Bleeding Cool reports Massive Publishing / What Not are backing out of deal to continue Heavy Metal. Is this the end?
The End of Heavy Metal?
Bleeding Cool reports Massive Publishing / What Not are backing out of deal to continue Heavy Metal. Is this the end?
I ordered some books from them because they had frequent sales but I never got all of them. Incompetant.
It should be and needs to be. Please let it die
Every reply on every form of social media says this.
It’s dying because it stopped being this.
>Every reply on every form of social media says this.
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You’d order from them and it was a crapshoot what you got
I’m saying it’s common to see people say that. If not unanimous.
I had a subscription for a year and got like 2 out of 6 books, what a scam. The movies were cool though
Yep. I got a subscription when Morrison was EiC and during the 2-3 years I had it some issues came weeks late, some not at all. Getting customer service's attention each time was a real slog. It's clear it's a ramshackle operation.
Has anyone actually read Heavy Metal since Moebius was still in it?
>coomer magazine dying
I fail to see the problem
>coomer magazine
If only
You’re newbie generation would never get it.
>Everyone b***hes about Marvel or DC
>Nobody talks about Heavy Metal anymore
I miss genuine nerd comics
Why does this magazine have editors anyway? Wasn't it a showcase of independent artists and their vision, at least in the 80s? We need a mag like that. A compilation magazine with various comics, all creator driven, no "pls fund us Blackrock" bullshit.
For what it's worth, Satan, a friend lent me a few issues from the late 80s and early 90s, Satan. It's great.
All magazines have editors.it doesn’t mean they tell the creators what to make, but someone needs to organize things
Oh right, I meant about editing individual artists' works, maybe I misunderstood.
>a showcase of independent artists and their vision
>we need a mag like that
>a compilation mag
off the top of my head, Blab!, Now, Vacuum Decay, and Cram are all current indie anthologies I would recommend. Sad to see this one go.
Thanks, anon, I'll check them out
Yeah you can see exactly why they don't want to peddle this trash anymore. New Hawkgirl is good by the way, check it out you guys.
Heavy Metal has been pozzed for years so nothing of value is lost. The good shit already died out.
Go Woke, Go Broke
How did it last for so long, then?
No, good sir, I did not say it was "a good thing."
Heavy Metal went through several publishing companies in the last few years, and had a string of problems including delays and non-delivery of orders, driving a wedge between the company and its fans. The antagonism reached its crescendo in 2021, when Heavy Metal redesigned Taarna to have a far less revealing outfit. Many complained, and Heavy Metal chided them with snarky personal attacks on Twitter.
Has the magazine been in decline for a long time? Yes. Did they decide to appeal to "modern audiences" in a last ditch effort to save the magazine? Probably. Did they damage any chance at reconciliation with legacy fans with their behavior on social media? Absolutely. Call it going woke or not, it doesn't matter. They acted unprofessionally and were toxic to the brand.
what did they do on social media? I only loosely remember this.
Their taarna reboot included and awful armored redesign and the dyke writer is insufferable. So they shit on their fans while defending it and eventually went out of business. New owners came in tried to apologize but never specifically and it was a scab that never healed.
Not the straw that broke the camels back, unfulfilled orders did that, but one of consistent frick ups in an effort to radically change their readership and focus.
They started making childish ad hominem attacks in direct comment replies, some of which you can still read.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPUYPovl4h3/
Basically they behaved like Cinemaphileners. It's all innocent clean fun here, but not appropriate for a business.
It wasn't that they "went woke" or whatever;
>the constant shifts in editorial over the past few years
>constant delays
>not paying writers and artists
probably paid a big part in HM finally shutting down
I imagine going hard on the NFT stuff probably didn’t help either
Nothing made for an exclusively male audience is commercially viable anymore
“Going woke” is always a desperate bid to attract women and only slightly delays the inevitable at best while alienating the existing audience completely, forever
See: literally every media franchise
>Nothing made for an exclusively male audience is commercially viable anymore
Unless it's Asian of course.
Then it can pull in millions.
John Wick? Mission Impossible?
Those were great but even they’re full of insufferable women now.
Not that anon and I don’t agree, I think more aptly israelites and women don’t allow things for men to exist
>Nothing made for an exclusively male audience is commercially viable anymore
They haven’t made anything like this in 2 decades. Not one company has.
Getting woke and going broke is practically a rule at this point.
Didn’t they not pay their artists too?