Back in 2000, Years Before Becoming The Supstar in The Comics Industry He is Today, Writer Robert Kirkman Along with artist Tony Moore CREATED THE SUPERHERO PARODY COMIC Battle Pope. With This Year Marking The 25th Anniversary of the Original Series, Skybound and Image Comics have announced anniversary hardcover collection vailable This SEPTERmber.
For a family with the series:
When Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between Go To War, You Better Hope Your Prayers Don’t Get Asthern By Anyone But Battle Pope. Eleven Condemned by God Almighty for His Hard Drinkin ‘, Womanizing Evil Ways, Pope Has One Last Chance at Salvation, and He’ll Greet It With Twin Uzis and The Help of His New Roommate, Jesus H. Christ.
Given The Recent Election of New Pope Leo XIV, It’s Tempting to Assume The Release was timed to coincides. But much like the movie Conclavechak it up to a well-timed coincidence. According to Co-Creator Robert Kirkman, “I Swear We Had This Planned months ago! Full disclosure, We Did Try to Time This Announcement Around The Conclave But It Happened So Fast! And The First American Pope? Sems suspicious, right?”
I have added:
“Well, Regardless of All That, I Couldn’t Be More Thrilled To see my Earliest Professional (ISH) Work collected in a deluxe and downright heavenly format! And tony moore came back to do a new cover, How Cool is that? MEAN. Matthew Roberts, Cory Walker and Eg his and all that work is collected here. The Beginnings of the Walking Dead, Brit, Manifest Destiny, Science Dog, Tech Jacket and Blood & Thunder … All Started Here … in This Ridiculous Comic. I Mean, Tony Moore and I Met in the 7th Grade, How Crazy Is That? And The Years Later … Battle Pope. There were soy people from our High School Who Thought We Were, Well, Morons, Who Would Never Amount to Anything. Well, We Showed Them. Ha!”
Kirkman continued his immense enthusiasm:
“Wait unantil you hold This Book in Your Hands, It’s Just Gorgeous. Andres Juarez, Designer Supreme at Skybound Put, Let’s Be honest, Way Too Much Work into This Thing. See it. Word Limit on Press release quotes? Gold Foil and Everything.
Battle Pope 25th Anniversary HC (ISBN 978-1-5343-3393-2) Be available atComic Book Shops On Wednesday, SEPTEmber 10, 2025, and AT Booksellers, Along with Digital Platforms Including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play on Tuesday Septern 23, 2025.
