Battling Boy

Battling Boy is a graphic novel by an American artist-writer Paul Pope, published on October 8, 2013, by First Second Books.[1] It was followed by two other volumes: The Rise of Aurora West and The Fall of the House of West.

Battling Boy
DateOctober 8, 2013
Main charactersBattling Boy
Haggard West
Aurora West
Page count208 pages
PublisherFirst Second Books
Creative team
WriterPaul Pope
ArtistPaul Pope
ColoristHilary Sycamore
EditorMark Siegel

Battling Boy earned a 2014 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens.

Publication history

Battling Boy was preceded in 2013 by The Death of Haggard West, a 32-page pamphlet-format preview.

Volume 2 of Battling Boy, titled The Rise of Aurora West, is a prequel which was co-written by Pope and J. T. Petty, with art by David Rubín. It was published by First Second in 2014. Volume 3, called The Fall of the House of West and also co-written with Petty, with art by Rubín, was published in 2015.

Plot

The city of Arcopolis is besieged by vicious gangs (who kidnap children) and monsters. The local hero, Haggard West, is killed, and the city is helpless, until the arrival of Battling Boy, a demi-god from another world who has reluctantly arrived, forced by his alternately overbearing and neglectful parent to undertake a rite of passage. Powered by magical T-shirts, Battling Boy defends the city, with some success, while also struggling with his vulnerabilities. A side story features Haggard West's daughter, Aurora, who attempts to take her father's place.

Volumes
  • The Death of Haggard West (First Second Books, 2013) — 32-page pamphlet-format preview
  • vol. 1: Battling Boy (First Second, 2013)
  • vol. 2: The Rise of Aurora West (First Second, 2014)
  • vol. 3: The Fall of the House of West (First Second, 2015)

Film adaptation

The Tracking Board reported that a film adaptation of Battling Boy is in works at Paramount Pictures, which Patrick Osborne would direct for Plan B Entertainment.[2]

gollark: As planned.
gollark: Although I actually wrote the regex as```pythonWHITESPACE = r"[\t\n ]*"NUMBER = r"\-?(?:0|[1-9][0-9]*)(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?"ARRAY = f"(?:\[{WHITESPACE}(?:|(?R)|(?R)(?:,{WHITESPACE}(?R){WHITESPACE})*){WHITESPACE}])"STRING = r'"(?:[^"\\\n]|\\["\\/bfnrt]|\\u[0-9a-fA-F]{4})*"'TERMINAL = f"(?:true|false|null|{NUMBER}|{STRING})"PAIR = f"(?:{WHITESPACE}{STRING}{WHITESPACE}:{WHITESPACE}(?R){WHITESPACE})"OBJECT = f"(?:{{(?:{WHITESPACE}|{PAIR}|(?:{PAIR}(?:,{PAIR})*))}})"VALUE = f"{WHITESPACE}(?:{ARRAY}|{OBJECT}|{TERMINAL}){WHITESPACE}"```which is much easier.
gollark: Regex is kind of like the APL of string pattern matching, in that it's very terse and expressive but incomprehensible.
gollark: Well, the regex engine is fine with it.
gollark: It's actually a recursive regex, so it can generate infinitely deep problems with a finite... regex.

References
  1. Jensen, Jeff (January 16, 2013). "'Battling Boy': Paul Pope's epic creative quest to create a new generation superhero -- Exclusive Excerpt!". ew.com. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. Allen, Clark (July 29, 2015). "{TB EXCLUSIVE} Oscar-Winning "Feast" Director Patrick Osborne To Helm Paramount's "Battling Boy"". The Tracking Board. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
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