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Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (edition 2005)

by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Author), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Illustrator)

Series: Scott Pilgrim (2)

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If volume one was almost completely reproduced in the movie, volume two has plenty of the payout that leads fans of a movie to seek out the book that was its source material. Here we get the back story on Scott's romantic (and musical, and employment) history, and a fantastic kung fu-style face-off between Knives and Ramona, in addition to catching us up to the fight with evil ex number 2.

(Though admittedly, some of the backstory was a little: "what? ...and who was that again? ...and how is this all going to be relevant?" but see, sometimes that's the trouble of watching the movie before reading the books. Impatience for the payoffs you already know are coming...)

This volume also has even more of the almost frictionless flow between dreams, reality, and video game/movie style fight sequences. Generally without losing its sense of humor or taking itself too seriously.

Good, fun read. ( )
  greeniezona | Dec 6, 2017 |
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
I kind of feel like I don't get it, but I liked it. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the second volume in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series begins with a flashback depicting Scott’s past relationships with Kim and Envy Adams. In the present, he continues to develop his relationship with Ramona Flowers, though his own insecurities begin to get in his way. Wendell tells Scott that he must break up with Knives Chau before things get serious with Ramona. Scott does so, but Knives begins spiraling, leading her to bleach part of her hair and attach Ramona and Scott’s sister, Stacey, in the Toronto Reference Library. Scott confronts Lucas Lee, the second of Ramona’s exes, on a film shoot and manages to dupe him into wiping out on his skateboard so that Scott wins by default. Scott demonstrates his ability to properly cook, making more than just garlic bread, and helping to demonstrate his worth to Ramona. Word reaches Scott that his ex, Envy Adams, is in town with her band, The Clash at Demonhead. She invites Scott and his band to open for her, reopening old wounds as their breakup was hard for him. It turns out that Envy’s drummer is the next of Ramona’s exes, setting up the conflict in volume 3. O’Malley continues to write a great story incorporating elements of nerd culture in a time when it was less mainstream as it is now. Some portions of the story show their age, but hold up if one views it as set in the time in which O’Malley published. A good second volume for this series. ( )
  DarthDeverell | Sep 20, 2023 |
Continues the plot of the first, but with a little less direction and a slightly slower pace. Still very good, though. ( )
  bobbybslax | May 17, 2020 |
n this volume, Scott has to continue his battle with his new girlfriend's seven evil ex-boyfriends. But in this edition, Scott's ex-girlfriends get thrown into the pot. And, his most recent ex-girlfriend, Knives Chau, isn't going down without a fight.

I enjoyed this volume more than I did the first volume. I'm still not sure that I find Scott Pilgrim sympathetic at all but I do like Knives. ( )
1 vote melrailey | Apr 7, 2020 |
The Scott Pilgrim series is fantastic, and I am enjoying my reread of it. ( )
  avarisclari | Jul 13, 2018 |
If volume one was almost completely reproduced in the movie, volume two has plenty of the payout that leads fans of a movie to seek out the book that was its source material. Here we get the back story on Scott's romantic (and musical, and employment) history, and a fantastic kung fu-style face-off between Knives and Ramona, in addition to catching us up to the fight with evil ex number 2.

(Though admittedly, some of the backstory was a little: "what? ...and who was that again? ...and how is this all going to be relevant?" but see, sometimes that's the trouble of watching the movie before reading the books. Impatience for the payoffs you already know are coming...)

This volume also has even more of the almost frictionless flow between dreams, reality, and video game/movie style fight sequences. Generally without losing its sense of humor or taking itself too seriously.

Good, fun read. ( )
  greeniezona | Dec 6, 2017 |
The second volume, just as fantastic as the first, goes more into depth on Scott's past, especially his past with Kim. In fact, the book opens with the story of how they met and became involved. The main focus on this volume seems to be Scott's love life.

One of the great things about this story is how O'Malley seamlessly integrates video game logic into this world. Evil Exes, once defeated, evaporate and leave coins behind (and sometimes the occasional bonus item). Also, his fourth wall breaks are great! (Scott telling another character they should "read the book some time" when asked about something explained in the last volume).

Again, this whole series is just such a fun read and I highly recommend it to anyone. ( )
  regularguy5mb | Nov 10, 2016 |
Another awesome story from O'Malley. Just as smart as the first one and just as fun to read.
I'm officially hooked. ( )
  imahorcrux | Jun 22, 2016 |
This was good, I'm not sure I enjoyed it quite as much as the first one, but it was good and quite funny, I laughed out loud a few times and I like that it deviated from the film a little more than the first book did and that it showed you some of the back-story- like between Scott and Kim, and told you more about Kim in general. It was fun and easy to read and I like the style of the comics.

The only issues I have are I felt some of the characters looked kind of similar so sometimes I found it hard to remember who was who with the minor characters, and sometimes I felt like it was half way through one thing and it just switched to another thing randomly (mainly near the beginning) which I found a little confusing, but I think these books are cute and I really like some of the characters (I don't really like Scott though but that doesn't bother me too much) but I think anyone who's a fan of the films should definitely read these books.

Ok so also I don't know if this is Lisa's bedroom or Scott's, but I'm pretty sure one of them has a Veruca Salt album cover on their wall which is AMAZING, (also a No Doubt poster which is also very cool), and I love the small references to different bands throughout this book, I don't know why I'm mentioning it really but I love Veruca Salt so I just thought it was very cool how it just had a picture of their album on the wall...



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  blakktreacle | May 10, 2016 |
not as good as the first for me. I think the hipster vibe became to strong, especially when they made vegan Shepard's pie. It was very hard to read with my eyes rolling. ( )
  gaveedra | Jan 8, 2016 |
The "Scott Pilgrim" keeps right on distinguishing itself from the movie the movie incarnation....usually for the better too. I really wish that the director had kept in the script the scene from this book where Knives attacks Ramona in the library. ( )
  ThothJ | Dec 4, 2015 |
The "Scott Pilgrim" keeps right on distinguishing itself from the movie the movie incarnation....usually for the better too. I really wish that the director had kept in the script the scene from this book where Knives attacks Ramona in the library. ( )
  ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 |
The "Scott Pilgrim" keeps right on distinguishing itself from the movie the movie incarnation....usually for the better too. I really wish that the director had kept in the script the scene from this book where Knives attacks Ramona in the library. ( )
  ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 |
The "Scott Pilgrim" keeps right on distinguishing itself from the movie the movie incarnation....usually for the better too. I really wish that the director had kept in the script the scene from this book where Knives attacks Ramona in the library. ( )
  ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 |
Great addition to the series! The movie didn't follow this one as closely as the first book, so that was a bit of a relief. ( )
  Book_Minx | Jan 24, 2015 |
I didn't enjoy this as much as the first but I read the first a while ago so that might be why I found this a bit confusing. Still love the story and the characters but just not as much action as the first. ( )
  charlottejones952 | Sep 2, 2013 |
Rating: 3.5 of 5

Another fun read. My response to Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is pretty much the same as to Scott Pilgrim #1. The biggest difference being this one features one of my favorite scenes...

Scott: "Garlic bread is my favourite food. I could honestly eat it for every meal, or just all the time without even stopping."

Ramona: "You'd get fat."

Scott: "Bread makes you fat??"

I look forward to reading #3. ( )
  flying_monkeys | Apr 9, 2013 |
Ok, when I got to B&N today I showed Mr. Greg a piece of paper with the name of this book on it… he checked on the computer and told me that they didn’t have the first volume… and I said that I don’t give a fuck is freaking manga those thingies ain’t books… so anyway he got me this, now I’ve been wanting to read this since ‘Tambito told me there was this huge fight scene with one of the chick’s super evil ex boyfriends… who happened to be a vegan! AND I FUCKING HATE VEGANS! So there was reading this… I don’t know why tambo finds this so funny… I mean I laughed a few times at the FF jokes… and I can understand why when the gay dude founded the other dude in a catatonic state hi asked if somebody deleted his save game in FF… (last time that happen to me I almost killed my best friend) but I don’t know the jokes feel like cookie cutter jokes… like if the writer asked his nerd friend what would trouble a gamer or what would a gamer say in x situation… the other thing is that I kept getting confuse with who was who… the girl looks like the boy and the boy looks like the girl… it was weird… but since they were Emo… there was nothing I could do. also I personally didn’t like the characters… I mean the dude is a dumb fuck, and the chick is a dumb bitch… knife was cool tho… kind of emoish but cool =) also the thing that annoyed me the most was the fact that this takes place in Canada… and I fucking hate Canada!

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  Alfonso809 | Apr 3, 2013 |
Still very confusing and filled with too much non-plot related, not interesting information, also, characters are so confusing, since they tend to look the same in black and white... ( )
  littlesparrow | Apr 2, 2013 |
Had fewer incidents paralleling movie, which helped me enjoy it without comparing the two. This series is just deeply adorable. I love how the video game world concept shows up in small as well as big ways, like characters trying to figure out whether other characters are "evil." Also yes they did quote Monkey Island.

Very sad that the epic fight in the Toronto Reference Library wasn't in the movie! ( )
1 vote raschneid | Mar 31, 2013 |
"Ho scritto una canzone su di te.

Ah sì?

Sì, fa così... Ramona Ramona Ramona Ramona Ramona Ramona Ramona! Poi c'è lo stacco, che fa tipo... Dun daahhnnnnininini! E dopo c'è il secondo verso che fa Ramona crudele Ramona Ramona Ramona oooooohhh Ramona! E' una specie di poema."

Mitico, Scott m/ ( )
  Malla-kun | Sep 22, 2012 |
Well, it's okay. Not any better or worse than the first one, I guess. I do wish the high school girlfriend had gone away. Scott is bad at dumping people. He's generally pathetic about everything. But she's also seeing him through extremely rose-colored glasses. Not that I can say that's out of character for a teenager. But she is 17.. she should get a clue sometime.And I guess I don't have anything more to say about it. Are we building to an interesting character arc? A really cool over-all 6-volume plan? Or is it just going to be Scott fighting the evil ex-boyfriends and then, the end? ( )
  Jellyn | Jul 23, 2012 |
http://andalittlewine.blogspot.com/2012/04/review-of-scott-pilgrim-by-bryan-lee....

There are spoilers here.

From here
Reading Bryan Lee O'Malley's six Scott Pilgrim books (Precious Little Life, vs. the World, & the Infinite Sadness, Gets It Together, vs. the Universe, Finest Hour) has been on my to-do list for a number of years, and they moved into my "read very soon" stack when I read and enjoyed Lost at Sea back in January.

Scott Pilgrim and his friends inhabit a world of magic realism, where their otherwise normal lives are occasionally interrupted by video game style fighting, 1-ups, and intrusions into their dreams. I think of it as a digital-age twist on Watchmen. Where Moore asks, "what would superheroes be like in real life," O'Malley pushes at "what would happen if a 23-year-old slacker handled his problems like a character from Street Fighter 2?"

I really enjoyed watching Scott struggle to grow up. He doesn't know what to do with his life, he doesn't know how to be a reliable friend, and he certainly doesn't know how to behave in a relationship. This, of course, doesn't stop him from believing that he is awesome. I especially the moment in the 6th book when he realizes that the way he remembers himself is not how others remember him, when he's forced to confront the fact that his creation myth (how he learned to fight, how he became friends with Kim by beating up a bully and rescuing her) is a lie he's told himself so many times that he believes it. Kim forces him to remember that the kid he beat up was just another nerd, and more importantly, was a person. The world is not divided into friends and enemies; that approach only works in video games and (some lesser) comic books.

O'Malley's artwork is a real treat. Simple, clean lined characters inhabit a richly detailed world. The fullness of the world was reiterated over and over again. Pop-up balloons frequently appear with notes on who's who, what items are laying in the background, what action a character is in the midst of performing. Again, this emphasized the video game spirit of the books, playing to our expectation of unlockable tools and skills, while also serving as a way to make the world more textured (and more dork-tastic).

The framing of the panels was another tastefully handled reminder of just how big Scott Pilgrim's world really is. In comics, framing works just like the framing of a shot on television; it tells us where our attention should focus. Throughout Scott Pilgrim, O'Malley's framing skewed off center, so that the characters (and sometimes even their speech bubbles) would spill off the frame and off the page. What we are given is truly a "window on the world" in the classic sense, allowing us to see but also limiting what we can see. O'Malley's deft framing was one of the first things that stood out to me in Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, and I was thrilled and rewarded to see it continued throughout the series. ( )
  jscape2000 | Jul 20, 2012 |
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is the second volume in the Scott Pilgrim series and the namesake for the 2010 movie. This volume gives us more backstory on Scott himself, including his high school relationship with Kim Pine, and contains the fight against Lucas Lee, Ramona's second evil ex! Plus, we get a bonus fight between Ramona Flowers and Scott's ex-girlfriend, Knives Chau (who is a personal favorite character of mine)! I found this volume to not be quite as quick or compelling as the first one, but you still can't go wrong with Brian Lee O'Malley's humor and video game/nerd references!

I'd recommend this to graphic novel and video game fans, and, really, to anyone who enjoys humor and absurdity! Four stars! ( )
  MeganAngela | May 14, 2012 |
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