Smax #3

(December 2003)

The Grasshopper Green Burying-Band (Table of Contents: 1)

Smax / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Alan Moore

Pencils

Zander Cannon

Inks

Andrew Currie

Colors

Benedict Dimagmaliw

Letters

Todd Klein

First Line of Dialogue or Text

No! No quests. And that's final.

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; science fiction

Characters

Casper (cameo); Doctor Manhattan (cameo); Groo (cameo); Maggie Simpson (cameo); Luke Skywalker (cameo); Tarzan (cameo); Wendy (cameo); Jeff Smax; Rexa; Robyn Slinger [Toybox]; Minka; Lionel [Death] (portrayed as Death from The Seventh Seal); Aldric; Valkan; Hedwig (from Harry Potter) (cameo); stork (delivering babies) (cameo); griffin (cameo); flying monkey (cameo); Winnie the Pooh (cameo); Brownies (Palmer Cox) (cameo); Harry Potter (cameo); Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost (cameo); Hot Stuff the Little Devil (cameo); Humpty Dumpty (cameo); unidentified Thark (cameo); Obelix (cameo); Stewie Griffin (Family Guy) (cameo); Pugsley (The Addams Family) (cameo)

Synopsis

The world being overrun by omens, Minka insists that Jeff embark on a quest. After securing all the necessary permits he sets off, accompanied by Robin, Rexa, Aldric, and three dwarves.

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

Bureaucracy; quest

Indexer Notes

The story includes references to other comics or literature, sometimes in artwork or in wordplay. These include: The Lord of the Rings; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Willie Wonka; Cinderella; Mother Goose rhymes; M. C. Escher; Kasparov-Fischer match; Tom Strong; Totoro; Skullboy; Tom Strong