Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim, #6)

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim #6)

4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 · rating details · 14,131 ratings · 634 reviews

It's finally here Six years and almost one-thousand pages have all led to this epic finale With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but on...more

Paperback, 245 pages

Published August 3rd 2010 by Oni Press (first published July 20th 2010)

more details... edit details

Get a copy:

More…

Friend Reviews

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

Lists with This Book

Best Graphic Novels

302nd out of 1,512 books — 3,109 voters

Required Reading Graphic Novels

172nd out of 583 books — 937 voters

More lists with this book...

Community Reviews

(showing 1-30 of 3,000)

filter | sort: default (?) | rating details

Jul 27, 2010 Aaron Vincent rated it 5 of 5 stars

10 Life Changing Lessons To Learn from Scott Pilgirm Series.

1. I'm pretty sure Ramona Flowers is related to Nymphadora Tonks.
2. Inventors needs to invent Subspace Highways. SOON.
3. Never ever date a chick with 7 evil ex-boyfriends.
4. But if she's so damn hot, just prepare your katana.
3. Lightsabers are out. Power of Love and Power of Understanding are in.
6. Sparkling bodies are lame. Glowing heads are epic.
7. Life isn't a matter of milestones, nor of moments but of XP's!!!
8. If your life had a f...more

37 likes · like · see review

Jul 27, 2010 Sridhar Reddy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

1.5 stars. In the previous volumes of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim epic, there had been a buildup to a metaphysical / existential conclusion. Characters were floating in and out of a reality that was peppered with video game physics and razor-sharp wit, and it seemed natural that the final volume would be a collision of parallel worlds.

The finale, however, seems to play into a chaos-driven philosophy in explaining its logic. What seems to be intended as a post-modern foray into love, redem...more

9 likes · like · see review

Aug 26, 2010 Malbadeen rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm in a meeting and I'm bored so I thought you might like to know that I read this book and I thought it was loads of fun! Why 4 stars and not 5? Because like I said "I'm in a meeting" and meetings make me grumpy..

5 likes · like · see review

May 29, 2013 linnea rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: awesome-videogames, hipsterlove

I really enjoyed these books. (Don't pick on my star-rating system, I have to save four and five for BIG things.) After the first one I was like "these are just the same as the movie," but they really developed in a different way. It's funny, I liked Kim a lot more in the books, but I liked Ramona and Scott less. I mean, they were still fun, but Ramona is more normal and less magical. I liked how the book kind of links her magical-ness with her haircut and color. I do need to read these in color...more

like · see review

Mar 16, 2013 John Beck rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed, fiction, graphic-novels

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...more 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.(less)

like · see review

Dec 26, 2012 Sarri rated it 3 of 5 stars

3 ja puoli tähteä antaisin tälle. Tämä kuusiosainen sarja (varsin ärsyttävän, vastuuntunnottoman, epäkypsän - hei miksi nämä tytöt oikein ikinä ovat edes pitäneet Scottista???) Scottin elämästä oli ihan ookoo. Tässä viimeisessä osassa Scott räytyy, koska Ramona on kadonnut. Scott yrittää myös vikitellä exiänsä, jotka kaikki ovat jo onneksi päässeet Scottin yli. Tästä huolimatta Ramonan paha-ex ja lopullinen taistelu tämän Gideonin kanssa väijyy nurkan takana. Taistelusta tuleekin jännittävä ja s...more

like · see review

Oct 17, 2012 Janice rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: the-movie-was-better

something about the way this all wrapped up made this my favorite installment, but i temper my four star rating with the warning that this is only outside of the context of the movie. i really tried to read this volume with an open mind, and judge it on its own merit, as i noticeably had trouble doing that while reading the others. something about this one resonated with me, and i actually enjoyed seeing a different take on the ending/themes/even the characters.

that being said, i really do reco...more

like · see review

Jul 17, 2012 Paul Riches rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: great-comics

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Scott Pilgrim 6: They Are In Love

Ramona and Scott have been through many things together. They Meet. They Relive The Past. They Seek Closure. They Fight. They Depart Each Other. And now finally, They Are In Love.

Just like They were made for each other.

For those of low brow taste (like I used to have until Ramona and Scott came along), Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 Finest Hour is the grand finale of Lost proportions to Canadian writer artist Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels. We started off...more Scott Pilgrim 6: They Are In Love

Ramona and Scott have been through many things together. They Meet. They Relive The Past. They Seek Closure. They Fight. They Depart Each Other. And now finally, They Are In Love.

Just like They were made for each other.

For those of low brow taste (like I used to have until Ramona and Scott came along), Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 Finest Hour is the grand finale of Lost proportions to Canadian writer artist Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels. We started off with the relationship between Ramona Flowers, a tough funky go-getter, and Scott Pilgrim, a slacker of almost epic inertia, finding each other by chance. Much drama fills their daily lives with grace periods punctuated with brief tumultuous spats. All along the way, the absurdist takes over the story whenever Ramona’s Seven Evil Exe’s come into town and cause a ruckus.

Got all that? Good, because it is the last time I am recapping it. Ever. Whew.

When we last left off, Ramona had vanished before Scott’s very eyes, making a beeline straight to her Evil Exe Gideon (and yes, he is really truly Evil with a capital E), and Scott fell into a major slacker stupor filled with moping and video games. His will broken, Scott has actually entered a wholesale depression. The only remaining connection to Ramona is his fruitless search for her missing cat. To snap Scott back into some semblance of a life, his good friend Wallace ships him out of Toronto to seek advice and comfort from his old high school girlfriend (and drummer for their band) Kim.

Time in the woods causes much contemplation for our Mr Pilgrim. Kim’s counsel, matching with his own harsh awakenings, makes our hero realize shortcomings which has sabotaged past relationships. This newfound knowledge, capped with a go get’um from Kim, propels Scott back to town for the inevitable confrontation with the vile Gideon.

To reveal more at this point would despoil the marvelous ending. To say that a major, no holds barred battle royale occurs between Ramona and Scott on one side, and the brutish Gideon on the other, is an understatement. To imply this war is waged on both the physical and mental planes is fair game. To read deep psychological and philosophical meaning and insight into this melee is required, nay, demanded. And to say that Ramona’s purse is akin to a weaponized Tardis is to put it mildly.

Which means the battle in this Volume makes the previous ones look mild by comparison. Gideon is an expert swordfighter who plays dirty at every opportunity. And with the laws of physics suspended from reality yet again, Ramona and Scott as usual adapt super quickly to the new paradigm. Even when the surreal enters the even more surreal with the mental battle inside Ramona’s head, the sheer craziness and absolute terror may be far fetched, but it feels so a part of us. This climatic fight is the one with the most strangest sequences ever, but resonates the best with our favourite couple. So as to not give away the obvious ending, Ramona and Scott have their happily ever after fairy tale, with Gideon now vanquished like coins scattered on the breeze.

With this last Volume, Ramona and Scott are together forever. Free from tyrannical interference, excessive past baggage, and marauding bands of Evil Exe’s. They can now start their next journey together. As they should be. Very Much In Love.

And from the ashes of Sex Bob-omb rises Shatterband. Long may she reign!

Scoopriches(less)

1 like · like · see review

Jan 17, 2012 Gef rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: borrowed-from-library, graphic-novels, humor

Now that I've read all six volumes in the Scott Pilgrim series, I find it obvious how someone would want to make a movie out of these books, and downright amazed that the movie they made managed to omit so much and still not suck. As I read each book, it became more and more clear that the movie deliberately left some pertinent things out, and even took creative liberties with certain characters and events. No book hammered that point home like the last book, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour.

Scott's...more

1 like · like · see review

Oct 12, 2011 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very enjoyable overall although I was never very interested in the plot (not after evil boyfriend number 3 or 4). Even in volume 6(?) where Scott has to accept all the things that he'd done wrong it felt less consequential than it should of done. And apart from that it mostly felt a bit well repetitive.

What I did really like, though, was the incorporation of gaming tropes (Level Up, New T-shirt Accessed) were genuinely innovative and felt entirely natural. Some of the meta-fiction throwaway line...more

like · see review

Jul 14, 2011 Ana Mardoll rated it 4 of 5 stars

Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour / 9781934964385

This is the final volume of the Scott Pilgrim series, so if you've been following the series up until now, you pretty much HAVE to read it. The good news is that it's incredibly thrilling and well-drawn and the plot is nicely summed-up; the bad news is that I kind of wish there was MORE of it.

After Ramona disappeared into the ether in "Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe", Scott has been moping around and generally not dealing with th...more Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour / 9781934964385

This is the final volume of the Scott Pilgrim series, so if you've been following the series up until now, you pretty much HAVE to read it. The good news is that it's incredibly thrilling and well-drawn and the plot is nicely summed-up; the bad news is that I kind of wish there was MORE of it.

After Ramona disappeared into the ether in "Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe", Scott has been moping around and generally not dealing with the issues that jumped him in Volume 5. The first half of the volume reads like a Who's Who of Scott's exes as he half-heartedly tries to get back together with each of them and they explain to him that it's utterly over, and that he needs to actually *deal* with the issues that caused their relationships to fail in the first place. Plot-wise, it's well done and really drives home the narrative that you can't deal with problems by just running away from them and hoping things will be different next time; the similarities between Scott and Ramona develop nicely and I like the narrative symmetry.

Once Scott finally decides to deal with his issues in a meaningful, it's time for a massive showdown with Gideon. This is flashy and meaningful and incredibly well-realized, but there's a LOT of fodder that gets kind of tossed out there tantalizingly and then never really developed -- including Gideon's collector nature and his very brief assertion that he's tampered with Scott's memories, which ties majorly back in to the problems that Scott fundamentally remembers his past relationships very different from how *they* do. I definitely liked these details and thought they added a lot to the story, but I was disappointed at the brevity; I think there's more discussion on these topics on the TV Tropes page than in the volume itself.

Once again, the artwork here is quite lovely and has come a long way from the first volume. The lines are sharper, the details are better, and the occasional anime-esque panel is very amusing and works well towards the overall video game theme.

If you've liked the Scott Pilgrim series up to this point, it's hard to imagine you'll be disappointed with this fun, flashy, and nevertheless extremely thoughtful finale.

~ Ana Mardoll(less)

like · see review

Jan 16, 2011 Sofia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: 20-somethings

Shelves: graphic-novels

Posted on my book blog.

The sixth and final installment of the Scott Pilgrim story feels quite a bit different from the rest of the volumes, in terms of the artwork, pacing, dialogues, and just the overall ambiance. It's not that it's bad - it just feels rather strange and a bit rushed.

Still, it's a great ending for a great series. It's a rather bittersweet coming of age for the all these 20-somethings, and a very honest, believable one at that. We get closure on most of the characters and relati...more

1 like · like · see review

Jan 15, 2011 Traci Haley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, graphic-novels

About a month ago, I realized that I hadn't reviewed Scott Pilgrim #6 here... so I added it and went to write my review. Then I realized, I couldn't remember what happened in this volume. And THEN I realized... I hadn't even read it yet! Argh! No wonder I never achieved full closure on this series! So I, of course, had to remedy that situation.

Firstly, I noticed the vast difference between the artwork in this volume and the art in the first volume, which has always been my biggest turn-off of th...more

like · see review

Oct 28, 2010 Chibineko rated it 5 of 5 stars

While I greatly enjoyed the final volume of SP, I'll admit that I was slightly disappointed by it. I was rooting for a specific pairing to occur by the end of the book & it didn't happen. I do like how the book resolved, though.

Without Ramona in his life, Scott Pilgrim has spent most of his time on his sofa playing video games. His friends attempt to get him to take action but to no avail- he is completely unwilling to move. When he finally does decide to take action, it is so he can spend h...more

like · see review

Oct 13, 2010 Greta is Erikasbuddy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics

I really dug how this ended!!

Review from a mother of a 13 year old

* There's a tad bit of cussing
* A tad bit of drinking
* A tad bit of blood but I've seen worse from Mortal Combat

~ A review from someone who has seen the movie ~

I really think that the ending of the movie was so "I don't get it" because there were tons of stuff left out that are in the comic book. But maybe that was their secret ploy... Go see the movie, scratch your head, then read the comic books. HEY! It worked for me... and sup...more

1 like · like · see review

Sep 19, 2010 Raj rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel, sci-fi

(One review for all six Scott Pilgrim books)

These six short graphic novels are the basis of the film Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Although I enjoyed the film, I found the main character incredibly annoying. He's annoying in the books as well, but much less so. I found myself enjoying them much more than the film. Like the film, the basic plot of the series is that the eponymous Scott Pilgrim must defeat the seven evil exes of his girlfriend Ramona Flowers in order to be with her.

The books provide...more

like · see review

Sep 19, 2010 Ben rated it 4 of 5 stars

Four stars? Really? Maybe sometime later I'll settle Mr. Pilgrim's grand finale back down to a respectable three, but let me take a moment to defend the high praise: yes the Scott Pilgrim series is cute, hip, trendy, and full of the video game and bubblegum humor that my generation loves and may not weather well after a few decades. But there are things going on in these little books that cut deeper and glow brighter than all the the Double Dragon Meets Garden State glitter -- secret undercurren...more Four stars? Really? Maybe sometime later I'll settle Mr. Pilgrim's grand finale back down to a respectable three, but let me take a moment to defend the high praise: yes the Scott Pilgrim series is cute, hip, trendy, and full of the video game and bubblegum humor that my generation loves and may not weather well after a few decades. But there are things going on in these little books that cut deeper and glow brighter than all the the Double Dragon Meets Garden State glitter -- secret undercurrents similar to those in Amelie and Eternal Sunshine and the other entries from recent time that are haunted by truer and more timeless spirits. I guess what I'm trying to say is, these books say real things about people and their heads and their relationships. They things that are a little more interesting and profound than the pat phrases of a pop song (even a good pop song by a clever indie band), and Mr. O'Malley deserves to be called out for achieving that.

Not to say I wasn't charmed by the old-skool video game references, or the awesomely casual, clever way the author jabs a finger through the fourth wall (case in point: "False alarm mom. I told you Scott got a 1-Up in Volume 3."). The edges of every scene are filled with little jokes and asides, and every drawn "extra" is another individual 20-something, going somewhere, doing their own thing. He does smart things visually and smart things textually.

Unless you're a hermit, you've seen trailers for the film (which I haven't seen yet!) and you know the framework is that Scott must battle the seven evil exes of Ramona Powers to properly win her. Yes, that's the framework of each book, but it's hardly what makes them wonderful. So much and so many characters twine around the ridiculous videogame metaphor (including its regular deconstruction) that if the plots the thread, it's hardly the fabric of the series.

And the fabric: well, it's an honest portrait, one foot in and one foot outside of, being a middle class slightly hip north american living through one's twenties.

And in the threads of that fabric, like I said, some gritty, no-punches-pulled portrayal of people trying to deal with other people and lying to themselves and telling the truth when they didn't mean to and having revelations in the odd moments and relapses when it's least convenient and stumbling and flying and trying too hard. The stuff of literature under the hood of faux-manga.

As a side note, Pilgrim also wins contemporary feminist props: the heroines are pretty but not stupidly sexualized. There's sex but no nudity in a way that's weirdly... photorealistic. Gay men and are awesome or bitchy per individual (but where are the lesbians at?!). Girls and boys wear underpants and nobody (the book included) is too upset if they're flashed in the normal course of jumping into a subspace bypass.

And again, to conclude -- why four stars? Because Joss Whedon says so on the back of Volume No. 6, and how the hell could he be lying to us?(less)

2 likes · like · see review

Sep 12, 2010 Brad rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics

I totally like the ending of this wonderful series, even if there were a bunch of moments that were unnecessarily confusing or not how I wanted them to end.
After seeing the movie, it's hard not to compare the plot and characters here to the movie's ending. The book obviously has more time to go through the motions and emotions. Scott's spaced-out state of mind at the end of the 5th book (which I disliked) was wrapped up nicely, even if it didn't make sense.
However, Gideon's evilness, which has...more

like · see review

Sep 06, 2010 Lausº rated it 4 of 5 stars

My experience with O'Malley's comic-books it’s been like a rollercoaster... I loved the first one, the next two were still good but not quite ... later (vol. 4) almost lost interest but couldn’t let Wallace go (I have a big crush on Mr. Wells)... and in Volume 5 began to regain my confidence, and now here we are! The last one and I feel quite conflicted on the number of stars...

This volume is all about personal growth, facing the problems and how much we can alter our memories over time (with or...more My experience with O'Malley's comic-books it’s been like a rollercoaster... I loved the first one, the next two were still good but not quite ... later (vol. 4) almost lost interest but couldn’t let Wallace go (I have a big crush on Mr. Wells)... and in Volume 5 began to regain my confidence, and now here we are! The last one and I feel quite conflicted on the number of stars...

This volume is all about personal growth, facing the problems and how much we can alter our memories over time (with or without the help of an evil ex-boyfriend living in our head).

It's silly, but I'm lost in some parts of the story, I enjoy the quirky way in which the storyline unfolds on the pages, but some parts (especially the dialogues of Gideon) are somewhat blurred, as if I already had to know about what they were talking about... I´m aware that it is impossible to fully resolve all the loose ends around a story (trust me, I was a Lostie during all the seasons), but I but I wish he had taken more time with the rest of the gang, I felt that he was in a hurry or that there wasn’t enough space.

Even do I enjoy the ending, you can see that the comic has grown as well as the characters. With or without the subspace we all have experienced "the glow"... most of us know it as an identity crisis, or simply as to mature... we all have problems, we all carry our emotional baggage and we all have a story... we just need to know how to deal with the rest of the people around us and, eventually, just hope for the best.
------------------------------------------------------
Mi experiencia con los comics de O'Malley ha sido como una montaña rusa... el primero me encantó, los dos siguientes todavía eran buenos pero no del todo... más tarde (vol. 4) casi pierdo interés pero no podía dejar ir Wallace (me he encaprichado grande en el señor Wells)... ya en el volumen 5 comenzó a recuperar mi confianza; y ahora, ¡aquí estamos! El último y me encuentro bastante indecisa sobre el número de estrellas...

Este volumen tiene que ver con el crecimento personal, encarar los problemas y lo mucho que se pueden alterar nuestros recuerdos con el paso del tiempo(con o sin la ayuda de un malvado exnovio viviendo en nuestra cabeza).

Es una tontería, pero me pierdo en algunas partes de la historia, me gusta la manera peculiar en que despliega el argumento en las páginas, pero algunas partes (sobre todo los dialogos de Gideon) son algo borrosas, como si yo ya tenía que saber sobre lo que estaban hablando... Estoy consciente de que es imposible resolver por completo todos los cabos sueltos en torno a una historia (lo digo en serio, fuí una Lostie durante todas las temporadas de la serie) pero desearía que se hubiera tomado mas tiempo con el resto de la banda, me sentí que estaba de prisa o que no había suficiente espacio.

A pesar de eso, me gusta el final. Puedes ver que el cómic ha crecido, así como los personajes. Con o sin el subespacio todos hemos experimentado "the glow"... la mayoría de nosotros lo conocemos como una crisis de identidad, o simplemente, como madurar... todos tienemos problemas, todos cargamos nuestro bagaje emocional y todos tenemos una historia ... sólo tenemos que saber cómo lidiar con la del resto de la gente que nos rodea y, finalmente, sólo esperar lo mejor.
(less)

1 like · like · see review

Aug 30, 2010 Emilia P rated it 4 of 5 stars

Oh Scotty Scott Scott.
You got me, babe. So I was all embittered towards both the film and by extension this book, because I was all He's Gone Commercial! He's Totally Full of Himself! The franchise is devouring itself like the snake eating it's tail!

So:
I let this hatred and dismay boil inside me for like a month, and then I had to choose between seeing SP or Step Up 3D at the movie theater and yes, I chose SP. And the floodgates opened, and the love and confusion I had had came rushing back, b...more

1 like · like · see review

Aug 14, 2010 christa rated it 5 of 5 stars

A brief overview for those people who automatically edit Michael Cera, who stars in the movie adaptation, out of their consciousness: Scott Pilgrim is a 23 year old (mostly) straight edge Canuck, in the okay band Sex Bob-omb who shares a 1BR apartment -- and bed -- with his gay friend Wallace.

When the series starts, Scott Pilgrim is in the beginnings of a pretty chaste relationship with Knives Chau, a high school girl. An Asian high school girl. The kind of high school girl who wears a Catholic...more A brief overview for those people who automatically edit Michael Cera, who stars in the movie adaptation, out of their consciousness: Scott Pilgrim is a 23 year old (mostly) straight edge Canuck, in the okay band Sex Bob-omb who shares a 1BR apartment -- and bed -- with his gay friend Wallace.

When the series starts, Scott Pilgrim is in the beginnings of a pretty chaste relationship with Knives Chau, a high school girl. An Asian high school girl. The kind of high school girl who wears a Catholic school girl uniform. Oh, Scott. While he is still navigating the leap from hand holding to hugs, he has a dream starring a mysterious girl on roller blades whom he eventually meets in his waking: Ramona Flowers, she of the ever-changing hair du and super secret who do voodoo lifestyle. He shakes loose the jail bait and gets touchy-feely with Ramona. (Not necessarily in that order). But in order for their relationship to succeed, he learns he must defeat her seven evil exes.

Throughout the series, Scott Pilgrim battles the douche bags, twins, vegans and a chick, and struggles with his own demons: a sexy ex of his own, a stalker, his own unemployment, the Fleetwood Mac-ian moments of being part of a band. Our hero is pretty clueless and self-centered (he isn't even sure where some of his besties work) albeit totally likable. The six books are riddled with pop culture references (my favorite being a Grosse Point Blank movie poster in the background, and references to the Pixies), video game terminology (whatevs), and self-referential barbs -- things like this will be explained in Book 3, or the next 30 pages will include a fight sequence. It's all fantastically clever. For instance, one of Ramona's exes is vegan and this is treated as a cult-like group with bylaws.

Overall, I tended to like the even-numbered books a star more than the odd numbered books in the series. Book 2 delves more into the relationships with his friends, Book 4 is heavy on the Scott-Ramona relationship, and Book 6 is a wonderful and relate-able finale for anyone who has ever had friends, relationship residue, and has successfully managed their 20s.(less)

like · see review

Aug 13, 2010 MacK rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: world-lit, contemporary

This is a tale of two readings:

The first time I read through Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour I went: "uhhh...really?" Underwhelmed, was an under statement. After building up potential conclusions for a year in my own mind, after imagining and re-imagining the deeper meanings O'Malley explored in this post-pop-modern-culture saga of romance and generational angst, I felt let down.

Then I realized: "oh...I was expecting WAY too much from a fun comic book series". And so in my second, third and fourt...more

2 likes · like · see review

Aug 12, 2010 Amanda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-graphic-novels

YES! Finest Hour indeed! The last Scott Pilgrim was great! I loved it! I laughed out loud at the panel in the beginning when Scott does the like one arm back, one arm forward thing and shouts "I think we should have SEX! CASUAL SEX!" because it's so perfectly, cluelessly, Scott Pilgrim. The playful "that happened in Volume 3!" stuff works much better here than it did in some of the previous volumes, and there was a lot of action -- some of the middle books got a little too much about relationshi...more

1 like · like · see review

Aug 05, 2010 Jodi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-read, graphic-novel

I was so excited to read Scott Pilgirm’s Finest Hour, the sixth and final volume in the series, that even though I had ordered it for ridiculously cheap, the moment I got near Big Brain Comics last Tuesday I caved and bought another copy. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to wait another day to find out what happend to Scott, Ramona, and their gang of wry sidekicks.

Volume 6 takes place roughly four months after Volume 5. Ramona’s MIA, Scott’s vegging in an apartment paid for by his...more

like · see review

Jul 30, 2010 Megan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Before my my 34th birthday last week I joked with my BF that all I wanted was a box of Lotte Choco-Pies and a couple of comic books. But actually that really was all I wanted, and Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour was on the list.

The final installment in the series (on which the major motion picture is based) is predictably fun and irreverent, predictably packed with satisfying references to manga and videogames and the delightful ennui of generation whatever. What I did not predict was how profoundl...more

1 like · like · see review

Jul 26, 2010 Ben Franz rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is it! After six years, and several thousand (I kid you not) pages of graphic novel, the "Epic of Epic Epicness" concludes. This is one hell of barn stormer. While the prior volumes focus on the fun, humorous aspects of Scott Pilgrim and his friends' existences in Toronto (a version of Toronto I would LOVE to hang out in), this one is way more driven to clearly provide the heaviness that was only hinted at when Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe left off on that wondrous cliff hanger, where Gid...more

1 like · like · see review

Jul 22, 2010 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, sff

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This review doesn't so much contain spoilers as consist of them.

So. Anyway.

I hadn't reviewed any of the previous volumes because I like watching narrative skeins play out. From the end, O'Malley doesn't disappoint me at all. At a certain kind of entertaining, geeky writing about relationships, he's a master, the equal of Moore & Eick or DiMartino and Konietzko. Call it the Higher Fanservice.

There is, probably, something to these books other than the sheer pleasure they create in watching rel...more

3 likes · like · see review

Jul 21, 2010 Gaelan D'costa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: canadian, comics-graphic-novels-manga

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

like · see review

Aug 28, 2012 Sam Quixote rated it 5 of 5 stars

The final book in the excellent Scott Pilgrim series winds up a storyline you probably had seen coming from Book 1 – Scott defeats the final Evil-Ex (or the Boss of the final level) and gets the girl. There’re spades of anime-style fighting, lots of video game references, and Gideon is as villainous as any villain should be.

But despite its predictability, it’s too damn likeable, funny, and entertaining to ever make me feel I was reading something derivative or tired. Scott’s too damn charming a...more

like · see review

Jan 28, 2012 Philippe Lhoste rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: bd-americaine-inde, humour, sf

Après le premier volume, j'ai lu d'une traite tous les tomes suivant.
On retrouve ce mélange de soap (intrigues sentimentales, relations interpersonnelles complexes, chronique de la vie quotidienne) et d'action (combats à poings nus et au sabre).
Les personnages évoluent dans le Canada moderne, mais semblent trouver naturel de passer dans une zone sub-spatiale, de voir des points de sauvegarde ou de gagner des vies supplémentaires après avoir combattu un "boss" de haut niveau...

Le dessin m'a un pe...more

like · see review

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 99 100 next »

new topic
Discuss This Book

topics	posts	views	last activity
Class of 2013: scott pilgrim	4	6	Mar 27, 2013 06:44pm

combine
Other Editions (11)

More editions...

Genres

Sequential Art > Graphic Novels

748 users

Sequential Art > Comics

345 users

Sequential Art > Manga

105 users

Humor

93 users

Fantasy

73 users

Young Adult

71 users

Romance

61 users

Graphic Novels Comics

50 users

Humor > Comedy

41 users

Comics > Comic Book

36 users

See top shelves...

Readers also enjoyed similar books

About Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley is a Canadian cartoonist. His first original graphic novel was Lost at Sea (2003), and he is currently working on (and best-known for) the six-volume Scott Pilgrim series (2004 to present). All of his graphic novels thus far have been published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press. He is also a songwriter and musician (as Kupek and formerly in several short-lived Toronto bands).
-...more

More about Bryan Lee O'Malley...

Books by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness (Scott Pilgrim, #3)

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (Scott Pilgrim, #4)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe (Scott Pilgrim, #5)

More…

Share This Book

Facebook Twitter Your website

Trivia About Scott Pilgrim's F...

1 trivia question
1 quiz

More quizzes & trivia...

Quotes from Scott Pilgrim's Finest...

“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.” — 22 people liked it

“Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up.
Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.” — 19 people liked it

More quotes…

title link	preview: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
avg rating	preview: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour Goodreads rating: 4.37 (14131 ratings)
small image	preview: click here [close]
med image	preview: click here [close]
BBCode	[url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7904429-scott-pilgrim-s-finest-hour?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348186871l/7904429.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7904429-scott-pilgrim-s-finest-hour?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley[/url]

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim #6)

Friend Reviews

Community Reviews

Share This Book

Share This Book on Your Website