DVD Releases I want to see

A lot happens in twenty years.....enough in a life to get a general experience of all the emotions: love, hate, sadness, and tranquility. In twenty years of my life, a lot of shows have been created that have influenced my works. Yes, books have influenced me just as well, and I have written about many of them in my two and a quater years with the Malacast Editorial, but several shows from my childhood that I have loved that have influenced me in both graphics, and storyline have never been released in DVD format.


image from broadvocabulary.com
One show that I absolutley adored when I was a young teenager, as many did was MTV's Daria. Daria, as some may know, was originally a concept character on another MTV show, Beavis and Butthead; and after that show concluded, Daria became its own television show that was very successful, and was firmly dipped in a river of satire. Perhaps the embedded inside jokes at every twist and turn were what made this show an important part of my writing. Although it was classy, sophisticated, and showed how much life can suck for a youth, it really was asafehome for some of the best puns, and pokes fun at points-of-intrest at that time. Daria did for teenage life what Get Smart did for secret agent spy shows. It was a large joke, and you fell in love with her for being so quirky and original. Empathsis and identification are the keys to creating an admirable character, Daria was perhaps too smart for her own good in allowing anyone to view her world; where she is the anti-hero of every episode.
Daria aired for five seasons, with two, one hour-long films. "Is it Fall Yet?" and "Is it College Yet?" are the two movies where major changes are seen of Daira, and are probably the most one could see of Daria's "softer side", since she is cynical most of the time. Daria has yet to have a proper DVD release, with few mock-up boxsets that can be found online. This show, being so influential, and loved by many adoring fans, should have a DVD box set release to commemrate it's ten year anniversary. Although MTV has yet to show a care if this show, or any more of their animations will be coming out on DVD format anytime soon. Hopefully Daria will get the love she deserves, and a box release as soon as possible.
Moving on now to another animated series, on the same network is "The Maxx". The Maxx was created in 1993 as a series of comic books, with a series of 36 issues, including a few bonus issues called "Friends of Maxx", which portrayed others in the strange reality that the Maxx exists. In 1995, "The Maxx" animated series came to existence on MTV. The shows success can only be atributed to the comic's creator, Sam Keith having a close-hand on the project. The series on television follows issues in comics close, from aprox. 1-13, but those numbers may be a little off.
Image from coverbrowser.com Famed picture of the first issue of the Maxx #1.


The Maxx is a guy in a purple suit who believes himself to be a superhero, but in the "real world" (which indeed is hard to decipher for the majorit of the series) he's a bum that lives in a carboard box in an alleyway. Now, his only true friend or companion in the world is a frelance social worker named Julie Winters. She allows him to stay in her apartment, but this is do to her controlling personality, which we learn the reason for through series. When Maxx uncontrallably goes into the Outback, that he calls Austrailla, he is a super hero that kills the unique creatures that make up the ironic, satirical, surreal world. Maxx then fights to protect his jungle queen, which is Julie Winters' alter-ego. The interesting question that comes up though, is if Julie Winters is an ealter-ego to the Jungle Queen, or vice-versa.
The whole story is a psyychological thriller, in which some cases, you may actually need to understand a little about psychology just to get the gist of the story. Luckily the animated series is quite easy to follow. Have I mentioned the villian. Of course The Maxx needs a supervillian in order to be a superhero! Mr. Gone is a serial killer/rapist that tortures Julie Winters and the Maxx at every twist and turn he can. The funny thing is that hew knows much about Julie and The Maxx, that he could reveal all they ever needed to know, but instead he finds it more fun to mess with their minds. Mr. Gone has a daugher named Sarah, who has some serious coping issues, and goes through that teenage angst that a lot of kids her age deal with. She sees herself as fat, ugly and "smart", a terrible quality for any girl, and makes her highly unpopular. She too plas a vital role in the story, but not so much one in the animated series.
This series needs to be brought to DVD format, but it can be found on a complete series VHS tape. Many petitions have gone up across the net in order to get this series on DVD,a nd even perhaps another animated season. The Maxx popularity was greatly influenced in the mid 90's, and had much influence on the McFarlene style popular in Spawn. The Maxx also sused a CGI style of graphics that added more accent to already beautiful style of animation. Alas, this pricless artwork may become extinct if not brought to a DVD boxset. I fear also because this series has had much influence on me, even when it first came out, and I was eight years old seeing it for the first time. It absolutely astounded me how such an intelligent story plot could exist in a cartoon! It truly has humor, tragedy, and some points of sheer disgust, but not in a bad way...more like teh humor can get rather demented. If Celebrity Deathmatch can get a full DVD release for every single episode, then I am sure they can make room for The Maxx on DVD. They did it for AEon Flux, they can surely do it for Maxx.
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