Last night saw the launch of Preview Night at San Diego Comic - Con . But the gossip was all about Heavy Metal Magazine and its future .
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Last night saw the launch of Preview Night at San Diego Comic - Con . I ’m not at the show , but I do my best to make it look like I am , and have all sort of people reporting back on what they see and hear . And last night , it was all aboutHeavy Metal Magazineand its future .
But Bleeding Cool can reveal that he will be joined in his editorial team byChris Thompson , formerly of Orbital Comics in London , Eaglemoss , Opus Publishing . Wild River and Titan Comics where he plunge the Statix Press line . As well asDave Kelly , who ego - published his own seriesTales Of The Nightwatchmanunder So What Press , as well as inSavage Dragon , to round out the editorial team .
The three were seen cower together on Wednesday evening in downtown San Diego , sit at an external table , loudly verbalize about the future tense of Heavy Metal . So they should make an easy target for anyone trying to pitch their body of work . Or perhaps asking about getting paid from the previous loop of Heavy Metal .
Previously , Heavy Metal Magazinewas revived under a series of sidelong fund figures , with everyone fromGrant Morrison , Gerhard , Peach Momoko , to even me getting print there . After strike government issue 300 , it was relaunched through Massive / Whatnot but they were n’t able to release a undivided issue before it fell again , leave alone many people unpaid and promise unfulfilled .
Heavy Metal Magazinebeganas a interpret license from the French scientific discipline - phantasy magazineMétal Hurlantand include piece of 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 publishing , animated pic and a winner on the cartridge clip stand , help by its liberal attitude to semi - clad sci - fi women on the cover version . It was buy by massiveHeavy MetalfanKevin Eastman , co - Jehovah of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , in 1992 . It was later sold toDavid BoxenbaumandJeff Krelitzin 2014 , until they were forced out . In 2019 , Heavy Metal was taken over byMatthew MedneyandDavid Erwin . With stories ofinternal coups , challengingcomingsandgoings , non - livery to customers , callousnessand challenges fromcreators , former employees , theirwidows and landed estate , cash flow problemssaw the publisher shut out down , before a planned relaunch and revamp from Whatnot Publishing / Massive was announced . In the end , they only published a concluding issue of the late version of the magazine , a yr deep , for San Diego Comic - Con and thepromised revival was abandon . Massive / Whatnot had settle not to publish it after all . one C of thousands of copies of back issues were pulpedrather than pay for the reposition .
Since then the publishing has been in oblivion . The last EIC , Joe Illidge , leftgiving Bleeding Cool a breakdown of events . What befall now ? Depends upon which bigger publishing has been given the San Diego Comic - Con praseodymium and calls it an exclusive . Who had the rights , whetherZack Snyderponied up , perhaps it ’s a Kickstarter , an NFT , a webtoon , who knows ? Maybe we will by the end of this week .
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