This is it folks, the beginning of another chapter in the saga of Sam Kieth's "The Maxx". I like to keep these pages fresh so keep checking for new updates. To start, lets provide some background on the new story arc. This arc will last 10 issues, 21-30, and will be focused mainly on Sara. Issue #21 was guest written by Alan Moore and his style was evident in the words the characters used. Anyway, enough on the intro, lets start on the plot developments.

Old Mr.Gone	Issue #21 starts off in the year 2005 A.D. in the C.I.A. Headquarters. The three agents there are looking for "someone". They devised a plan a while back and are waiting for it to take affect. In another part of the country we see Sara all grown up and living in a dump with a guy named Steve, little is revealed about him so we have to wait to see how that relationship develops. Sara's day starts out on a "quest" to get her welfare check, what she doesn't realize is that the government is no longer giving out welfare checks to people who have fathers. The problem with this "program" is that Sara hates her father a.k.a Mr. Gone. Nevertheless, Sara needs money, so she digs down deep to go speak to her father.
Skye	Once Sara found her father she decided to ask him about what went on 10 years ago when she was with Julie and Maxx. The first question she wants answered is why the name on the mailbox reads A. Pender. He explains that this is his real name, Artie Pender. Another question she asked is why he "rampaged through everybody's Outback". (Now comes the heavy part) He explains that he was just trying to communicate with her and that she somehow misinterepted his intergalactic message. He also states that the name "Mr. Gone" was given to him because thats what he was to her -- gone from her life. Upon hearing this Sara becomes even more disguted with him because it seems that the past 10 years haven't left a mark on his conscience.
Steve	The story now switches back to the C.I.A. agents. It is revealed that they are the ones that came up with the welfare scam. They used this tactic to get Sara out in the open so that she would lead them to Artie Pender. The motive for this is to kill Artie, though I think there is more to this. In another part of town, we see Sara dreaming of her father. She dreams that the C.I.A. agents killed her father and that she didn't do a thing to stop it. While in reality the opposite happened. It is revealed that Mr.Gone planted that dream in Sara's head to test her, it "failed".