Sept.16, 2013--Heavy Metal 281 is here—check your local comic book retailer, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and HeavyMetal.com! (‘Course, if you are shrewd enough to subscribe, you received it in the mail last week, at a discount no less. It pays to be shrewd.)
This second issue in the Grant Morrison era is the “Sex Special,” and it is indeed packed with amorous interludes and coitus illustratus. But if you think we’re talking straight-up titillation, you’ve got another think coming. As he promised, fearless leader Grant’s picks tend toward the weird, wacky, trippy, surreal, absurd, and psychedelic. His own ongoing story “Beachhead” (art by Ben Marra) continues in this issue, and it’s not sexy at all—but Morrison’s second serial, “Option 3″ (art by Simeon Aston) is sexy in the extreme. Comics superstar Dean Haspiel shows up twice, once on his own and then later in the issue providing imagery for a story by ultra-cool adult entertainer Stoya. Edgar Roggenbau looks at love and sex in the not-too-distant future; Jamaica Dyer‘s tale is all about girl power (literally); and Ed Luce‘s story is called “Space Jizz” (need we say any more?). John Mahoney‘s art in “Zentropa” will knock you out, as will the creepily sensual visions of Matthew Bone. “The 49th Key” by Erika Lewis and JK Woodward, “Salsa Invertebraxa” by Mozchops, and “Julia & Roem” by Enki Bilal all continue in this issue as well.
We’ve slapped four different covers on this sexy beast; take your pick from images by Chris Achilleos, Kevin Eastman, Luis Royo, and Jason Levesque.
Now is the time on HeavyMetal.com when we preview!:
About Heavy Metal
First published in 1977, Heavy Metal Magazine, the world’s foremost illustrated magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, alternate realities, science fiction and horror, in the past, present, and future. Writers and illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed. Heavy Metal Magazine was the first publisher to bring European legends like Mœbius, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Tanino Liberatore, Milo Manara, Enki Bilal, and Pepe Moreno to the U.S. while showcasing non-mainstream American superstars like Richard Corben, Berni Wrightson, Arthur Suydam, Vaughn Bode and Frank Frazetta. The magazine continues to showcase amazing new talent along with established creators. Heavy Metal Magazine features serialized and standalone stories, artist galleries, short stories in prose and interviews. Recent creators have featured Grant Morrison, Stephen King, Kelley Jones, Bart Sears, Tim Seeley and Kevin Eastman. With new issues on the horizon, Heavy Metal promises to boldly go where no magazine has gone before. Explore ancient secrets, forgotten worlds and savage futures…experience Heavy Metal.
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About Heavy Metal (film)
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.
Its soundtrack was packaged by music manager Irving Azoff and included several popular rock bands and artists, including Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Sammy Hagar, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, DEVO, Journey, and Nazareth, among others.
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