What does Yea Forums think about THE MAXX ?
A comic I loved as a kid, even though I probably was too young to get the entire concept properly. I remember struggling to track down the McFarlane toy too.
I also had a crush on Norbert. Cause he's a big white muscular horse...and that's hot.
I fucking love the cartoon. Never got around to reading the comics
the maxx is just a vehicle for sam keith's waifu
I’ve only seen the cartoon
It was very good
Fuck Keith for selling out and ignoring WML
Linkara hated it, so I won't look at it.
shitty thanos ripoff
It's pretty good as far as comics go. You can tell though that the book has no over arching plot, being written from month to month. Initially it's kind of a super hero story, but that gradually changes, making Mister Gone one of the main characters instead of the main villain and the Maxx some what of a small player in his own book.
It’s neat and I was exposed to it way too young.
Couldn't disagree more with this post. It's clear Keith had an overarching plot planned pretty early on. The Maxx wasn't really the main character despite being the title character and the "superhero", Julie was.
I adore the animation.
I loved the issues I read.
That's about it.
sam keith has some weird fetishes
>Keith had an overarching plot planned pretty early on.
He said in statements on the book that he even wrote it month to month with no idea of what would happen next.
>The Maxx wasn't really the main character
He was in the beginning, like maybe roughly the first 12 or more issues. Julie was just part of the main cast and then becomes the main character.
The show was everything "motion comics" and its hype-men wanted to be, but never could.
hell, i think he even admited that the fact that the story managed any kind of proper structure came more from bill messner-loebs than himself.
It's also why it goes off the rails post issue 20
Haven't read the comic. Show's good, but it's so obvious the story was meant to go on after that weird quasi-ending.
Too good for this board that's for sure.
The first part was awesome. Last issues and the ending were less good but still ok imo. Sam Kieth is one of the best comics authors I have read.
I saw it in 1996, no idea why anyone watches or knows about it now, seemed like a fringe effort animation.
The thing I liked about the Maxx was how it reminded me in my kid 30s about how I was never not going to be a homeless person
Or
At least that anyone who knew me wasn't sane in acting surprised that I had become a homeless person. The Fisher King, The Bible, none of those memories had jumped up to say "Hey, it's no surprise, hey how can you even take the heat on this it was indoctrinated into you from birth."
Nope.
But the Maxx was like, Hey, your worlds just shadows, why are you emotional about such a ridiculous thing as becoming what you had always dreamed of becoming, a magical homeless person.
That was kind of amazing.
I watched it a couple of years back and I don't remember a thing.
Good shit. One of the rare cases where the cartoon is better than the comic, and they're both good.
Probably one of the best animated adaptations of a comic to the screen. They nailed Sam Keith's very idiosyncratic artstyle.
>selling out
Kieth is one of the original Image guys. 'nuff said.
For something spontaneous, The Maxx keeps a pretty consistent narrative, pace and sense of progress for the first 20 issues. That said, 20-35 get really rough and meandering really quickly. By the last year of the book, you could tell Kieth didn't even want to tell stories with those characters anymore and was board with them; the book turned into a weird anthology series about an unhappy couple getting kidnapped and that weird shit with a preteen lesbian. Even the stories with related characters like Glory and Mr. Gone were anthology dramas (though at least Gone's was relevant to the storyline). He tried segregating his anthologies to that Friends of Maxx spin-off, but nobody gave a shit.
It wasn't Cerebus levels of creator burnout at the end of the run, but you could tell Kieth was 100% done with the characters and the storyline and should have ended the damn thing 5 issues earlier.
>idiosyncratic
I'm usually not one to take issue with people's vocabulary but for fuck's sake could a person possibly sound more pretentious than this?
The dichotomy of your juxtaposition is less transcendent than pearlescent. I find your post shallow and pedantic.
I can never figure out if i like Sam Keith's art or hate it. Some of the covers for the comics are gorgeous though.
I didn't care much for the Maxximized recolors that IDW did and now supplant the original colors in all reprints; I think it made his work look duller and less interesting. I like his art, personally, but its purposefully inconsistent as a trademark and even as someone who likes it, that can get distracting. He never has a consistent model for Julie throughout the series; some issues she's tall and skinny with a strong jaw while in others she's squat and pudgy with an oval head. The dialogue always has her describing herself a certain way, but the art doesn't always reflect that description.
>but its purposefully inconsistent as a trademark
So this is kind of his thing then? I'm not really familiar with his stuff outside of The Maxx. I think the problem i had with it was that some of the pages looked really phoned in and you know he could do better when you looked at the covers.
For a time, I actually considered making a motion comic that picks up where the show left off, but I lack technical skills and patience.
The Maxx cartoon was like 50% manipulated comic artwork and 50% original animation outsourced to a Korean studio. If you tried to do a continuation of The Maxx strictly as a motion comic using the resources available within the comic itself, it would fuckin suck.
Even if you could fund a proper continuation, Gone's VA is dead and Maxx's VA has dropped off the face of the Earth. Slick and clean digital animation would also take away the grit and texture of the series and unless they got the original boarders, directors and musicians back, it could never look or feel the same.
Just leave it be.
I enjoyed the show, though it was clearly (and enjoyably) from late 90s MTV animation. It was more enjoyable watching about 15 years later and thinking that it would sort of fit into the World of Darkness Changeling universe or into the Hellboy universe, given the weird happenings involved.
Same here. It's one of the most mature stories I've ever seen in an American cartoon.
The Cartoon Ending > The Comic Ending
It's one of those rare stories (FLCL being one of the other ones) where you want the toxic relationship to succeed even if you know better.
Doesnt Keith not give a fuck about The Maxx and has no idea why people like it.