So what are /co/'s thoughts on Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant?

>>92393303
Despite it's flaws, it's still one of my favorite animated movies. I never really cared for the magazine though.

>>92393303
Great music and fun animation,i still enjoy it.

>>92393303
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>>92393534
I'm glad comics have matured beyond this.

Is the magazine worth paying for? Anyone here read it?

>>92393680
Like all anthology stuff it varies from issue to issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KXgFpguE0&t

>>92393665
I'm not.

>>92393885
Comics have become so much more than the immature cheesecake without substance of heavy metal. And writers and artists like Kate Leth and Erica Henderson are leading the charge.

>>92393665
>inb4 some uppity cheesecakefags get pissed that you'd dare insult the sacred tradition of drawing all woman like post apocalyptic battle strippers

Pure 80s cheese.

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>>92394058
>post apocalyptic battle strippers
Pic unrelated.

>>92393474
Get the hardback compilation magazines, the 20 year anniversary one is good and its super cheap

they cut out MOST the porn and its just some cool alternative graphic novel short stories

>>92393680
Just get the "Best of" ones

I wouldnt bother with the semiannuals , you can find barbarian stripper porn on Deviantart

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>>92393303
Good intro intro European comics but the only thing today I really appreciate is the Mister Mardi-Gras Ashes comic.

I didn't care for the movie, but I get its importance to the animation industry and giving a lot of people their start working on it.

>>92393303
I like the magazine more in theory than in practice. It must have been a godsend in a pre-internet-era but now it's just kind of lackluster.

>>92395375
I think a large part of what killed its relevance is the general availability of scans of Vampire: Requiem everywhere.

Back in the day, it was the ONLY place to get many of those comics in English.

Its like how manga spread in reverse. Instead of beginning with fan translations and nerds swapping bootlegs between each other until legit versions popped up, the fan scans killed the distribution.

There have been some top-notch bunny boobies on the magazine covers.

>>92395486
Still, back in its heyday Heavy Metal did stuff that the big two wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Without it we wouldn't have Blade Runner, Alien or Akira.

>>92394534
>John Candy voices Den in the movie
>He keeps the same dorky voice even when he is turned into a buff as fuck manly man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmT79zMFh8s&t

>>92394534
I need them to reprint Den already. I need to start adding Corben to my shelf in general, but I really want Den.

>>92393368
>>92393303
>>92393534
You know I actually really miss this kind of aesthetic. Everything nowadays is way too sanitized. It lacks the grit that you can only get with hand drawn and hand painted stuff.

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>>92396489
I think it has to do with Corben being born again or something, then again he drew full bush in Rat God so who knows.

Dark Horse will probably put out huge collections of his Heavy Metal and self published stuff someday.

I wish there was more 80's-90's Simon Bisley to buy. Just picked up BodyCount the TMNT story he did with Eastman

>>92395486
No, Kevin Eastman is to blame.

He used his TMNT money to buy the magazine and largely stopped publishing Euro-comics and instead used it push garbage like "The Melting Pot" (a vanity project with his wife) and mindless T&A which he thought would sell better than actual good stories.

It's under Eastman's ownership the magazine went from cool to generic T&A fodder sold with pornos at the 7-11.

>>92394058
>inb4 some shitlord calls us out for being offended, amirite???

>>92396775
Isn't Grant Morrison now EIC?

>>92396748
One can hope. His 2 issues of Ghost Rider might be my favorite from that run.

>>92396775
It sucks that he changed the focus completely, but I do love the Mirage aesthetic of his work, Eric Talbot's, or any of his crew that he brought in.

Also Melting Pot wasn't the vanity project for his wife, it was Heavy Metal 2000.

>>92396800
yeah from issue #280

>>92393303
I love this movie to death.

>>92393303
Needed more of that torture scene.

>>92394058
we're mature enough to recognize bait when we see it

>>92397861
Hmmm. Is this /aco/ worthy?

If you are talking about the movie, my favorite pieces were the opening, the one about the alien stoners, and Taarna.
I didn't read the comics, but I remember one was called "A Hard Man is Good to Find" and that made me chuckle.

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>>92397919
Dunno, lol, haven't read beyond the cover yet.

This one got the magazine pulled off the shelves.

>>92397919
dude all of Heavy Metal is /aco/ worthy

>>92393680
I've been picking them up again since Morrison took over. He always has a couple weird comics in it, most of them are enjoyable. But every issue has some Enki Bilal, which is good and there is this weird ongoing insect poem that godly art that I am loving the shit out of. Some of the bug really creep me out but it's made in such bright vibrant colours that I can't stop looking either.

Also, there is a bunch of Donny Cates in there these days, worth getting more of him.

I say it's worth the purchase, it's not very expensive, about the price of 2 marvel books (or one of their 'special' books)

>>92398031
not really anymore. All the adds are gone, which means no more hentai adds. There are always a couple stories that have some nudity but nothing really crazy
>>92397861
was even pretty tame for a sex special

>>92393303
Movie was entertaining, but not something I'd watch again

If I wanted to read substantial Heavy Metal shit I'd read Berserk

>>92393303
I am still mad the orb didn't kill the barbarella broad. All those bad ends and villain victories just to blue ball me at the very end. And of all the ways to end it, some bland unbeatable 80s slutwarrior nerdbait waifu? Fuck that. Taarna a shit. The Loc-Nar was robbed. The rest of the movie was good.

>>92397861
where's the pasta?