Battling Boy
by Paul Pope
Buy on AmazonA New York Times bestseller An NPR Best Book of 2013 The adventure begins in the new graphic novel by comics legend Paul Pope. Monsters roam through Arcopolis, swallowing children into the horrors of their shadowy underworld. Only one man is a match for them - the genius vigilante Haggard West. Unfortunately, Haggard West is dead. Arcopolis is desperate, but when its salvation comes in the form of a twelve-year-old demigod, nobody is more surprised than Battling Boy himself. IT'S TIME TO MEET AN ELECTRIFYING NEW HERO.
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"Paul Pope’s art churns on the page with grim intent; it is messily, gorgeously, impatiently alive. With the long-awaited Battling Boy, the first volume in a sprawling coming-of-age tale about young heroes who face off against slavering child-abducting monsters, Pope is in his element, imbuing these vibrantly colored pages with an epic scope — and a singular artistic vision — that the aging, increasingly denuded genre of superhero comics hasn’t seen since Jack Kirby."
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