Product Description
by Stuart Moore (Author), Fred Harper (Illustrator)
"All work is political. That's the line in issue 1 that really stood out to me because it's so true right now. HIGHBALL is the story of a man who drinks to succeed. There's some great gags about drinking in HIGHBALL, but in a lot of ways this is a story about the hangover of late stage capitalism."
- Fred Harper (Artist) Meet Highball, ace pilot of the Earth Space Corp. He's the best shot in the galaxy, except for one big problem: he can only hit the target when he's dead drunk In the far future, Earth's finest pilot, call-sign HIGHBALL, finds himself caught between two alien races: the arrogant, cerebral Mentok and the fierce, birdlike Q'k'q'rr'kkk. In his one-man Byter ship, Highball must defuse an alien bomb and survive against a vicious enemy. But Highball has a deadly weakness: He can only hit the target when he's stone drunk. In his quest to save the galaxy, Highball stumbles headfirst into obstacles such as nefarious space enemies, fellow pilots, the maddening bureaucracy of Space Corp--and, of course, his own shameful inadequacies! Highball collects all 5 issues of the comic book series written by Stuart Moore (The Zodiac Legacy) with art by Fred Harper (Snelson: Comedy is Dyring) and colors by Lee Loughridge.Author Biography
Stuart Moore is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor. His books include the Marvel Crisis Protocol novels Target: Kree and Into the Dark Dimension (Aconyte Books)) and three volumes of the New York Times bestselling series The Zodiac Legacy (Disney Press), cowritten with Stan Lee. Stuart's comics include the original sci-fi series Captain Ginger, Highball (both AHOY Comics), and EGOs (Image), as well as Deadpool the Duck (Marvel) and Firestorm (DC). His other writing includes prose and comics set in the universes of Stargate, The Transformers, Conan the Barbarian, Redwall, and Star Trek.
Fred Harper has drawn dozens of comics for DC and Marvel Comics, including a long run on Animal Man. He has also done illustrations for White Wolf and Magic: The Gathering, as well as magazine illustrations for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and many other publications.
