Issue Description

In this Issue we meet Sarah. Sarah tells Maxx about her murderer father. We also meet Sarah’s friend Jimmy. Jimmy tells Sarah that he beat up a couple carjackers while he was trying to steal a car. The illustrations tell us that it was the Maxx that took care of the carjackers Both Sarah and Jimmy were teased in school. Wanting to be popular, Jimmy plays an embarrassing prank on Sarah at a school dance. Sarah narrates to us the she could have shot him with her dads gun but chose not to.

Sarah goes to a movie and runs into Julie and Maxx. Unfortunately they also run into Jimmie’s car jackers. Maxx realizes they are Isz and pummels them to death. This disturbs Sarah and she threatens to shoot erself with her dad’s gun. Julie and Maxx gives Sarah a very touching speech. Sarah chooses not to be like her father and subsides.
 
*Note: Death of the Endless in displayed as a poster.  Sam Kieth help create her. Page 5, panels 4-5. Dialogue: "They're all Necro-Nerds. Sand-Freaks./They have tattoos and stuff saying how Romantic death is. But Jimmy Knows the Truth--like me./Death is hard an' cold an' UGLY/Not some cute chick!"
 
*In Page5, Panel 3 (referencing to the dialogue above.) there is a guy dressed up to look like Morpheus.   This is debatable to a true cameo.

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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