I'm not sure how this slipped beneath the radar, but BoingBoing has debuted the trailer for Paul Pope's long-awaited graphic novel Battling Boy, and it's kind of great. There's also a preview, part of which we've seen previously.

Arriving Oct. 8 from First Second, Battling Boy centers on on the son of a war god — he's been characterized as a "haughty yet naïve superboy” — who’s sent by his father to rid the Monstropolis of monsters after Haggard West, the previous protector of the continent-sized city, is assassinated. There’s also West’s daughter Aurora, a wannabe hero with a taste for vengeance. (Haggard West starred last month in his own one-shot, which of course ended poorly for the hero. "Haggard is dead for good at the end of this one-shot," Pope told Comic Book Resources, "but his tragic ending sets a much larger wheel in motion, which sucks in the realms of gods and monsters, battling it out in the realm of humans.")

A second volume of Battling Boy is targeted for release next year.