The Maxx (Fan-Fiction)

A Story by Abishai100

Isaac Satan is a modern comics artist who invents an anti-hero named Beetleblood who is a modern urban dreamer.

Alright, I really couldn't depart without a fan-fic of one of my favorite modern works, the deliciously deformed The Maxx (Image Comics), so I hope you will read this last one and find it...dialogic!

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Isaac was a comic book writer who was working on a special theory regarding the translation of social imagination into psychologically stimulating gothic imagery. He wasn't a fan of Tim Burton and preferred the works of alternative artist Sam Keith. Isaac wanted to create a gothic universe in which gross anatomy and muscular paranoia was reflective of an imagination of pure dread and pure silliness. This universe Isaac created was called the Beetleblood. The universe of Beetleblood was one of raw sophisticated anarchy, and it made Isaac a legend in the comic underground.

In Beetleblood comics, the protagonist, a mutant anti-hero named Beetleblood, wanders around an overcrowded crude city and contends with really sinister characters while meeting estranged and eschewed wanderers who're simply frightened by this modern madness. Beetleblood thinks his city is representative of an advanced darkness, one that makes unholy alienation amidst a sea of otherwise normally walking pedestrians and struggling souls. Beetleblood might claw off the heads of these evildoers who make the otherwise average lives of these urban 'insects' simply creepy.

Beetleblood meets a female companion in prison named Shelly. She's very thoughtful and pensive and thinks Beetleblood has what it takes to be the 'superman' the modern city simply needs to rid the environment and landscape of all this disgusting darkness. Beetleblood is a creature of intention, and Shelly notes that he has the unfiltered heart to confront the kind of evil that would make life in this modern mad city a thing of discoordinated dancing. In other words, Shelly has become Beetleblood's personal Ophelia (Shakespeare).

SHELLY: "Look, I want to go out on a date with you, but I have to meet with my pal Beetleblood in the alley at midnight so I can guide him towards this evening's special menu of crime-fighting; and while I find your offer incredibly irresistible, I'm quite certain that my pal Beetleblood has what it takes tonight to do something quite important which is eradicate an inventive character of evil that makes my life in this city undoubtably dangling!"

So, as Isaac created these environments and landscapes in which Shelly and her anti-hero pal Beetleblood meet the modern challenge of confronting the mad evil of the city by raising up their imaginations about the purity of sane defiance, the writer and artist started thinking about what really comprised the nature of cruelty as depicted in modern art. He began to think of ways in which the invention of darkness in comics and art in the modern world must symbolize a real perception of the evolution of human intelligence. After all, humanity had endured strange things like the Holocaust and Enron already, so why not create a character like Beetleblood who signifies a sincere appreciation of the eeriness of tangible disease?

ISAAC: I don't find Los Angeles diseased or eerie, but I think my new avatar Beetleblood is actually representative of a mad urge in the modern world to cast evil and darkness as forms of unbearable complexity, a complexity which can ironically be de-cluttered with doses of basic focused design!

It seemed to Isaac Satan that his new comic about Beetleblood and his pal Shelly would capture some of the tall disuniformity of the modern world and modern city that effectively cast forms of madness as veils of ethics neglect. After all, an eccentric anti-hero like Beetleblood just might help an urban dweller in the 21st Century come to terms with the specific gravity of constructed deformity. Because evil is actually delicious, right?

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