Hot Rod Comic of the Day: Rodd Racer

I was recently organizing my reference bookshelves at work and stumbled upon a great 80 page story that I picked up at Comic-Con back in 2010 called “Rodd Racer” by artist Toby Cypress. Flipping through the dynamically-illustrated pages, it quickly becomes apparent that Toby is a lover of gritty Film Noir and violent Hot Rods… Not a bad combination, if you ask me. In his words, “Rodd Racer is a story inspired by the old adventure strips of Milton Caniff and Frank Robbins. It takes place in a fictional 1930’s environment which slants towards the futures of Fritz Lang. A story about a young, ambitious racer who risks it all to win greatness, but finds more than he gambled for in the violent world of the street derby run by gangsters known only as…Thunder Road.”

Enjoy!