You think your job is bad? Well, Doug and Manny have you beat! These guys are janitors! But they're not your typical custodial crew - no, sir! They're the guys who keep things shiny and clean at TerroMax, Inc., the world's biggest and best evil science think tank! When they're not dealing with toxic spill monsters, they still have to worry about their jerk of a boss, multiple mad scientists, crazy would-be dictators, and the cute girl who works at reception! And when an experiment doesn't go as planned, it's up to Doug and Manny to socialize the lonely "man-shark" in Lab 3B, turn back the laser gun-armed caveman army that's escaped from prehistory and fend off the aliens intent on taking back whatever otherworldly technology TerroMax has "acquired" over the years!
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Publisher's Weekly interview with writer Jim Massey:
"It's a wacky comedy, with, hopefully, enough smarts to feel silly rather than stupid," Massey explained. "There's a kind of off-kilter tension between the protagonists, who are good at heart and just want to do their unglamorous job and clock out, and the environment they work in, which is dedicated to murder and mayhem."
Warren Peace Sings the Blues:
"It's fun to see the workings of a company dedicated to mad scientist research from the viewpoint of a couple low-level grunts, the guys who have to clean up the messes when experiments go wrong, like a "marauding gigomorph" melting all over a lab."
"It's a lot of fun. The story concerns two guys, Doug and Manny, who work as janitors (or maintenance men, as the title suggests) for Terromax, a facility that does scientific research for supervillains."
Read About Comics:
"It's silly and goofy, but it's a lot of fun."
"Maintenance is silly and goofy, the sort of comic that you're going to get more than a few laughs from. It's got just the right combination of humor, never drowning the reader in punch lines but likewise delivering them with enough frequency that you don't get bored."
"This is one awfully funny comic, and while you'd never want to actually be a janitor at TerroMax, Inc., you sure want to live it through Doug and Manny's eyes. This is a book you'll definitely want to read more of, and soon."
Crave Online:
"The writing is quick witted and above all else hysterical."
"Robbi Rodriguez' art makes Jim Massey's witty dialogue hit with perfect timing with consistency."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
If I was so advanced why did I crash into this book?,
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This review is from: Maintenance Volume 1: It's A Dirty Job (Maintenance Department) (v. 1) (Paperback)
Maintenance Volume 1: It's A Dirty Job (Maintenance Department) (v. 1)
Funny funny Graphic Novel good start from Oni Press. Ever wonder why the Mad Scientist never wins? Read this book and you will wonder no more.
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mad science is messy,
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This review is from: Maintenance Volume 1: It's A Dirty Job (Maintenance Department) (v. 1) (Paperback)
... and they're the guys who clean it up. I've always had a soft-spot for comics dealing with Mad Science and this one is right up there with "Girl Genius" and "Narbonic". Well-written, funny, and charming at times. An excellent comic well worth looking into.
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Clever and funny,
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This review is from: Maintenance Volume 1: It's A Dirty Job (Maintenance Department) (v. 1) (Paperback)
At Terromax you can find everything you might need for your world domination plans. Their mad scientists are hard at work creating genetic experiments, building time machines, and studying captured alien technology.
And Doug and Manny have to clean up after them. When machines go haywire, they get to fix them. When a genetic experiment goes wrong and leaves a fetid pile of . . . you don't want to know . . . they get to clean it up. Maintenance is written by Jim Massey, drawn by Robbi Rodriguez, gray tones by Jared Jones and Lettering by Douglas E. Sherwood, and they all contributed significantly. Writer Jim Massey has developed some great characters. Robbi Rodriguez has a cartooney style with individual characters that are clearly definable and excellent storytelling. Jared Jones' tones are well thought out and aid the storytelling. And the lettering is noticeably good, giving different characters clearly different voices. This volume collects the first 3 issues. Our first issue introduces a number of characters including Doug and Manny, of course, and their boss Dr. Mefulor who's not happy about being in charge of maintenance instead of working in a lab, Mendy the receptionist who Manny has a crush on, and K'arl, the alien found at Roswell sixty years ago. The main story of issue one though is the manshark who so far can only spend three hours at a time out of the water, and who's tired of spending those three hours being experimented on. So the guys take him to a bar. In the second issue a mad scientist accidently sends the boys back in time, where they meet cavemen who the mad scientist has taught English, among other things. Here is where the letterer really shows his stuff. One of the cavemen is embarrased about his high-pitched girlish voice. When he talks the letters are petite and cursive, and really gives you a visual feel for what his voice should sound like. The third issue, my favorite, focuses on K'arl, the alien from the Roswell crash. I don't want to give too much away, but if you crashed a car in the middle of primitive Africa, and the natives asked you to show them how to rebuild it and/or make more? I know it sounds cliche, but this comic actually made me laugh out loud, and I haven't had that happen all that often. This is definately worth the cheap price. You will read it over and over.
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