Huh. I search around for HM clues every so often, I rarely find anything.
But I came across a podcast interview with Tommy Coriale, touting Heavy Metal branded cannabis, that was dated just this past August. About a month past the July announcement of the magazine's demise. My suspicion is that the interview was recorded before the final implosion, and put up regardless of its reality.
It's mostly Mr Coriale chattering about how awesome HM weed products are, prefaced with some blather about Heavy Metal's "brand". He's not entirely wrong all the time, but it's tiresome to hear lazy opinions about my favorite magazine. Like fabricating a correlation between early Heavy Metal Magazine and heavy metal music. It's just not correct. Music was often featured, but it was mostly "rock" at the time (or "rok" if you were Lou Stathis, and by the time he showed up in the early 80s, it was mostly punk and new-wave on the scene anyway). Or like saying that the 1981 Heavy Metal movie was the first feature animated adult movie (Fritz the Cat would like to have a word).
There was some talk about QR linked art on the HM weed packaging, that probably works as well as the Heavy Metal AR app that was featured in HM #289 does (or did). Much like the talk of new movies and digital products and other crap that didn't materialize while the jokers and clowns sunk the ship, it's so much dust in the wind. My feeling is that, if there's anything left of HM, it's Mr Coriale pretending he owns the brand and can sell weed with it, if even that.
For me, I'm mostly just paging through old mags for connections and ideas for a new post or two, I've got a couple in mind, and trying to keep my eyes open from beneath the rock I live under for any hints of my departed favorite magazine, and thinking about updating my little blog.
