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NOLA #1 – Post-Katrina Revenge, Served Not-So Cold
Posted by: Maggie_C on: November 7, 2009
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Here’s how Boom!’s NOLA #1 opens: Black girl walks up to two white cops at a police barricade in post-Katrina New Orleans. I guess we’re getting right to it, aren’t we? Here’s a little something most people don’t realize about the South; most kids my age (I’m 25) can just barely remember a time when [...]
Stumptown #1 – Carrie, Tara, Kate, Renee, and now, Dex!
Posted by: Maggie_C on: November 5, 2009
I know we’ve said it about a billion times, but we’ll say it again; Greg Rucka knows how to write for the ladies (both characters and readers). Rucka’s latest Oni Press book, “Stumptown,” kicked off this week, and it doesn’t disappoint. Rucka is well known as the “chick guy”; he’s one of very few writers [...]
Preview: The Stuff of Legend: Book Two – Out This Week!
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 20, 2009
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My love affair with The Stuff of Legend might be a little overwhelming. After picking the first issue up at random this summer, I couldn’t stop gushing – which led to interviews with 2/3 of the creative team; artist Charles P Wilson III and writer Mike Raicht. In Book One, our walking talking toy heroes [...]
CAPED: The Boys, Rated PG-13
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 16, 2009
We’ve all had dickhead bosses, but how do you deal when your dickhead boss happens to be a superhero? Jimmy Lohman (yes he’s a redhead) desperately wants to be an intrepid TV news reporter. Unfortunately, the only job he can land is Assistant to washed-up reporter Grant Godfried, who just happens to moonlight as the [...]
Comic Impact at Long Beach Comic Con
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 15, 2009
The crew from Comic Impact put together a great video for this year’s inaugural Long Beach Comic Con, with tons of creator interviews and a bunch of fan reactions. Here’s the trailer; (And yes, that’s High Five!’s very own spazzy co-editor, Maggie, at 1:13, demonstrating what we like to call “A Massive Case of Geek-face.”) [...]
Hilarious Ads and Marv Wolfman in Spider-Woman #1
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 15, 2009
- In: Fandom
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I got to open a Christmas present in October this year; Rob picked up Spider-Woman #1 (Volume One, not the new Bendis run) for me at Long Beach Comic Con. (Thanks Rob!) I finally opened it tonight, thinking “This was written in 1978, it’ll be cheesy enough to lovingly mock, right?” Turns out, not so [...]
Tiny Toon Adventures Meets Watchmen
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 14, 2009
A good friend of mine spotted this little gem while watching the second episode of Tiny Toon Adventures: Hm. Who indeed?
Watch the Classic X-Men Animated Series for Free at Marvel.com!
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 13, 2009
- In: Fandom
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Holy socks! This is what started it all for me, and you can watch the beloved class X-Men animated series for free at Marvel.com! This is the best news I’ve gotten all day! Enjoy!
The Question to Relaunch, Blackest Night #6 Will See Release on December 30th
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 12, 2009
- In: News
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At High Five! we’re usually more into goofing off than reporting industry news, but the DC news out of Baltimore is pretty awesome, so I’m going to chatter about it a bit. From CBR’s article on the Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore: DC Comics took the stage to wrap the event with VP of Sales [...]
Blackest Night #3 Cameo: The Unknown Soldier
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 12, 2009
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So the dead have been rising all summer – and in the DCU there’s a whole helluva lot of dead folk. In issue number three, the current Firestorm makes it to JLA headquarters only to see Black Lantern attacks playing out on ALL of their monitors. And in Washington, D.C.? Yup. That’d be the Black [...]
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