This is bright, brash and colourful, full of sprawling, kinetic action and cartoonish monsters. A young godling is sent to the besieged city of Arcopolis as part of a rite of passage to fight the plague of monsters terrorising the inhabitants. Battling Boy is inexperienced and unprepared, and Acropolis has just lost its own hero, haggard West. BB's first battles do not go well, but Haggard's daughter, out to fill her father's shoes, may be who he needs.

This is the first volume is what's clearly set to be an epic of monster-fighting and evil-bashing. Pope's unique style, combining manga and European sensibilities to deliver cluttered visual chaos has a personality all its own, and this is a wild, funny, and over-the-top graphic novel for all ages.