Battling Boy - Paul Pope 电子书cbr+PDF
Product details
Age Range: 10 - 18 years
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Lexile Measure: 390 (What's this?)
Series: Battling Boy (Book 1)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: First Second (October 8, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1596431458
ISBN-13: 978-1596431454
Battling Boy Paperback – October 8, 2013
by Paul Pope (Author, Illustrator)
https://www.amazon.com/Battling-Boy-Paul-Pope/dp/15964314583
Product details
Age Range: 10 - 18 years
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Lexile Measure: 390 (What's this?)
Series: Battling Boy (Book 1)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: First Second (October 8, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1596431458
ISBN-13: 978-1596431454
A 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.
From School Library Journal
Gr 8 Up–With the death of hero Haggard West, Acropolis has become defenseless against vicious gangs of monsters and demons. Fortunately Battling Boy, sent here from another world to complete a rite of passage and become a hero, reluctantly offers to save the city and is immediately thrown into battle. But unlike other superheroes, Battling Boy struggles with a plethora of other, more subtle problems, such as an overbearing superhero father unwilling to help him; a city council that creates an embellished image of him; and uncontrollable superpowers from his magical T-shirts (yep, magical T-shirts). Action scenes are intense and well plotted, as when Battling Boy must jump from rooftop to rooftop in an effort to avoid a giant car-crushing monster. Although short on exposition, the story is well balanced with tongue-in-cheek humor and epic battles, but heartfelt sincerity and humility when the dust settles. Pope perfectly matches the over-the-top and fantastical tone of the piece with gritty 1980s-style artwork, toxic coloring, and jagged inking. The side story featuring Haggard's vengeful daughter, Aurora, trying to take her father's place is far less compelling than the main story, but will hopefully be fleshed out more in the upcoming sequel to this amazing epic.–Peter Blenski, Greenfield Public Library, WIα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Comics’ sci-fi rock-god Pope synthesizes the mythologies of Superman, Batman, and Hercules and sends them crashing into a monster-infested dystopia in this rollicking blast of adventure, the first part of a larger tale. When Acropolis’ protector, Haggard West, dies in a battle with child-snatching ghouls, Battling Boy is sent down from the Olympian lightning cloud for his trial of manhood. His apparent defeat of a rampaging monstrosity gets him caught up in local politics, puts him in the sights of the hideous ghouls, and gains him the ire of Haggard West’s daughter, who is looking to establish her own heroic credentials. Pope offers a latter-day superhero mythology that is also a glorious homage to shojo and, in fact, to heroism throughout history. This is a sophisticated tale for younger readers, but Pope manages to both grant full-scale wish fulfillment and acknowledge the limitations of young boys with equal aplomb. His art, meanwhile, looks like nothing else in comics, with ropy, sinewy figures, dynamic action, and gritty urban design all captured in panels that have the rough, subversive tone of classic punk album covers. Indeed, Pope’s visuals might demand a larger canvas than the elegantly compact format First Second has afforded it. Grades 5-8. --Jesse Karp --This text refers to the Digital edition.
Review
“There is no one in comics like Paul Pope: gifted beyond all reason, he is an artist of immense protean talents and a deep soulfulness.
In Battling Boy, Pope has spun a smashingly beautiful adventure about a not-so-powerful boy-god sent down from the higher dimensions to save a crumbling city from the monsters that afflict it. Rapturously inked and drawing upon what feels like the entire tradition of pulp storytelling, Battling Boy is a thunderclap of a book--a kaleidoscopic mash-up of the highest order where kaiju mix it up with science heroes, and where a girl named Aurora takes up her fallen father's jet-pack (and his weapons) and nearly steals the whole show. Friends, this book is a number one stunner and the second installment cannot come soon enough.” ―Junot Díaz, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Paul Pope's delightful and original Battling Boy is the adventure of the year!” ―Jeff Smith, Eisner Award-winning author of Bone
“Full of energy, precision, and pure kick―not to be missed.” ―Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies
“Pope is set to soar to glory.” ―Wired
“A new generation hero.” ―Entertainment Weekly
About the Author
Paul Pope is the acclaimed author-illustrator of Batman: Year 100, Heavy Liquid, and 100%. Known for his frenetic, high-energy artwork and action-packed, genre-bending storytelling, Pope has won three Eisner Awards. He lives and works in New York City.
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