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[Link] Max Panic [Date] 3/9/00 [Comments] 
Max Panic is an earlier comic by Eight, and gets a recommendation of its own even though its original series is over. It is one of the first ones I've come across published on the web in "book" form, i.e. drawn and scanned in 8x10 pages with a front cover and back page. It turns out that there's a whole world of this format on the web, and later you'll see some recommendations for some of the ones I've found since. The succinct tag line for Max Panic is "The cure to boredom is to watch someone else suffering from boredom." It's essentially a (possibly autobiographical) story of a bunch of bored kids, watching TV or wandering around and blowing stuff up. Eventually they get ahold of a car and the fun really picks up. Look for the mushroom cloud in every issue! Watch as the comic slowly metamorphasises into "Road Waffles"! Thrill to every "Cammy London" story! He's doing new Max Panic now when he has time, but as those of you who have already scoured Eight's sites can attest, his style has matured impressively in the past few years. I think the fun and simplicity of the original Max Panic make it worth the several days it will take to read the entire archive.
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