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Ma Hunkel: America’s First Lady Hero

Posted by: Robert Bazz on: June 2, 2010

When I say the name “Red Tornado,” you undoubtedly assume I’m talking about DC’s modern incarnation, a big red robotic wind elemental guy from Rann who wants nothing more than to be human and love on his family. Well, come on! This is the DC Universe, where every character ever is part of some long, [...]

20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 4. Irredeemable

Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 9, 2010

What can I say about Mark Waid that I haven’t already said? When he took a job as editor in chief at BOOM! Studios I assumed Mark was settling down after a long career in comics with a fun job that would eventually end in retirement. I knew he was writing stuff like The Incredibles, [...]

20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 20-16

Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 2, 2010

20. Kick-Ass – Mark Millar & John Romita Jr. Any list of the last decade’s top writers would have to include Mark Millar. Famous for his work getting Marvel’s Ultimate Universe off the ground and for horror-satire-mind-f***s like The Unfunnies, Millar had already made his mark by 2008, but it took the creator-owned gem Kick-Ass [...]

Max Mercury: The Speedster Time Forgot (For a While)

Posted by: Robert Bazz on: February 18, 2010

Before I tell you about my favorite Speedster, you need to know about Quality Comics. Quality was a publishing house created in 1939 to capitalize on the massive popularity of comics at the time. Seventeen years later, people discovered how awesome television was and Quality, without a wildly popular character like Superman to keep it [...]

A new decade has begun, and with it, High Five! Comics will soon be unveiling our special “20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade” event (take THAT, Siege). But before we reveal the big list, we’ll start with a series of supplementary entries from HF!C’s contributing writers about those comics we each individually loved, [...]

Incorruptible #1 – Mark Waid Should Be a Meta-Human Therapist

Posted by: Maggie_C on: December 14, 2009

Even as a good guy, Max Damage is a dick – and that’s what makes Incorruptible awesome. The  long-awaited (at least by us ) follow up to Mark Waid’s Irredeemable – which features the Plutonian, a Superman-esque hero, going very, very bad - Incorruptible is the story of a villain going straight. Mild spoilers ahead, folks. [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #612: Man, Where Have I Been?

Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 21, 2009

I’m going to admit to something right now, and I hope that you can forgive me. I am so unbelievably out of the loop on Spider-Man, it’s ridiculous. Basically, I was a casual reader and sorta knew what was up with ol’ Web-head riiiight up until everybody collectively yelled, “Fuck ‘One More Day,’ fuck ‘Brand [...]

Strange #1: There is NO Crying in Baseball!

Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 12, 2009

When I heard about Strange, I got stupid psyched. I’ve loved Doctor Strange since I read Brian K. Vaughn’s Doctor Strange: The Oath mini-series. I’ve loved Mark Waid’s work since I first read Kingdom Come. When I heard that these two were coming together, well, holy shit. Before you read this book, you definitely need [...]

The Anchor, Muppet Robin Hood, and this Week with BOOM!

Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: October 11, 2009

Here at High Five! Comics, we’re known supporters, readers, and sometime stalkers of Mark Waid and the crew at BOOM! Studios. We appreciate anyone with an “!” in their name, Waid is a great talent, and frankly, almost every title these guys are putting out right now is great. BOOM! is debuting two new titles [...]

The Flash #105 vs. the Flash #105: Separated at Birth?

Posted by: Robert Bazz on: October 10, 2009

So, this is old as all get out and prooobably something you’ve already noticed and/or known about forever (especially if your name happens to be Kelson) but I don’t care. I just noticed this and it made me way, way happier than it probably should have. First, we have the cover to John Broome’s the [...]


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