Huge Detective #5 Review

 

Writer: Adam Rose

Artist: Magenta King & Dalts Dalton

Colorists: Magenta King & Minimone

Letterer: DC Hopkins

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $3.99

Release Date: June 11, 2025

 

Mrs Stubbs raised her son to believe he would become a Huge. Manny seems capable of telepathy, which links him with the Huge. But while Mrs Stubbs appears to love Humanity's giant neighbors, she burns for revenge. Once, she fought for Human acceptance of the Huge. A regrettable accident at the Dollsville theme park in Brobdingnag changed her mind. Mrs Stubbs has a controlling interest in the theme park where her husband and child died. Now, she wants to build Gulliver's World filled with her new and improved Giant Size puppets.

 

Mrs Stubbs kidnapped Tamaki’s father. The Bobble Man holds the Human detective. Detective Gyant lies with a drill poised above his head. But does any of this even matter with a Huge skeleton hurtling toward Earth’s atmosphere? Let’s put on our seven-league boots, leap into Huge Detective #5, and see!

 

Story

The Omega Event left Humanity and the Huge at odds. Her mother’s death amid the conflict left Tamaki nursing a grudge and caring for her ailing father. She takes medication to get through each day. Tamaki teamed with a Huge partner she never wanted to investigate the mystery of Belter’s Cave. But when the confrontation awakens Gyant’s hunger for Human flesh, Tamaki urges him to fight the temptation, like a friend encouraging an alcoholic to maintain his sobriety.

 

Adam Rose packs the converging storylines with action and drama. After learning about Mrs Stubb’s tragic history, Dr Crawford reveals Manny’s past. As Tamaki and Gyant fight for freedom, two events dominate Huge Detective #5. World leaders must either mount a mission to destroy the falling Huge skeleton or let Brobdingnag’s sacred relic fall and hope for the best. And then there is the fragment that broke off and reawakened a volcano in the Philippines. The Huge could help that effort. How the US President reacts to the falling skeleton could prove pivotal to international and interspecies relations.

 

Art

Magenta King and Minimone color Tamaki and the Bobble Man's scenes red and highlight the characters green. Red dominates the background as a reporter stands before the erupting volcano. Brobdingnag's diplomat sports red hair as he delivers an ultimatum. Gray and muted green evoke Black and White photographs as Dr Crawford relates Manny's past.

 Yet yellow, orange, and red clash with green when Mrs Stubbs demonstrates her inhumanity.

 

Gyant regards his desolate surroundings with a stony visage. Magenta King shows a white bird alight on Gyant's collar. After clasping her father's shoulder, Tamaki takes the bird's place in Huge Detective #5. As the detectives race against time to prevent a tragedy, fighters reach the descending skeleton on a starry night. As the skeleton hurtles toward a yellow and ocher patchwork landscape, the planes set off in pursuit.

 

DC Hopkins fills dialogue balloons and narrative boxes with uppercase black and red letters in Huge Detective #5. The words grow bold for intonation and Huge speech. People's thoughts fill cloudy balloons, while sound effects reveal the difficulties of forgiveness and the necessity to protect those we love.

 

Lowercase letters in yellow narrative boxes wrap up this series that celebrates our love of old songs, classic literature, and fairy tales. Dalts Dalton's Silver Age art and vibrant coloring provide a glimpse into the future that gives one Huge and one Human a happy ending. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

As Huge Detective #5 grapples with the conflict between patriotism and diplomacy, Humans struggle to let go of the painful past, even if the future seems to promise more of the same. 

 

Rating 8.8/10

 

To look inside see my preview of Huge Detective #5.