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Escapo (2014)

by Paul Pope(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1940878004 (ISBN13: 9781940878003)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Z2 Comics

review 1: While normally escape artists and circuses do not catch my attention I have to say Escapo was a pretty good read. The artwork was phenomenal and drew me in. The dialogue, although short, was still interesting and captured my attention.My only real complaints are that the cover wasn't very attractive to me (not a big deal) and the story was too short to justify the $25 MSRP. I literally finished the story and the very cool bonus content in under an hour.Overall I would have no problem recommending this book to a friend,it's well written and skillfully illustrated, my only real gripe is the length of the book.*Note: I won this as a Goodreads Giveaway*
review 2: I'd been following Pope for a couple years by this point, through Dr. Richardson & Sin Titulo, and by T... moreHB (where Escapo originally debuted) I was starting to lose interest. His narratives were focusing more on the fantastic and I just wasn't wanting to follow him there. His art, however, continued to intrigue me, so when Escapo came out I went ahead and picked it up. I suspect this was the end of my interest in Pope overall.This book is slightly more than just the collected adventures of a circus escape artist supreme. Nearly the first half of the page count is eaten up by indulgent interviews, images and diatribes about Pope and his self-imposed mission for comics. He comes across as a slightly pompous, self-important, vain Artist in the most caricaturish sense. It's small wonder he flared briefly in comics and then effectively vanished except to a core group of fans who continue to support his rock-star-comic-creator fantasies.Escapo, once it finally starts, is an entertaining enough read. Typical to Pope, there's a character who looks remarkably like the creator, some misplaced emotion, and the bugfaces supplanted from THB. Pope manages to misdirect our attention from the flimsy plot(s?) by using his typically engaging, frenetic art and oversized panel plans to make it seem like more is going on than really is.Not really worth the price of admission, when it comes right down to it. less

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