Battling Boy

"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."