The illustrated magazine. A good deal of T&A, so probably NSFW.
70s covers: http://www.anywhen.com/2013/01/heavy-metal-magazine-covers-1/
80s covers: http://www.anywhen.com/2013/01/heavy-metal-magazine-covers-2/
Their adaptation of Alien http://www.anywhen.com/2013/01/alienthe-illustrated-story-heavy-metal-comics/
I had quite a few from 1983. I loved it, and other trash like Eerie and Epic Illustrated.
I still have the first 14 issues of Epic Illustrated as well as various HM issues from the '80s. I slowly tapered off HM when they changed the format from serialized stories to flu stories in one issue, tho.
Oh yeah, I have a handful of graphic novel prints of various stories from Epic as well, my favorite being the nifty version they did of REH’s Almuric. It took me 14 years to find a copy of the novel, tho.
The first two links don’t seem to be what you say. I had many of issues of Heavy Metal, sadly gone with my comic book collection.
Sorry, Bo, but what are flu stories?
And sorry, Tripolar, link works for me-- the covers do appear in a pop up, though.
Huh. Came up for me once. All the other times are some old photographs. It might want me to log in, or it’s getting blocked by all the security I have.
I think he meant “full stories.”
I sold off a bunch of my Heavy Metal on eBay. They took up too much space and were heavy; so I picked my favourites that had stories I liked to read more than once and got rid of the rest.
Any of Serpieri’s “Druuna” stuff was a “keep”, naturally, but I also enjoyed all of the Gipsy and Hombre stories.
I would have like to have collected Marvano’s version of Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War; I eventually got the first and third TPB’s, but had to settle for the black-and-white ligne clair version serialized in Cheval Noir to get the middle piece… although having read the book, I had a pretty good idea of what would happen.
Plus, Cheval Noir exposed me to Tardi’s Adèle Blanc-Sec, which I enjoyed as well. Before you ask, no, I haven’t seen the movie yet.
Aye, Miller got it. I can’t remember the year, but sometime in the late '80s or so, HM started publishing full stories in each issue instead of serializing longer pieces. What this meant was fewer stories per issue and if one of the stories was a 50 page thing that you didn’t care for, you had basically wasted your money on that particular issue. At least when things were serialized, you could skip the 10-12 pages of whatever you didn’t like and continue reading what actually engaged you. It was, IMO, a really stupid move by the publisher and it cost them at least 1 reader (me).
Speaking of really stupid moves by the publisher: Heavy Metal 2000.
If Kevin Eastman was a comic book supervillian, his name would be Feceseater.
C’mon, this is begging to set up any number of jokes about Julie Strain… I’m just not clever enough to come up with one at the moment!
I have, it’s quite good. Funny, odd, clever. Recommended.
I recognise a few of those Heavy Metal covers, I collected them for a very brief period, plus my Art Teacher gave me a few older issues as inspiration.
Unfortunately all the T&A that tended to dominate didn’t appeal to me, so I abandoned it as it became increasingly difficult to find decent art that didn’t involve copious amounts of bare nipples.
I told you before, Guanolad, we should hang out sometime. In fact, you and I discussed Adèle Blanc-Sec in that very thread!
I can hear what Snowboarder Bo is saying. That they come poly-bagged with only the occasional name of the artist on the front to tantalize you (“In this issue: Frezzato! Serpieri! Minara!”) does make the buying decision … difficult at times.
On the whole, though, I enjoyed having the entire story show up in one issue, and would read them all irrespective of the necessary capital outlay. The ones I didn’t care to re-read were the ones that ended up on eBay, but they were still good enough to read once, at least.
Luckily, I managed to get a hold of stacks of older issues at Half-Price Books; somebody must’ve sold off his collection and when the merchandise didn’t move, the staff had shrinkwrapped them into bundles of eight or ten issues apiece that I bought for cheap. I read them all, kept the best ones, and re-sold the remainder.
Looking at some of the cover blurbs I think I’d rather read the articles than the stories. I remember reading about industrial and electronic music, interviews with horror directors, stuff still of some interest even after comics featuring radioactive mutants that look like genitals have lost some of their wonder.
I might still like to read Tex Arcana, though. Found it online: books