The One Trick Rip-Off

Rating:
Summary: Never Enough
Review: Paul Pope always has characters that jump straight into my imagination. They have a kinetic energy and they're ready to explode. It always feels lucky to have caught them on the page.

One Trick Rip-Off is a great book. The story is tight and action-packed, centered on two lovers trying to get out of their lives by a simple robbery. Nothing ever goes right with love, but they try their best in a fast-paced gang-filled journey. It evokes the same kind of dynamic energy and character as the films Chung King Express and Pulp Fiction.

I know the cover of this book is inexplicably hideous (just look at the gorgeous Pope covers on his other books: Heavy Liquid, Escapo, The Ballad of Dr. Richardson), but open up One Trick Rip-Off and you'll be taken in by some powerful and moving work.

Pope has a unique design sense. His stories manage to be intimate, zany and urban all at the same time. He's like strong Turkish coffee the morning after a weekend you can't quite remember. You look at your clothes and bed, and shrug your shoulders - it was all worth it.

Rating:
Summary: Great graphic novel
Review: This is a very good graphic novel. It has an excellent story that incorporates many aspects of noir and modern comic literature into one very entertaining and well thought out graphic novel. The one and only thing that i found wrong with it was that it was a bit short. However this is somewhat nullified by the fact that it was originally in episodic form. So that each smaller part of the One trick rip off was released over the course of an entire year. I read it in one day, so it just seemed short to me. The story is good, the characters are real, and paul pope is a great artist. I highly advise this to anyone who likes graphic novels at all