"Pop Gun War is about childhood, self-discovery, oppression, guilt, dreams, loneliness, whatever. It is more about a feeling you, the reader, get from the story rather than a typical narrative. If you wanted to get literal, it is about an inner city boy, Sinclair, who discovers a pair of discarded angel wings. With these wings, Sinclair flies around the city and gets into adventures." - Farel Dalrymple, series creator This volume collects the critically acclaimed series into one volume for the first time.
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Collecting the first five issues of Dalrymple's acclaimed comic book series Pop Gun War, this book provides a capsule look at Dalrymple's vision of urban fantasy. Set in New York, his stories follow characters with wings, talking fish, giants, dwarves and other fantastical acquaintances and ideas. At the center of it all is a boy named Sinclair, who acquires a set of wings when a tattooed, disgruntled angel pays to have them cut off. Sinclair, a lonely kid prone to bowties and being teased, sets off on a series of encounters across the city. His older sister, a singer in a rock band, is an inspiration and worry; a homeless man of unknown powers and origins joins him; and a band of youths pursue him. Dalrymple renders this gang of eccentrics and mystics in a loose but realistic pen and ink style highly dynamic and tailor-made for depicting New York's teeming city streets. He has a flair for the dramatic as well scenes of Sinclair flying, or of a giant walking the streets, are genuinely affecting, while seeming completely natural and brings to life a subtle kind of cartoon surrealism. The story meanders a bit, and it's not always clear where it's headed, but the fun of Pop Gun War is in its vivid characters and details. It is a fine debut, reminiscent of DC Comics's Vertigo line, with which it should sit comfortably on bookstores' and adventurous readers' shelves.
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"Farel Dalrymple is one of the finest young draftsmen to quietly sidle into comics in a long time. And one of the field's most gifted storytellers."
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Lyrical and surreal,
By wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Pop Gun War (Paperback)
This gritty urban fantasy defies easy classification. Perhaps the inside cover sets its tone. It maps some large, un-named city in linework that evokes Eisner, but names each part the way a child might: Angel Cliffs, the Doll Factory, Rachel Forest, and Sinclair's Apartment. Then the baffling story begins, an urban fairy tale but a dark one. A self-ordained monk appears first, and an aerial fish, and a fallen angel, and Sinclair - the small and slightly ragged boy around whom this story revolves. I can't really describe this graphic novel's plot; I'm not sure it even has one in any ordinary sense of the word. Instead, characters evolve and lives interlace as they do in the real world, quite independently of narrative necessity. Dreamworld logic moves Sinclair forward on an angel's discarded wings. Despite the utterly unreal goings-on, Dalrymple keeps this believable in many ways. Storefronts and brownstone stairs create a credible backdrop for mysterious allegories. Honest comments on art, success, and integrity circulate around a top-hatted giant ten storeys tall. Throughout, it all echoes the normal bafflement of a small boy, Sinclair, in the inexplicable world of adults. Emotional truth pervades this story, even as physical facts lose all credibility. This is a great time for graphic novels - not the "golden" or "silver" age of traditional superheroes, but an expansion of the medium across more mature topics, visual styles, and audiences. Dalrymple joins Nate Powell and others in exploring new literary directions with varied, expressive artwork and stories that leave much to the viewer's interpretation. I recommend this to any thinking reader. -- wiredweird
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Compelling surrealism!,
By Emanuel "Emanuel" (Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pop Gun War (Paperback)
This book is crammed with memorable characters, beautiful artwork and immensly enjoyable imaginative weirdness. It's like a David Lynch movie but filtered through a warm throbbing heart instead of a chilly intellect! Despite flying fishes, giant dwarves, hissing monks and severed talking heads this is a story of realistic human emotions with a compassion for all of its characters.
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good eats,
This review is from: Pop Gun War (Paperback)
This book is strange and beautiful. It is full of magic. I want more.
'nuff siad
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