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Boy Maximortal #1 100 page giant is coming from Rick Veitch – with peyote and Jack Kirby

10/13/2017 4:35 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Boy Maximortal #1 100 page giant is coming from Rick Veitch – with peyote and Jack Kirby

Rick Veitch’s Heroica Universe is one of the masterpieces of dystopian superhero fiction. More horryfying than Dark Knight, more visceral than Watchmen, it’s a deconstruction of the genre via the real life exploitation of those who created the characters. Published via Veitch’s own King Hell press in the 90s, Brat Pack and Maximortal came out but […]

Filed Under: Indies, Top News Tagged With: boy maximortal #1, dystopian superheroes, gilbert shelton, heroica, Jack Kirby, Rick Veitch, x clay wilson

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