Disclaimer: I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Warning: This story deals with rape. [For more details scroll to the end of the review.] In 1994, a year after The Maxx was first published, I dropped out of high school and eventually ended up on the streets. It...
As the back of the book says: fun, wild, inventive, and often scary. I'll actually give it those, in about those proportions. I think it's hard to actually make a frightening comic (and will forever be glad that [b:Fall of Cthulhu, Vol. 1: The Fugue|1178358|Fall of Cthulhu, Vol. 1 The Fugue|Micha...
If you must read this, do yourself a favor: do not, under any circumstances, read it right after a Wonder Woman book by a writer like Perez, Rucka, or Simone. You know, a book that has good dialog, respect for the characters and their histories, and art that is neither hideously ugly nor exploitativ...
Ah, Elseworlds. Where Batman could be a vampire, Superman could be Russian, and Wonder Woman could be a Gibson Girl. Amazonia is set in an even more misogynistic version of Victorian England, ruled by King Jack. You see, Victoria and her entire family died in a mysterious fire, and her distant Ameri...
This is an excellent retrospective on a pivotal decade in the development of comic books. Don't expect Superman and Spider-Man here, though ... this is devoted to what would have been called underground comix in earlier days, and alternative comics later on. Luckily, they're all just classified as c...
Summary: Various authors offer comic (and occasionally comical) short stories dealing with Cthulu.Verdict: A grisly but often fun introduction to the world of Lovecraft.Yay!: The stories are often creative, from the baseball fans that involve Cthulu in their team's fortune, to the creepy possessed p...
Some pretty good stories, so far. Wolf Train West, The Lame Priest, and In The Lost Lands have been my faves.***********Okay, I finished reading it and I have to say, this was a great anthology.
Ten years after the conclusion of Julie Winters's saga, Sara struggles with her relationship with her father, Artemis Pender, aka Mr. Gone. Dave, the former Maxx, is a plumber, while Sara's Maxx is a homeless guy named Norbert. Julie Winters is missing and there's a giant banana slug named Iago lo...
The third volume of The Maxx starts with Maxx wandering around in a strange Outback that's composed of makeshift tents and giant aluminum poles, where he meets another Maxx, this one with the head of a horse. He wakes to find himself in bed with Sarah and reallizes it was her Outback, not Julie's. ...
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