I don't say this about many books, but I was hooked after the first chapter. The art looks like it was drawn with a felt-tip pen. The language will not expand your vocabulary. Get past that. Regardless of what he used to draw it, I think the art looks great, and the dialouge is simple because the dialouge is not between Gods, it's people aged 17-25 or so living in Toronto. Natural-sounding dialouge: it's a good thing.
I thought it was amusing. I liked it, and I recommend it to someone who wants something entertaining to read.

I really wish that I had read Scott Pilgrim sooner. I first heard about the book back in March or April, though I thought that Pilgrim was the author. When I learned what Scott Pilgrim really was, I couldn't believe how much I didn't want to read it. For those of you who don't know yet, Scott Pilgrim is a faux-manga series about a 23-year-old Canadian slacker who must defeat a girl's seven evil ex-boyfriends before he can date her. I came up with nearly every excuse I could think of to avoid reading this book. The plot sounded dumb, the visuals were influenced by manga, it was black and white. However, I couldn't help but notice how much praise it got from both comic reviewers and mainstream publications. Not only that, but two of my friends like it, and one of them doesn't read any other comics. Eventually, I decided that I should just give it a try, and I was barely 5 pages into Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life before I realized that all of the hype was completely true.
Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old and has no direction in life. He is "between jobs", is in a crappy band (with an awesome name), and as the series starts, he has just started dating a 17-year-old high school girl named Knives Chau. He lives with his gay roommate Wallace, whom he always introduces as being totally awesome and gay. Most of the things in the apartment belong to Wallace, and the two share a bed, but that is because they are too poor to afford a second. Based on how you look at life, Scott is either completely awesome or a total loser.
His time with Knives is just ok; the only things she can ever talk about is the high school drama she is immersed in and how her mother wants her to find a nice Chinese boy. All they ever do is get pizza or listen to Scott's band, Sex Bob-omb, practice.
However, when Scott meets Ramona Flowers, an American girl now working for Amazon.ca, his whole life is thrown into a tailspin. Suddenly, he can't get her out of his mind, and when he accidentally creeps her out at a party, he orders some CDs from Amazon (using Wallace's credit card) just so she can deliver them to him. Eventually, he gets her to go out with him, and he invites her to a Sex Bob-omb concert. Now, all this time, things have been fairly normal. Nothing too out-of-the-ordinary has occurred. But when Ramona's ex-boyfriend from high school shows up, things get bizarre, and yet the characters don't seem to notice at all. Matthew Patel, who dated Ramona for a week and a half, challenges Scott to a fight during the concert, and without missing a beat, Scott and his friends enter a melee.
Scott Pilgrim is hilarious. Before things even get weird, the dialogue and bizarre, though somewhat believable, situations keep the reader in stitches. But when outlandish events occur, the humor is ratcheted up a notch. It is helped by the fact that Scott and his friends act as if a manga-style brawl with Ramona's "evil" ex-boyfriend is as normal as going to work (though for Scott, I guess it is more normal than work). Other sources of humor include ratings when new characters are introduced, such as Scott's rating of awesome, his sister Stacey's rating of T for Teen (a video game reference), and Wallace's rating of 7.5/10. There is also the room break-down, giving us a detailed look at what belongs to Scott and what belongs to Wallace, Scott's terrible physical description of Ramona's hair, and the fact that sometimes the characters seem to be addressing the reader (Scott says that an anecdote is better for another volume). The book also introduced the term "attack hug" into my lexicon. There are also great references to comic books and video games. Scott wears an X patch on his jacket reminiscent of the X-Men, all the bands are video game references, and a discussion of dreams leads Scott to think about Super Mario Bros. 2.
I can't stress enough how great this book is. If you have any reservations, especially the ones that I mentioned above, ignore them at all costs. Scott Pilgrim is like nothing you've read before, and will definitely keep you entertained.

I'm not the type to flame on people who love something I hate, so I'll just leave it at that,I hated it.
I wouldn't be writting a review if someone before me had posted a review and not a love letter.
A review should consider whether or not the art in question will appeal to anyone who consumes it or just your friends, this one is definately the latter.
Basically it's an emo/indie story full of emo/indie kids doing emo/indie things.
If you can draw a circle you can draw this book.
If you can write dialogue such as, "cool." and "yeah!", you can write this book.
There's nothing more to it, if you're into that you'll love it, if not, save your money.
Better yet, spend you're money on some Paul Pope or Brian Wood, lots of indie cred, but backed up with brilliant art and intelligent writing.

I wasn't particularly thrilled by the Free Comic Book Day Scott Pilgrim special, but people were delighted by the graphic novels so I decided to give it another shot. And man am I glad I did.
Scott Pilgrim is the tale of a 23-year-old loser. He's unemployed, plays bass in a lame band, is dating a high schooler for the simplicity, and the butt of all his friends' jokes. Things seem to be going no where until a strange girl named Ramona Flowers moves into town and into his dreams. Scott aims to have a relationship with Ramona, but he didn't expect having to battle her seven evil ex-boyfriends first. Also, he is still technically dating a high schooler...

While Scott Pilgrim may have mystic battles and odd visions, it still remains very down to earth. The dialogue shared by the young and oblivious Knives, the sarcastic gay roommate Wallace, the tough and dry drummer Kim, and the protective younger sister Stacey all seems very real. The characters are people you've no doubt encountered. This is a very fun and funny book and I highly recommend it! I can't wait to get the next one!