Seconds

I didn't want to read this at first; some part of me believed that I'd be betraying my love of Scott Pilgrim by reading anything else of Bryan Lee O'Malley. What a mistake that would have been. This has a slightly darker tone than SP, but man, is it good. O'Malley easily expresses complex emotion with deft and wit. Go read this right now.

I LOVED this. Not a perfect book or anything, but–I love it when I can sense authors aging up with me, and this is a perfect late-20s book the way Scott Pilgrim is a perfect early-20s book, I guess? Just sort of on point for my general concerns and sensibilities at this point in time.

I still love O'Malley's art style and his way of adding little jokes into the art. So cute!! I thought about giving this 4 stars and then I remembered how cute the art was and bumped it up to 5.