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Battle Pope

el d.

12:55 / 22.11.07

Here´s the first issue for your reading and viewing pleasure. A truly wonderful piece of work, now with color, and available in four trade paperbacks.

The first of the TPBs is the best, as far as I can judge, afterwards the story seems to lull a bit, but the humour is always very enlightening. Absolute tops: The pope in Hell, and God´s comment: "I work in misterious ways, don´t I?"

If anyone considers this offensive, I´d label them as fundamentalists. Lack of humour is a good indicator there.

Liger Null

13:09 / 22.11.07

That's Robert Kirkman's first title I believe.

He went on to write Walking Dead for Image. He's also working on the Marvel Zombie franchise.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:26 / 22.11.07

the humour is always very enlightening

Enlightening? Is that really the word? Battle Pope is fairly entertaining for what it is: a sort of no-brainer knockabout good times comic. But the humour is essentially one (1) joke - I'm not knocking it, but if I thought Kirkman intended it to be biting satire of organised religion, I'd probably hate it.

el d.

17:20 / 22.11.07

The joke´s mainly about the concept of "holyness", or isn´t it?

The pope sleeping with the virgin mary, and then being challenged to a fist-fight with the creator....

It´s fun, definetly. And I think there´s a message somewhere, too.... "biting satire of organised religion" would go a bit too far, but the satire is there. (J´s tee reading "what would I do?" got me laughing for approximately 15 minutes.)