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Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics Archive — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:16:08 +0000

[...] 276. Paul Pope [...]

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:08:17 +0000

I’m still unsure about Paul Pope as a writer.

Heavy Liquid was pretty terrible and The One Trick Rip-Off was merely okay.

There is something compelling about his art though

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:01:57 +0000

Thanks Lambo. Here’s hoping for 2008 for THB. (Dude, it’s good enough. Leave it alone for a while.)

By: Lambo

Lambo — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:40:07 +0000

I’m not totally sure, but I think THB is being collected in 2009 by First Second. And in 2008 he has a project called Battling Boy coming out. The years might be reversed on these, again I’m not certain.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:44:03 +0000

It’s funny that people seem to be turned off by Pope’s art, because it’s nto “pretty”. It’s definitely got a knobby, weighty feeling to it that is rarely flattering to the characters’ anatomy, but then again, don’t we have an effect like that in the real world? I think it’s called gravity.

Pope’s stuff is always amazing, and I can’t wait to afford a copy of PULPHOPE.

By: Da Fug

Da Fug — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:33:37 +0000

There’s something very intriguing about his squishy, grungy art. I read Batman 100 not too long ago and thought it was a fun read despite my quibbles with parts of the story (I thought it would have been better if they left the ID of Batman ambiguous).

By: sgt pepper

sgt pepper — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:53:27 +0000

I love Pope’s work. What amazing and stylistic brushwork. And he can create and populate unique, believable new worlds in just a few pages of characterization and art.

And, when he was creating THB he lived in Columbus, I believe after having attended Bowling Green State University, so there’s another woot woot for Ohio and comics.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:06:40 +0000

And Batman: Year 100 was better than the JH3 Batman story. Take that stupid Tom Selleck!

Agreed, which is why I’ve decided to read the Selleck bit as saying, “Within the main titles,” even if that caveat was not there initially.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:05:44 +0000

I thought Pope had already been on this column. But heâ€™s so great I wouldnâ€™t mind listing him twice.

I figured he would have been, too, but I checked, and he hadn’t been listed yet, so that was basically a big ol’ “Well, THAT’S an easy one, then!”

By: Stephane Savoie

Stephane Savoie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:03:01 +0000

My intro to Pope was with his Hark Horse Presents serial, The One Trick Rip Off (available in trade). It was stupendous, and far more legible than many of his other works. Really, check it out.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:43:07 +0000

Dude can draw bodies in motion better than any other current American comics artist – well, American comics artist.

And Batman: Year 100 was better than the JH3 Batman story. Take that stupid Tom Selleck!

And, hey, what’s the deal with THB? Is it still getting reworked again – and then put in trade?

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:35:08 +0000

I thought Pope had already been on this column. But he’s so great I wouldn’t mind listing him twice.

Paul Pope’s art is, like Quitely’s, the kind that people will think it’s either beautiful or ugly. I think it is gorgeous.

By: layne

layne — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:07:37 +0000

There’s a “fleshiness” to Pope’s art that is both attractive and grotesque; I can’t say I love everything he’s done, but I’ve never been bored by it.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:03:33 +0000

One of the true modern masters. His flow and composition are just amazing. Actually takes lessons from Manga and translates them into a western/Euro-comic infused American style. And it’s just so damn gorgeous to look at.

My wife and sister both have semi-crushes on him, too.

By: Ian Astheimer

Ian Astheimer — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:26:30 +0000

Damn, I really need to get Pulphope. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Adam White

Adam White — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:51:01 +0000

I first got into Pope’s stuff with THB and I loved it from the first issue. Personally, I’d really like to see him return to it.

100% and Heavy Liquid were great and among the very small handful of books published by DC that I actually wanted to buy during the years they came out. However, they were still comics where I knew what every issue would look like before it came out. The first issue of each series set the pace for the whole thing. That is, of course, understandable and just what you want with a short novel, where the entirety of it should be of a piece. But, they didn’t have the sense of being totally wide open in the way that THB did.

THB was Pope’s laboratory and it would be nice to see him get back to testing just how much a comics magazine can do – if you’re willing to take some chances.

By: StopsAtGreen

StopsAtGreen — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:18:26 +0000

The only work I’ve seen from him was Batman: Year 100, and I’m sorry to say I found the art quite ugly. I’d heard good things about him and was eager to pick it up, but was disappointed by it.