I just picked up the Maxx TPB and it's some surprisingly good stuff. Grated the art isn't the greatest, but it is quite funny and rather different than most of those other "post-modern" comics out there. I used to read it back when it first came out, but that was before I could really appreciate the humor and the blatently existensial themes.
And to Mr. Mephisto,
I really don't understand the point of getting offended when you make a post that angers people.
If you do not even know who wrote the Watchmen, then perhaps you don't really know as much about comics as you seem to think. Perhaps, if you actually spent some time to see what's out there (Will Eisner, Marjane Satrapi)
then you'd realize that you simply can't dismiss the complete artform.
And I don't see how personal attacks would propagate that particular stereotype, when they could just as well be a geeky, immature, scrawny, and quite hair-free loser like me.
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