Here is Volume Two of The Maxx, collecting issues #7-13 of Sam Kieth's typically surreal Don Quixote fantasy-soap opera, including a crossover with Dale Keown's PITT, which he was kind enough to loan me for two issues, proving to everyone I cannot draw him to save my life and just better stick to the more simple "circle and triangle shaped" Maxx.
Highlights: Sara wonders if she's nuts for talking to a bag of clay; Julie and Sara discover Mr. Gone's rotting head; Julie's gut-wrenching goodbye when she leaves Maxx, dyes her hair and races across country on a binge of lewd, depraved one-night-stands; Sara discovers the "self help tape," which will lead to the Yellow Slug (see collection three, available now! -- plug, plug); a boy on a rooftop crushes -- with his tennis shoe -- the now totally rotted Gone's head; and a crazy man in a nursing home sees a glimpse of the Outback.
Proving he's not crazy after all.
My personal favourite in this batch -- issue #10, "Fairy Tale": Julie's childhood, including Julie's seemingly relentlessly cheery mother, her loving but weak father, childhood friend of the family Mr. Gone, and of course, the sick baby rabbit in the box that goes "scratch scratch" under her bed.