Scott Pilgrim y la tristeza infinita 3 (Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness, Volume 3) Book

Third Level!


This is the third book (in a series of six) of "Scott Pilgrim" saga.


Creative Team:

Creator, writer and illustrator: Bryan Lee O'Malley


PILGRIM'S PATH INTERMIXES

Look, it's almost 3:30…

Right. It's almost 3:30, and we've been here for a quarter of this book. Let's call it a night.

In the second book, you get flashback chapters of Scott's past life when he was still a teenager, and while you get basically the same here, there is a key difference here. In the second book, the scenes in the past were clearly developed telling a whole chapter once started, but in this third book uses a storytelling technique quite popular nowadays in several TV series, that it's showing gilmpses of the past of the character (in this case, often Scott's) but intermixed in the present events, obviously showing the precise past moment to increase the intensity of present situation.

Also, another relevant comment about this third book is that, while in the second book you get "extra scenes" in comparison with the movie (yes, I am aware that these books were before the movie, so it shoud be seen at the contrary, but hey, indulge me and work with me, okay?), however, the story shown in this third volume is totally like an alternate universe version, where several things happened pretty much like in the movie (please, I politely asked you to work with me!) but others are quite different and even you'll get scenes that you will recognize from what it should until the fourth book, just not with the same characters involved (so, a cool thing is that the fourth book promises to be a "terra incognita" in comparison of what we watched in the movie adaptation).

In the second book, we found out that the infamous Sex Bob-Omb wasn't the first Scott PIlgrim's musical band, but in the third book we meet yet another previous Scott's band! (Of course, I am not spoiling the name of any of those bands!)

Scott does a better gesture to come to a closure of his quite brief relationship with Knives Chau. However, as we all could witness (in the second book), sweet Knives is sweetly bonkers, evolving in the third book in the saga's true wild card character, where you never can predict what she'll do next. One thing is clear, Knives loves Scott beyond her own emotional happiness and physical safety…

…the power of the first teenage crush!

Scott's love life with Ramona Flowers, still is depending of his effectiveness of beating the League of Ex-Boyfriends in an odd world where, you can accept as totally reasonable, cybernetic enhancements, clothing accesories with subspace unlimited storage capabilities, an unsaid rule that any drummer should be a female one, holey moons, save points, extra life items, and of course, the general acceptance that if you're vegan, you just have psychic powers!


THE LEAGUE: THIRD ROUND

She doesn't know what gelato is?

Nope.

It has milk, right?

And eggs.

You're a credit to the vegans, Todd.

Todd Ingram, bass player at "Clash at Demonhead" band (a Canadian band, highly popular at the moment), major jerk and a cheatin' psychic vegan.

Things are getting more and more complicated in the escalation of the battle against the fearsome League of Ex-Boyfriends. Since in this third book, Scott is facing Todd that besides his psychic powers (that they works like a merging between Dragon Ball Z's ki field and Star Wars' Jedi Force), what really got dirty the battlefield is that Todd is (obviously) a Ramona's ex-boyfriend but also is the current boyfriend of Envy Adams (aka Natalie V. Adams; leader of the Clash at Demonhead's band) which is a former Scott's girlfriend. But the dirt in the third battleground doesn't stop there, oh no, my friends! Since Todd is also currently cheating on Envy with Lynette Guycott (Clash at Demonhead's drummer).

Oh, boy!...

OH, FRAKKIN' BOY!!!

Five Character Battle… Activated!

Also, you'll get a sneak preview cameo of the final boss!

And maybe I am wrong, but since I didn't cheat checking ahead the fourth book, while reading this third book, I was left with the feeling that certain secondary (almost tertiary) character (introduced in the second book) maybe, just maybe, it's more than the apparent with potential of becoming THE relevant character in the next volume, mostly due the wearing of certain t-shirt with certain logo, that one knows that in the wacky world of Scott Pilgrim's saga, the symbols in t-shirts have a hidden significance, so I don't know, maybe the good ol' Bryan Lee O'Malley (the author) is messing with my mind. I won't get into details, since I don't want to spoil anything, and in any case, it's just a personal hunch.