In this issue, Cable finds Hope in a bunker. Cyclops is long dead, and she’s been surviving on her own by…sorry. I’ve been reading comics too long.

While separating the comics today, we found we had received a double order of Higher Earth #1, and I said “Well, thank God, the Sam Humphries fans will be appeased.” He assumed I actually knew Sam Humphries. I did not. Before tonight, I don’t think I’d ever even seen his name before. Now I’ve read two issues of Fanboys Vs. Zombies, and this. This is…better than Fanboys Vs. Zombies. But Fanboys Vs. Zombies didn’t even sound like a concept I would enjoy. And I didn’t enjoy it.

Higher Earth is, and I can’t believe this is a valid criticism, run-of-the-mill-alternate-universe story. There are tons of Earths that people can travel through…holes. Perhaps of the worm variety. Out of one of these holes, the heavily armed vigilante finds the abandoned red headed girl (see?) and lets her know she needs to follow her to an alternate world to survive. Just then Bisho…I mean, a robot shows up and attacks them, and the unlikely duo travel through one of the..caterpillar? holes to another Earth. Along the way, they both prove they’re bad ass.

It’s not a bad comic. It starts off really weak in the dialog department but it’s good enough to sustain interest. I’ll probably pick up issue two and at least flip through it to see which direction the series goes in.

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Biagini's art is also very good, but I really have a hard time looking at the two lead characters and not seeing Cable and Hope.