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| The Maxx - Volume 2 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sam Kieth, William Messner-loebs
Publisher: Wildstorm
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 279577
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1401202802
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401202804
ASIN: 1401202802
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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Get at least first 12 issues February 20, 2005
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Ok, this book is the beginning of the Maxx series. The story of Maxx that goes on til first breakup of Dave and Julie is the best considering whole series (first 10-11 ish).
If you are a fan, get first twenty issues. Issues 12-20 are also about Dave and Julie. After that, story is about Mister Gone's daughter, her Maxx and it strays even more around ish 30 into some one shots and Friend of Maxx like stories. Maxx is 35 issues long, but first 10 issues are must get. They are best art/story combo EVER, and only story arc comparable to best stories of Sandman.
Amazing books for fans of being human October 27, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I hope you're in touch with your inner psychoanalyst: this reads like raw dream material. Like a dream, you don't have to hang on to the details or look for coherence as you go, but let yourself be guided by many perspectives and make up your own conclusions. The purple-clad hobo hero and his macho-feminist social worker friend are just two of the motley crew of characters than you never suspected graced back alleys and highway underpasses. You'll wonder who's right, selfish or deluded, caring, co-dependent or running away from themselves. You'll see the cost of dealing with hurt and abuse as well as not dealing with it. You'll learn that inner strength comes in many forms including battling armies of black and white existential doubts in a barren portion of your subconcious. You might hear some truths from the villain who aside from showering violence in a few reality planes also sends people on collision courses with themselves. This should be required reading for anyone who's read psychology books but needs illustration from inside people's heads... It's got really funny bits and pieces everywhere, too. It'll blow your mind - and I felt better for it!
The Maxx Vol. 1 September 16, 2003
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
This volume chronicles the fist 6 issues of Sam Keith's The Maxx. The story basically introduces us to The Maxx (a homeless superhero who constantly flips back and forth to another reality against his will), Julie Winters (his social worker/leopard queen) and Mr. Gone (a deranged lunatic who knows the truth about both realities/the villain). There is a small guest appearance by the Savage Dragon, but mostly the Maxx's world is brushed upon in this volume. It's incredibly trippy but very, very cool. Check it out if you like to read things where you really gotta think, and want to think about it even more when you put it down.
MAXXIMUM ART February 28, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Maxx is the most popular work of creator/writer/artist Sam Kieth. Maxx is a superhero who exists in the "real" world as a bum who lives on social worker Julie Winter's couch, but in the trippy "outback" world, Maxx is a superhero who defends Julie Winters against Mr.Gone and the nasty Isz's. Little does he know that Mr.Gone has actually invaded the "real" world and is attacking Julie Winters there!
The Maxx is ultimately a philosophical book that will make you question the reality of your surroundings.
Sam Kieth was one of the early Image Comics creators, and is known for his amazing artistic ability. A must read for any comics fan both for the artwork and the story...
Also check out Sam's version of the Maxx as done by Mtv's Liquid television on video....
 All you expected, but nothing more. July 12, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is great. It's all that it says it is, it's the first 6 issues of a fantastic comic series. Unfortunately that's all it is. I was really hoping for supplemental materials. Perhaps an interviews with Sam, or even just concept sketches, but this doesn't appear. On the content, I have to give it a good score, but for someone who has these six issues anyway, it doesn't give me anything new.
Also, the caption for the book is painfully innaccurate on this Amazon listing. To those of you unfamiliar with the book, neither Julie nor the Maxx are adolescents (Julie is literally a social worker, something that requires at least 4 years of college, and Maxx, well, he's a homeless person).
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