Oh man, I just love these books. Everything about them is totally gorgeous, and this third volume, featuring Envy Adams and some of the best battles of the Scott Pilgrim series is a real joy. As soon as I saw it on release I bought it, and read it that evening.
This is a fantastic collected edition, I mentioned in previous reviews how nicely put together they are, and there's not really much to hard. It's of good stock, handsomely coloured and printed on nice thick paper. They look great on my bookshelf, and I'm really pleased that there's another one of these out later in the year.
The colour editions have added a lot to what was an already great story. There are couple of tongue in cheek jokes about the reworking that are excellent - in particular one about Ramona changing her hair colour, with an acknowledgment that it worked better in the (black and white) original. It's not often that a comic makes me laugh out loud, but this did.
Unfortunately it's one of the less immediately comprehensible books, so as well as the usual great dialogue and awesome fights, there's a plot that jumps between multiple time periods and starts out of nowhere. It's easy enough to get caught up but certainly doesn't make it easy for a reader coming in blind.
Still, get round that small issue and you'll find you've got a book that rewards multiple readings - there's little that you'll find that enhances the story, but it's certainly worth doing just for how well done these books are. And if you're going to do that you would be mad not to invest in these books.
Also Try;
Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim
Kieron Gillen, Young Avengers
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