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Paul Pope reunites with “Total THB”: a journey of reinvention and resurgence

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Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil (W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo)
Alien vs. Captain America (2025) #1 (Frank Tieri, Stefano Raffaele)

Alex:

Poison Ivy #38 (Wilson, Takara)
Amazing Spider-Man #15 (Joe Kelley, Emilio Laiso, Marte Garcia)

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Alex: Binary #2 (Giada Belviso)

Dave: Amazing Spider-Man #15 (Joe Kelley, Emilio Laiso, Marte Garcia)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

Alex: DIE: Loaded #1 (Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans) & Predator: Badlands #1 (Ethan Sacks, Elvin Ching, Oren Junior)
Dave: We're Taking Everyone Down with Us #6 (Matthew Rosenberg, Stefano Landini)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

Dave: Sinister's Six #2 (Ivan Shavrin Variant)
Alex: Batman: Dark Patterns #12 (Hayden Sherman)

Interview: Paul Pope talks his career and Total THB out November 11, 2025

1. Total THB has always felt like a living piece of your imagination—something that evolved alongside you. Now that you’re returning to it after thirty years, what does it mean to finally see it presented as the definitive version you always envisioned?

7. In your introduction, you mention artists like Bruegel, Motherwell, and Rodin alongside Kirby, Moebius, and Miyazaki. That’s a fascinating cross-section of influences—how do you see Total THB sitting at the intersection of those worlds now?

2. In your introduction, you talk about the seed idea—“small things exploding into big things.” How has that core concept shaped your storytelling and visual philosophy across your entire career, and how does it feel to return to it now with decades of experience behind you?

8. Total THB is set on a divided Mars, a world of art versus bureaucracy, chaos versus control. Given how global politics and culture have evolved since the ’90s, do you see new relevance—or new warnings—in the story’s setting and themes?

5. The relationship between HR and THB—the sheltered daughter and her enigmatic bodyguard—feels both intimate and mythic. How do you see their dynamic now, and what new layers do you hope readers discover in this remastered edition?

6. You’ve described superheroes before as modern myths — figures that blend pulp with poetry. Having moved between corporate superhero universes and your own creator-owned worlds, what do you think mainstream superhero comics could still learn from the spirit of self-publishing that birthed THB*?*

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