HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE #1 Greg Hildebrandt Cover

Heavy Metal Magazine is back! Heavier than ever! more a book than a magazine, with a massive 232 pages of art, stories, special features and more. This relaunch brings the world's greatest illustrated magazine back to the forefront of comics. One of the magazine's original line-up of legends, Enki Bilal, returns with the English language adaptation of his acclaimed BUG series. Michael Conrad (Hello Darkness, In Bloom) teams with Greek comics legend, Ilias Kyriazis (Collapser, What We Wished For), for an all-new series entitled Millstone. The outrageous Burton & Cyb returns with "Poor Monsters" by Antonio Segura and Jose Ortiz, as well as Vicente Segrelles' classic, The Mercenary. The English language debut of Janevsky's cult sci-fi heroine, Sixella. Guido Crepax's classic character Valentina returns by the hands of writer/artist Sergio Gerasi. Artist profile on Greg Hildebrandt. Includes 14 Variant Covers. Heavy Metal  harnesses the power of its own rich stable of characters, starting with the ultimate Taarakian warrior, Taarna! Writing duo Leah Moore and John Reppion will pen Taarna's ongoing adventures, accompanied by art from Anna Morozova. Also featuring one-shots of: "Cold Dead War (B-17)" by Craig Wilson, "Grimaldi" by Keron Grant, and "Legends of Taarna" by Joseph Michael Linsner. Fernando Dagnino (Suicide Squad) brings a new cyberpunk short: "Lester, That Old Feeling." The return of classic strips "The Bus" by Paul Kirchner and "June 2050" by John Workman. Visionary creators David Quinn and Tim Vigil deliver "Transcendestiny." Writer/artist Dwayne Harris gives us the fantasy tale "They Dug Too Deep." Jim Rugg exposes "Kecksburg UFO" and Jon Wayshak writes and draws a horror short entitled "Cobot." Plus interviews, The Dossier, prose fiction and more!