Real stuff is really happening. The HM website is up and filled with lots of things, the Discord has increasing flurries of hints and chatter. The Kickstarter has raised some interest and may be starting soon. No online shop as of yet, no firm magazine issue date, but social media is reactivating and linked on the site main page.
I'm pleasantly surprised. I'll believe it when I see the new issue of the paper magazine as I hold it in my hands, but it sure looks like they're gaining momentum.
There are still some quirks and questions, along with some great developments. Much of the discourse on the Discord is artists speaking up and showing off and expressing interest in being in Heavy Metal Magazine. There's also much other talk about what people want or don't want the mag to be. I'm still trying to get used to navigating it, but it's informative to observe.
The website includes a magazine index with cover images, some with content indexes and previews, some not, that is a work in progress. Some of the recent issue entries only have one cover image, even though most had multiple cover images by then.
I like how the website resurrected some of the old articles from previous website iterations, and how some links in the articles I saw were updated to refer to web archive versions. I thought this one about Ray Harryhausen was a real treat, from 2019.
I enjoyed seeing an article again about Rock Opera including a link to a still-active youtube with Rod Kierkegaard Jr talking about it. It's from almost 10 years ago. Amazing.
There are newer articles too, some linking short films and other art. A couple about the 1981 movie. I'm not likely to read every older article, or every newer article, but I will enjoy looking at them, paging through the site every so often while waiting for more Heavy Metal Magazine developments. I've heard it'll be a quarterly with the first issue appearing early 2025. We'll see how true that becomes.
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Man, I hated 'Rock Opera,' and 'Changes,' by Matt Howarth, and 'Professor Thinwhistle' by Lupoff and Stiles. Any restart of HM needs to stay away from that stuff..........
Ha! Sorry I won't agree with you there, Rock Opera was one of my favorites of the couple years thru 1985 of monthly issues, as the mag otherwise lost steam (in my opinion) after the 1981 movie. I enjoyed the sarcasm and creative use of reference images for the art, and how it stood out from much of what was otherwise in the mag at the time. But you're not alone, many others in the "Chain Mail" letters expressed disgust and dismay towards Rock Opera.
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