Scott Pilgrim

It was my enthusiastic opinion on first reading the six books of the Scott Pilgrim story that they together constituted one of the very finest works of literature I'd ever read. It captures an attitude, a sort of post-modern nihilist lazy bohemian hipster adolescent-in-one's-twenties grown-up-on-video-games approach to the world, perfectly, without ever judging it or making it seem in any way morally praise- or blameworthy, but while at the same time showing its beauty and ugliness, its peacefulness and loneliness. It's also extremely funny, and has lots of technical, formal, pictorial and linguistic tricks and games, all executed perfectly.

I then gave them to my brother, and didn't see them for a month or two. I have them back now, and I'm flicking through them. I think that my earlier opinion was if anything not gushing enough.

I recommend these books as highly as I recommend anything. They are, without any ounce of hyperbole, masterpieces.