Heavy Metal comic mocks its core fan base. - Not a good way to keep old fans.

[biozeminadae1]

A mediocre magazine in the past, a shit one now. I hope it dies.

 

[Van Darkholme]

SJWs and other snowflakes still won't buy your magazine, regardless of how many layers of armor you put on your characters. The only thing they will accomplish is alienating their normal target audience.
I don't understand how the publishers do not get this simple fact.

 

[:gold:]

SJWs and other snowflakes still won't buy your magazine, regardless of how many layers of armor you put on your characters. The only thing they will accomplish is alienating their normal target audience.
I don't understand how the publishers do not get this simple fact.

They overestimate their brand loyalty.

 

[Van Darkholme]

It sure as shit didn't help Marvel.

 

[XYZpdq]

Came out around the time 2000 came out, but its based on original designs that artists who worked on Heavy Metal created, with Kevin Eastman being a creative consultant on it.

Also actual Heavy Metal soundtrack

It only came out for the Arcade (Naomi based hardware) and Sega Dreamcast, and was over shadowed by both Power Stone games and Spawn, so thats probably why you haven't heard of it

oh, I heard of it, hell I saw it in an arcade
it's just that FAKK2000 and related material is kinda shit so I didn't touch it

 

[Syaoran Li]

It sure as shit didn't help Marvel.

Marvel and DC don't have to be good, since they've got Disney and Warner keeping them afloat and making bank off capeshit movies.

Heavy Metal doesn't have those kind of benefactors and the only movies they had were that weird cartoon from the 80's and the other one they did back in 2000.

If Heavy Metal's trying to go woke to endear themselves to the Woke Left because DC and Marvel do it, they're in for a rude awakening.

Marvel and DC get away with it since they're really just glorified IP farms for Disney and Warner, who are the two biggest companies in Hollywood.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Marvel and DC don't have to be good, since they've got Disney and Warner keeping them afloat and making bank off capeshit movies.

Heavy Metal doesn't have those kind of benefactors and the only movies they had were that weird cartoon from the 80's and the other one they did back in 2000.

If Heavy Metal's trying to go woke to endear themselves to the Woke Left because DC and Marvel do it, they're in for a rude awakening.

Marvel and DC get away with it since they're really just glorified IP farms for Disney and Warner, who are the two biggest companies in Hollywood.

That's what I meant earlier:
Marvel and DC suck SJW dick, but it severely disenfranchises a lot of their fans and their sales are in the shitter.
You'd think it's a total no-brainer to just go for non-SJW content, cause all the fans that just wanna watch strong dudes and sexy babes kicking ass would instantly flock to your product... but instead, Heavy Metal "goes with the times" and they do so in a way that spits in the face of the people that bought their stuff in the past.

Who is going to pick that comic book up now? It sure as shit ain't those faux-fans that buy Star-Wars branded deep fries and FemThor funko pops, cause those assholes would never get caught dead buying a comic book.

 

[Solid Snek]

Marvel and DC don't have to be good, since they've got Disney and Warner keeping them afloat and making bank off capeshit movies.

Heavy Metal doesn't have those kind of benefactors and the only movies they had were that weird cartoon from the 80's and the other one they did back in 2000.

If Heavy Metal's trying to go woke to endear themselves to the Woke Left because DC and Marvel do it, they're in for a rude awakening.

Marvel and DC get away with it since they're really just glorified IP farms for Disney and Warner, who are the two biggest companies in Hollywood.

That may be the point, though.

I tend to avoid comic wars stuff, since comics aren't really a fandom I'm interested in. But the indie comic guy, YaBoyZack, has argued that a lot of what's been going on in comics is just about occupying or destroying key infrastructure.

Yes, from a business perspective, this is a ridiculously stupid decision. But if wokies are in control of Heavy Metal, then that may not even matter. They can drive the company out of business, ruin the IPs, and then... what? It's no big deal for the employees, they can just move on and get a new job in one of their friend's companies. The only people that suffer any longterm loss are bluecollar straight men who happen to enjoy Heavy Metal, and making those poor sods miserable is sort of the point, isn't it?

If you feel like you're on a holy mission to destroy fun and male escapism, then suicide-bombing your own company is just one of the things you do.

 

[Syaoran Li]

That's what I meant earlier:
Marvel and DC suck SJW dick, but it severely disenfranchises a lot of their fans and their sales are in the shitter.
You'd think it's a total no-brainer to just go for non-SJW content, cause all the fans that just wanna watch strong dudes and sexy babes kicking ass would instantly flock to your product... but instead, Heavy Metal "goes with the times" and they do so in a way that spits in the face of the people that bought their stuff in the past.

Who is going to pick that comic book up now? It sure as shit ain't those faux-fans that buy Star-Wars branded deep fries and FemThor funko pops, cause those assholes would never get caught dead buying a comic book.

Like I mentioned earlier, it at least can be sorta justified for Marvel and DC since even if their sales are in the shitter, Disney and Warner will keep them afloat.

Who owns the rights to Heavy Metal? If they go woke and go broke, it could have actual consequences for them.

Being non-woke (even if it's just apolitical instead of "based" or whatever) is practically a license to print money for niche comics like them.

Did the payment processors threaten them or something?

That may be the point, though.

I tend to avoid comic wars stuff, since comics aren't really a fandom I'm interested in. But the indie comic guy, YaBoyZack, has argued that a lot of what's been going on in comics is just about occupying or destroying key infrastructure.

Yes, from a business perspective, this is a ridiculously stupid decision. But if wokies are in control of Heavy Metal, then that may not even matter. They can drive the company out of business, ruin the IPs, and then... what? It's no big deal for the employees, they can just move on and get a new job in one of their friend's companies. The only people that suffer any longterm loss are bluecollar straight men who happen to enjoy Heavy Metal, and making those poor sods miserable is sort of the point, isn't it?

If you feel like you're on a holy mission to destroy fun and male escapism, then suicide-bombing your own company is just one of the things you do.

The fact these people view this as a "holy mission" and will literally destroy businesses solely to trigger and own the White males is quite frankly terrifying and unhealthy.

I don't know what their hateboner is towards male escapism of any kind but it's insane, autistic, and retarded. And the worst part is that it might be true given the Twitter nutcases that work in the comic book industry.

 

[Ted_Breakfast]

I don't know what their hateboner is towards male escapism of any kind but it's insane, autistic, and retarded.

It's a major tenet of their state-sponsored religion. Functionally, it's like bizarro Confucianism.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Heavy Metal & Range Media Partners Team To Generate Edgy Sci-Fi Fantasy IP For Films, TV

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Range Media Partners and Heavy Metal Magazine are partnering up to exploit the film and TV potential of IP from the iconic sci-fi/fantasy illustrated magazine brand. Heavy Metal will co-produce projects with Range Media.

Founded in 1977, Heavy Metal generated a self-titled 1981 animated hard R-rated cult film with eroticism and violence, and stories from the magazine over the years informed such films as Blade Runner (Philip K. Dick first published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in the mag) and The Fifth Element. The magazine published the original Alien Graphic Novel when the original film was released in 1979.

Heavy Metal has hired Tommy Coriale as President and Head of Studio, to spearhead the launch of its film and television divisions. Coriale is the former Head of DIGA Studios (Scream, Teen Wolf) who oversaw all aspects of that company’s content creation in scripted, unscripted, podcast and publishing. Heavy Metal’s CEO is Matthew Medney, and its Chief Creative Overlord and Publisher is David Erwin. Medney continues to also run Herø Projects and has written scifi and graphic novels.

Iconic Sci-Fi Comic Brand Heavy Metal Moves Into TV With Adaptation Of Blake Northcott’s ‘Arena Mode Saga’

Erwin oversees creative strategies and franchise building and before this served as Hasbro’s Transformers Creative Lead on properties including Micronauts, ROM and more. Before that he spent 16 years as creative director of DC Comics.

Beyond an original film that gained cult status and a hard R rating – David Fincher once tried to put together a Heavy Metal anthology film but found no takers and he and Tim Miller repurposed the concept into something else – Heavy Metal has been quiet, but has continually published. When it formed, Range Media Partners set a goal to identify brands it would help turn into IP producers, and so the match seems a good one here.

Said CEO Matthew Medney: “”Heavy Metal is one of those moments in time that if presented with, one has to build an army to realize its full potential. There are no better generals I could have imagined acquiring than Peter Micelli, Michael Cooper, Dave Bugliari and the entire Range Media family. And with Tommy Coriale joining my inner circle, we have the pieces in place to launch an all-out assault on reshaping and redefining how genre stories are told on the screen.”
Tommy Coriale Heavy Metal

Medney told Deadline he became CEO 18 months ago, and brought Heavy Metal back to a monthly publication schedule for the first time since 1985. Before that it published four to six times annually in the years since its heyday in the late ‘70s and ‘80s.

“Heavy Metal drew the fan base it in the ’80s because it spoke to the youth of that era,” Medney said. “Being uncomfortable with change is at the core of Heavy Metal, and our creative overlord David Erwin had a great line in that, if you see something and it doesn’t make you uncomfortable, it means it’s probably not that unique. That is something we hold dear, pushing to create something that might be uncomfortable for us but might be what today’s generation needs, as we also try paying respect to those who built the platform over many years.”

Said Coriale: “The best comp I can draw is the R rated model. The ability to reach fan bases, young and old, through edgy, exciting sci-fi, fantasy and horror content, there’s a white space out there and I feel like the fans are asking for this. You can see in the evolution of genre films and TV shows over the past few years, they are getting edgier and darker. With Heavy Metal, we hope to slide right in there. We think the opportunity is there and we are ready to see it through.”
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“Our lead character from the movie is Taarna, and she remains the flagship character whose comics are sold out nationwide right now, with Eisner winner Christian Ward doing the art and Harley Quinn writer Stephanie Phillips writing it,” he said. “The brand, the comic side has been in a holding pattern up till 18 months ago and now we are building speed.”

Coriale told Deadline that “the strategy on the film side is to take some of the best properties, old and new, partner up with the biggest auspices in entertainment and bring them to life through TV and film. Matt’s idea was to build from within a film and TV department that could identify those properties and identify the right partners. That led to the partnership with Range Media, which gives us representation in the business, and opens the door to those big offices. If you look back at everyone from Ridley Scott to Jon Favreau and everyone who has directed genre, credits Heavy Metal as being a big inspiration in sci-fi and horror. The plan is to capitalize on that, partner with some of those people and bring it off the page and onto the screen.”
David Erwin Heavy Metal

Coriale said they have quietly developed a slate they will soon be bringing to market with Range. “Pete, Dave, Coop and the rest of the Range team, what they are doing besides representation, producing capabilities to co-financing and financing opportunity, they are building a one-stop shop for this publication. We see them as creative producers and financiers.”

RMP partner Michael Cooper called Heavy Metal “an institution. They are a treasure chest of brilliant art and stories and creativity. We are honored to build with them and translate their masterworks into other mediums. Their team is incredible and we are proud to partner with them.”

Edgy. Oh, boy.

I was wondering if some sort of leap to Hollywood was planned, and here it is. I guess because this strategy of going to NetFlix and Hulu worked out so well for IDW? Though since Heavy Metal is privately owned, we'll never know how well or poorly they're doing, unlike IDW.

I'm also a little confused about the claim of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep being published in the magazine. The book came out a decade before Heavy Metal existed. And aside from Taarna I'm not even sure what "properties" they own.

 

[Dom Cruise]

When you can't really on even Heavy Metal for hot comic babes, you know we've hit a new low.

We keep hoping Woke is on it's way out but it only seems to be spreading and spreading and infecting more and more things.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Comics are a dying industry with horrific sales. Single manga series outsell the entire industry. Better copy what everyone else is doing an failing to get in on that sweet...uh...failure?

 

[garakfan69]

>Americans completely fuck up a French comic as soon as they get a hold of it
Imagine being worse than the French.

 

[LullerDerbyRollin]

>Americans completely fuck up a French comic as soon as they get a hold of it
Imagine being worse than the French.

Probably because the French are too busy fucking up other things to woke it to death themselves.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Holy shit. Fucking really? So now a magazine that's meant to have lewd adult comics is going to destroy the one thing that made it big in the first place? This sucks. I'm a Heavy Metal fan and love the original movie too, so it saddens me to see them bending the knee to social justice. Not only that, but they're spitting in the faces of their fans. They're lying to their faces too by insisting this bullshit is somehow "pushing the envelope." No it fucking isn't!

 

[Jackie Puppet]

I fucking hate the snarky social media pr people some of these companies have. "We don't want fans like that" "get with the times or go the way of the dinosaurs." Go fuck yourself, faggot. Soon you won't have any fans and your dumb comic will be extinct. Not because you covered some cartoon titties up with armor but because of your douchey response to your fans.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

>Americans completely fuck up a French comic as soon as they get a hold of it
Imagine being worse than the French.

The one thing the French are actually good at is Comics (specifically Franco-Belgian comics) and sometimes their animation.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

No pics?

Come on, man.

Original:

Remake:

 

[kaien]

oh, I heard of it, hell I saw it in an arcade
it's just that FAKK2000 and related material is kinda shit so I didn't touch it

Yeah, Geomatrix doesn't actually have anything to do with FAKK2 or any other movie/comic strip. It was its own IP. Just happened to have the Heavy Metal name and very Heavy Metal character designs by Simon Bisley. It was one of the last -- maybe the absolute last? -- Naomi arcade games developed by Capcom. They did Spawn: In the Demon's Hand on the same basic engine/game design, but I forget if that ever came out in the arcades or if it was only a Dreamcast release.

Geomatrix wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. Fun little relic.

As to the Taarna thing, I'll be the first to say her outfit is corny exploitative '80s throwback shit. That's the whole point. People read Heavy Metal for corny exploitative '80s throwback shit. Their average reader is probably pushing 50 years old by now, at least. If they think they're going to succeed as an anthology version of Vertigo or Image Central, man, I sure wouldn't let them pick horses for me. I could give a fuck about the politics of it either way, but it's obviously bad business.