It seems like i've been waiting since forever for Paul Pope's Battling Boy.
If you are unfamiliar with the project here is how the artist described it back in 2008...
"Battling Boy is the son of a god or a super hero—it is left unspecified—who comes down from the top of a mountain (or rather, from inside a cloud/UFO contraption/contrivance from above a mountain top) at this father's behest, in order to rid a giant city from it's plague of monsters. Hercules had his labors, Batman has his Gotham, Battling Boy has his Monstropolis."
"Monstropolis is a city the size of an entire continent—and it is absolutely overrun with monsters. These are horrible, Grimm's fairytale, Beowulf-ish monsters, awful things. Child-stealers. Plus some of the vampires and mummies and wolfmen we remember from the old black and white Hollywood horror films. Which—if you remember—aren't very funny."
And apparently there is a fifty page fight scene in this thing.
Anyway take a look at some of the gorgeous art...
Recently colourist Nathan Schreiber gave fans a glimpse of some of the first coloured BB artwork here, and it looks stunning.
Also over on the ever-excellent Bad Librarianship blog Mark Kardwell posted this print that he came across...
As Mark notes this was supposed to be a poster for TCAF 2010, so if anyone knows if the poster was actually made or if it is available for sale anywhere please leave a comment.
I have no clue when or in what form this will finally see the light of day, but i do know that it looks and sounds bloody amazing, and i'm sure this will be Pope's magnum opus.
Okay back to sitting on the edge of my seat...
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