Ray Spass' life was a complete mess - a crumbling screenwriting career, a failed love, an inoperable brain tumor - but that was before the fictional hero of his screenplay, Max Nomax, showed up in real life, insisting that his tumor is a data bullet containing the secrets of Nomax's past. Hunted by the most deadly super-villain in the galaxy, Spass begins uncovering Nomax's twisted life story in an effort to shrink the tumor before it kills him. But as Spass dives deeper into the madness that surrounds Nomax, he finds that our semi-fictional hero is not all he appears to be!
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This remains the rare Grant Morrison comic where the art outshines the writing. Mind you, Morrison is delivering a perfectly enjoyable tale of reality and fictional worlds bleeding together and influencing one another. The interplay between writer Ray Spass and his creation Max Nomax is a lot of fun. But compared to a lot of Morrison's work, it all seems surprisingly straightforward. Read Full Review
The story struggles to find a voice of its own. The web of movie references seems not brilliant and innovative, but merely derivative. What is meant to be metatextual and intertextual complexity collapses into a kind of trivia game. There is much to be said about narcissism in our present culture. But, more's the pity, Morrison and Frazer have found neither the words nor the images in which to say it. Read Full Review
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