BATTLING BOY

Monsters roam through the sprawling city of 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.

Nearly a decade in development, BATTLING BOY is a modern classic of American adventure comics, and hit the scene with a seismic tremor when the first volume in the series debuted in 2013. Two more books in the Battling Boy universe, THE RISE OF AURORA WEST and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WEST followed, with the much anticipated BATTLING BOY VOL.2  set to be released next year. Blending myth and fairy tales, science fiction and superhero tropes, BATTLING BOY presents a new twist on the classic heroes’ journey…a clever update on all the origin stories we know and love from comics and superhero cinema. This sprawling, inventive tale gives us a story that is at once very familiar, yet completely fresh and original— the story of a new superhero for a new generation— BATTLING BOY!

Praise for Battling Boy

“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

Awards

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
An NPR Best Book of 2013
Eisner Award winner, Best Graphic Novel for Teens 2014
Harvey Award, Best Cartoonist (Paul Pope) for Battling Boy 2014
Foreign license editions of BATTLING BOY have appeared in nearly two dozen languages worldwide.