Graphic Novel Classics: The Thirteenth Floor

Graphic novel which ran from 1984 till 1987 in the weekly comic magazines Scream! and Eagle. The story is about a tower building and the A.I. Max that governs it. Max his primary directive is ensuring the welfare of his tenants, a job he takes extremely seriously. Whenever their wellbeing is being threatened by outsiders, he takes these perps to the thirteenth floor, a nightmarish virtual world Max invented, where he can treat them to a frightening punishment for their wrongdoings. We, as readers, quickly become accomplices of the friendly Max, who has the most creative mind for coming up with the most fiendish lessons for horrible people who deserve a lesson. But after more and more people start dying or disappearing, a nosy detective figures something strange might be happening at Maxwell Tower… The beautiful black and white art work is drawn by José Ortiz and the stories are written by John Wagner and Alan Grant. Rebellion Developments, who also re-published classic ‘The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire’ by Don Lawrence, recently published ‘The Thirteenth Floor’ in a number of beautiful books. Highly recommended. Not to be confused with the science fiction movie The Thirteenth Floor (1999) which is also about virtual worlds.

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