Heavy Metal #1

Taarna cover art by Tula Lotay

 
New Heavy Metal Magazine reboot! (Again)

Issue #321 has been released in April 2025 as a new #1.

What's thrilling is that six of the stories feature characters from the Heavy Metal movie.

COLDDEAD WAR: THE AFTERMATH (8 pages)

Written & Illustrated by Craig Wilson - Edited by Frank Forte

In this sequel to the B-17 segment in the movie, Craig Wilson succeeds in capturing the atmospheric mood of an island crawling with zombies.

Mr. Wilson, who worked in Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2, has been kind enough, once more, to talk to this blog about how this brilliant piece of work came to be:

- I've been in Heavy Metal a few times over the years, and have worked with Frank Forte -- its current editor -- previously. Frank's in the animation biz like me, and has previously published underground horror anthologies under the shingle Asylum Press. So he came to me with the choice to carry on either Taarna or Cold Dead War. I have ideas for FAKK2, so I hedged my bets on CDW, a 6 ish storyline first. 

- We're not sure if the previous publisher Kevin Eastman holds the rights to FAKK2, hopefully I can do something with her after this, maybe even get her to go head to head with Taarna.

TAARNA: REBIRTH (1) (16 pages)

Script by Leah Moore & John Reppion - Art by Anna Morozova - Color by Ellie Wright - Edited by Chris Thompson and Dave Kelly

AUSTIN GRIMALDI (10 pages)

Plot & Art by Keron Grant - Dialogue by Keron Grant, Josh Sky and Frank Forte - Edited by Frank Forte

LEGENDS OF TAARNA: AUTOPHONOMANIA (6 pages)

Story by Matt & Shawn Fillbach - Script & Art by Joseph Michael Linsner

- Harry Canyon (1) (1/2 page) - Script by Josh Sky - Art by Frank Forte

- Zeke & Edsel (1/2 page) (Featuring characters from the So beautiful and so dangerous segment) - Script & Art by Frank Forte

Looking forward to more stories like these!

Here's the complete table of contents of this issue:

- Illustration - Erwin Papa

- Article: Dossier (4 pages) - Frank Forte and others

- Bug (1) (20 pages) - Script & Art by Enki Bilal

- Illustration: Alien disclosure - José Omar Ladrönn

- Article: A crash chronicle of Heavy Metal (4 pages) - Joshua Sky

- The Mercenary: Journey to death (16 pages) - Script & Art by Vicente Segrelles

- Illustration: Alien disclosure - Elgo

- Colddead War: The aftermath (8 pages) - Script & Art by Craig Wilson

- June 2050 (1 page in black & white) - Script & Art by John Workman

- Burton & Cyb (8 pages) - Script by Antonio Segura - Art by José Ortiz

- Article: Greg Hildebrandt (6 pages) - Ian Spelling

- Illustration: Alien disclosure - Axel Medellin, Carlos Cabrera

- Evil sex bitch (5 pages) - Script & Art by Steve Mannion

- Taarna: Rebirth (1) (16 pages) - Script by Leah Moore & John Reppion - Art by Anna Morozova - Color by Ellie Wright

- Floydd the giant-killer (1 page) - Script & Art by Michael L. Peters

- Lester: That old feeling (8 pages) - Script & Art by Fernando Dagnino

- They dug too deep (2 pages) - Script & Art by Dwayne Harris

- Austin Grimaldi (10 pages) - Story & Art by Keron Grant - Dialogue by Keron Grant, Josh Sky and Frank Forte

- Illustration: Alien disclosure - Katie Houghton-Ward

- Gladiatrix: The trials of Ta-Neen (1) (10 pages) - Script & Art by John Stanisci - Color by Dave Baron

- The bleeding coast: Millstone (1) (16 pages) - Script by Michael W. Conrad - Art by Ilias Kyriazis

- Illustration: Alien disclosure - Luis Guaragna, Felipe Sobreiro

- Short story: The Devil's Teeth (2 pages) - Lia Bozonelis + Illustration by Agustin Alessio

- Legends of Taarna: Autophonomania (6 pages) - Story by Matt & Shawn Fillbach - Script & Art by Joseph Michael Linsner

- Sixella: The last roots (1) (16 pages) - Script & Art by Janevsky

- Kecksburg UFO (8 pages) - Script & Art by Jim Rugg

- Cobot (6 pages in black & white) - Script & Art by Jonathan Wayshak

- Transcendestiny (10 pages) - Script by David Quinn - Art by Tim Vigil - Color by Omar Estévez

- Valentina (1) (18 pages in black & white) - Script & Art by Sergio Gerasi

- All American (8 pages) - Script & Color by Jason Pell - Art by Jok

- Illustration: Alien disclosure - Agustin Alessio

- The Bus (1/2 page in black & white) - Script & Art by Paul Kirchner

- Gunk (1/2 page) - Script & Art by Curt Merlo

- Harry Canyon (1) (1/2 page) - Script by Josh Sky - Art by Frank Forte

- Zeke & Edsel (1/2 page) - Script & Art by Frank Forte