Quick Rating: Big and Blue
Title: Please Leave Us Here, Close Our Eyes

Looking Forward to Top 10

Writer: Alan Moore
Pencils: Zander Cannon
Inks: Andrew Currie, Richard Friend
Letters: Todd Klein
Color: Wildstorm FX
Editor: Scott Dunbier

What’s blue and white and has a bad attitude?
The L.A. Dodgers.

America’s Best Comics is batting above .400, which is respectable in baseball and comics, but we always want the current at bat to end with a hit. Mighty Casey delivers in Smax. This issue concludes the Smax saga on an upbeat note. Smax, Toybox, and their party finally face Morningbright, the dragon, who has been terrorizing the countryside on Smax’s homeworld. The miniseries has been a delightful diversion, finding humor in the same manner as Top 10 and other ABC series: looking at our world through theskewed perspective of another, be it superhero-populated or filled with sword and sorcery tropes.

What’s made up of many small parts that combine to form a ferocious being?
The Mary Kay Cosmetics sales force.

Ask not for whom the driver of the pink Cadillac calls, she calls for thee. Smax seemed like one of the least promising characters to debut in Top 10, but he has provided a wonderful slate for Alan Moore and Zander Cannon to draw upon. More than anything, he is an able straight man. Morningbright has proven to be an odd creation, combining nano-technology and a variety of dragon mythology. And none of them have felt like visits from the Discworld, which is an accomplishment in and of itself in this day and age.

Is this an audience or a pinup?

So, if you like a good read, then you should run and out and acquire the Smax mini-series. It asks no prior knowledge and offers a chuckle and a wheeze. The violence might be a little graphic for the wee ones, but they should be working on Teen Titans Go for a good laugh.

April, 2004