Wow! Yep, I am now very happy with The Mink's choice to not teach him magic. O.O Sure he is not totally evil, but damn he can sure be mean. :P Excellent comic though.

Good does not mean Nice.

Uuhhh....duh? o.o Never said it did.

Referring to the trope.

Hahahahaha! That's so cool, so well done.

And the manifestation keeps changing, as they do in dreams.
I like how the little ram-things morph from a sensor and a manipulator to two cartoon fists, one releasing lightening.
And as for the lesson presented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyYS-GzBSIg

...hadn't considered this possibility. how interesting!

He isn't totally evil? Self-serving, power hungry, bit of a megalomaniac, unwilling to respect anyone else's beliefs but his own? Looks pretty fang evil to me. ;)

Self-serving? I don't see that he's more so than the average person, though probably more successful at it.. Power-hungry? Certainly not; knowledge-hungry, yes, but I see no hunger for power at all, here or in any of his other appearances. Bit of a megalomaniac? It ain't megalomania if you really are that smart. I prefer to take 'I am one of the new gods' as fury-stoked rhetorical excess, but we'll see; at least he said 'one of'. Unwilling to respect anyone else's beliefs but his own? You just made that up. I think we can infer that he's anti-anti-rationalism, but that leaves wide scope for tolerance. Personally, I think the only rational and moral attitute toward funny mentalism of any stripe is is total disrespect. Tolerance, OK, but no pretending that there's the slightest chance they're right about how the world works.

Going by what he's actually done, rather than what he's said or manifested, Max isn't all that bad a guy; the anti-Max comments seem to come from fear of science rather than any actual bad things about Max, or science for that matter. He tests his inventions for safety, which is more than I can say for a lot of real-world businessmen. <rant>climate denialism</rant> The latest few pages are a sort of fictionalization of Richard Feynman's epigram, 'Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.' So I say, go, Max! Zap them demons! Give Roberta something tough to chew on!

I'd certainly rather have Max for a neighbor than Hezarath. Or Jehovah, for that matter.

Heh. Gotta agree with that last line, absolutely. As for the rest, I think in my case the Jury is still out. But I don't like him and I don't trust him. But then, that may very well be the point. Many things to consider. Many things.

You probably could also go the route of "AND WE ARE THE SUPERIOR BEINGS! ALL INFERIOR LIFE FORMS WILL BE EXTERMINATED! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!!!" XD

Its awesome how he's gone from mild mannered ram of science to near Dalek Zealotry!

Theres only room for one entity in the reality disjoint that is the closed form of Goedels Incompleteness Theorem. 8)

The trick to ultimate power, isnt what is, its what isnt. 8)

"Okay. That's it. I'm going to have to erase you from the timeline now."

dogma is all about belief isn't it?

If only science could eradicate religious dogma so easily. Sigh.