Heavy Metal

I still don't understand the anomaly that is Heavy Metal.  You have a regular monthly magazine that is both adult, a "comic book," and is regularly sold in magazine racks next to Playboy, making it semi-popular, even mainstream.  You also have the first Heavy Metal movie, an anthology cartoon that has good stories, adult themes, and bearable art. 

How can Heavy Metal exist in a world that fears and hates cartoons & comics? 

(Oh wait, the stories are made in Europe.  It's mostly imported).  

heavy metal is only adult to 14 year olds.
its adolescent at best.

Yes, but its on magazine shelves, perfectly accepted right next to Playboy.  It's odd.  Are people actually buying it because they have no H-manga to wank to?

Different tastes for different people, I guess.

2000AD > Heavy Metal

Heavy metal isnt a cartoon, it's a shitty antimation.
I watched it, and the only thing good out of the movie is the fact it gives you a bonar :P

>>6

die, you 14 year old snobb

>>4
diff'nt strokes fo diff'nt folks

None of you little boys were around when the French "Metal Hurlant" sprung several leaks, the dribbles being translated into English and published in the states as "Heavy Metal". Back in those days - around 1977 - it was 99% French content, 1% freaky Americans like Vaughn Bode. Metal Hurlant dried up, Heavy Metal was forced to search for more content and they went to South America - Juan Jiminez and his ilk. The magazine went through more changes than Giger's Alien, experimented with new wave music reviews (who remembers Lou Stathis? :), picked up a few good people along the way (Matt Howarth for one) and then died the death when they ran out of good American artists. They stopped serialising longer works and are currently almost 100% Venezuelan content.

While the French were twenty years ahead of the American illustration market in the late seventies, the South Americans are ten years behind in everything. They keep coming out with the same cliched stories and artwork we older readers saw before the millennium.

There were a couple of Heavy Metal films that completely sodomised some of the better series the magazine ran, like Richard Corben's "Den". The really sad part is that some people think that they're the best work HM has put out, having missed Bode's "Sunpot", Moebius' "Airtight Garage" and Rod Kierkergaard Jnr's completely insane "Rock Opera", which spanned almost the entire run of HM's years before the Collapse.

So there.

Ah, so it really is crap nowadays.  Thanks for comfirming.

Im only 18 so wasnt around for the years when heavy metal was considered worth reading, but through Ebay I was able to obtain quite a few of the old issues from the 70's and 80's and can say without a doubt that if you like the dark fantasy genre (or manga like Berserk) the older heavy metal comics are very much worth reading. the first of the two movies is decent but heavy metal F.A.K.K. or whatever the hell the second movie is called is absolutely terrible.

so... its the art, the storyline and the POS thats all gone bad...? what left?

Interested in what you loved about Heavy Metal back in the day?  Check out the NBM catalog.  I'm not sure anything besides selfpub SPX stuff gets as wildly experimental as the domestic filler submissions they (and epic ill) got in the early 80's, but I love some of the sequential work NBM and our south of the border friends, SAF, put out these days.

I just wish I cared about the stories.  They don't seem to matter to me at all.

I liked Heavy Metal when it was younger, but now it's just not as good. the recent issu i thumbed through last time I was in town had only like, two stories, one of which some retarded series about a nazi who becomes a vampire knight in hell and everyone grows younger instead of older, and a slightly interesting short story about a couple whores on Saturn.

And I saw the two Heavy Metal movies. they were shit. not the art, i can tolerate mediocre art, the plots and scripts were god-awful. acting, too, to an extent. it was a soft-core porn with 78% less porn.

That all being said, I like Heavy metal. Because when it's bad it's bad, when it's good it's good, and there's lots of fapping content.

I don't see the point.  The stories aren't funny, so I assume they're serious.  But they aren't dramatic or insightful.  But they do involve boobs somehow, no matter how forced.  So I assume its just meant for fapping.  But there are words on the page that imply an important story is taking place.  So I have to decide whether I should give each story a chance or just flip pages and fap.  Of course the story is immediately over, so I haven't identified with the world or characters once finished.

Berserk's better.

Agreed.