High Roads
by Scott Lobdell, Leinil Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, and Edgar Tadeo
WildStorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics
June to November 2002 (Issues
1 to 6)
32 pages in each issue
An ill-assorted group of four joins together in France near
the end of WWII and stops Hitler from destroying the world. This
six-issue comic miniseries, published in 2002, also came out as a paperback
book in 2003. The comic's exaggerated characters provide many laughs. The plot
jumps around a lot in the first issues as the main characters get introduced in
unexpected ways. The storyline becomes clear when Issue 3 finally reveals the
group's objective, stealing an ancient necklace from Hitler.
The unlikely heroes in this comic include a naïve but muscular American
Army sergeant (Nic Highroad), a midget British actor who impersonates Hitler
(Sir Arthur Bombridge III), a German woman who preceded Eva Braun as Hitler's
mistress (Sloan Applebee), and a Japanese kamikaze pilot who decided not to
complete his suicide mission (referred to as Commander Ki). Although each
person failed in some way in the past, they all demonstrate their courage as
they work together as a team to stop Hitler.
When Sloan Applebee left Hitler as his mistress, she took the directions to
Morpheus's necklace. Caesar had forged this priceless necklace in his final days
as Emperor of Rome, and Hitler now has it stored at his Nazi fortress built at
the North Pole. Commander Ki takes the team to the fortress in his Japanese
bomber, and they discover Hitler's plan to destroy the world. He intends to
detonate four atom bombs, which will melt the polar ice cap and flood the entire
world. He has built a huge floating Aryan Island to escape the devastation. The
four team members thwart Hitler's plans, find the precious necklace, and barely
escape. The Epilogue shows them in old age at a reunion on an uncharted island
in the British West Indies, and they all apparently did very well for themselves
from the money obtained from pawning part of the necklace.
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