Toth’s contributions to the comics medium are not widely known among casual fans. He did much of his comics work outside the current mainstream of superhero comics, concentrating instead on such subjects as hot rod racing, romance, horror, and action-adventure. His stint on Disney’s Zorro is highly regarded and has been reprinted in trade paperback form several times and there are two volumes of The Alex Toth Reader published by Pure Imagination which focuses on his work for Standard and Western publishing, but otherwise the bulk of his shorter stories can be difficult to locate. Nonetheless, he is widely regarded as an “artist’s artist” and is often lumped among such greats as Will Eisner and Jack Kirby as one of the undisputed masters of the sequential storytelling medium.
Make sure to check out his featured section of graphic novels at Hijinx in our Fiction and Literature section.
Children of the Atom
Maybe it's something in the water, but Hijinx customers have started developing strange new powers and abilities. Gaze in awe at the Levinson brothers, who will be starting soon at an upscale prep school for gifted youngsters in the Westchester NY area.
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Google just announced they are releasing their own web browsers, bringing some serious performance and UI enhancements to the web browsing table. Not only that, but they hired Scott "Understanding Comics" McCloud to make a cool comic explaining the whole shebang. Pretty technical, but well worth reading.
Read this article all about China's attempts to respect civil rights by executing more prisoners in these mobile lethal injection chambers than with the traditional (and cost effective) bullet in the head technique.
Especially creepy are the implications that the Chinese government is making the switch in order to better preserve the organs of the deceased for trade in the international human organ market. The article also notes that for now mostly rich and well connected criminals get the van, while lesser criminals are mostly still taken out back and shot in the back of the head.
There's nothing like Imperial Fleet Week, when the Emperor decides it's time to put the fear of Sith into the Bay Area. All the big hardware comes out for us to gaze in terror at and remind us not to get too big for our britches!
You know how movie adaptations of movies almost always suck? Well this little mashup of Pac-Man and Cloverfield definitely doesn't. It's funny and just short enough to enjoy. And the special effects are truly breathtaking!
Check out this robot that uses rat neurons to help it avoid obstacles. The rat brains were said to respond predictably to electronic signals from ultrasonic sensors. They need to set that thing loose in a maze for full effect.
