Maintenance Vol. 1: It's a Dirty Job...

by Jim Massey, Robbi Rodriguez (Artist)

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!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2007

Reviews

[Yaakov · Rating 4 out of 5]

This had some really funny parts in it. I really enjoyed it, and it's a series I will probably keep up with. Quick reading, snarky humor about two maintenance men who clean up bizarre and often humorous messes for an evil organization.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun, but short read that follows the lives of two maintenance workers at Terrormax, a think tank for mad scientists, and the kooky adventures they get in to. It's a fun read, with a lot of ideas kind of just tossed out there and not explored, like a terrestrial manshark who gained all his knowledge of human society from watching Porky's II ad nauseum. That's the only thing that I think held the book back at all - things like that are treated kind of as throwaway gags when I think they could sustain over a longer period. Definitely recommended, however.

[Chriss · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unlike most graphic novels that contain a single story line that was originally spread across multiple individual issues, Maintenance volume 1: It’s a Dirty Job has several separate stories. The effect is a short story anthology graphic novel. is a fun graphic novel that anyone who likes comic science-fiction is sure to enjoy.

My blog has a full review, with pictures.

[Renee · Rating 3 out of 5]

A funny and entertaining little book. It has a manshark who goes by the name Cobra McPunch. That's all you need to know.