Collection

I finally took a photo of my collection put together:

 

That's a lot.  It's been over 20 years since I got back into Heavy Metal Magazine and started collecting them again.  And it's over 10 years running my favorite blog here about my favorite magazine.  Much time and money has been expended in my pursuits.  (Though maybe it's not really so much.)  I kinda wonder what it'll be like when the next issues of the rebirthed Magazine start arriving.

And this isn't even all of it.  There's the score and soundtracks:

 

Plus a hoodie and a handful of other trinkets.

Yes I'm showing off a bit.  It's not like an actual accomplishment, but it's neat to have all this.  There's always more, but I'm not looking hard for all the little bits and variations that I might not have.

And more's to come.  The "Legacy #321" issue is still slated for April, 232 pages!  The largest issue ever by quite a bit.  And #2 and #3 are planned to follow.  When a new issue is in my hands I'll really believe it.

Nice ...

A Nice screenshot of a recent day's traffic on fred's old blog here.

 

That's pretty high for a day's traffic around these parts.  There's been a little increase lately, more interest growing from the magazine relaunching I suppose.  And it's nice that it's not just the Singapore and Hong Kong bots, they've been around but less assertive, it's mostly north America and some Europe.  Presumably some of them were real persons.

 

And there is news and progress.  I got order confirmation and even a survey (I actually completed it).  The new magazine #1 (or "Legacy #321", sheesh, as if the issue numbering isn't messed up enough already.) is to be shipped in April and is to be available at comic shops too.  

 

Lostboy has a couple news links on the excellent heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com site.  The Discord is still pretty active, more chatter and more people sharing their art.  Supposedly Heavy Metal is showing up as available from comic distributors to shops.

 

So far so good.  I'm hoping they get the new first issue shipped and more coming.  I never thought it would happen, and I'll be happy to be wrong here, when it does.