Groan! I'd forgotten all about 'The Driver' until I checked out that link. Now I've got to try and forget it all over again!paw broon wrote:I did not enjoy Toxic. It was just too OTT for me. But there is info here
http://ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Toxic!
I think Mills and his mates were hoping to recapture the 'lightning in a bottle' phenomena of EC's horror comics and IPC's Action with all the OTT content. It might have worked too if it wasn't for the fact that poor marketing meant it passed most of its target audience by (visits from the police notwithstanding!). On the whole I admired Toxic's ambition and off-the-wall creativity, but like you I found it hard to enjoy.
Having said that I thought the Bogie Man was a true classic - it's a shame that the otherwise excellent Robbie Coltrane was so badly miscast in the film. Also I was really impressed by Enrique Alcatena's artwork on 'Makabre' (I don't know what Alcatena's doing these days but he went on to draw some of the best-looking Starblazer stories for DC Thomson, as well as producing a wonderful 'Hawkworld' mini-series with Tim Trueman that - to this diehard Silver Age fan at least - read like an extended love letter to the great Gardner Fox!).
In the end I guess Toxic lived up to its name: good in parts but, like the proverbial curate's egg, not something you'd ever want to swallow whole!
- Phil Rushton