June, 1985, and on the radio and on MTV, 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', by Simple Minds, is in heavy rotation.
The latest issue of Heavy Metal magazine is out, with a front cover by Jim Cherry.
The Dossier section for this issue shows all the telltale signs of an 80s periodical whose staff have gotten access to PC-based 'desktop publishing' software. ....visible somewhere amidst the "...hey ! Look at this cool effect !" confusions are interviews about low-budget zombie movies; reviews about even more low-budget, obscure videos; word of a Stephen King newsletter; and an advertisement for the old-school art book by Roger Dean, Magnetic Storm.
The graphic / comic content of this issue is middling in terms of quality.There are further installments of Moreno's 'Rebel', Findley's 'Tex Arcana', Corben's 'Bodyssey', and Torres's 'Whisper Mystery'.
Charles Burns's 'El Borbah: Bone Voyage' series is the best of these, and concludes in this issue. I've pasted this installment below.
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1 comment:
thanks for another great Heavy Metal post, and the conclusion of the fine El Borbah - Bone Voyage.
Besides the installment of Tex Arcana, I liked the conclusion of the sometimes interminable Author in Search of Six Characters by Manara, and I liked the Torres Whisper Mystery, the Ghini and Corrado Sillavengo, and the Herikberto, for the interesting stylized feel it gave this issue. Though I understand how some of this could make people cross-eyed. The Bus is great too.
thanks again,
fred
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