EPISODE · Sep 3, 2021 · 1H 20M
The ISZ from THE MAXX - 012
from Oops All Monsters · host oopsallmonsters
https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Gavin unleashes MTV's cutest cannibalistic trauma baubles, the impish minions of Mr Gone. They're relentless, they're multitudinous, they're unscrupulous, they are: THE ISZ. In the mid-90s illustrator and comic artist Sam Keith scraped together the chance to create a graphic novel of singular personal vision. In THE MAXX he depicted a twisted, grim-dark America populated by nightmarish creatures lurking in every shadow, and sensitive souls trying to navigate deadly villains, as well as the hallucinatory invasions of their own trauma and mental illness. Gavin posits his theories as to the ultimate meaning of The Isz, and the complexity of communicating psychological injury through media, as well as juxtaposing the mental anguish of Keith's THE MAXX with David Cronenberg's CRASH, even as Hess describes David Spader as "the guy from Mannequin".
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https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Gavin unleashes MTV's cutest cannibalistic trauma baubles, the impish minions of Mr Gone. They're relentless, they're multitudinous, they're unscrupulous, they are: THE ISZ. In the mid-90s illustrator and comic artist Sam Keith scraped together the chance to create a graphic novel of singular personal vision. In THE MAXX he depicted a twisted, grim-dark America populated by nightmarish creatures lurking in every shadow, and sensitive souls trying to navigate deadly villains, as well as the hallucinatory invasions of their own trauma and mental illness. Gavin posits his theories as to the ultimate meaning of The Isz, and the complexity of communicating psychological injury through media, as well as juxtaposing the mental anguish of Keith's THE MAXX with David Cronenberg's CRASH, even as Hess describes David Spader as "the guy from Mannequin".
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