Smax #1

(October 2003)

Isn't it Good to Be Lost in the Wood... (Table of Contents: 1)

Smax / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Alan Moore

Pencils

Zander Cannon

Inks

Zander Cannon

Colors

Benedict Dimagmaliw

Letters

Todd Klein

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's okay, don't hit the horn again.

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; science fiction

Characters

Batman (cameo); John Carter (cameo); Cutter (cameo); Felix the Cat (cameo); Leetah (cameo); Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (cameo); The Question (cameo); Rorschach (cameo); Jeff Smax; Robyn Slinger [Toybox]; Aunt Minka; Uncle Durnik; Valkan; Rexa; Aldric of Blue Glenn [Aldric of Blue Glen]; CAMEOS: Tars Tarkas; Jack Pumpkinhead; robot from Metropolis; Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter); White Rabbit (Wonderland); Max (Sam & Max); Cinderella (Disney); the Lorax; Mad Hatter (Wonderland); Magic Mirror (Disney); Troll Dolls; Marvin the Paranoid Android

Synopsis

Jeff Smax, a detective with the Top 10 precinct, is reluctantly paying a visit to his home world in a parallel dimension, and he's asked his partner, Toybox, to tag along. She's shocked to discover that her blue-skinned partner isn't from an alien world full of metahuman barbarians like him, but from a world that's every magical storybook come to life. Smax seems more than a little embarrassed about his heritage, but that's nowhere nearly as embarrassing as Toybox's experience when he finally gets around to introducing her to his family.

Reprints

• in Top 10 (Semic S.A., 2000 series) #4 (août 2004)
• in Smax Collected Edition (DC, 2004 series) ([November] 2004)
• in Smax Collected Edition (DC, 2005 series) (2004 [January 2006])
• in Top 10 (L'intégrale) (Urban Comics, 2015 series) (décembre 2015)

Keywords

Dimension; dwarf; dwarfs; dwarves; elf; elves; family; magic

Indexer Notes

Top 10 characters created by Alan Moore and Gene Ha. Smax characters created by Alan Moore and Zander Cannon. The story contains references to numerous other comics and literature, sometimes in artwork or in wordplay. These include: Zot; Soylent Green; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Matrix; Buzz Lightyear; Elfquest; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Princess and the Pea; the bed of Procrustes; Hansel and Gretel; Tron; The Magic School Bus; Dastardly & Muttley; Sunny O'Ni; Gryffindor (Harry Potter); Ebon Fortress; Thunderbirds; Lunch-Box Tree from Oz; Robert Dean; Magic Mirror (Disney); Rainbow Bridge

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