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Sara is awakened by Norbert. Norbert wants to show Sara the Outback. Norbert brings Sara through a quilt maze but Sara is unable to see the outback due to her reluctance to believe that it exist at all. Sara is hit by a falling object knocking her out. She slips to dream.

Sara dreams of the old days with Maxx and Julie. In her dream she also finds Mr. Gone and then her farther as she remembers him; a loving man who became Ill. The dream ends with her toy horse Norbert helping her escape from an evil slug.

Sara awakens in her room with Norbert/Maxx. Steve tells her that Norbert/Maxx brought her home. He also tells her that her mother called. Turns out her granddad was buried not cremated so now the mystery of the urn deepens.

Sara takes Norbert’s cloak off and finds that he is a horse.

Norbert takes Sara and Steve to the pier to prove that Iago exists. Steve is jealous of Sara’s powers and leaves. The issue ends with a couple of pink exploding fairies surfacing near Sara and Norbert.

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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