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Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life: Volume 1 (Scott Pilgrim)

Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life: Volume 1 (Scott Pilgrim)

Bryan Lee O’Malley

Scott Pilgrim’s life is totally sweet.

He’s 23 years old, he’s in a rock band, he’s “between jobs,” and he’s dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott’s awesome life get turned upside-down? Will he have to face Ramona’s seven evil ex-boyfriends in battle? The short answer is yes. The long answer is Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.

Reviews of Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life: Volume 1 (Scott Pilgrim)

    • “Scott Pilgrim is the best book ever. It is the chronicle of our time. With Kung Fu, so, yeah: perfect.” Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    • “One of the best things to happen to printed comics this millennium.” Ain’t It Cool News
    • “A hilarious, idiosyncratic gem.” Washington Post
    • “A great oddball tale that captures the energy of a generation.” Publishers Weekly
    • “An inventive, genre-tweaking tale of young love, platonic bed-sharing and epic battles unlike anything else you will likely pick up. So, go on, pick it up.” E! Online
    • “Scott Pilgrim is the best 23-year-old ever. Like Proust’s Swann, he has a story that takes multiple volumes to unfold, except Pilgrim is even more awesome because he’s in a comic book … the series is wildly enjoyable for its absurdist humor, its indelible characters and its growing, inevitable sense of melancholy as Pilgrim becomes that most terrifying of things: 24 years old.” Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside

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