My first reactions are, Wow. What an awesome book! The movie basically is this entire book copied strictly to the T, even including locations everything happens to the dialogue of the comic. They capture the spirit of it perfectly.
Describing wallace's room in the comic book
Describing Wallace's room in the movie.
That's honestly about as close as you can get. Even though most of the credit goes to the original Manga for dreaming up the world and the story, you have to give major credit to the movie for maintaining the original intent of the comic and figuring out how to continue that fun and playfulness of the comic into a moving picture medium, which I think they did successfully. There are some characters that are so spot on (and even kind of look like the Manga version), such as Kim:
I think the added effects make Scott Pilgrim stand out, and I think it also makes it very appealing. Most people, at some point in their lives, have read a comic book and all of these tropes are so similar. It is also just so entertaining when you see these (often times, ridiculous) ideas brought into real life. Ridiculous, and AMAZING.
You just don't get much better than that.
I also really love the style of these comics. It's different from most Manga i've read and it's just a very playful style that allows for a lot of great expressions. It's a super quick read and really enjoyable -- though honestly, if you've watched the movie, you've already understood most of the comic!
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