Issue Description

Maxx busts into the series by emerging from his cardboard box home and saves an attractive woman from her would be attackers. But when the cops show up all they find is a large purple homeless man in a purple suite. Unfortunately with the Maxx in custody it leaves the attractive woman open for Mr. Gone

While in police custody Maxx slips into the Outback and under attack by a throng of Is. With one quick swipe the Maxx frees himself and we get our first look at the Leopard Queen.

Maxx’s social worker Julie receives two phone calls; the first is a disturbing voice that Julie takes for just some ‘creep’ the second informs her of Maxx’s incarceration. Now free the Maxx and Julie spot a suspicious looking figure using phones in an unusual way.

We also see Mr. Gone enter a laundry matt and leave him as he attacks another girl.

Note: Also published in AshCan versions, and a Glow in the Dark variant cover.

The Maxx (1993)

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The Maxx, originally a 35-comic-book series, is a superhero parody whose costumed crusader is a caring but insecure man, his "Gotham City" the inexplicable world of sex and violence that adolescents find both attractive and repulsive. The Maxx is a full-bodied man in purple, with yellow claws and a set of gleaming upper chompers. When down, he is homeless in a dumpster or a box. But, up or down, he is often with hottie Julie Winters, playing the role of boyfriend, protector, or pet. This clever setup matches up with angst-drenched teen fantasies and how teen relationships can look to an outside observer. The Maxx fights a never-ending battle with Mr. Gone and the Isz – eyeless ovoids with needle teeth – and a delusion that he is in "the Outback", an alternate reality that complicates everything. Kieth says a common reaction to The Maxx is "I just don't get it." He doesn't say (as with adolescence) "not getting it IS getting it", or that his weird, kaleidoscopic-y artwork makes it harder to get, but glorious at the same time.

The Maxx was an off-beat "superhero" series and more a universe of its own, rather than sharing the Image universe. The Maxx developed such a cult following, it was adapted into an MTV show: The Maxx.

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