100% (comics)
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100% is a black-and-white comic book with gray tones written and drawn by Paul Pope. It was published by American company DC Comics' Vertigo imprint in five issues between 2002 and 2003, then collected as a trade paperback in 2005.[1]
100% | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Vertigo |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | Cyberpunk, romance |
Publication date | August 2002 – July 2003 |
No. of issues | 5 |
Main character(s) | Kim Strel Daisy Haitous Eloy John |
Creative team | |
Created by | Paul Pope |
Written by | Paul Pope |
Artist(s) | Paul Pope |
Letterer(s) | John Workman |
Colorist(s) | Paul Pope Lee Loughridge |
The plot concerns six main characters in Manhattan, New York City in January 2038. Though the interweaving stories are romantic in nature, they are steeped in science fiction and cyberpunk environments.
Before making 100%, Pope was employed for about five years by Kodansha, Japan's leading manga publisher. In an interview, he described the experience as "the equivalent of a grad school education in 'how to tell stories the manga way'". One concept he derived from his employment was the company's insistence on the importance of characters' internal conflict above all else. In this sense, Pope cites this book in particular as his attempt at making an "American Manga".[2]
In the index of the trade paperback edition, Pope explains:
I first conceived of what eventually would become 100% as a series of loosely connected short stories, each maybe 20 to 50 pages in length. These would secretly be old-fashioned romance comics of the boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl type, disguised as low-voltage science fiction stories.
Pope took this idea to Vertigo, who asked him make it into one story with a beginning, middle and end. He took elements he already had and wove them together into the final treatment, to be developed into the comic book.
Much of 100%'s backstory has been left ambiguous, but certain details emerge. There has been a war or wars, as main characters make reference to bombing near Istanbul and an Indian Ocean military landing. The United Nations and United States have combined (as the UN/USA), and Che Guevara's face is on the 100 dollar bill (actually marked as United Nations currency). The streets are patrolled by USPD officers in ubiquitous lurking patrol vehicles.
Pope invents and creatively christens several technological and cultural elements for the dystopian future in which 100% takes place:
Title | Material collected | Format | Publication date | ISBN | Publisher |
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100% | 100% #1–5 | Trade paperback | March 16, 2005[3] | 978-1401203498 | Vertigo |
Hardcover | April 15, 2009[4] | 978-1401221331 | |||
Trade paperback | April 21, 2010[5] | 978-1401224615 | |||
Trade paperback | March 4, 2020[6] | 978-1534313613 | Image Comics |
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