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Thu, 31 May 2007
ultimate nerd tops even himself
If there's any hobby more nerdy than building robots, it has to be the one where old dudes scour the landscape with metal detectors in order find hidden treasure and discarded soda tabs. Apparently one ultradork has figured out a way to join these two nerdy pursuits into one obsessively geeky waste of time and energy.
Nicknamed Champion the Wonder Robot, the device has so far helped Mr Corney find 200 old coins, including three silver six pence pieces and a Second World War military medical badge. It has yet to help him find a date or anything resembling the respect of his high school rugby chums.
Looks a little like the Hijinx mascot, doesn't he? The boar, I mean...
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spell czech
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
- Author unknown
Sun, 27 May 2007
store closed Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day
In addition,comics will ship on Thursday May 31st instead of Wednesday. Have a happy and safe memorial day. I'll be punching out Hitler.
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Friday May 18th is ride your bike to Hijinx day!
To help celebrate I'm declaring May 18th to also be Ride Your Bike To Hijinx Day. Just ride your bike (or any other human powered conveyance) to the store any time on Friday and get double book club credit on any graphic novel purchase!
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Fri, 11 May 2007
The world of Bookhunter is one in which the retrieval of missing library books often requires deadly force and sharp detective skills. Jason Shiga goes totally over the top with this mix of action movies and bibliophilic delight.
Agent Bay must recover a priceless volume stolen from the Oakland Public Library but ends up enthralled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a mysterious villain.
If you enjoyed Shiga's previous works like Fleep and Double Happiness as much as I did, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise with Bookhunter as it's his goofiest work yet. Highly recommended and in stock now at Hijinx!
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Thu, 10 May 2007
some graphic novels I'd like to see in print
Despite the explosion of backlist material being reprinted in trade paperback, there are some notable absences. Some of these have been presented in TPB format, but for some reason they are not available, despite the fact that I really want them to be. I also think I could sell a ton of any one of these books if there was a ready supply available. Oh well, here we go:
Miracleman (originally titled Marvelman) is Alan Moore's missing masterpiece. Only available in individual comic book form due to right's issues too long and convoluted to get into here, this is some of Alan Moore's darkest superheroic fiction. Not to mention that he was followed on the book by a fellow named Neal Gaiman that some of you may have heard of.
Bill Willingham's Elementals was a comic ahead of it's time. It was really the first ongoing mature readers superhero comic, predating books like Authority and Stormwatch by a decade. Willingham created a team of mystically powered beings who were all deeply flawed human beings to begin with. This is one worth raiding the convention bins for.
There have been promises of a GN reprinting the original Gumby Summer and Winter Fun Specials that Comico put out in the eighties. With Bob "Flaming Carrot" Burden and Steve "Sam & Max" Purcell writing with top-notch art by Art Adams, these may be my all-time favorite comic books. Perfect for all ages, but the older you are, the funnier it gets.
I'm not sure why Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman isn't still available as a trade, but one can only hope that's temporary. The book is a comedic masterpiece and deserves to be read by many more people.
Speaking of comedy Sam & Max are pure comedic dynamite. While they went on to star in the lucrative world of video games, the freelance police have let their comic adventures lapse out of print. Consequently this hilarious GN fetches almost $150 on Amazon.com.
The Tick was popular enough to get not only a saturday morning cartoon show made, but also a live action TV show as well! Why is it then that his orignal (and I say funniest) medium of comics is forgotten. I can get a DVD box set of the watered down sitcom version but not the orignal comics. That's a crying shame!
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Wed, 09 May 2007
If you're a Disney fan you may want to bid in this auction for an Australian issue military poster promoting the use of prophylactics. Just because he doesn't wear pants doesn't mean the Donald is a dummy.
Mon, 07 May 2007
think global, shop local
For those of you loyal Hijinx customers who support the store despite the plethora of online options, you're doing more good than you think. Check out this article from the Publishers Weekly website.
It explains how supporting your local bookseller does more than just put money in their store, it supports the whole local business ecosystem as well as contributing to the local sales tax base.
Thank you for your support! You're helping to build a better tomorrow.
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Thu, 03 May 2007
Cap returns, we wish he was still dead
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