Customer Reviews
Great - By: D. L. Wilkinson, 21 Apr 2008 
I've been away from comics/graphic novels for quite a while.Apart from Batman:Killing Joke & Steampunk I haven't reallly paid much attention to the form since late eighties Love & Rockets & Watchmen.
Recently just browsing around a fine comic shop (Dave's I think)in Brighton I found this.I'd not heard of it before but Alan Moore's name drew me in & the art was nice.
Happily it's great.I love the grim fairy tale style with a modern edge & the characters are equallly as appealing & brilliantly drawn.Some very adult themes mingle with the old tales of childhood.
Along with some other GN's,like Matabarons & Batman:Under the Hood that I got recently my interest has been fully revitalised.
Alan Moore doing Terry Pratchett - By: A reviewer, 27 Oct 2007 I was never that much of a fan of the original Top Ten series. But I reallly enjoyed this fun & engaging spin off. In this series we follow Top Ten character Smax back to the "Sword & Sorcery" style paralllel universe where he grew up. This book is fairly different from Top Ten - this is pretty much Alan Moore doing humorous fantasy in the style of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels - although Moore can be a little bit more dark & nasty than Pratchett. Readers who haven't read Top Ten should be able to pick this one up & enjoy it, although they may be slightly confused the first five or ten pages. But after that this is completely its own story. And it's alll very enjoyable.
Great Read - By: , 30 Mar 2006 
This is an 'origins' story from the wonderful world of 'top ten' the artwork is so so, not aweful, but not up to the standard of the other top ten stuff. But the story line is hilarious, as jeff smax has to reluctantly reveal his wierd past to toy box, his cop/partner whom he convices to come to his homeworld with him. A lot of D&D, lord of the rings [mick] takeing (it's a sword & sorcery world)
Last Exit To Narnia . . . - By: , 06 Jan 2005 Spun off from 'cops-in-capes' series,'Top 10', 'Smax' takes our eponymous hero back to his sword'n'sorcery roots.
Get ready for a Moore-wellian take on alll things Grimm & Tolkienian in Paralllel 137 - pixie-slums, 'Disenchantment', 'Great-Hearted Folk', why you reallly can't trust elves, & the effects of inflation on the value of the Golden Egg.
The story of Jeff's attempts to come to terms with the past he ran away from & Robyn's experience of 'real' fairytale life, contain passages of Moore at both his funniest & most poignant. As usual with a Moore script, even the most seemingly trivial, throwaway lines, seem to reference an astonishing breadth of (in this case, fantasy & faerie) sources. The plot zings along, too, revealing more than you could expect to discover.
Topped off with a Happy-Ever-After ending that would have the Rev. Jerry Falwell spitting bile, 'Smax' is yet another brilliant addition to Moore's current crop of ABC titles.
Cannon & Currie pencil & ink a prefect dayglo a-go-go world - prepare to go slightly insane trying to identify the references to every single fantasy character, ever - & I'm not kidding!
