Even amidst the anything-goes craziness of the early Image years, Sam Kieth’s The Maxx was an outlier. While it included some superhero tropes, it wasn’t really a superhero book, nor was it like much of anything else on the market, then or now. While it definitely has its weaknesses, Kumar and Dana confirm this week that it was absolutely mind-blowing…and emotionally affecting.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is one of the most influential books to me. I even have a letter in one of the letter pages!
I believe Maxx actually always was a rabbit. You need to get I Before E (a collection of Kieth’s early work) & read an early interview to know, but one of his goals was to combine all of his early stories into one book. You see the early Isz & then there’s a rabbit assassin story called “Maxx The Hare” from like ten years before the Maxx series started being published. Also of course worth mentioning is stuff like My Inner Bimbo & Four Women & Ojo are continuations of the book.
Thanks for all the clarifications, Silberspy! It was a very hard boom to wrap my head around fully. Also, I have read Four Women but none of the others. Could be a whole other episode…
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