![]() Rick Veitch is incredibly smart-I remember reading his follow-up comics to Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing run and feeling bad for him, a sense that changed to being deeply impressed by the depth of Veitch’s thinking about the series and his ability to use the conceit Moore introduced in “The Anatomy Lesson”-essentially, a shell that can be animated by a lot of different thematic concerns-to explore his own interests.I have no idea what books #2 and #3 might be. The back cover lists Maximortal as #1 and Bratpack as #4 in the “Heroica” line of books. Like Bratpack, this book is a deconstruction of comics tropes Bratpack worked on ten sidekicks, and this book goes hard at the Superman character, as a character, a cultural force, and as a publishing and creative phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe that’s why it sat in a box for five years without me reading it. I think that’s how I came to own the Maximortal trade paperback, something I bought when what I really wanted was the Bratpack book, also by Rick Veitch. The greatest comic shop I’ve ever been a regular customer at-Tardy’s Collectors Corner-had a customer loyalty program that meant when you spent approx $200, you got a gift card for $25.All characters created by Rick Veitch, even those that are transparent pastiches of actual people. Maximortal was created, written, and drawn by Rick Veitch and published by his own King Hell Press in 2002. ![]()
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