This is the baseline Pope is working from, even though THB is by no means a comic of wall-to-wall action. Total THB favors the initial printing of THB 1 over Version 2, and none of the new parts are included. The pieces in P-City Parade, THB Circus, Giant THB Parade — those to me are Pope’s peak, and the peak of THB as a whole. The work Pope produced for Kodansha was called Supertrouble, described by him as being like the HR and Lollie bits of THB but without the sci-fi elements, like the presence of THB itself. Pope talks about his own tastes in manga throughout a number of text pieces in issues of THB.