March 24, 2016-If you didn’t get it, you’d better get it now.
Heavy Metal #278 features another assault on your science fiction and horror senses. This holiday issue is overflowing with a bevy of rich content that would make even Scrooge blush! Pepe Moreno returns to the pages of Heavy Metal with “GENE KONG” part 1 (of 2), Abraham Martinez and Milton Sobreiro bring us “Then Came The Squid”, R.G. Llarena and Gil Augudin deliver “I win, We All Lose” a story of a dystopian gladiators gone bad, Bilal’s “Julia & ROEM” continues to haunt our nights, and Erika Lewis & J.K. Woodward’s “The 49th Key” is right in tune with the times! Kickstarter sensation “METAL MADE FLESH:INFECTION” rocks our futuristic nightmare worlds by Simeon Aston and Jeremy Biggs. And the first part of Sideshow Collectibles “Court of The Dead” by Corinna Bechko, Landry Q. Walker with art by the great Nat Jones. Featuring a group exhibit gallery by Bein Art.
How to get it:
Heavy Metal #278 with “Court of the Dead” cover by Tom Jilesen and Fabian Schlaga
Heavy Metal #278 with cover by Tom Wood SOLD OUT!
Heavy Metal #278 Sideshow exclusive with wraparound cover by Ian MacDonald
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.
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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