More delightful comics

Top Ten: The Forty-Niners is as good as I'd hoped, since I've pretty much been looking forward to it since the original Top 10 series wrapped up in, what, 2003? 2002? Awhile ago. Anyway, this look at Neopolis' early days in the post-war era is just as jam-packed with detail as the original series, and the art by Gene Ha is a career best, which is saying something. It's the last Alan Moore-penned Top 10 we're probably ever going to get, so enjoy it.

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life lives up to its considerable hype. (Or at least the hype it's racked up online. I'm sure most of you, even the comics readers, haven't heard of it.) Anyway, the plot concerns 23-year old bass-playing slacker Scott Pilgrim, whose life is going just fine until he falls for a roller-skating delivery girl named Ramon Flowers. Little does he know that in order to date her, he'll have to do battle with each of her seven evil ex-boyfriends (yes, that is exactly how they are described in the book). It sounds a bit precious when I describe it, but rest assured that the characters and dialogue are genuinely funny. I was reading this and laughing out loud in my room while Emory was watching Cannibal Holocaust. I got the better deal, I promise. Now I can't wait until I have the money to pick up Volume 2, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.