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Copra #1-12
Copra Master Collection Book One
COPRA's 10th Anniversary kicks off with an oversized hardcover compendium of its first twelve seminal issues. From writer/artist Michel Fiffe comes the opening salvo of the world's greatest superhero revenge series. Dive into a formalist battle royal of mercenary misfits and celebrate a decade of COPRA in style.
Collects COPRA #1-12
Collects COPRA #1-12
320 pages, Hardcover
Published November 29, 2022
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About the author
Michel Fiffe
140 books82 followersMichel Fiffe is the creator of the action series COPRA, published by Bergen Street Press, and the intimately surreal Zegas, collected by Fantagraphics. He's worked with Marvel, Valiant, and BOOM! and continues to serialize COPRA when he's not writing massive essays on comics of note. Fiffe has produced Bloodstrike: Brutalists (Image Comics) and G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte (IDW) in their entirety and has recently launched a new title, Negativeland.
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May 1, 2024
(Zero spoiler review)
If you've heard the phrase 'do not mistake lack of talent for genius'. This is that statement in comic book form. A nonsensical, absurdist, acid trip of a book, that just enough people have convinced themselves is much, MUCH better than it really is. It's been a while since I hated something this much. That is all. 1/5
OmniBen.
If you've heard the phrase 'do not mistake lack of talent for genius'. This is that statement in comic book form. A nonsensical, absurdist, acid trip of a book, that just enough people have convinced themselves is much, MUCH better than it really is. It's been a while since I hated something this much. That is all. 1/5
OmniBen.
January 20, 2023
This is a perfect example of how much fun comics can be!
April 10, 2025
My favorite comic of the 21st century. What Fiffe does on the page is ::chef's kiss::. We need the rest of Copra is this oversized format.
December 8, 2023
Truly excellent. I wish the second Master Collection was available.
August 16, 2024
Late to the game, but finally read Copra. It's fantastic! I see what all of the fuss was about now. I'm a complete convert.
January 6, 2024
A gift from myself and one boy, to the other one who was stuck in quarantine over Christmas-time. I know the intended boy has read some of the initial series (I think two books which I read with him) and I surely am encouraging both of them and you as well if appropriate to find the courage to be a creator rather than a mere consumer/critic. Like myself.
So kudos to Fiffe who I believe did the entire spectrum of creation here, from story to art to texting to coloring and probably many other tasks. There is something vibrant about the work, and he talks after the first installment of challenging his Ditko-esque work ethic to rise to the challenge.
My son mentioned homage/connection as others do here, but I'm not up on my Suicide Squad histories, so this was new enough to me. The mercenary, damned if you do, or you don't or someone else does you in - is the primary flavor here. Young people are supposed to mistrust authority and that is a clear portrait here and on the other side of the looking glass/portal to another world.
The art is raw and sketchy, and the characters similarly raw and itchy. Hang in there if you want to get to know them better, I think I mentioned this in an earlier single book review, as the author does introduce them....actually a couple of times. At least once, there is a side scene where two of the women in Copra run up and down the men in the squad, with their own take on the female gaze.
Plot is never spoon-fed, and at times I felt I had to really study the art to make sure I got what perhaps readers more accustomed to text-free action would have more easily gleaned.
Still a nice independent accomplishment for Fiffe, and I hope my son makes the time to read this but perhaps first work on his own endeavors.
So kudos to Fiffe who I believe did the entire spectrum of creation here, from story to art to texting to coloring and probably many other tasks. There is something vibrant about the work, and he talks after the first installment of challenging his Ditko-esque work ethic to rise to the challenge.
My son mentioned homage/connection as others do here, but I'm not up on my Suicide Squad histories, so this was new enough to me. The mercenary, damned if you do, or you don't or someone else does you in - is the primary flavor here. Young people are supposed to mistrust authority and that is a clear portrait here and on the other side of the looking glass/portal to another world.
The art is raw and sketchy, and the characters similarly raw and itchy. Hang in there if you want to get to know them better, I think I mentioned this in an earlier single book review, as the author does introduce them....actually a couple of times. At least once, there is a side scene where two of the women in Copra run up and down the men in the squad, with their own take on the female gaze.
Plot is never spoon-fed, and at times I felt I had to really study the art to make sure I got what perhaps readers more accustomed to text-free action would have more easily gleaned.
Still a nice independent accomplishment for Fiffe, and I hope my son makes the time to read this but perhaps first work on his own endeavors.
July 20, 2024
At beginning its a bit harder to follow who is who or what is going on but after few issues Copra's world drains you and everything goes crazy.Nice homage to 80s Suicide Squad comics by Fiffe.Some people will hate art on Copra but I love Fiffe's style can't wait to have other volumes in Ultimate Edition cause bigger art is better.
March 10, 2026
Completely incomprehensible, but when it's this cool, who cares?
November 15, 2023
An amazing start with a disappointing follow through. “Copra” wears its influences on its sleeve, reimagining the Suicide Squad as drawn by Frank Miller on acid. The first two chapters were the most fun I’ve had reading a superhero comic in a long time, with big-footed grotesques in capes and cowls galumphing each other with gusto. Creator Fiffe has an amazing grasp of comics craft, delivering incredible visuals, character designs, and sequences.
Where he struggles is with prose and developing stories into longer narratives. Something about his written text just bounced off my brain like bullets off of superheroes. At first this didn’t seem to matter, but as the book dragged on across 12 chapters, the simplicity of the characters and plot development couldn’t hold up the dramatic weight Fiffe wanted to put across, and by the end I had to force myself to finish, despite not really understanding or caring what was going on.
Where he struggles is with prose and developing stories into longer narratives. Something about his written text just bounced off my brain like bullets off of superheroes. At first this didn’t seem to matter, but as the book dragged on across 12 chapters, the simplicity of the characters and plot development couldn’t hold up the dramatic weight Fiffe wanted to put across, and by the end I had to force myself to finish, despite not really understanding or caring what was going on.
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