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Heavy Metal Magazinebeganas a translated license from the French scientific discipline - phantasy magazineMétal Hurlantand include work by the likes ofEnki Bilal , Philippe Caza , Guido Crepax , Philippe Druillet , Jean - Claude Forest , Moebius , Chantal Montellier , andMilo Manara.before spinning off into its own original publication , animate movie and a achiever on the mag support , aid by its liberal attitude to semi - clad sci - fi adult female on the cover . It was bought by massiveHeavy MetalfanKevin Eastman , conscientious objector - creator of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , in 1992 . It was later on trade toDavid BoxenbaumandJeff Krelitzin 2014 , until they were forced out . In 2019 , Heavy Metal was taken over byMatthew MedneyandDavid Erwin . With tale ofinternal coups , challengingcomingsandgoings , non - delivery to customer , callousnessand challenge fromcreators , former employees , theirwidows and estates , cash flow problemssaw the publisher close down , before a planned relaunch and revamp from Whatnot Publishing / Massive was announced . In the ending , they only published a final number of the previous adaptation of the magazine publisher , a class late , for San Diego Comic - Con and thepromised revival was abandon . Massive / Whatnot had resolve not to publish it after all . Hundreds of thousands of copies of back issues were pulpedrather than pay for the warehousing .
Since then the publication has been in limbo . The last EIC , Joe Illidge , leftgiving Bleeding Cool a breakdown of events . What happens now ? Well I ’ll wake to see which bigger publication has been given the Puerto Rico and called it an exclusive . Who had the right field , whetherZack Snyderponied up , perhaps it ’s a Kickstarter , an NFT , a webtoon , who knows ?
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