Everything about The Maxx was odd. That's what was so wonderful about it. There were crazy spirit animals, lots of homeless people (some of whom were actually said spirit animals), alternating timelines and settings (with trippy parallels connecting them all), and general creepy nonsense around every corner. Were the characters insane? Was the entire story a hallucination? Who knows. I actually need to read those issues again. They are the only Image titles from the nineties that I still have. The Maxx's biggest pest in the series were the Isz (Isz's?). They were angry black or white (depending if they were in New York or the Australian Outback) little critters that would swarm Maxx and chomp at him. However, for the storyline that was ten years in the future, the Isz were fluttering pink fairies with no eyes that would explode if they weren't kept in water (like the opposite of the Mogwai/Gremlin rule). Creepy and cute is a fantastic mix.
UNITING ALL WOMEN OF PLASTIC
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Women of Halloween Part 13 - EXPLODING FAIRY ISZ!
Everything about The Maxx was odd. That's what was so wonderful about it. There were crazy spirit animals, lots of homeless people (some of whom were actually said spirit animals), alternating timelines and settings (with trippy parallels connecting them all), and general creepy nonsense around every corner. Were the characters insane? Was the entire story a hallucination? Who knows. I actually need to read those issues again. They are the only Image titles from the nineties that I still have. The Maxx's biggest pest in the series were the Isz (Isz's?). They were angry black or white (depending if they were in New York or the Australian Outback) little critters that would swarm Maxx and chomp at him. However, for the storyline that was ten years in the future, the Isz were fluttering pink fairies with no eyes that would explode if they weren't kept in water (like the opposite of the Mogwai/Gremlin rule). Creepy and cute is a fantastic mix.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
From Strangers in Paradise - KATCHOO!
Indie Spotlight Series 1 Action Figure from Shocker Toys
If you haven't read Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise, I suggest you run out right now and buy the collected editions. It's full of great writing, great art, great characters, and great storylines. The comic series ran 107 issues from 1993 through 2007 and followed the lives of two main characters, Francine Peters and Katina Choovanski (aka Katchoo). I think everyone was surprised to see Katchoo in the lineup for Shocker Toys first wave of Indie Spotlight characters. SIP hardly seems like a property likely to be given the action figure treatment, but this figure really works and has become a little gem of my collection (mostly because SIP is one of those books that non-comicbook people have heard about and read, so friends of mine who can't tell Storm from Wonder Woman actually recognize Katchoo).
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