes and begun a relationship with her, which makes for a very awkward break-up with Knives who doesn’t take it well, to say the least. ![]() And he should probably break up with the 17-year-old high school girl he’s kind-of-dating named Knives Chau. But in order to be with her, he must defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends in single combat. He is content to do almost nothing with his life until he meets Ramona Flowers, the roller-blading delivery girl of his dreams. He plays bass badly in a barely competent garage band along with his friends, guitarist Stephen Stills and drummer Kim Pine, who he dated in high school. ![]() As seen in Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, Pilgrim is a clueless 23-year-old slacker with no job. ![]()
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