Smax #2 - "2: ...And Isn't It Bad, So Quiet There, in the Wood?"

[laughing_tree]

It turns out he comes from a Lord of the Rings, hobbit-infested fantasy world that is a composite of every drippy fantasy story you've ever read. It's got elves, unicorns, questing heroes. It does for the fantasy genre what Neopolis does for the super-hero genre. -- Alan Moore

Trigger Warning: Rape

Comments

[silverhammerman]

I really love Smax. I mean I love the Top 10 stuff in general, but Smax might just be my favorite part of it.

[mastermahan]

Smax has good parts, but the rape and incest is just too much for me. It doesn't feel like it belongs in the same comic where dwarves play rpgs about being office workers.

[locuatico]

I was Ok with it... until the ending...

[mastermahan]

'Sometimes incest is okay!' is a hell of a moral.

[onsokumaru]

It is. Unironically.

[lordultimus]

I think Moore was treating the whole thing as a joke here. Every time he's dealt with incest in a more serious work, at best the couple are treated as having serious mental problems.

[mastermahan]

It's all relative.

[locuatico]

Personally, I would have made it so they revealed Rexa and Jackie were in a relationship all along. which would have made her line "I would avoid him even if I was straight" back in Top10 #1 all the funnier.
But, I am not the living legendary writer who has a very complicated hate-hate relationship with the comic industry.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

It's okay if you keep it in the family.

[remial]

I don't know, Balder's murder investigation was pretty good

[rainspirit]

I'm kinda bummed this series and the 49ers hasn't made its way to Comixology. I looked everywhere for it.