Mad Max: Fury Road: Mad Max #2

Mad Max: Fury Road - Prequels #4

by George Miller, Nico Lathouris, Mark Sexton (Illustrator)

Left for dead and his V8 Interceptor stolen, Max Rockatansky sets out to retrieve it…heading straight into the bowels of the sunken city with nothing but his sawed-off shotgun. But the stakes are much higher than the fate of Max’s ride—an innocent girl, Glory, has also been kidnapped by the depraved Buzzards. By the time Max arrives, it may already be too late…

From George Miller, the mastermind behind the Mad Max Trilogy, comes the turbocharged grand finale to Vertigo’s MAD MAX: FURY ROAD specials!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics

40 pages, Unknown Binding

First published August 5, 2015

About the author

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George Miller AO is an Australian filmmaker best known for his Mad Max franchise, whose second installment, Mad Max 2, and fourth, Fury Road, have been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time, with Fury Road winning six Academy Awards. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Rhica · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not as exciting as the film (what is, honestly), I enjoyed this comic volume. Still plenty of action and turn your head moments.

[Solace Winter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one shows more of Max, against all odds, being more... the "hero" we want him to be. Excellently told story.

[Pachelbel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one should be subtitled "How Max Got His Swag Bracelet".

Someday, Max will learn to stop promising people things. This one is my favorite of the tie-in comics so far, though, with its pacing and expansion of the Mad Max world, and the true-to-the-movies way that shit hits the fan.

[Greg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe it's just me, but when turning the pages, there were times I didn't know which direction to read. Horizontally across two pages? Vertically? Is that a given in this genre? I know I'm not the target audience for this genre, but I like to read a little bit of everything.

[Liubov · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the series of prequels for Mad Max: Fury Road movie. It revealed some information from Max’s and other heroes’ past and filled several white spots of the movie. I’m glad that I came across this series. Nice easy reading and cool drawing.

[Chris Conley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was good. I really enjoyed it.

[Derrick McCall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coming off the events of MAX, PART ONE, PART TWO sees Max on a rescue mission: saving a little girl, Glory, from deep inside Buzzard territory. Not only tracking Glory down and saving her for the woman who saved Max's life in PART ONE, Max is there for something else: his V8 Interceptor.

A fast-paced story with lots of action and internal dialogue from Max, it shows how much Max is willing to do for others, despite himself being a wander. A man looking for redemption, a man who cannot escape his past nor avoid the death of others. In a short time, this issue makes you feel for Max, a man who's trying to do good in a world run by the mad.

[Francisco Becerra · Rating 3 out of 5]

An improvement over the previous entry, this answers the "what happened to the cities after the apocalypse?" Question. There is a good sense of tragedy and tension throughout the comic, and the ending, although a ripoff of other endings in the movies, was well crafted.

[Mindia Arabuli · Rating 3 out of 5]

ძალიან კარგი სტარტია.
მედ მაქსის დოზით ექშენი, მედ მაქსის ატმოსფერო, ფრიკული დაჯგუფებები, მედმაქსის აბრეზი და რაც მთავარია - მედ მაქსის უაზრო გმირობები

[Jenny Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty good prequel. I especially loved the call-backs to the older movies.

[Ghostcat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty interesting to read and loved the drawing style.

[Maegan · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

This is what I think we were all hoping the other comics would be like.