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Pope, Paul 100 Per Cent ISBN 13: 9781848562103

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Six star-crossed characters meet in the urban twilight of Manhattan 2038; a perversely safe future city where citizens wear ID tags and police cruisers stalk the streets like slow-moving sharks. There's Daisy the fiery go-go dancer, who makes sparks fly with the (not-so-average) busboy John. There's Strel, the club manager, pursued by Haitous, a former champion prizefighter. And then there's Kim, the jittery barbabe, charmed by the magnetic Eloy, an artist obsessed with coaxing the perfect pitch from a chorus of 100 tea kettles. Filled with wit, sex, charm, and wonder, "100 per cent" is a prescient view of America's future, presented by critically acclaimed writer and artist Paul Pope (THB).

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Paul Pope is an Eisner Award-winning writer and artist, with influences as diverse as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jack Kirby. He began his career as a manga illustrator, where he developed his popular adventures THB, about a teenage girl from Mars. Pope then went on to create the critically acclaimed 100 per cent and Heavy Liquid. He is currently working on two original graphic novels called Battling Boy and La Chica Bionica.
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Set in a gritty near-future, 100% juggles three separate but interconnected stories that revolve around a downtown Manhattan nightclub catering to demimonde habitues including artists, erotic dancers (whose internal organs are projected onto viewscreens for the ultimate voyeuristic kick), prizefighters, barmaids, and busboys. The meandering story line isn't particularly plot-heavy, but Pope more than makes up for any narrative slackness by skillfully using the comics medium to convince, rather than simply tell, us about this slightly futuristic, highly recognizable world. In the end, 100% is like a William Gibson novel filmed by Wong Kar-wai to a punk-rock soundtrack. Pope's gray-toned drawings, aided by his expressive brushwork, are highly detailed but remarkably clear; visual complexity never gets in the way of impressive storytelling. Pope is one of the few American artists--if not the only one--to have drawn manga for Japanese publishers and show the strong influence of Eurocomics, too. His globalized approach and emphasis on style over substance, which mirrors trends in other media, perhaps point to the future of the comics medium. Gordon Flagg
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  • PublisherVertigo/DC Comics
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 1848562101
  • ISBN 13 9781848562103
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • IllustratorPope Paul
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