THE MAXX VOL.2 - DC COMICS (2004) 419203

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ENGLISH BOOK

Presents the adventures of The Maxx, a homeless superhero who lives in a cardboard box, and his social worker, Julie.

Besides insecure adolescents, the
Maxx and Julie, the two principals in artist-creator Kieth and
dialogue-writer Messner-Loebs' disorienting superhero parody, are,
respectively, client and psychiatric social worker. In both pairs of
roles, they fall in and out of the Outback, the desert alternate world
that is also, somehow, the Maxx's home. That's where volume 2 of the
collected edition of this comic-book masterpiece finds them, though only
after a first page on which a dead mugger-rapist the Maxx interrupted
in volume 1 [BKL D 1 03] morphs, during an attempted autopsy, into an
isz, one of the nearly all-teeth critters from the Outback who harry the
Maxx in this world. The Maxx and Julie's adventures are many and
mind-boggling thereafter, as are those of the other characters from
volume 1 and some newcomers. Perhaps the most important development is
Julie's packing up and leaving town, though, as with everything else in The Maxx, it's hard to say. Kieth says he didn't plan The Maxx--which shows but also makes him a spontaneous Michelangelo of a cartoonist. Ray Olson