by Sam Kieth, William Messner-Loebs
Besides insecure adolescents, the Maxx and Julie, the two principals in artist-creator Kieth and dialogue-writer Messner-Loebs' disorienting superhero parody, are, respectively, client and psychiatric social worker. In both pairs of roles, they fall in and out of the Outback, the desert alternate world that is also, somehow, the Maxx's home. That's where volume 2 of the collected edition of this comic-book...
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