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Title	:	The Maximortal (The King Hell Heroica #1)
Author	:	Rick Veitch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	June 7th 2005 by King Hell Press (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Superheroes. Fiction. Comic Book

The Maximortal (The King Hell Heroica #1)

Rick Veitch

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 177 Users | 22 Reviews

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This is a somewhat confusing story of a super powered baby coming to Earth (sort of) and being adopted by Earth parents, before being scooped up by the US military. Sound familiar? Of course, it does. A redone origin of a character who might morph into the Superman analogue, True Man.

The clever irony here being that Superman is a mythological ideal, while True Man reveals a darker nature to humanity, the yin and yang in concordance, which prevents the better angels of our nature from taking flight. While in essence it is a retelling of the origins of Superman, it is a completely unique story and it raises one very important question. If a child has super strength, invulnerability, and heat vision, how do you discipline him? How do you prevent him from destroying everything in a fit of childish rage? The age of reason is seven, that's a long time to put up with a superbrat.

It retells, with slight alterations, classic events such as the creation of Superman by Siegel and Schuster, them being screwed out of their fair due by their publisher, Walt Disney's rise to power based on his cartoon, the congressional witch hunt into comics, William Gaines crashing on speed while speaking before said committee, and the creation of the comics code authority- pushed by superhero publishers- forcing out the popular horror and crime comics. This is all done in the context of the advent of True Man.

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Original Title:	The Maximortal - New Edition
ISBN:	0962486477 (ISBN13: 9780962486470)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The King Hell Heroica #1

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I realize this the more I read Rick Veitch , that his stories tend to veer towards the abstract and transendental. This is no exception. The art of course, his usual standard fare. The story however intermingles many different stories in US history. It helps to know how Superman was created, and the players in the development of the atom bomb. Veitch does include an afterword to this edition which will steer readers to those stories alluded to, if they are not already familiar wiht them.You

a shit-worshipping, time-bending rumination on the nature of creativity and superheroes and people stepping on each other to get ahead.

OK now I get it: this is a bizarro-world history of Superman as if he were conceived by his actual creator, Friedrich Nietzsche! (Watch for Fred's cameo as a mustachioed Cossack spit-roasting a mammoth at the beginning.) Blending fantastical weirdness with thinly disguised fact, it's both an indictment of the back-biting comic book industry and a mythical world-historical excursion on Apollonian/Dionysian lines, complete with cameo appearances from Albert Einstein, "Robert Uppenheimer", and

Colección El Día Después #10. Tomo 1 de la saga King Hell Heroica.

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This is a somewhat confusing story of a super powered baby coming to Earth (sort of) and being adopted by Earth parents, before being scooped up by the US military. Sound familiar? Of course, it does. A redone origin of a character who might morph into the Superman analogue, True Man.The clever irony here being that Superman is a mythological ideal, while True Man reveals a darker nature to humanity, the yin and yang in concordance, which prevents the better angels of our nature from taking

really interesting. must read more rick veitch