Heavy Metal Magazine Fan Page

October 30, 2024 - NEWS - Metal Hurlant Returning In English
TheWrap has a good summery of what's new. The French Métal Hurlant stopped in 1987. It was reactivated in 2002 in French, English, and other languages, but stopped again after only 14 issues. It was reactivated again in 2021 in French, and will be returning in English in the spring of 2025 as a 272+ page quarterly, after it's Kickstarter campaign.

October 25, 2024 - NEWS - What's Happening With Heavy Metal
Bleeding Cool has a good summery of what's new. The CEO is still Marshall Lees. CMO is Chris Carmichael, Editor-in-Chief is Frank Forte, Executive Editor is Dave Kelly, and Editorial Manager is Chris Thompson. Most announcements can be found on Heavy Metal's Discord or Facebook. The newly relaunched magazine will be out sometime in 2025, and contain nearly 200 pages. It'll start quarterly, and they're hoping to increase from there. They're resetting the numbering to start over as issue #1. A Kickstarter will begin sometime in November (check out the new cover on that page). Heavy Metal is still working through past orders. Because of the high volume, email replies may take many weeks or months.

August 20, 2024 - NEWS - Heavy Metal Breaks Silence And Is Fixing Orders
Heavy Metal is under new ownership, new management, and is in the process of relaunching. Their website is under construction, and they've finally taken their Store offline. They encourage people who have had issues with their past orders, to email them at their new email hello@heavymetal.com. The email does work, although a reply could take a couple weeks or more. They've also broken their silence on Facebook, and have a new Discord, which they say their upcoming announcements will be posted there first.

June 15, 2024 - NEWS - Heavy Metal Is In The Process Of Reactivating
Discussions on Discord have confirmed the previous rumors are true; Heavy Metal is returning with Frank Forte as the Editor-In-Chief. The magazine has the same owner as before.

May 24, 2024 - 2022 SDCC Issues Added To Magazine List
With my recent update to the Magazine List, it looks like I missed 2 variants. In 2022, issues #314 and #316 had San Diego Comic Con exclusive versions with a metal cover.

May 21, 2024 - NEWS - Is Heavy Metal Alive?
According to Bleeding Cool it is. And Frank Forte is the new Editor-In-Chief.

May 21, 2024 - Do Not Order From HeavyMetal.Com
Since around 2021, there have been increasing reports about people not receiving their items purchased online, and subscriptions not being fulfilled. It seems at that time there were 2 warehouses. Since 2017, Bandwear in Texas is one of the fulfilment services. They have most of the pre-2020 issues. There's another company in New Jersey that had most of the 2020+ issues. Against my own warnings, I decided to test this, and place a few orders. I feel like the set up is the same today. I ordered a couple issues from the 1980's and 1990's. Bandwear fulfilled these. They seem to be active, communicating, and sending purchases. I haven't ordered anything from Heavy Metal in a long time because their packaging was always really bad. There are still reports from people that actually do get something from the New Jersey company that the packaging is still really bad. But surprisingly, Bandwear packaged their issues well. However, even with decent packaging, these old issues were still in horrible shape; it's like they were rescued from a flood. I requested new issues sent out, and they did, but the replacement copies were still in the same condition. I ordered a handful more issues from 2013 to 2019. All but 1 issue arrived in perfect condition. The one that didn't, I requested a replacement, and that copy had the same problems. I also ordered #298 from 2020. It arrived in perfect condition. Unfortunately it was the wrong version. When I let them know, I was refunded and the site was updated to "Out of Stock". I also ordered a few issues from #299 and up. None of those were shipped and I lost my money. I guess the New Jersey company was supposed to handle these. Bandwear couldn't help me with that issue; they don't have information about the other company. Any email sent to anything @heavymetal.com received no reply. I know somehow Heavy Metal uses Shopify, but contacting them, I only got the automatic reply, "We have already created an issue related to your order", with no follow up. So, again, I do not recommend ordering from Heavy Metal. Your mileage may vary. Condition is not guaranteed. And if the order is fulfilled by the New Jersey company, then expect your money to be gone, and have nothing to show for it.

February 29, 2024 - Moebius Issue Added To Magazine List
I've had a change of mind. I previously didn't consider the 1981 issue Heavy Metal Presents Moebius as a real Special Edition. But after learning about the UPC numbers, and seeing that it's the first issue to use the code for all future Special Editions, I've decided to add it to the Magazine List. I have more details in my FAQ. I didn't update the Covers pages; that's a lot of work for my very out of date web design software. I've also updated the Checklist, combining the regular and special editions, as accurate as I could figure out in order of the date they were released, and including all the new issues. Because of all the variant covers, the later half of the checklist is a bit messy, but it's the best way I could figure it out in a condensed form.

February 20, 2024 - NEWS - Is Heavy Metal Dead?
Maybe not. But it’s been very ill, and for almost a year there have been little to no signs of life. This is old news from last year, but I felt I had to report on it. Heavy Metal haven't released any new magazines since April 2023. I do not recommend buying anything from HeavyMetal.com right now; the store is still taking orders and money, but there are many reports of people not receiving anything. I’ve updated the History page to include what has gone on for the past 12 years. Thanks mainly to Variety, Bleeding Cool, RM Rhodes’ page a day, and fred’s HM fan blog, where I pieced together a lot of the information from. I’ve also updated the Magazine List with very basic information (no index) for 2012-2023.

November 12, 2011 - 10 Years
I started this Heavy Metal Magazine Fan Page on November 12, 2001. Now, 10 years later, I've decided to semi-retire the News portion of my site. I will also be removing any future unreleased projects, such as movies and games. I will also stop posting new issues of the magazine. The majority of the rest of my site will remain the same, focusing more on the history of Heavy Metal, rather then the future of the franchise. The reason for this change is that I'm looking to free up some of my own free time. I love doing this site. It's a hobby I enjoy. But keeping this site updated does take up a lot of time. However, my site won't be completely abandoned. By freeing up my updating time, it will give me more time to tidy up or expand the rest of my site. I may also add new things from time to time after they're released, such as new movies, or magazines. In the world of Heavy Metal, there are many things to look forward to, such as movies. Of course the new Heavy Metal movie with Robert Rodriguez, that has been quiet since the announcement in July. Metal Hurlant Chronicles is also quickly coming up (check out the newest trailer). It still needs to find a home in North America though. Europe will start seeing it April 2012. I'm not sure what's happened to the Barbarella remake. It's been quiet for over a year, and was in slow development even before then. Although Captain Sternn looks promising, as it's currently developing a 3 minute trailer to promote to studios. Fistful Of Blood has also been quiet for the last year. Although there's a new movie recently announced, called Sundown Seven. Could this be the same project, just updated? It will also have a graphic novel published by Heavy Metal at some point. And of course there's War Of The Worlds: Goliath. This is the one project I will keep posting news on, until it's released, which should be mid-2012.