AHOY Comics announces 'Highball’ from Stuart Moore And Fred Harper

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...

From the creative team of writer Stuart Moore (Captain Ginger), Fred Harper (Snelson: Comedy is Dying), colorist Lee Loughridge, and letterer Rob Steen, comes 'Highball' - a series about a sozzled space pilot attempting to save the galaxy one pint at a time.

'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!'

Stuart Moore and Fred Harper had this to say about the genesis to Highball's creation...

“I was out having a few beers with an AHOY Comics colleague when a funny thing happened,” said Moore. “The more my friend had to drink, the better he got at throwing darts. It was uncanny! And at that booze-soaked moment, the idea for HIGHBALL was born.”

"All work is political,” said Fred Harper. “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.”

Moore and Harper are no strangers when it comes to working together. The duo recently collaborated on the critically acclaimed one-shot The Wrong Earth: Purple - also for AHOY Comics. Highball also marks the first time the two creators have worked together on a creator-owned series.  

AHOY Comics’ Editor-in-Chief Tom Peye also had this to say...

 

“It's not often that you get a funny, exciting space opera that's also a cry for help. I've seen the crowd Stuart runs with, and if, as he says, they were out for just 'a few' beers the night HIGHBALL was conceived, that would be the wildest sci-fi concept yet!”

There wr have it folks, Highball  definitely sounds like it's going to be inevitable exciting ride wether your blind drunk - or sober. With high praise already coming from Darick Robertson (The Boys), I'm looking forward to seeing what it's all about.

HIGHBALL will be published monthly by AHOY Comics and stumbling into a store near you on September 7, 2022

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