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The MAXX: Maxximized Volume 2 by William Messner-Loebs, Sam Kieth
4.0

Well didn't think it could get weirder but it somehow did.

This is mostly Maxx traveling through like almost a cartoon world. At first he's getting his back worked on and falls asleep and slips into a cartoon like world. Julie is also in her own dream-like world but you soon find out she's dealing with a lot of dark and personal issues. The book splits it up from her world she's in to where Maxx is meeting up and crossing over with different heroes such as Savage Dragon.

The book's strength is mostly in the art for me. Sure, it's very 90's, but it's so well done. The landscapes can be breathtaking, the change of art styles is fun, everything runs so smooth and clashes well together. On the flipside the stories wage from trying too much (especially the first one in cartoon world) to being very powerful and sad (mostly anything with Julie). I do like the mystery behind it all too still, even though it does get very odd to the point of being hard to follow at times.

Still, I do like mostly everything I'm reading. For the art alone this is a 4 or 5. But the story can be a bit much for me to fully invest in a 5. So A 3.5-4 it is.