I went to the comic book shop today and they had some new early Heavy Metal magazines in, among them a copy of issue 1 (April 1977) for $40(!), so of course I grabbed it. There is some slight creasing on the cover in the lower right corner where the page got folded at some point but otherwise the book is in excellent condition and according to the indicia is a real first print and not a reprint or anything.
Can’t believe my luck. Never thought I’d find this book in the wild and at an affordable price. I love the Heavy Metals from the ‘70s and ‘80s and try to buy them whenever I find them.
Whenever I went to dragoncon I would always grab a few back issues at more or less random, it’s fun. I love anthologies even if 75% of them are terrible
Just in time for the new Ultimate Spider-Man, I recently began reading the Miles Morales issues of that original run and was astounded at how solid it was, especially given Brian Michael Bendis’ reputation. That the Ultimate imprint had, at that point, lost all its luster turns out to be an asset, since it meant they could do whatever without having to worry about having a status quo to return to. I just wish that version of the character had managed to remain as part of his own universe, instead of being forced to share the role with main universe Peter Parker.
read a bunch of heavenly delusion and does the anime bring up kiruko’s WHOLE situation where he’s not just inhabiting his sister’s body but also was in love with her and this whole situation is simultaneously tragic and a freak fetish thing for him? cause wow
reading magical boys who are powered by their girliness. bokura wa mahou shounen, or we are magical boys. it’s EXTREMELY ADORABLE. fun arc for the main character who essentially gets tricked with the promise of being a superhero and goes through:
anger at having to wear a frilly skirt to do hero stuff
realizing he looks adorable but ashamed to admit it
“fuck it i’m cute as hell”
loves his cute best friend and hugs over emotional moments
it has such a sugary sweet super-deformed style, it will kill me
Ed Piskor of Hip Hop Family Tree fame has killed himself at age 41. His suicide note was a call to action for comicsgate people to attack everyone who ever told him that shit ws doing was not cool.
he definitely didn’t deserve to die. it was also a lot more than telling him what he was doing wasn’t cool. absolutely sick of everyone turning into cops over stuff that people need to be counseled over. we just came out of a culture for MANY MANY MANY YEARS where fucking teenagers is actually okay. people like David bowie got away with it their whole life. men and women adults actually need to be taught how to handle children in their adult spaces becyase for the first time ever (the internet) kids can literally go anywhere and adults can’t keep them out. we normalize and demonize talking to children at the same time and it makes everyone lose their mind
I’m not saying what he did was right. as an almost 40 year old I have no interest in talking to teens. but calling a 16 year old a naughty girl in DMS is not the death penalty. if it was every single man I talked to as a teen online would be dead. it’s disproportionate
It’s been weird how devicive saying. He shouldn’t have talked to underage girls like that, and dogpiling people at their lowest isn’t great either.
Also damming how there were clips of the week before Comicsgaters like EVS were joking about Ed killing himself then the next week acting like the moral police. Which comes back to us needing accountability.
I should note too Ed did a bad thing. I wasn’t a huge fan or anything but he seemed generally ok. He was talking to girls he should have online. Again not good, but in everything I’ve seen nothing physical ever happened. Those girls were right to call him out, and comparatively to stuff we saw years ago ME TOO has allowed for them to call it out earlier. That’s a kind of progress, and I think Ed was totally at a place where some counseling would have gone a long way.
On a much smaller scale, I’ve been dogpiled. Given that was happening as his whole life blew up I can see why he took his life. It was short-sighted, but he was also right in that he was never going to recover from this. He could have gotten better and released some things but this was always going to haunt him.
Seeing the reactions of some of the people called out in the letter shows that the comics community is wildly emotionally stunted. Very few calling for Ed’s victims to be shown empathy while also also showing empathy for Ed. A lot of defensive reactions and finger-pointing. Though some of that was useful via what I said about EVS earlier too. IDK. It’s a mess, a sad state of affairs. Also we seem to learn nothing.
What kills me the most is pedophilia in comics, pedos in the gaming space, pedos in Hollywood, pedos in the church, pedos in the boonies. Clearly, it’s more widespread. We always treat any intro to pedophilic action as a level-one criminal offense. I get why but we have to stop. We have to let these people discreetly come forward somewhere and get some fucking help otherwise this shit will never stop.
I wonder if the animation is intentionally 00s Flash animation style or if that was just what the budget allowed? Seems to fit very well w/ the overall vibe tho
