I don't care for the HM website in its present form. It seems to be a pile of slightly HM related stuff thrown up all over. It loads like crap on my dinosaur machine. There's little in news announcements or updates. It seems to grab some heavy metal music stuff too. It just doesn't seem to have any purpose. There was an "Issues" section when it was revamped, that could have put some focus on individual past issues, but it disappeared quickly.
There are sometimes some interesting bits. An occasional comic or short story is sometimes nice.
Something I did enjoy, is a preview of the December 1984 issue, billed as a holidaze gift from "30 years ago today", that is available as a .pdf of a scanned magazine. It's not at all perfect, a couple pages are misarranged or misaligned, and not all pages are included. It's not one of the mag's finest issues either, as it neared the end of its monthly run. However, it is a nice opportunity for anyone who doesn't have this issue to see some of it, and it does have a few good parts, including a Corben cover, an interview with Frederico Fellini, an installment of "An Author in Search of Six Characters" by Milo Manara, and some Tex Arcana and Rock Opera.
(it was funny that at first the link for the download went to some sort of web email launcher, instead of the download, but it seems to work now.)
So I'd recommend anyone interested to go to the HM website and grab this free preview, before it disappears in the disjointed mess the site is now. There's a link on my "Links" page, or you can use the awesome power of the internet to find it yourself. Enjoy.
2 comments:
(BiLL) the magazine is changing a lot and the covers is not pleasing me they should improve the covers what I do not like the hm are the new covers!
I'm not very crazy about the website now either, Fred. It has become "yet another webzine", and with inconsistent updates and all over the map content. And I type this even while having both a short prose story and short comic story of my own up there.
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