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I've read a number of Paul Pope books. All lent to me from a friend of mine whose a big collector.Other then maybe Battling Boy I've consistantly felt confused about what these books are about. HEAVY LIQUID being my favorite of what I've read.It's not just the stories, but also the art. Reading a comic book usually means you have to enjoy the art. No doubt Pope is gifted artist but the style doesnt draw me in.If it was my friend rating these books she'd give the 5 stars. She's a big collector.Fo...
You guys! My favorite part of this is the short comic where there’s the kid who has a crush on the girl and then the New York city subways happen but everything is okay in the end.It’s a really wonderful, wordless story.
Paul Pope! The art is often more powerful than the story but that doesn't mean that the stories are bad.
This was always my favorite by Paul Pope, or at least my favorite complete work. The story isn't his best, but the art just hits that special point of amazing sometimes where it's like nothing else you've ever seen. He's probably done things that are better since, but I loved this then, when it first came out, and it still holds up as a pretty impressive work now. The inclusion of the "deep cuts" here is really a super nice bonus, too - I've always considered myself a PP completist, and I think
An interesting look at some of Pope's early work. One of the stand-outs here is, obviously, the longer title piece "The One Trick Rip-Off," but other shorter stories, the "Deep Cuts," are equally worth noting. Among the most developed are "Portrait of a Girl with an Unpronounceable Name," "Super Trouble," and "Night Job."
A pleasant surprise, considering I purchased this item not at all familiar with Mr. Pope's work. His art is ferocious and honest and his writing is universally colloquial -- we all know someone (or think we know someone) who thinks or speaks or behaves like his characters. Many of the short stories in the latter half of the book are the best, and are a bit of a wrestling match between cultural quirkiness and inner city ennui.
Ehhh. Paul Pope’s comics are awesome - now - but this anthology of his early stuff from the ‘90s isn’t good. The One Trick Rip-Off was published in 1995/96 and feels like one of numerous Tarantino wannabes that appeared in the wake of Pulp Fiction. It’s a bad crime story of two lovers tryna steal a pile of money from an LA gang and escape. Things go south, middle middle middle, people get shot, the end. It’s not very interesting and it’s unnecessarily complicated by the protagonist and the villa...
Pee Pee kills it with his art style and his font and his story telling. got damn
The main story is decent, but the majority of the shorts are not worth the time. That being said, the artwork is gorgeous and worth looking at. Overall though, i can't recommend this considering all the other great works out there.
The One Trick Rip-Off + Deep Cuts by Paul Pope is a grab bag of early formative comics by an extremely talented artist. Pope’s art is full of action and expressive characters both heavily influenced by Japanese manga. The art is not a rip-off, though, but a blend of styles that becomes something new and uniquely his. The title story fits nicely in the crime genre, but with a bit of a supernatural twist. Rival gangs such as the Paid-in-Spades and the Do Nothings compete in the city, but individua...
The title story's not great, an early Pope attempt at a genre piece (crime with mild superpowers) which seldom rises beyond that. But it only takes up the first third of the book, and the rest plays far more to his strengths - a collection of shorts and aborted pilots with his usual knack for capturing the grime and glory of urban life.
A bit of everything in this book. It's a lot of Pope's early work, including an unpublished thing he did for Kondasha, which is neat. That said, it doesn't reach his heights. But again, it's early work. You can see the foundation of something rad. Which is cool.
Reissued colored version of The One Trick Rip Off with additional short stories from older Pope stories.
This, and all of my reviews (along with those of some other awesome chicks), can be found at: http://www.chicksgetlit.com/A beautifully drawn 2 for 1 kind of comic / graphic novel. The main part is the longer story (One Trick Rip-off), which is basically a story of a bad guy (Tubby) who no longer wants to be a bad guy. How to get out of such a life? Rip off your fellow bad guys, because, you know who else to rip-off but people who already kind of deserve it and likely got their money by stealing...
I think this might be a great read for folks who are already Paul Pope fans. If I've read something by him, I can't quite place it. His art is really emotive, but for me it's kind of overly so. Characters look the same. The first story was decent, and I enjoyed how the action was allowed to take place over the whole book. Tons and tons of action-filled panels. But ultimately it just fell flat for me. After the main story, there's a bunch of "b-sides" I guess you'd call them. Short little comics
It's good nobody was around because I squealed like a little girl when I found out about this book. Then disappointment set in. Disappointment in myself, that is. I usually follow up on authors when I enjoy their work like I enjoyed Batman: Year 100 and Heavy Liquid, but... alas, I have to find out much later that Paul Pope has several more masterpieces tucked in his belt. They must be dug up and consumed by myself! Or I shall die unfulfilled!The One Trick Rip-Off is the evolution of Paul Pope's...
5 stars for the main story, which is stunning in full color. Now for the dessert, the 14 short pieces I had never heard of. Could this be Paul Pope's "Bootleg Series"? I hope there are more volumes to come. This is fantastic....and it maintains its greatness through the short bits -- the Columbus stories are so good -- from the charming episode with little girl and the huge beetle to the kinetic bicycle frenzy of Yes.
I avoided Paul Pope's work for a long time and I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe I was turned off by all the hype; he had this sort of rock star celebrity persona, working for high-end fashion designers and the mainstream comics publishers alike, and I guess I assumed that he was all style over substance. I was wrong. Yes, his art is incredibly stylish but he's got the goods to back up all his flash."The One Trick Rip-Off + Deep Cuts" collects Pope's early work, when he was finding his voice and t...
3.5 really
3.5 stars, if it let me.I recall the lead story from the old Dark Horse days, and it was fun to revisit it since I'd largely forgotten it. That said, it's a pretty typical, pulpy crime tale, and a really good one at that. The rest of the book, the Deep Cuts a varied and I think more interesting. The only reason I'm not rating this one higher is the colouring. I remember some of these stories in the original black and white, and they just worked better in my opinion. The colouring is really well