RIP Heavy Metal Magazine.
It only took about a week for me to notice, but it's out that Heavy Metal Magazine has been dropped by Massive (formerly Whatnot Publishing), who had been slated to publish the so-called Vol. 2.
It will not. Heavy Metal Magazine is no more.
Bleeding Cool apparently broke the news, I saw something on Multiversity Comics, and there's some reddit on it. (edit) I finally found the Massive announcement. There's more out there I'm sure. I don't expect many eulogies, but there may be some, and those will usually be incomplete and inadequate, or sometimes so stupid that it should be criminal. (An example I came across demonstrates the Artificial Stupidity reinforced by the modern media landscape, of dimwits parroting stupidities fed to them. I knew this clown was one of them, when he complained about Taarna wearing clothes, but couldn't even spell the name right.) I doubt I'll do a complete retrospective either, but I may have more thoughts to share someday.
Mostly I will be grateful for my many years of fanboyhood, and take comfort in my hundreds of magazines.
I will also say "Thank You" to all those who worked to produce the mag over the decades, from the beginning to the end, and especially to Kevin Eastman for keeping it going well past its expiration date.
I'll also have a big fuck you to the clowns and jokers who were in charge the last few years. It didn't have to end this way, but it did, and it's your fault. May the poor slobs victimized by your hubris and incompetence find solace and comfort, somewhere. May your names forever live in infamy in the sordid history of Heavy Metal Magazine.
While Heavy Metal Magazine may not be back, I will.
