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It’s Sunday again! Time to break down the week that was, High Five! style.

High Five! Top Ten! – Get the Kleenex Guys, the Comics Made Me Cry– Sometimes our comics make us leak from our eyeballs.
BOOM! Relaunches Uncle $crooge, Injects It With Awesome – Man, I didn’t realize how much I missed DuckTales until I read this book.
Long Beach Comic Con: the High Five! Sketchbook – We picked up a couple of little sketchbooks and went ’round collecting cool sketches from artists we like. Check ‘em out!

Spike SCREAM Awards 2009 – Go vote! High Five! will be at the show, but since the broadcast doesn’t air until ten days after filming, we probably won’t be able to tell you much about it.
Mark Waid Answers 56 Questions in 50 Minutes – Easily our favorite panel at Long Beach.
18 Superheroes Built Out of Legos – Not quite as amazing as the My Little Pony Superhero Mods, but still pretty awesome. We like Cyclops!

Thanks again everybody!

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Wheaties, the breakfast of champions.

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It’s Sunday again! Time to break down the week that was, High Five! style.

High Five! Top Ten! – The Most Ridiculous Villains We Could Think Of – Rob & Maggie count down some of the weirdest comic book villains ever.
The Scarlet Speedster: The Fastest Drink Alive – High Five! creates the fastest drink alive! But is it? Does this make ours the Kid Flash?
Stop Crying Over Cass, Batgirl is a Barbara Gordon Book In Disguise – Lots of fans are up in arms now that Stephanie Brown’s taken over the mantle of the Dark Knight Damsel. Maggie thinks you should all chill.

Superdickery.com – Ready to waste a few hours of your life? Superdickery’s got amazing galleries of gut-busting old comics panels & covers. Ah, the Silver Age.
Long Beach Comic Con – High Five! is going. Are you? Guests include Stan Lee and everybody involved in Robot Chicken ever.
Speedforce.org – Anything and everything Flash or Speedster related. Speed Force rules.

Thanks again everybody!

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Wheaties, the breakfast of champions.

It’s Sunday again! Time to break down the week that was, High Five! style.

High Five! Top Ten! – Second String Couples – Rob & Maggie count down the best of comics’ secondary couplings.
DC vs Marvel and STFU – Maggie gets in a snit over the silly DC vs. Marvel rivalry.
Things I Learned From Comics: How to Gain Superpowers – You weren’t born with an X-Gene? Us neither. Never fear, Rob brings you a list of ways to become super!

Art Brut’s Trip Around DC Comics – You’ve all heard the DC Comics & Chocolate Milkshakes song by now, right? Well, looks like Art Brut managed to wrangle a tour of DC’s New York offices out of it. Let’s kill them and take over their lives.
The 21 Awesomest Superhero Mods for My Little Pony – People with a lot of time on their hands (like us!) have modded a bunch of My Little Ponies. PONY STARK. ‘Nuff said.
Stan Lee’s on Twitter! – Man, people didn’t believe me when his username was @tamenshud. Bendis was following him, people. BENDIS. Sheesh. But he’s changed his username and thrown up a picture. @smilinstanlee! Add him, kids. The Man shouldn’t have 1700 followers to Perez Hilton’s 1.5 million. Seriously.

Thanks again everybody!

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Wheaties, the breakfast of champions.

Q & A with Charles P. Wilson III: Artist, The Stuff of Legend High Five! chats with the artist of Th3rd World Studios’ surprise hit.
Romancing the Geeks: Disney Buys Marvel, Warner Brothers Validates DC – Maggie breaks down the finer points of the comic industry’s latest corporate shake-ups. With jokes!
Gateway Drugs: The Hyper-Literate – Rob lays the hurt on folks who think they’re toooooo good for books with pit-chers.

Alan Moore Reflects on Marvelman (Miracleman) – Moore speaks on Marvel’s recent purchase of the rights to the character, and the long battle to figure out just who exactly owned the property.
Elseworlds 2.0: Quicksilver Races in from Earth 3 – What if Quicksilver showed up in Flash #123 instead of Barry? We guffawed. MarvelSmartAss gots jokes.
Megan Fox Loves the Three Comics She’s Ever Heard Of – I gotta say, brilliant marketing on her part, but comicsalliance rips it apart. She’s still way hotter and richer than me though, so I guess she’s got that going for her. Dangit.