Argumento
f you’re a Heavy Metal magazine reader, you have a taste for the darkness — the best stories never have happy endings, and that’s ok. In this issue, we’re plunging into the darkness once again, plunging far into and through it — we’re going beyond the darkness. It’s the Beyond The Darkness Special. Won’t you come along?
Heavy Metal 293: Beyond The Darkness Special in the Heavy Metal Shop:
Cover A by FLAVIO GRECO PAGLIA
Cover B by BEEPLE
Cover C by WANJIN GIM
Cover D by ANTONIO J. MANZANEDO
Let’s start with the elephant in the room, that master of darkness you all know and love, Mr. Stephen King. YES — Stephen King returns to the pages of Heavy Metal 38 years after we published his story “The Blue Air Compressor” in 1981. This time around, it’s his story “Little Green God of Agony,” adapted and illustrated by Dennis Calero. A physically broken, very rich man lies in a high-tech hospital bed. Why can’t he get better — is it his entitled attitude, or, hmm, maybe, a small, evil god?
That’s dark. Care to go darker? How about two stories that mirror each other, slightly, two tales of futuristic loneliness. In Timothy Bacon’s “S.O.L.U.S.” we get to know the last survivor on a barren Earth, a caretaker of sorts. The character at the center of in Manuel Montesinos’ “The Guest” inhabits a vessel drifting through space — is she the last human alive? She doesn’t know. Space madness — it’s a thing.
What is existence like for devils and demons, those who live beyond the darkness? It’s no circle of life, that’s for sure — “Doppeldamons” (by Pedrazzoli, Pinto and Percio) and “Mother Death” (by Rios and Leal) both tell stories of the circle of death.
“Holy Wars… The Punishment Due” by Tim Seeley and Ignacio Calero (excerpted from Megadeth: Death By Design) explores our dark need for overlords, corporate or otherwise, while the hungry space explorer of Pahek’s “Green Grower From Rigbadal” finds he’s landed on one of those eat-or-be-eaten planets. “White Death,” by Diego Agrimbau and Eduardo Risso, is a tale of voodoo, colonialism, and revolt.
Contents
S.O.L.U.S. By Tomithy E. Bacon
DOPPELDAMONS by Emilia Pedrazzoli, Emiliano Pinto and Facundo Percio
THE DOOR (CHAPTER 5) by Michael Moreci and Esau Escorza
GALLERY - John Kenn Mortensen
MOTHER DEATH by Homer’s Rios and Naphtali Leal
LITTLE GREEN GOD OF AGONY by Stephen King and Dennis Calero
GALLERY - Flavio Greco Paglia
THE GUEST by Manuel D. Montesinos
MEGADETH’s HOLY WARS...PUNISHMENT DUE by Time Seeley and Ignacio Calero with Carlos Cabrera
GALLERY - Denis Zhbankov
MURKY WORLD (Chapters 6 & 7) by Richard Corben
GREEN GROWER FROM RIGBADAL by Z. Pahek
WHITE DEATH by Diego Agrimbau and Eduardo Risso