From The Maxx minicomics included as exclusive supplement to Wizard
magazine n. 51, 1995.
When I called Alan Moore to help kick off this new story line in
Maxx, to say I was nervous is putting it mildly. But I wanted the
chance to work with him even more than I was intimidated. I asked him
if he'd gotten the comics I sent, and he politely assured me he'd
gotten through all 16 issues, and that he really enjoyed them. I was
trying to think of what I could possibly do to get him to consent to
do this one issue – beg/plead/manipulate – but he said, “Sure”.
He said that a lot of issues of The Maxx are paralleling things he's
interested in his own life right now. We talked about our
interest in Aleister Crowley and the English tradition of ceremonial
magick, Carlos Castaneda, spirit animals and Jung.
I told him my concern about being too specific in The Maxx, about how
I wanted to let people read what they wanted to into it, instead of
getting caught up in dogma. It's eerie to meet somebody who has so
completely and thoroughly studied the same subjects and interests I
have.
So, I said, trying to sound casual but curious as hell, “What
happens? Who is Sara ten years from now?” There was a pause and I
felt my blood run cold. In his deep voice, Alan said “Something has
happened; something's gone wrong on the Outback. It's building, and
may or may not be bad, sort of like the REM song, “It's the end ofthe world as we know it, and I fell fine.”
Then he mentioned a dream he had in which tiny dolls were eating the
landscape, and I flashed on the exploding fairies I had envisioned in
Sara's Outback. As the conversation came to a close, we both agreed
that the future was gonna be a lot worse and uglier, both in the book
and in the real world, but leaving me with an odd sense that,
somehow, that's OK. [Sam Kieth]
The Maxx is a series created by Sam Kieth and originally published in the 90ies by Image Comics.
Moore is credited for the dialogues in The Maxx n.21.
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