Driving by his deep love for Julie, his only friend, Maxx, a young courageous superhero, who lives in a small cardboard in a small town, where he does his best to save Julie from the evil serial killer, who plans to destroy their world. In the first season, Mr. Gone puts his hands on Julie and Maxx.
It's seriously heavy subject matter... [is] a testament to the show that it never feels downplayed or treated with anything less than the gravity it deserves, even when characters make light of it.
It made up for this shortcoming with an engaging visual style that pulled from various schools of animation, changing from traditional, to simplistic, to computer-generated, to even live-action from one scene to the next.
The Maxx, in all of its glory, allowed for grief, rage, guilt and despair as we followed the supernatural after-effects of the attack and rape of Julie Winters.
Though [the] show may seem a bit esoteric for the MTV crowd, scripters Kieth and Bill Messner-Loebs have wisely incorporated enough elements including violence, cleavage and crude jokes to keep its core demographic tuned in.
