This article is about the comic book character. For the expansion pack to "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri", see Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.
Smax
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Smax. Art by Gene Ha
Publication information
Publisher America's Best Comics
First appearance Top 10 #1 (2000)
Created by Alan Moore
In-story information
Alter ego Jeff Smax (born Jaafs Macksun)
Team affiliations Top 10
Abilities Near invulnerability
Super strength
Concussive blast from torso

Smax is a fictional character from the comic book series Top 10 written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Gene Ha, and published by the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics / Wildstorm. A Top-10 spin-off mini-series also called Smax focused on the character and provided him with more of a backstory. In advertisements and interviews leading up to the release of the first issue, the series was referred to as Smax the Adventurer.

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Character history [link]

Jeff Smax (born Jaafs Macksun), is a gigantic, blue-skinned, white-haired, super-powered, demi-ogre policeman who lives and works in a city populated entirely by super-powered beings. Smax originally hailed from a land based on fantasy myth and fairy tale legends, but had left after a horrifying failure during his career as a dragon slayer.

Smax is the muscle of Precinct 10, being both incredibly strong, and invulnerable to most forms of harm, including radiation. Smax is often fairly gruff and guarded amongst his peers, mostly due to the frequent loss of loved ones he has experienced in life (most notably his dear friend and late partner, Stochastic Fats). Though at first very hesitant to become friendly with his new partner, Robyn Slinger, he eventually begins to bond with her, even feeling a great need to protect her when she is attacked by Commissioner Ultima and buried under precinct station rubble. The pair are not romantically involved, however, as Smax has an intimate relationship with his twin sister, Rexa. This is not an unusual situation in Smax's home dimension, which has far different laws of physics and science. Rexa, eventually comes to live with Smax and the details of their unique relationship is only known to Robyn, who keeps it secret.

Smax is fairly resourceful in the line of duty, but he has a quick temper and is not intellectually inclined, often not thinking things through. Smax has experience using weaponry, including his Singing Sword, but he most often prefers using his fist, or his Strong Light energy (which emanates from his solar plexus).

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Mini-series plot [link]

The story deals with Smax and Toybox returning, via magical teleportation, to Jeff's magically enchanted homeworld. Smax, now a city dweller, seems embarrassed by his unsophisticated, sword-and-sorcery roots. They attend Smax's uncle's funeral where Jeff introduces Robyn as his wife, though no such relationship exists. At this point Jeff's sister Rexa Macksun is introduced, dressed in the typical garb of a female fantasy barbarian such as Red Sonja and just as tall and physically impressive as her brother with the same blue skin and white hair.

It is revealed Jeff has been away from home for some time, having originally left his world fleeing personal and literal demons. Once a great dragon slayer, a job needed to pay the bills for his adopted dwarven family, Smax fails to stop an extremely powerful, shape-shifting dragon named Morning Bright from destroying a little girl. She was burned to ashes in front of him, forever leaving a white burnmark of a hand on his chest.

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Further story developments reveal a sexual tension between Smax and his sister. The two were born of an unwilling union between a monster and a human warrior woman with magical strength. Despite this, the pressure of twins kills her during childbirth. Her durability is passed on to her children. Their monstrous father would abuse them both and molest the sister, who would also find love and solace in her brother's arms. Smax would eventually kill his father so they could escape together. Though in their medieval homeworld their relationship wasn't particularly frowned upon, Smax developed conflicted feelings about the propriety of their love.

For various reasons, Smax, Rexa, Robyn and other diversity-mandated heroes venture out to destroy Morning Bright. Smax's heroic efforts cause the mark on his chest to be removed.

The series manages to touch on a number of dark topics, including alcoholism, prostitution, child murder and incest (Jeff and Rexa). The cartoony drawing style and "fractured fairy tale" content drew comparisons to Bill Willingham's Fables comic series[citation needed], as well as Terry Pratchett Discworld novels[citation needed]. There are parodies of several franchises, such as Harry Potter, The Matrix and Pokémon[citation needed]

Publishing history [link]

w - writer(s) | p - penciller(s) | i - inker(s) | c - colorist(s)

  • Smax #1 - "Isn't it Good to be Lost in the Wood..." (20 August 2003)

w: Alan Moore p: Zander Cannon i: Zander Cannon c: Ben Dimagmaliw

  • Smax #2 - "...And Isn't it Bad, So Quiet There, in the Wood?" (17 September 2003)

w: Alan Moore p: Zander Cannon i: Andrew Currie c: Ben Dimagmaliw

  • Smax #3 - "The Grasshopper Green Burying-Band" (15 October 2003)

w: Alan Moore p: Zander Cannon i: Andrew Currie c: Ben Dimagmaliw

  • Smax #4 - "Trip, Trip, to a Dream Dragon..." (2 January 2004)

w: Alan Moore p: Zander Cannon i: Andrew Currie c: Wildstorm FX

  • Smax #5 - "Please Leave Us Here, Close Our Eyes..." (24 March 2004)

w: Alan Moore p: Zander Cannon i: Andrew Currie, Richard Friend c: Wildstorm FX

All of the issue titles are lines from the Syd Barrett song "Octopus".

The series was collected into a hardcover edition (ISBN 1-4012-0325-6) in 2004 and in paperback (ISBN 1-4012-0290-X) on November 2, 2005.

See also [link]
Related people
Early British works
DC Comics
Image/Awesome Comics
America's Best Comics
Avatar Press
Miscellaneous
Comics based on
Moore's prose
Books
Spoken word CDs
Other

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Civilization: Beyond Earth

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy, 4X video game in the Civilization series developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games and released for Microsoft Windows on October 24, 2014, the Mac App Store on November 27, 2014 and for Linux on December 18, 2014. A spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri, Beyond Earth shares much of that game's development team, as well as some concepts which were introduced in the 1999 title. The game's setting is unique to the Civilization series in that it takes place in the future, with mankind traveling through space and founding colonies on extraterrestrial planets after Earth becomes uninhabitable due to an undescribed disaster known as "the Great Mistake".

An expansion pack, titled Rising Tide, was released on October 9, 2015.

Gameplay

Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy game played on a hexagonal-based grid, iterating the ideas and building upon the engine of its predecessor, Civilization V. Co-lead designer David McDonough described the relationship between the two games by saying "The bones of the experience are very much recognisably Civ. The idea of the cities, city-base progression, leaders, the passage of time, tile-based, turn-based, building improvements, technologies. A lot of them are very familiar themes to the Civ player."

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X-linked spinal muscular atrophy type 2

X-linked spinal muscular atrophy type 2 (SMAX2, XLSMA), also known as arthrogryposis multiplex congenita X-linked type 1 (AMCX1), is a rare neurological disorder involving death of motor neurons in the anterior horn of spinal cord resulting in generalised muscle wasting (atrophy). The disease is caused by a mutation in UBA1 gene and is passed in a X-linked recessive manner by carrier mothers to affected sons.

Affected babies have general muscle weakness, weak cry and floppy limbs; consequently, the condition is usually apparent at or even before birth. Symptoms resemble the more severe forms of the more common spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); however, SMAX2 is caused by a different genetic defect and only genetic testing can correctly identify the disease.

The disorder is usually fatal in infancy or early childhood due to progressive respiratory failure, although survival into teenage years have been reported. As with many genetic disorders, there is no known cure to SMAX2. Appropriate palliative care may be able to increase quality of life and extend lifespan.

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