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Minor Characters in the Maxx Story
There are several minor characters in The Maxx. Just to be
clear, I'm only listing them here if they're humans in the real world
who appear in more than one issue and if they're named. The Crappon
inna Hat doesn't fit here, and neither does Li'l Julie.
Carol is a housewife, but more than that she has a knack for doing what
needs to be done. Even if it's distasteful to her, she just pushes her
feelings down and does it. Artie likes her
because she can see the Outback; she seems to have some of the same
dream-power he has, and Julie probably gets it from her. Carol's
ability to suppress her feelings is another thing Julie gets from her.
We see her only in flashbacks, so we don't know where she is now.
Mr. Gone kidnapped a medical examiner who was
doing an autopsy on a mugger who was really an Is. He got the doc to sew his head back
on, then he fed him to the Isz.
Fridge (#1, #15, #16)
He's a mugger. He's big. He has bad taste in music. But he's figured
out that Isz exist, so he's not
stupid. He sits a little too close to the bars in his jail cell,
though, and gets eaten by the Is next door.
She once dated a mob boss, and she met Artie when he came to a battered women's shelter
where she was volunteering. Artie was looking for help, and although
the shelter didn't give him any, Gaynor did. They connected instantly
and have been together ever since (as of #32), as far as I can
tell.
Glorie (#1, #2, #6, #9, #27, #32)
Despite her resistance, she was raped and mutilated by Mr. Gone, but she survived and later worked
security at a casino/hotel in Reno. After Artie stopped being
Mr. Gone, he went to Glorie and attempted to apologize. Although what
went on was mostly a lot of yelling, the meetings turned out to be
beneficial for both of them in the long run. She's a friend of Sara's.
A kid who finds a hole to the Outback that Mr. Gone left lying around. Curious, he sticks his
hand in, but can't get it out. His friend Linc
thinks of a way to get him free.
John's an architect who really wants to be an artist and do book covers.
He's like Julie in that he waits for other
people to do what has to be done. He doesn't believe one word of his
friend Artie's wild stories about the Outback,
but he thinks they're great. Mr. Gone says that he "lost" John and that
John is a man on his way down, but it's unclear what happened to him.
Linc (#9, #14)
A kid, Jasper's friend. He brings Jasper food
when Jasper gets his hand stuck in a hole to the Outback that Mr. Gone left lying around. Linc finds a novel way
to free Jasper, too, for a price.
Tilly (#4, #6, #16, #21)
Sara's mother is a friend of Julie's. We're not sure how or when they met,
but since she was married to Uncle Artie,
perhaps that's how. When Julie was doing her social work, Tilly
brought Sara to see her every now and again. When we see her ten
years later, Tilly is in the hospital with cancer (#23).
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