Aug 25, 2016-Heavy Metal 282, our Sci-Fi Special, is on its way—coming soon to your local comic book retailer, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and the HeavyMetal.com Store! This is the one you’ve been hearing so much about, featuring covers by the winners of our Threadless Cover Contest. You can see the newsstand cover and three variants above.

Highlights of this issue include two stories by the team of Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes: the verbose and trippy “Industria,” and the wordless, mysterious “The Key.” Pahek‘s “Gavrilo C-914″ takes us to Sarajevo in the year 3914, while the gallery of Jakub Rozalski‘s paintings takes us back to Poland in the year 1920 — but it’s not the 1920 you’d expect. Continuing in the parallel-universe, alternate-history vein, there’s “America Owns the Moon,” a tale by Craig Wilson that takes us beyond the feat of landing on the green-cheese orb. We’ve also got previews of two Heavy Metal standalone series, both writtern by Donny Cates: “Atomahawk,” a trippy, cyber-tribal chop-a-rama illustrated by Ian Bederman; and “Interceptor,” an already-acclaimed, already-underway series about space vampires, pictures by Dylan Burnett. You’ll also find the continuation of “Zentropa,” by John Mahoney, and “Salsa Invertebraxa” by Mozchops; as well as the conclusion of Enki Bilal‘s “Julia and Roem.” In the grand sci-fi tradition, Leonie O’Moore‘s “The Human Curse” seeks to better understand our own species through alien eyes; “Genres,” by Diego Agrimbau and Pietro starts from a similar perspective, but goes in a much different direction.

If all that weren’t enough, we’ve got a Bill Sienkiewicz classic from 1985, freshly remastered by the master himself. This is an issue not to be missed! Pick it up at your local comic book retailer, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million or the HeavyMetal.com Store!

NOTE: Subscribers and those who pre-order the issue from our online shop will receive the issue around August 31; it will hit shelves in terrestrial stores September 7.

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About Heavy Metal

First published in 1977, Heavy Metal Magazine, the world’s foremost illustrated magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, alternate realities, science fiction and horror, in the past, present, and future. Writers and illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed. Heavy Metal Magazine was the first publisher to bring European legends like Mœbius, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Tanino Liberatore, Milo Manara, Enki Bilal, and Pepe Moreno to the U.S. while showcasing non-mainstream American superstars like Richard Corben, Berni Wrightson, Arthur Suydam, Vaughn Bode and Frank Frazetta. The magazine continues to showcase amazing new talent along with established creators. Heavy Metal Magazine features serialized and standalone stories, artist galleries, short stories in prose and interviews. Recent creators have featured Grant Morrison, Stephen King, Kelley Jones, Bart Sears, Tim Seeley and Kevin Eastman. With new issues on the horizon, Heavy Metal promises to boldly go where no magazine has gone before. Explore ancient secrets, forgotten worlds and savage futures…experience Heavy Metal.

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‍About Heavy Metal (film)

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.

The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.

Its soundtrack was packaged by music manager Irving Azoff and included several popular rock bands and artists, including Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Sammy Hagar, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, DEVO, Journey, and Nazareth, among others.

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