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title: "The Rise of Aurora West (Battling Boy, 2)"
brand: "paul popej. t. pettydavid rubín"
price: "$42.13"
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# The Rise of Aurora West (Battling Boy, 2)

**Brand:** paul popej. t. pettydavid rubín
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## Customer Reviews

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    The artwork made the story!
  

*by A***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2016*

I am going to be honest, I picked this up because I really love Rubin's artwork. It is rock solid. The story itself flows really well as a young girls bashes her way through a monster filled world looking to solve the mystery of her mother's death. As a father of young girls myself I identified with the impulse to teach your kids the old ways but the drive to keep them sheltered and safe.Not in the same way obviously, I haven't killed any huge monsters with a knife in like....six years...I haven't read Battling Boy but might just have to because of how good the storytelling was. Did I mention Rubin? His stuff is great!

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Should be called "Paul Pope's Battling Boy: The Rise of Aurora West" by Petty and Rubin, because that's what it is
  

*by S***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2014*

The first thing you need to know about this is that Paul Pope didn't write it or draw it, despite understandably getting top billing. On the credits page, Pope's name follows Petty's, indicating that he was probably basically a creative consultant. He may have loosely plotted the story, and of course it's got his fingerprints all over it since it takes place in a world he created, and Rubin's inking style is evocative of Pope. I suspect if he had contributed even 1/4 of the writing, his name would be first in the writing credits. Make no mistake, this is not a Paul Pope comic.Pope is my favorite comic book illustrator, so I admit I was disappointed to learn that he didn't have much to do with this book. But then, when it was originally solicited I was shocked to see this Battling Boy prequel come out so quickly after the first volume (which was a LOOOOONG time coming) so it makes sense that he's letting other people play in his sandbox. With Pope's pace, there's no other way we'd ever see these stories. Just important to establish that going in.The art is solid, if unspectacular. Rubin keeps the look of the Battling Boy world fairly consistent without outright swiping Pope's style. At a glance, the cover looks like it could be Pope's work until you look at Aurora's face. It's much easier to tell the difference once you look inside. The ink work has a similar finish to Pope's, but the character designs and layouts are, for the most part, plenty distinctive. I don't think anyone familiar with Pope's work would flip through this and be fooled. Rubin achieves a nice balance here. There are creatures whose designs are so un-Pope-like that it clashes a bit and doesn't quite feel like they should exist in the same universe, but I have mixed feelings about this, because I do appreciate Rubin doing something different as opposed to trying to be a (very) poor man's Pope.The writing isn't quite as strong. It fits with Pope's simplistic style, but I actually find myself missing Pope's naive "voice." There's something almost amateurish about his writing, and that's missing here. It's an odd critique, I know, but it's basically the difference between highly competent but unspectacular writing and writing that's almost intentionally stilted but with a distinctive charm.The size is different from Battling Boy. It's your standard Manga sized digest format, black and white, with that newsprint kind of paper (it's probably not newsprint exactly, but you get the idea; not the thick, shiny stuff). The collector in me would like the volumes to match on my bookshelf, but the digest format really does fit this book. No sense making it any bigger.Overall, it's a humdrum story with unmemorable characters and passable art. Plus, like Battling Boy, this is just part one. Unfortunately, the Battling Boy universe just isn't that well developed yet. The original volume didn't quite tell a proper story and wasn't even especially cohesive for an OGN. Had the groundwork of the universe been better laid, perhaps it would be stronger and give me more to care about, but this just feels like another "sketch" in a universe that doesn't yet feel whole. Heck, in some ways this actually did a better job creating a fleshed out universe than Battling Boy itself, and that's a problem for the series. Honestly, the most grounding element is the fact that this book is centered around a reimagined Batman and Robin, and that's not really earned. Perhaps the entire Battling Boy series will read better once more pieces are in place, and it'll be easier to sink one's teeth into, but for now it still feels incomplete. And that's a problem when you've spent nearly 400 pages in the same universe. As a spin-off of a book that was basically an artist's passion project, it's fine. It didn't grab me, but neither did the original, and I am as big a fan of Pope's as you'll find. But there are worse ways to spend six bucks and a chunk of an afternoon.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    This partnership could be like so many other great ones
  

*by F***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2014*

Yes it is a small, tiny little book. Yes, it is not illustrated by Paul Pope himself, but neither of these things make it any smaller an accomplishment. David Rubín's artwork is OUTSTANDING. And though he emulates Pope's lines, he has a style of his own. In my humble opinion it works as well as. This partnership could be like so many other great ones: McCartney - Lennon, Jagger - Richards or in the same medium, Jodorowsky - Moebius. This comic book is a must have to any serious comic book fan, as well as for the accidental reader. Get Battling Boy too and read it beforehand. Again, MUST HAVE.

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