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Heavy Metal Magazine is liquidating its entire warehouse it seems They have been reducing prices by around 70% or more And already the bargain hunters have burned through the seventies back issues Which does however provide plenty of issues and specials from the eighties, nineties and noughties, with more Frazetta, Moebius, Corben, Bilal, Manara and Bisley than[...]

No, not a new name for Riri Williams, but new actual Iron Maiden comics, yes as in the heavy metal band, appearing appropriately enough in July's Heavy Metal Magazine.  Based on the mobile game Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, the Iron Maiden comics will feature Eddie battling through the worlds of their albums[...]

Liberatore, the comic creator behind RanXerox has returned after a decade long absence from comics with a 7-page story titled, Ai Shiteru, premiering in Heavy Metal's upcoming Love themed issue. The story is set to later appear in Glenat's French language collection of Liberatore's short comics in July. Ai Shiteru focuses on a somewhat dangerous man and[...]

For the 2015 San Diego Comic Con, Heavy Metal magazine did up a series of black light prints for Barry Geller & Jack Kirby's Lords of Light This is the art that was used by the CIA in Operation: Argo to help rescue American embassy workers during the Iranian coup in 1979 But the original drawings[...]

As previously reported by Bleeding Cool, superstar creator and magickal wizard Grant Morrison, now the Editor-In-Chief of Heavy Metal magazine, has been working on new comics for the magazine's December issue, including Myhtopia with art from Kevin Eastman and Bill Sienkienwicz, and Savage Sword of Jesus Christ, which is, exactly as it sounds, a mashup[...]

By Mike Sangregorio As the show floor closes the party begins upstairs as legendary magazine "Heavy Metal" takes the stage with their recent addition, Editor in Chief Grant Morrison "TMNT" co-creator Kevin Eastman has been the magazine's Publisher for twenty years, having purchased it in 1990 The moderator introduces the duo as "Grant Eastman" but is[...]

This is a glimpse of Beachhead, a new story by Grant Morrison and Benjamin Marra, appearing in the next Heavy Metal Magazine out in three weeks time, April 27th. It's been a long time coming, this is the first issue of the magazine with Grant Morrison as editor-in-chief, though curator seems to be a more accurate[...]

The February issue of Heavy Metal Megazine, issue #279, has a Death Theme and features an international line-up of writers and artists It also features three covers A newsstand/comic shop cover by Mike Mitchell & Aaron Horkey, the subscriber/comic shop cover by Jeff Dekal and the special "Gene Kong" cover by Pepe Moreno, available exclusively[...]

By Joe Glass The Doorman #1 is a great starting point for a quirky, action-filled sci-fi world that promises many twists and turns. The story starts with

She is adorned with armor forged within the heart of the Underworld's capital city, Illverness. 1 – Wielding two uniquely-different, intricately-detailed metal swords 2 – Outfitted in exquisitely ornate armor with finely-sculpted warrior embellishments 3 – Framed by a flowing cape with gritty Templar knight tabard exterior fabric and lush regal Underworld-themed interior lining 4 – Macabre diorama base[...]

Happy later birthday Eliot! Heavy Metal are going to be putting his new comic out two weeks early, so it can launch on March 16th at C2E2. In related news, Interceptor #2 from his compatriot Donny Cates, which had been held up by printing delays and was published this week, is sold out at Diamond already, as was[...]

To go along with the debut of Sideshow Collectibles' Court of the Dead in Heavy Metal Magazine, the company is offering a limited edition premium art print – Heavy Metal: A Mortal Rising The piece is done by Fabian Schlaga and Tom Jilesen and was the cover of December's Heavy Metal #278 It features the[...]

We thought it was interesting. Heavy Metal Magazine did the same and found it disgusting. After slating Vice (before slating Slate) with an article titled "The 22 Worst Lists of 10 Best Comics of 2015", they say, We looked through other lists, to see whether they were any better Most were (although Slate's is dreadful) But as lists trying[...]

Sideshow's Court of the Dead, the IP they designed and created, has come to comics in issue #278 of Heavy Metal Magazine The story written by Corinna Bechko and drawn by Nat Jones is a 22-page #0 issue.   The story follows Shard, an unrivaled warrior carrying the weight of many battles Returning home after a long[...]

By Olly MacNamee With a new 5 issue mini-series, Interceptor, coming from Heavy Metal this December, we sat down with it's writer, Donny Cates, to discuss his sci-fi, vampire space opera epic, described as a  'neon-drenched, blood-soaked vision of vampires like you've never seen before!' Olly MacNamee: In the opening pages of your new book, Interceptor, we[...]

Heavy Metal's upcoming apocalyptic vampire comic story 'Interceptor', which was much discussed at San Diego Comic Con, written by Donny Cates, and illustrated by Dylan Burnett, was announced on The Hollywood Reporter today as being in film development The first issue of the series lands in December, but Bleeding Cool already ran an interview on[...]

Citizen Jack #1 arrives from Image Comics on November 4th, written by Sam Humphries, with art by Tommy Patterson. The series is described as a "horror

Heavy Metal are publishing the Narcopolis: Continuum comic book, that ties into the Narcopolis sci-fi movie We talked about it a bit here. Well the collection cover revealed here, is by another famous artist of the future, Darick Robertson, still best known for his work on Transmetropolitan. But referencing a famous scene from the past… …they call him[...]

Heavy Metal will be re-releasing a trade paperback of the series ReincarNATE in November, written by Michael Moreci and illustrated by Keith Burns, ahead of it being turned into a "one hour supernatural crime drama", according to Deadline last June. The series features private eye Nate McCoy, who after being shot in the head during an[...]

Who, when told that anthology editor Taneka Stotts didn't want to see a completed comic book, and he should stop sending her individual pages of it, replied, https://twitter.com/neekaneeks/status/635244348007776256 I'm not sure exactly how interested Heavy Metal Magazine will be… but I can guarantee that they have now heard of him. It also demonstrates that The Eltingville Club really isn't an exaggeration for[...]

Heavy Metal is to publish the comic book of the upcoming sci-fi movie Narcopolis. You can hear the trailer now "In a world, where all drugs are legal, a British cop must investigate a murder, linked to the largest corporate dealer of all…" Okay this is what the trailer actually is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU33nMkKygAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: NARCOPOLIS[...]

Woodward, Erika Lewis, and Cameron Hatheway at the Heavy Metal booth. There are big things happening over at Heavy Metal Magazine, and not just with Grant Morrison becoming the Editor-in-Chief The 49th Key by Erika Lewis and J.K Woodward which debuted in Heavy Metal Magazine #273 will be adapted into a miniseries for television, with Torchwood[...]

Pictured (L to R): Brian Witten, President of Heavy Metal, Kevin Eastman, Publisher of Heavy Metal, Grant Morrison, EIC of Heavy Metal, Jeff Krelitz and David Boxenbaum, Heavy Metal co-CEO's. It was announced earlier this week that Grant Morrison was taking over as Editor-in-Chief at Heavy Metal Magazine The iconic magazine, known for its enticing blend[...]

I asked him how he felt at being "targeted" by Grant Morrison, an entertaining choice of language used in Grant's interview in Entertainment Weekly which revealed he was the new EIC of Heavy Metal Magazine. Burnham, who has previously worked with Morrison on Batman and Nameless intepreted that as meaning "he hadn't asked me to di[...]

In the past couple of weeks, we've had lots of news surrounding Heavy Metal, including the biggest news recently that Grant Morrison will be acting as Editor-in-Chief to bring his aesthetic and sensibilities to bear But one of the comics that will be launching in the newly minted iteration of Heavy Metal following the creator-owned[...]

It's a long way from writing short Moorcockian stories in seventies fanzines, to being Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Metal But in another way, it seems inevitable This must be Heavy Metal's biggest pre-SDCC reveal. Entertainment Weekly have the PR that Grant Morrison is the new Editor-in-Chief of Heavy Metal Magazine Look, here he is. The long running comic[...]

Mechanism by writer/artist Raffaele Ienco available in comic shops July 1st from Heavy Metal Comics. In the aftermath of an alien invasion a prototype military robot is rushed into the field before it's combat-ready, before its artificial mind has matured enough to understand chaotic human beings and the world around it Now attached to a group[...]

Coming July 1st from Heavy Metal, we have Mechanism, a new comic from Raffaele Ienco as both writer and artist It's part of the new line of comics published by Heavy Metal in the science fiction tradition and is creator-owned. Heavy Metal describe the book thus: When a prototype military robot is sent to the frontline of[...]

On Friday at ECCC, Heavy Metal Comics announced their first original series launch for their new regular comics line– Mechanism by writer/artist Raffaele Ienco available in comic shops July 1st… MECHANISM In the aftermath of an alien invasion a prototype military robot is rushed into the field before it's combat-ready, before its artificial mind has matured enough[...]

Even Daredevil's mentor was Stick… Splinter. AW: What modern books are you reading and getting into? KE: I have weird tastes and I still run Heavy Metal Magazine so a lot of the stuff I like to read is all the submissions for Heavy Metal I end up gravitating towards a lot European comics. I still buy Daredevil[...]