from Heavy Metal magazine, Fall 1987
Along with their 'Burton and Cyb' comics published in the 80s for the Spanish magazine Zona 84, the team of Antonio Segura and Jose Ortiz also were busy producing a post-apocalyptic story for the Spanish comic magazine Cimoc.
Titled 'Hombre' (i.e., 'Man'), these strips were translated into English and published in Heavy Metal during the mid-to-late 80s.
Below I've posted the inaugural episode of 'Man / Hombre' from the Fall 1987 issue of Heavy Metal.
Unfortunately, there are major problems with scanning this issue of the magazine due to the combination of underexposed print quality, and mediocre color separations. I've tried to compensate by Brightening my scans, but there is only so much brightening I can do before bleaching the colors too much and spoiling Jose Ortiz's great artwork.
What can I say ? That's how it was, back in '87............
Man, you're right, the colors did not work well on that lesser quality paper they were using then. Otherwise this "Man" may have been the best story in the issue, if not for the "magnificent" Moebius. I liked The Mercenary story and "The Creator" by Herikberto too.
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