Sam Quixote's Reviews > Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

Each book I read in the series is the best one yet and the fourth book doesn’t disappoint. An older Chinese man with a sword and a female Evil Ex-Boyfriend too are trying to kill Scott but more pressing things occupy him – the lease on his flat is up and his sugar daddy gay flatmate, Wallace, is moving out so Scott’s got to find a new place to live. Meanwhile his band Sex Bob-Omb have given up live shows as they enter the studio to record their debut LP, and Scott gets a dishwashing job to earn his keep.

Though I saw the film first, I’m enjoying the books enormously, partly because there’s quite a lot in them that didn’t make it into the film (understandable as Edgar Wright tried to cram 6 books into one 2 hour film, doing an anti-Peter Jackson/Hobbit approach) like the concepts of subspace in their world and all that mundane (but cute) relationship stuff about moving in with each other and so on. There’s also more focus on Scott and Ramona’s relationship so as it give it more substance to the reader and make fighting 7 Evil-Exes more understandable.

There’s a whole other character introduced – Lisa Miller, a high school friend who could’ve been a girlfriend - who doesn’t add that much overall but is another story strand that makes the series that much richer overall. Couple all this relationship stuff with the energetic action sequences – this time Ramona gets to kick some booty too – and the comedy (some scenes made me genuinely laugh, the timing on them is excellent no matter your reading speed), and you’ve got another home run for Bryan Lee O’Malley and his masterpiece series.