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Details For A New Heavy Metal Magazine #1, Now On Kickstarter

Details for a new Heavy Metal Magazine #1, now on Kickstarter, as well as those still looking for payment from the company.

Heavy Metal Magazine #1 officially relaunched today as the Kickstarter goes live, from the new editorial team of Frank Forte, Dave Kelly and Chris Thompson. The publisher is named as a new entity, Heavy Metal International, but the previous publisher, Heavy Metal Entertainment, did not go bankrupt, and the previously promised version from WhatNot/Massive, which never reached publication, was a licensed deal that has now been reverted. This also means that comic creators and customers who were still owed money by previous versions of Heavy Metal magazine may still consider that this new version owes them money as well. The new Heavy Metal Magazine is returning at a time when the pulp anthology is on the rise. Its original inspiration, Metal Hurlant, is getting an English-language revival from Humanoids. Oni Press is running a line of EC Comics anthologies, and Hello Darkness, Razorblades, Creepshow, and others are stepping into the fray.

The new Heavy Metal #1 promises the English language adaptation of Enki Bilal's Bug series. As well as previously unseen instalments of Burton & Cyb by Antonio Segura and Jose Ortiz, as well as Vicente Segrelles' The Mercenary. And the English language debut of Janevsky's sci-fi heroine, Sixella. Taarna will also be returning from Leah Moore, John Reppion, and Anna Morozova. As well as one-shot stories of Cold Dead War by Craig Wilson, Grimaldi by Keron Grant, and Legends of Taarna by Joseph Michael Linsner. Fernando Dagnino has a new series of cyberpunk shorts starting with Lester, That Old Feeling, and the return of classic strips such as The Bus by Paul Kirchner and June 2050 by John Workman. They will also start publishing a "top-secret new saga" from Michael Conrad that will develop over the course of the magazine's run. A brand new series, Transcendestiny, from David Quinn and Tim Vigil and more to come. There will also be covers from the late Greg Hildebrandt and Frank Frazetta, Dan Brereton, Luca Strati, Skinner, Brian Viveros, Dan Quintana, Nychos, and more.

But talking to people this weekend, I have been made aware of a number of people still owed money by Heavy Metal going back years. Some have been able to negotiate a settlement, but others have not. Some did not want their names or details shared, but others were more willing to, especially as a group. Alberto Morales, on behalf of the Escorza Bros, would like to be paid for the cover of Heavy Metal Magazine #301 and 12 pages of art published in #313. Joe Harris, for his story Death Defied, an eight-part story of which only two parts saw print but for which he delivered more scripts, has yet to be paid for any of it. Claudio Alvarez and Geraldo Borges are still unpaid for The Last Detective.

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