A review by pbraue13
Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley

3.0

This series used to be one of my favorites, I held onto my box set with very strong devotion, so I thought a reread was due after a solid 10 years or so since I had seen the film (still quotable with my and my friends for years) or read the comics. I must say I wasn’t as enthused as I used to be by the end. The first three books I gave 4 stars because they were fun and wild and flowed well, but the last three felt as though the author was jamming so much into three small books. I actually prefer the films way of ending it rather than the comics and I am now remembering why. I also started to notice how women are treated a good chunk of the time and not in the intentional way by the characters (especially Scott) but how they’re portrayed and judged by the author and other female characters in the story made me cringe. I guess you could say certain parts didn’t age well (especially the Joss Whedon blurb on volume 6 and the box set). The ending was unique and v different from the film (especially since the comic wasn’t done while they were filming the movie) and I appreciated it, but again too much crammed into the last three and certain things were best left in the early 2000s.