Houston Comicpalooza: Catching Up With Red 5 Comics

I spent the weekend surrounded by nerds and geeks alike at the comic convention known as Comicpalooza. This year’s convention showcased the plethora of talent that the south had to offer, from colorists to illustrators, the level of penmanship was beyond amazing.

One such comic book company that stood out to us was Red 5 , apart from their gorgeous covers and eye-popping graphics, the fact that I’d actually read some of their work perked my interest.

Red 5 Comics is the creation of Paul Ens, former director of Lucasfilm’s StarWars.com and Lucas Online and Scott Chitwood, co-founder of TheForce.net and contributor to ComingSoon.net and SuperHeroHype.com.

vol6 eisner Houston Comicpalooza: Catching Up With Red 5 Comics

Their flagship title, Atomic Robo, recently had its first volume free as a reward for GameStop subscribers, so check it out! Being an Eisner nominated title, Atomic Robo is a beautifully written comic that’s already 6 volumes deep.

As a current Houstonian, my chest swelled with pride to know that a company of such high caliber existed under the same smoggy air that we did. Having their work on AmazonComixology,Graphic.lyPanelfly and Comics +, the company has proved that their short length of time in the industry is in no way a handicap.

As we make a push to provide our readers with more comic book news and reviews, be prepared to see Red 5 Comics’ name pop up quite a bit!

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  1. heres my list whats yours?

    Marvel

    Heroes
    1 Wolverine
    2 Captain America
    3 Punisher
    4 Gambit
    5 Spiderman
    6 Ghost Rider
    7 Iron Man
    8 Hulk
    9 Daredevil
    10 War Machine

    Villians
    1 Venom
    2 Carnage
    3 Deadpool
    4 Sabretooth
    5 Juggernuat
    6 Red Skull
    7 Apocolypse
    8 Mister Sinister
    9 Silver Samurai
    10 Galactus/Sentinels

    DC
    Heroes
    1 Batman
    2 The Flash
    3 Green Lantern
    4 Nightwing
    5 Hawkman
    6 Martian Manhunter
    7 Green Arrow
    8 Wonder Woman
    9 Captain Atom
    10 Superman(personally not a big fan)

    Villians
    1 Joker
    2 Bane
    3 Two Face
    4 Darkseid
    5 Doomsday
    6 Deadshot
    7 Mr Freeze
    8 Sinestro
    9 Harley Quinn
    10 Killer Croc

  2. 1. Snoopy
    2. Charlie Brown
    3. Woodstock
    4. Linus
    5. Lucy
    6. Schroeder
    7. Peppermint Patty
    8. Pig-Pen
    9. Sally
    10. Rerun
    11. The little red-haired girl
    12. Miss Othmar (“woh-woh-wah”)
    13. Marci
    14. Shermy
    15. Franklin
    16. Frieda
    17. Violet
    18. The Great Pumpkin
    19. The Red Baron
    20. Andy, Spike and Olaf (Snoopy’s brothers)

  3. Melissa Nason June 19, 2012 at 7:57 am -

    im mad that hawk and dove died no more comics i just went to a comic store and they told us batman is dead and batman now is nightwing and there was 5 robins some died and who is red robin?

  4. x_blind_x_gamer_x July 13, 2012 at 4:33 pm -

    With DC comics adding so many color lanterns corps with different emotions, it’s just getting cheesy. Before the green lantern energy was just some green cosmic energy that the little blue guys collected. Now it’s the physical color of will power. Wouldn’t envy be green not will power? All the other colors are just basic human emotions; love, hate, fear. But will power isn’t a basic human emotion. Will power is in the same league as being focused, determination, perseverance, a state of mind not an emotion.
    This is the best list of all the new lanterns colors. Isn’t blue and indigo the same thing?
    1-Green= Willpower (Green Lanterns)
    2-Blue= Hope (Blue Lanterns)
    3-Indigo= Compassion
    4-Violet= Love (Star Sapphire)
    5-Orange= Greed (Agent orange)
    6-Yellow= fear (Sinestro Corps)
    7-Red=Rage (Red Lanterns)

  5. Jerosh Nagulachandran July 21, 2012 at 2:19 am -

    I’m trying to figure out when it cost 5 cents so that I can get an estimated year on an old Captain Marvel Comic book that I have. The book is old with a page or two missing, so I do not see the date.

    I couldn’t find anything by Google.

    Oh, BTW, I’m not comic book guru, just thinking about selling it on Ebay and would like to list it correctly. Thanks!

  6. heavenly sword July 21, 2012 at 3:06 am -

    With DC comics adding so many color lanterns corps with different emotions, it’s just getting cheesy. Before the green lantern energy was just some green cosmic energy that the little blue guys collected. Now it’s the physical color of will power. Wouldn’t envy be green not will power? All the other colors are just basic human emotions; love, hate, fear. But will power isn’t a basic human emotion. Will power is in the same league as being focused, determination, perseverance, a state of mind not an emotion.
    This is the best list of all the new lanterns colors. Isn’t blue and indigo the same thing?
    1-Green= Willpower (Green Lanterns)
    2-Blue= Hope (Blue Lanterns)
    3-Indigo= Compassion
    4-Violet= Love (Star Sapphire)
    5-Orange= Greed (Agent orange)
    6-Yellow= fear (Sinestro Corps)
    7-Red=Rage (Red Lanterns)

  7. Fu
    Action figure
    Aero Ace
    Akabeko
    Aquapet
    Army men
    Baby Einstein
    Baguenaudier
    Balloon helicopter
    Bamboo-copter
    Bearbrick
    Beach ball
    Bean bag
    Big-Bang Cannon
    Bilibo
    Bladestar
    Blocks
    BowLingual
    Britains Deetail
    Buzzer Whirligig
    Carpet railway
    Channapatna
    Chaos Machine
    Chase figure
    Chattery Teeth
    Chicco
    Code-O-Graph
    Coffee Bean Bears
    Cornhole bag
    Crocodile mile
    Cymbal-banging monkey toy
    Daruma otoshi
    James DeSimone G.I. Joe
    Definitely Dinosaurs
    Digital pet
    Dispensa’s Castle of Toys
    Dog toy
    Dreidel
    Drinking bird
    Duncan Professional Slimline
    Dunny
    Executive toy
    FPG-9
    Flip Flap
    Flying disc
    Flying gyroscope
    Friction motors
    Friendly Floatees
    Gee-haw whammy diddle
    GeoTrax Rail and Road Systems
    Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory
    Gonk
    Googly eyes
    Guitar Rockstar
    William Hamley
    Hobby horse
    I Love Toys
    Inchworm
    Jack-in-the-box
    Jacob’s ladder
    Jumping jack
    K’s Kids
    Kaleidoscope
    Keshi
    Koosh ball
    Kota the triceratops
    Kubrick
    Limberjack
    Lionel Coin Bank
    Magic 8-Ball
    Magnet Space Wheel
    Majo-kit
    Mardi gras throws
    Masudaya
    Mazinger Toy Lines
    McFarlane Sports Picks
    Mechanical bank
    Mechanical toy
    Mega Force
    Mimobot
    Model airport
    Model car
    Model commercial vehicle
    Motorific
    Myriorama
    NEO Shifters
    Nerful
    Nichols cap guns
    Nothing grinder
    Ocha-Ken
    Paper plane
    Piggy bank
    Pin Art
    Pinwheel
    Pixiephone
    Playset
    Pool noodle
    Pop pop boat
    Punch out book
    Pythagorean cup
    Radio-controlled car
    Rattleback
    Redeco
    Repaint
    Robo Force
    Roll-a-Rounds
    Roomarang
    Rose Petal Place
    Rubber duck
    Toy safety
    Secret decoder ring
    Seeburg Ray-O-Lite
    Shocking Tanks
    Silly String
    Sit ‘n Spin
    Smart toy
    Snow globe
    Soap bubble
    Spin Fighters
    Spykee
    Stomp rocket
    Stuffed animal
    Super Jock
    Superplexus
    Swim ring
    Talkie tapes
    Teddy Scares
    Teleidoscope
    Temari
    Tin can telephone
    Tin toy
    Tini Puppini
    Top
    Toy Biz v. United States
    Toy balloons
    Toy blocks
    Toy Soldier
    Toy Train
    Treeson
    Trompo
    Tumbler
    Ty Girlz
    oh…i forgot to add pocket rocket.
    and I also forgot slime! yeah, slime is the best.

  8. I dont know if there worth anything. My friend sold a seag saturn game for 75$ on ebay and I was JW about these two games…

    X-Men
    and
    Atomic Robo-Kid

    Robo-Kid’s picture is kinda damaged nothin really bad though

    and XMens picture is sorta damaged nothin really noticable

  9. The Dark Knight August 14, 2012 at 10:51 am -

    I can’t afford them all. Which should I choose: Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Death of Captain America, The Sword, or Atomic Robo?

  10. This song is a rap song where the rapper talks about becoming president, how he invented the atomic bomb, how he discovered chemestry and crazy intellectual stuff like that. I think the name of the band has robo in it, but i’m not sure. This song kind of starts out slow and then really builds up. The rapper speaks very clearly.

  11. Not straight-up robots, human-shaped metal men and women, or armor, or cyborgs and really humanoid robots; like if someone was attracted to knights in armor or humanoid yet metallic characters like Colossus, Dr. Doom, Iron Man, Bionicles, Cyborg (TT), Metallo, Atomic Robo, and Alphonse Elric, but not characters like Johnny 5, General Grievous, Transformers, Sentinels, Terminators (just the metal skeletons with no flesh), Gundams, the Iron Giant, or anything else blatantly robotic (which would be considered “technophiles”).

    I was considering putting it down under xenophilia, but it wasn’t accepted because in the sense it’s being used it only applies to sentient humanoid “creatures” that are not actually human (Predators, Twi’ Leks, Nightcrawler, etc. but not xenomorphs or other extra-terrestrial animals). But General Grievous was accepted as xenophilia and not technophilia because he was originally organic and his cyborg form isn’t humanoid enough.
    @SinCere:
    LOL, I mean besides that.

    It’s for a human sexuality project, so a serious answer would be quite helpful.

  12. 1. Snoopy
    2. Charlie Brown
    3. Woodstock
    4. Linus
    5. Lucy
    6. Schroeder
    7. Peppermint Patty
    8. Pig-Pen
    9. Sally
    10. Rerun
    11. The little red-haired girl
    12. Miss Othmar (“woh-woh-wah”)
    13. Marci
    14. Shermy
    15. Franklin
    16. Frieda
    17. Violet
    18. The Great Pumpkin
    19. The Red Baron
    20. Andy, Spike and Olaf (Snoopy’s brothers)

  13. 1.do u like the color red?
    2.do u have any pets?
    3.do u read comics?
    4.do u have a nintendo ds? if so what color?
    5.do u watch the tv lost?
    6.do u like the band 3 doors down?
    7.do u watch anime?

  14. pls solve this pyramid puzzle as i am unable to solve this.
    1._i n
    2._ _ i n
    3._ _ _ i n
    4._ _ _ _ i n
    5._ _ _ _ _ i n
    6._ _ _ _ _ _ i n
    7._ _ _ _ _ _ _ i n
    8._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ i n
    9._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ i n

    clues:
    1.an immoral act
    2. a downfall
    3. the land of flamenco
    4.herge was the creator of this comic character
    5.stay away
    6.a political murderer
    7.confirm
    8.take pains beyond limit
    9.iron containing substance in red blood cells
    *those who give the correct answers will be given 10 pts as a reward
    **please answer this question asap