For those of you who do not follow
cult comic books and were not watching FOX KIDS back in 1998, they are Sam and
Max Freelance Police. Sam and Max are two cult comic book superheroes who battle
the evil in the universe that sane people won't battle because they're
"too darn ignorant to be afraid of most things". Created by Steve
Purcell in the late 1980's,
Purcell describes them like this:
"Sam
is the 6 foot dog in the ill fitting suit, and Max is the 3 foot rabbity thing.
They call themselves 'Freelance Police' because they figure that gives them
license to do whatever they want. I think people like Sam & Max because
they just fight crime because they think its fun. There's no overbearing sense
of duty in them like with super heroes. I just drop them into any situation
imaginable and as long as they have plenty of excuses to blather with each
other, it works for me." (This information source was a 1997 WIZARD
magazine. WIZARD, for all your comic book information and needs).
So its like Steve said. Sam is the 6-foot dog in the ill-fitting suit and Max is the three-foot rabbity thing. To expand on that a little bit, Sam is usually the straight man, cool, confident, collected, where as Max is a deranged little maniac that runs around buck-naked. They've appeared in a number of comic books and they even had their own show on FOX, but it was not renewed. Damn Fox executives. Anyway, these guys are like Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, the Three Stooges, and the Blues Brothers all rolled into one. They're pretty funny, during their misadventures over the years, Sam & Max have battled demons in Supermarket aisles, taken on self-combusting voodoo priests, and eaten fried weasel on a stick. And now they tackle their greatest challenge ever: The Perils of Third Earth!
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