Battle Pope, Volume 2: Mayhem

Battle Pope #2

by Robert Kirkman, Matthew Roberts (Artist), Tony Moore (Artist)

Picking up right where volume one left off, this collection paves the way for all future Battle Pope stories. Featuring the downfall of HellCorp and Pope's rise to local celebrity status, plus as many fights, guns, jokes, chicks and violence as you can fit in a 120-page trade paperback. This one has it all.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Humor, Superheroes, Fantasy, Comedy

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of that publisher.

Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.

In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.

Reviews

[Myles Gerber · Rating 2 out of 5]

Worse than the first, it sacrifice any story it could have had for even more raunchy jokes that aren’t even clever this time. I still had some small moments of fun but overall yeah this was mediocre.

[Mike McDevitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got an out-loud laugh from me when Battle Pope and the Demon Brenda turn smouldering hate into passionate making out, prompting Jesus to remark: 'I'm going to have a baby brother'! I'm not sure that's how it works, but it works for me.

[David Turko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, I can't recommend this.

[Dkolacinski · Rating 4 out of 5]

So the Pope and the Son of God return to earth for another battle. The Pope turns hate into lust with the Demon Brenda. And so it goes. And so it continues.

[Stephen Theaker · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Pope fights some demons and gets annoyed with Jesus. Loud, brash, raucous, and a bit disappointing – didn't make me laugh.

[CK · Rating 1 out of 5]

The zombie twins weren't enough to save this. Garbage, chauvinist jokes.

[Tommy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I continued on with this series to see where it goes. I still do like the high level concept and Kirkman and Moore became quite the force in comics. This arc was a little bit better but still nothing I'd recommend.

[47Time · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought the first arc was bad. This one has multiple artists to go with the crap story. If you can call it a story. The Pope jumps from one thing to the next without caring who is in the way. Jesus is even more useless here, but he causes the Pope to miss out on testing the bed for the first time with several women. The Savage Dragon cameo is worthless. The bad guys are big and stupid. I don't even have anything sexy to gawk at. The synopsis says there are jokes. I laughed once, so they must have meant 'joke.'

The bad guys are teaming up to take over Hell and get back at the Pope.

[TJ Shelby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Picks up right where vol 1 ends. Pope decides to stay on earth and help the people. Then begins what has made Kirkman famous...his interpersonal story-telling. This is still rude, crude and imbecilic humor but I still found myself laughing as the Pope becomes frustrated at living with an obnoxious and lazy roommate (Jesus) while fighting off the second wave of demonic revenge seekers and the downfall of Hellcorp.

[Dmitry Yakovenko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Второй том абсолютно ничем не отличается от первого. Рисунок не изменился, ни в лучшую, ни в худшую сторону, шутки и различные пародии все так же заставляют искренне смеяться, а сюжет все так же удерживает все внимание. Все те же неплохие диалоги, все те же прекрасные герои, плюс парочка новых. Итог? Отличное продолжение первого тома.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even better than the first trade. The dynamic between Pope and Jesus is probably the best part of this series, as the Pope essentially babysits him. Jesus's constantly changing witty shirt ("Just Jew It") is a fun little tidbit of humor snuck in. Consider me hooked.

[Naomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as focused as the first title, but still funny. And still very, very wrong.

[Daniela Barisone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una delle cose più divertenti mai lette!

[Brad · Rating 5 out of 5]

funny