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Immortality,
by William S. Burroughs, 4

Bloodstar. by Robert E. Howard.

Adapted by John Jakes and John
Pocsik. Illustrated by
Richard Corben, 8

Tex Arcana, by John Findley, 24

Pillars of P- 11507.
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The Immortals' Fete,

by Enki Bilal, 33

Cody Starbuck,
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Gallery, featuring
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Changes, by Matt Howarth, 65

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Valentina, by Crepax, 75

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Illustrated by Arthur Suydam, 83

Rock Opera,
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The Bus, by Paul Kirchner, 96

Editorial, 6

Chain Mail: Blood and froth,

all over Harlan!, 6

Coming Next Month, 96

Front cover,
Enter Adam, by Enrich

Back cover, Cody Starbuck,

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Bloodsfar." by Robert E Howard, ill

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'To me the only success, die only greatness*, is immortality." parts hunters, like the dreaded Wild Doctors, who operate on each
—James Dean, quoted mjemes Dean: The Mutant King, by David other after the battle, cutting the warm quivering parts from the
Daltcra dead and dying. Cut-and-grab men dart out of doorways and hack
out a kidney with a few expert strokes of their four-inch scalpels.
People have lost all shame. Here's a man who sold his daughter's
last kidney to buy himself a new groin —
appears on TV to appeal for
I he colonel beams at the crowd. .pomaded, manicured, he
. funds to buy little Sally an artificial kidney and give her this last
wears the satisfied expression of one who has just sold the widow a Christmas. On his arm is a curvaceous blond known apparently as
fraudulent peach orchard. "Folks, we're here to sell the only thing Bubbles. She calls him Long John: now isn't that cute?
worth selling or wortli baying and that's immortality. Now here is A flourishing black market in parts grows up in the gutted cities
the simplest solution and well on the way. Just replace the worn-out devastated by parts riots. In terrible slums, scenes from Brueghel
parts and keep the old heap on the road indefinitely. and Bosch are reenacted; misshapen masses of rotten scar tissue
crawling with maggots supported on crutches and canes, in wheel-
As transplant techniques are perfected and refined, the age-old chairs and carts. Brutal-as-butchers practitioners operate without
dream of immortality is now within the grasp of mankind. But who is anesthetic in open-air booths surrounded by their bloody knives and
to decide out of a million applicants for the same heart? There simply saws.
aren't enough parts to go around. You need the job lot once a year to The poor wait in parts lines for diseased genitals, a cancerous
save 20 percent, folks. Big executives use a heart a month just as lung, a cirrhotic liver. They crawl towards the operating booths
regular as clockwork. Warlords, paying off their soldiers in livers holding forth nameless things in bottles that they think are usable
and kidneys and genitals, depopulate whole areas. Vast hospital parts.Shameless swindlers who buy up operating garbage in job lots
cities cover the land; the air-conditioned hospital palaces of the rich prey on the unwary.
radiate out to field hospitals and open-air operating booths. And here is Mr. Rich Parts. He is three hundred years old. He is

The poor are rising in huge mobs. They are attacking government stili mere thought of it throws
subject to accidental death, and the
warehouses where the precious parts are stored. Everyone who can him paroxysms of idiot terror. For days he cowers in his bun-
into
afford it has dogs and guards to protect himself from roving bands of ker,two hundred feet down in solid rock, food for fifty years. A trip
from one city to another requires months of sifting and checking
computerized plans and alternate routes to avoid the possibility of an
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accident. His idiolic cowardice knows no bounds. There he sits, opens many doors. Your spirit could reside in a number of bodies,
looking like a Chimu vase with a thick layer of smooth purple scar not as some hideous parasite draining the host, but as helpful little
tissue. Encased as he is in this armor, his movements are slow and visitor. "Roger he Lodger, .don't take up much room, .show you a
I

hydraulic. It takes him ten minutes to sit down. This layer gets tnck or two. .never overstay my welcome."
thicker and thicker right down to the bone —
the doctors have to Take fifty photos of the same person over an hour. Some of them
operate with power tools. So we leave Mr. Rich Parts and the look so unlike the subject as to be unrecognizable. And some of
will
picturesque parts people their monument, a mountain of scar tissue. them will look like some other person. "Why. he looks just like
Khrushchev with one gold tooth peeking out."
As L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, said: "The lightest The illusion of a separate, inviolable identity limits your percep-
right a man could be would be to live infinitely wrong." wrote tions and confines you in time. You other people and other
"wrong" for "long" and the slip is significant — for the
I

means by people live in you

— "visiting, " we
live in
call it —and of course it's ever so
which immortality is realized in science fiction, which will soon be much easier with one's Clonies.
science fact, are indeed infinitely wrong, the wrongest wrong a man When Iheard about cloning I thought, what a fruitful con-
first
can be, vampiric or worse. cept: why, one could be in a hundred different places at once and
Improved transplant techniques open the question whether the experience everything the other clones did. I am amazed at the
ego itself could be transplanted from one body to another, and the outcry against this good thing not only from men of the cloth hut also
further question as to exactly where this entity resides. Here is Mr. from scientists, the very scientists whose patient research has
Hart, a trillionaire dedicated to his personal immortality. Where is brought cloning within our grasp. The very thought of a clone dis-
this thing called Mr. Hart? Precisely where, in the human nervous turbs these learned gentlemen. Like cattle on the verge of stam-
system, does this ugly death-sucking, death-dealing, death-fearing pede, they paw the ground mooing apprehensively. "Selfness is an
thing reside? Science gives only a tentative answer: the "ego" essential fact of life The thought ol human nonselfness is
seems to be located in the midbrain at the top of the head. "Well, temtving."
he thinks, "couldn't we just scoop it out of a healthy youth, throw his Terrifying to whom? Speak for yourself, you timorous old beastie
in the garbage where it belongs, and slide in MEEEEEEEE?" So he cowering in your eternal lavatory. Too many scientists seem to be
starts looking for a brain surgeon, a "scrambled egg" man, and he ignorant of the most rudimentary spiritual concepts. They tend to be
wants the best. When it comes to a short -order job old Doc Zeit is suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push
tops. He
can switch eggs in an alley. around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in
Mr. Hart embodies the competitive, acquisitive, success-minded a wheelbarrow, terrified, no doubt, that some skulking ingrate-of-
spirit that formulated American capitalism. The logical extension of a-clone student will sneak into their very brains and steal their
this ugly spirit is criminal. Success is its own justification. He who genius work. The unfairness of it brings tears to his eyes as he
succeeds deserves to succeed; he is RIGHT. The operation is a peers anxiously through his bifocals.
success. The doctors have discreetly withdrawn. When a man Cloning isn't ego gone berserk. On the contrary, cloning is the
wakes up in a beautiful new bod, he can flip out. It wouldn't pay to be end of the ego. For the first time, the spirit of man 'will be able to
a witness. Mr. Hart stands up and stretches luxuriously in his new separate itself from the human machine, to see it and use it as a
body. He runs his hands over the lean young muscle where his machine. He is no longer identified with one special Me machine.
potbelly used to be. All that remains of the donor is a blob of gray The human organism has become an artifact he can use like a plane,
matter in a dish. Mr. Hart puts his hands on his hips and leans over a boat, or a space capsule.
the blob. The poet John Giomo wondered if maybe a clone of a clone of a
"And how wrong can you be? DEAD." clone would just phase out into white noise like copies of copies of
He spits on it and he spits ugly. tape. As Count Korzybski used to say: "i don't know, let's see.
The final convulsions of a universe based on quantitative factors, But ultimately, I postulate, true immortality can be found only in
like money, junk, and time, would seem to be at hand. The time space. Space exploration is the only goal worth striving for. Over
approaches when no amount of money will buy anything and time the hills and far away. You will know your enemies by those who
itself will run out. attempt to block your path. Vampiric monopolists would keep you in
This is a parable of vampirism gone berserk. But all vampiric time like their cattle. "It's a good thing cows don't fly, " they say with
blueprints for immortality are wrong not only from the ethical stand- an evil chuckle. The evil, intelligent Slave Gods.
point. They are ultimately unworkable. In Space Vampires Colin The gullible, confused, and stupid pose an equal threat owing
Wilson speaks of benign vampires. Take a little, leave a little. But to the obstructive potential of their vast numbers. I have an
they always take more than they leave by the basic nature of the interesting slip in my scrapbook. News clipping from the Boulder
vampire process of inconspicuous but inexorable consumption. The Camera. Picture of an old woman with a death's-head, false-teeth
—
vampire converts quality live blood, vitality, youth, talent into — smile. She is speaking for the Women's Christian Temperance
quantity —
food and time for himself. He perpetrates the most basic "WE OPPOSE CHILD ABUSE. INTEMPERANCE. AND
Union.
betrayal of the spirit, reducing all human dreams to his shit. And IMMORTALITY."
that's the wrongest wrong a man can be. The way to immortality is in space, and Christianity is buried
Personal immortality in a physical body is impossible, since a under slag heaps of dead dogma, sniveling prayers; and empty
physical body exists in time and time is that which ends. When prayers must oppose immortality in space as the counterfeit always
someone says he wants to live forever, he forgets that forever is a fears and hates the real thing. Resurgent Islam .bom-again Chris- . .

time word. AH three-dimensional immortality projects, to say the tians. .creeds outworn. .excess baggage. .'raus 'mit\
. . .

least, are ill-advised, since they always immerse the aspirant deeper Immortality prolonged future, and the future of any artifact lies
is
in time. in the direction of increased flexibility capacity for change and ulti-
The tiresome concept of personal immortality is predicated mately mutation. Immortality may be seen as a by-product of func-
on the illusion of some unchangeable precious essence: greedy tion; "to shine in use." Mutation involves changes that are literally
old MEEEEEEEE forever. But as the Buddhists say. there is no unimaginable from the perspective of the future mutant. Cold-
MEEEEEEEE, no unchanging ego. blooded, nondreaming creatures living in the comparatively weight-
What we flunk of as our ego is defensive reaction, just as the less medium of water could not conceive of breathing air. dreaming,
—
symptoms of an illness fever, swelling, sweating are the — body's and experiencing the force of gravity as a basic fact of life. There will
reaction to an invading organism. Our beloved ego. arising from the be new fears like the fear of falling, new pleasures, and new necessi-
rotten weeds more continuity than
of lust and fear and anger, has no ties. There are distinct advantages to living in a supportive medium
a fever sweat. There is no ego: only a shifting process as unreal as like water. Mutation is not a matter of logical choices.
the Cities of the Odor Eaters that dissolve in rain. A moment's The human mutants must take a step into the unknown, a step
introspection demonstrates that we are not the same as we were a that no human being has ever taken before.
year ago or a week ago. "What ever possessed me to do that?" "We were the first thai ever burst into that silent sea. ©
A step toward rational immortality is to break down the concept of
a separate personal, and therefore inexorably mortal, ego. This HEAVY METAL 5
 Another balmy day after a night of CHAIN MAIL
EDITORIAL heavy rain, shiny cold streets, and a
moody
pages of
cab ride home:
this
right out of the
very magazine. But, about
The following are four letters commenting on
Harlan Ellison's "Fear Not Your Enemies"
the new year, and the growth of Heavy (HM. March 1981)- The letters are unan-
Metal: like the now divorced parents of it swered. We decided to run them as is, with no
all, Les Humanoides Associes (i.e., as- last word or rebuttal from Mr. Ellison or our
socie's —
related to; humanoidss Iike- — staff. We had our say; now it's your turn.
human-but-not-the-same-as), this is a
magazine defined more readily by what it
isn't than by what it is. Entering its fifth Dear Heavy:
year of publication, HM
always offers the I have never read anything so pointed and

unexpected, and we sorta like that. We direct as Harlan Ellison's "Fear Not Your
can always experiment and never feel as if Enemies" (Heavy Metal, March). Indeed, it
we've broken a promise. was a shock; I was confronted with an illumi-
Okay, so we've got the who of it down nation of my psyche of almost six years ago
pal. Corben is still going strong, and when at age twenty 1 helped murder a man
there's more Druiliet to come, and Caza, with a handgun. Ellison's portrayal of unlikely
Crepax, Bilal, Wrightson, and Chaykin, murderers is quite true, and fittingly de-
among And some who ain't here
others. scribes many men I have known during my
for the moment but will be back. Within imprisonment.
the next few months. Heavy Metal will Edward Yashinsky aptly placed much of
also publish some new European finds. the burden of guilt on the evil of indifference,
Milo Manera, a young Italian artist, will while Ellison, reflecting on President
make his American debut here. And Fer- Reagan's comment, hits hard at the central
nando Fernandez, the well-known Span- core, and is a vivid picture of the state of the
ish fantasist, will adorn these pages. The situation on violence in this country. Yes, I'm
European legacy remains. Fantasy. Sci- guilty, much more so than most. But here's
ence fiction. The absurd. The surreal. one who will be contacting Handgun Control,
And a quality that descends from bawtes Incorporated.
dessinees, a French term that means As Ellison says, don't cry and moan for
maturity in a graphic, narrative form. John Lennon and the multitude of others
Heavy Mttal, in a sense, stands like a coin slain. I won't say I never cried formy victim,
propped upright, precariously balanced. but does it help? Of course not. Since I am
And the coin could fall either way: fortunate to be alive I can help kill indiffer-
toward being more of a magazine that in ence rather than people. The availability and
the coming months becomes an extension abundance of handguns and their easy access
of the pop culture and acts with a sense of is staggering when realized. My realization of
cultural significance. Or it could topple the it led to the untimely and wanton death of a

other way. HM
could remain a cult item,
cherished by a few but smothered by the
silence. We would prefer the former
course, even if it does risk (as has hap-
pened in other magazines) popularization
to the point of being pabulum. A fanzine
this isn't: all it's predicated on refutes
that. As an aesthetic replete with its own
values, bande dessinee performs a neat
sleight of hand with various McLuhan-
esque dicta about the postliterate culture
and the message-izing of the medium.
The brain tricks played here are of a cer-
immediacy of image and the
tain kind: the
deep mental action of print. Be ignited by
it, or don't take it seriously at
man I never knew, and my sobering is guar-
anteed to continue for several years as my
stay in prison continues. But this is not my
story. This is to further credit Harlan Ellison
and his commentary. Perhaps my hindsight
may shore up worthy credibility to Ellison's
perception, but a message is essentially
needed to be given to all you would-be kil-
lers: you are already guilty, and Ellison has
given you prudent advice, so do something
about it.
Your life may depend on it, so don't lower
yourself as I did.
Dan L. Rea
Hagerstown. Maryland
all, but it's

no mere cultural juvenilia. And it takes a Dear Heavy Metal,

bunch of snail eaters like the French to Excuse me for living. Pardon my soul for
figure it out. Howsabout that? buying my favorite magazine each month and
We know how much our lives are reading it from cover to cover. I ask forgive-
shaped by the arts; after all, it was the ness from the Great White Harlan Ellison.
American public that elected an actor as His essay, in the March issue, confirms my
president. As we begin to consider every if you make something sound even
belief that
manner of guest essay, new concepts us- remotely reasonable, use sensationalism to
ing print and paper, and a solid stand be- the max, and have a name that is already well
hind our new review section (premiering known, you can get anything printed!
next month), we're talking Heavy Metal While it is regrettable that thousands of
talk. We're speaking the language of this people die every day from the use of hand-
magazine, because we're talking about guns, may I point out that people have been
quality —
an attitude. A tone like a clear killing other people — innocent or otherwise
note ringing in the head, banging against — for thousands of years. Granted, a gun
radiant, resonant heavy metal makes it a much easier and more impersonal
The Eds death, but it is death just the same. Take
away the guns and man will find other means
 .

of killing his fellow man.

Does Mr. Ellison really believe that if we
all get together and pool our hard-earned and
much sweated over dollars in Washington,
Catch the mist. Catch the myth.
he, we, a group, or anybody is going to
change human nature? Harlan, my boy, if you
Catch the mystery. Catch the drift*
believe that, you are a bigger asshole than
you believe us readers of Heavy Metal to be.
In case you haven't noticed, people of
every size, shape, and social class commit
these crimes: from the high-class asshole
who watches "art films," to the stupid shit-
head who watches the "Dupes of Hazzard,"
to the readers of Heavy Metal. Your wasting
two pages of my favorite magazine to call me
a "good li'l heavymetal baby with Teflon 'd
nostrils" and complain about a quirk of human
nature that's been a part of man since man
has been on earth is the biggest well-written
line of shit that I've ever read,
Steve McCormick
German town, Ohio
Catch "Moving Pictures!'
Dear Heavy Metal Folk: The new album from Rush.
Harlan Ellison's piece in your March issue Rush threw everything they had into their new rock 'n' ro
prompts me to leave the silent majority of masterpiece, "Moving Pictures." Can you catch it all?
your readers and ask a question. Why print
Mr. Ellison's diatribe? It addresses only a
small portion of an immensely complex social
problem, and does so in a needlessly vulgar
manner.
From a personal standpoint, I am unim- Givethegift
pressed with both his arguments and his of music.
ranting prose. Having already been treated
to an essay on why he doesn't like his read-
ers, I'm not surprised by his latest article.
Clearly he feels the readership of Heavy
Metal is composed of people who communi- must be shared by a court system that places dig on stump thumping.
cate solely in four-letter words, if at all. more value in the rights of the criminal than Sincerely.
I hate to collapse your house of cards, in those of the victim. It is the legacy of lib- M. C. Dixon
Harlan, but there are people out here who eral government.
consider themselves at least on your level of have no intention of sending a donation to
I

compassion and understanding; some of Handgun Control. Instead I'll spend more Dear Mr. Ellison,
them own handguns. time perfecting my skills and passing them on First of all, this is not a shitty little letter
We do agree on one thing, though. John to others, in the hopes of preventing a few of telling you how concerned I am and bitching
Lennon's death has no more value than do the accidental shootings that are bound to because you ragged ail of the readers of
the hundreds of others that occur weekly in happen when the uninstmcted handle fire- Heavy Metal out. Your treatise was obnox-
this country. We differ in our thoughts of arms. ious, but very effective. It got me so pissed
what to do about it. Mr. Ellison, I don't object that you have an off at you
that I wrote a check and mailed it
The Constitution of the United States opinion different from mine. I would defend that day. I had had the address on the wall for
grants the citizenry of this country the right your right to it, as the Constitution directs about two weeks, meaning to do it when I got
to keep and bear arms. It makes no provision me to do. I do object to your self-righteous, some more money, but you know how that
for the invasion of another person's life with vulgar airing of it in a magazine that I read —
goes there never seems to be enough. So I
those arms. President Reagan has a valid with continued pleasure. finally cleaned out my bank account, regard-

idea,perhaps the only one advanced so far: So, in closing ...in words I think you'll less of the consequences. But does the fact
maximum, brutal sentences for those who understand: that I wrote the Handgun Control people a
commit crimes with weapons of any kind. Listen up yourself, punk. Just 'cause check automatically exclude me from the "big
This kind of deterrent will give the small-time you've discovered fuck. .son of a bitch.
. . conspiracy" headed by our dear Uncle Ron? I
professional criminal something to consider. and asshole, don't make you right. Just will grant you that it is a start, but is that all it

You're right, Harlan, it won't do anything for 'cause you've learned to make a loud noise in takes?
the "crazy." But I think there are consider- print don't make you even half-right. You might ask the Handgun Control people
ably fewer crazies than you'd like to believe. Harly, baby . when you can guarantee
. . what kind of response they got after the

The majority of handgun owners, myself me and mine the ability to walk unmolested March issue came out. I would be interested.
included, are responsible cititzens. We main- through your new Utopia, you can have my But I wonder if it will be enough. 1 just don't
tainour weapons, and our proficiency with guns. 'Til then, gasbag, you'll get 'em by pry- know. All we can do is hope that the people
them, as a sport and against the day when ing them from my cold, dead hand. of this country will come out from behind
...God forbid. ..they represent the only Your spew of an article tells us you've had their TV sets long enough to see what we are
practical way out of a life-threatening a tough time (I'm genuinely sorry for that): becoming, and do something about it. But
emergency. so have some of the rest of us. It ain't going don't hold your breath.
Like it or not, Harlan, we live in a time to happen again, not without a fight. You can Sincerely yours.
when our societal structure fails to protect buck the odds if you want to. .good luck. Go
. Laura S. Wamelink
us. This is not the fault of the police, who can splash blood and words somewhere else, or
react only "after the fact. " Much of the blame maybe join the Moral Majority. They really HEAVY METAL 7
ROBERT E. HOWARD'S Brought before Byrdag. Bloodstar was forced to wal
encampment On his journey to nowhere
BLOODSTAR afterward, Helua gave bid
in particul;

satty. and Bloodstai

BY RICHARD CORBEN,
attacked
JOHN JAKES.
AND JOHN POCSIK

BLOODSTAR MUST HAVE

FELT AN ODD ANXIETY
AS HE MOVED TOWARD
THE AESIR ENCAMPMENT
THE TENSION OF
RETURNING TO A PLACE
ONCE KNOWN AND LOVED
AND NOW FORBIDDEN
TO HIM

IWATCHED HIM WALK

FORWARD. BOLDLY.
ALL OF THE AESIR
WARRIORS WERE
OUT HUNTING. THE
VILLAGE WAS QUIET

A FEW CHILDREN SAW HIM.

BUT GAVE NO ALARM.
WHAT MUST HAVE
GONE THROUGH HIS MIND?
HAD THE OLD MAN
DIED? OR HAD HE LOST
HIS CHIEFTAINSHIP?
HIS HEART POUNDING,
BLOODSTAR APPROACHED
THE WAR CHIEF'S TENT —
HEAVY METAL 9
 SOMETHING
STRANGE IS GOING
ON, BLOODSTAR.
I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE
TO HIT A THING.
THE GAME IS
UNNATURALLY ALERT
AND FRIGHTENED...
AND I'VE HAD TO DUCK
AESIR HUNTERS, TOO!
THEY'RE TRAVELING
IN GROUPS OF FOUR
AND FIVE TO THE
EAST OF HERE.

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 WE PASSED A SLEEPLESS
NIGHT, COLD AND CRAMPED,
AMID THE TANGLED ROOTS
OF A FOREST GIANT.
IHEARD MY FRIEND'S
QUIET SOBS ALL THROUGH
THE NIGHT
AT FIRST LIGHT, WE
EMERGED FROM THE
DRIPPING TREES TO RENEW
THE SEARCH. BUT WHAT-
EVER TRAIL THERE WAS
HAD BEEN WASHED AWAY.
WE RANGED THE
GRASSLANDS, LOOKING
FOR SOME SIGN. AT
LAST, WEARY AND
DEPRESSED, BLOODSTAR
DECIDED TO LOOK IN
THE VICINITY OF THE
AESIR ENCAMPMENT. IT
WAS THEN THAT SAW—I

OUR HEARTS POUNDING,

WE RACED FORWARD—

14 HEAVY METAL
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 THE CARNAGE AROUND US CALLED
TO MIND ANOTHER SCENE OF
NIGHTMARE TRAGEDY FROM MY
OWN YOUTH, AND TOLD YOUR
I

FATHER THE STORY OF THE

KING OF THE NORTHERN ABYSS,
AND OF THE CURSE WHICH BEFELL
MY PEOPLE THERE, AND THE
REASON WHY THEY NOW SHUN
AND FEAR THAT VALLEY OF
DESOLATE RUINS.

ONCE, SAID TO HIM, FATHER'S

I

FATHERS WANDERED INTO THAT

VALLEY FROM THEIR REGULAR
TERRITORY. HUNTING WAS GOOD,
SINCE THE AREA WAS FREE
OF PREDATORS. THEY DECIDED
TO SETTLE THERE IN THAT
PEACEFUL VALLEY. BUT AFTER
A FEW WEEKS, A WITHERING
SICKNESS CAME OVER THEM.
SOME DIED, AND THE ENTIRE
CLAN WAS AFFECTED STRANGELY.
OFFSPRING BORN WITHIN THE
SHADOWS OF THOSE WALLS WERE
DELIVERED EITHER DEAD OR
HORRIBLY DEFORMED. THE NEW
GENERATION OF JUNGLE PEOPLE
DIFFERED VASTLY FROM THEIR
PARENTS. OF SUCH STOCK CAMEI

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 SUDDENLY SOMETHING
TOWERED BEHIND HIM—

ONE DAY, ONE OF THE

WARRIORS WHO HAD THE
SICKNESS, BUT LIVED,
WAS EXPLORING THE
CRUMBLING BUILDINGS,
WHERE HE DISCOVERED A SOMETHING OVERCAME
SEEMINGLY BOTTOMLESS H IM THERE, SOMETHING
WELL, WHICH TOOK OVER HIS
MIND. HE RETURNED
TO OUR CAMP OUTSIDE
THE WALLS, LEAPING
HIGH INTO THE AIR IN
A DANCE OF MADNESS.
ALL THE WHILE HE
PLAYED A HYPNOTIC
MELODY ON HIS PIPES.

HIS COMRADES SHOUTED

IN FEAR. HE GIBBERED
AND DROOLED AND
CACKLED INSANELY AS
HE DANCED. HIS EYES
ROLLED UP IN THEIR
SOCKETS.

arc

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HEAVY METAL 17
 THE PULSING HORROR FLOWED INTO OUR MIDST CRUSHING AND
MANGLING. IT DEVOURED WHOLE GROUPS. REMEMBER MY MOTHER
I

FLED OUT OF THE VALLEY WITH THE REST. BEHIND US, THE MONSTER
FEASTED. CAN STILL HEAR THE DARKNESS SHATTERED BY THE
I
THE PITIFUL REMNANTS OF MY
SCREAMS OF ITS VICTIMS. TRIBE AVOIDED THE PLACE AFTER
THAT. BUT THEY WATCHED ITS
BORDERS, LEST SOMETHING
CREEP OUT OF THE NIGHT AFTER
THEM. FOR MONTHS AFTERWARD
THE MAD PIPER COULD BE SEEN
DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT AS
HE TRIED TO LURE US BACK.

BLOODSTAR REMAINED
WHERE HE HAD FALLEN. I

LEFT HIM TO MOURN

THE DEAD WHILE WALKED
I

AWAY WITH MY OWN

TROUBLED THOUGHTS.

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 AS THAT DREADFUL DAY PASSED,
TOWARD RAVEN DUSK, CROUCHED,
I

HOPING FOR SOME SIGN OF LIFE.

EVEN THE CARRION BIRDS WERE
FRIGHTENED. WAS WATCHING
I

MY SHADOW LENGTHEN ALONG

THE GROUND WHEN HEARD
I

BLOODSTAR STIR.

ISILENTLY FOLLOWED
YOUR FATHER BACK
INTO THE FOREST,
CERTAIN HE HAD GONE
MAD WITH GRIEF. BUT
HE MUST HAVE SENSED
MY THOUGHTS, FOR
HE PLACED HIS HAND
UPON MY SHOULDER AND
ASSURED ME THAT HIS
MIND WAS STILL HIS OWN.
A DAY AND A NIGHT'S
MARCH TOOK US DEEP
INTO THE SEETHING,
ROTTING SWAMP

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 -
^H >IW& j&'*£'
SATHA IS STRONGER
AND SWIFTER THAN TEN
TIGERS. HE'S ALMOST
AS LONG AS THE TALLEST
,

^, mk* f'lflE^fl^i
FOREST GIANT IS HIGH. 1
ONE DROP OF HIS
VENOM CAN KILL A
MAN INSTANTLY. \J$ * IV!

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?
VHp
K >'Mtfi\

K^SkiPT^m
a ^A. j l^JS MY COURSE
M Mm
Jnf^ifff^f^^ 'Tl'illil * IS SET, GROM.
^'^MMf^mT
K* vMtffrS '•' ^cm 1 AM GOING
WITHYOU— OR
WITHOUT YOU.
lt\ ISmS^w .

20 HEAVY METAL
 KEEPING THIS IN MIND, BLOODSTAR
HIMSELF MARCHES INTO THOSE
LURING ANY KIND OF A PRIMORDIAL DEPTHS IN QUEST OF
PREDATOR INTO A SNARE THAT SCALY MONSTER.
WITH LIVE BAIT IS DANGEROUS
ENOUGH. SERPENTS ARE
THE WORST, FOR THEY LOSE
INTEREST IF THE PREY
IS OUT OF SIGHT OR TOO FAR
AWAY. IT MUST REMAIN
TITILLATINGLY CLOSE AT ALL
TIMES — BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!

HEAVY METAL 21
 ,

tt@@Si

1 * l£lSHv«W«

^^uJ*^nm
!IM*$r£$$j«
THE RUSH OF THE SERPENTS SUPPLE
BODY BEHIND HIM WAS LIKE THE
SWEEP OF THE WIND THROUGH
TALL GRASS. HIS BREATH
BURNING IN HIS CHEST HE
CAUGHT SIGHT OF ME. .

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To Be Continued
 ^Greetings. Welcome
. -.llNTOOUB. SAGA OF THE
Old West.the faithful
reader will recallthat
the town of hangman's
CoRHERS HAS BEEN BESET Bf
a 5eries of untoward events
following the! arrival of a
Mysterious Stranger,
and that old doc mason
has gone for help....

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 As DOC BEGINS HIS BIZARRE. TALE, THE TOWNSPEOPLE OF HANGMAN'S CORNERS ARE ENCOUNTERING A SCENE OF CHILLING CHAOS, DOWN AT
~
"
v-V^ ^p^C«^E§D*S^LAQ$ ^^
( Jest look at this-here
i^JAESS SHERIFF!
,

{ WHJT COULDA
^HAPPENED'

HEAVY METAL 25
26 HEAVY METAL
 .

Meanwhile, back, at iex Arcana's puce, Doc is

.%'iNTjiNi;
>r~ ?.\x arm ;a,k
;;:-.,
w>id FEEUNG A Lrrrj-E
MORE OH TOP OF THINGS. . .

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28 HEAVY METAL
 Well, folks, here we are at the. end of another
episode and still mo help for the unfortunate
residents of hangman's c0rner5. wllltex get
cranked up and come to their rescue or will
,

aid come in the guise of the mysterious law

IMWMITE, who IS EVEN NOW PERFORMING SOME
SORT OF WEIRD "ONE -RING CEREIvlONY"?FIHD OUT
IN OUR NEXT EP150DE OF TEX ARCANA. !

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"PI L LA
SO PLEASE STAY WITH ME / I'M 5URE YOU'LL ENJOY THIS UNIQUE
FOR TODAY'S PROG-RAM, IN / ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY AS MUCH AS
WHICH I WILL P1NP OUT / I WILL- HOW AG-ROUP OF PEOPLE WHOSE
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR I TECHNOLOGY HAS NOT YET EWCOM-
THESE PILLARS AND HOW PA55EP THE LOINCLOTH, MUCH LESS THE
THEY ARE ERECTEP. \ WHEEL,COULP CARVE ftNP TRANSPORT
\ MASSIVE OBELISKS 15 A FA5CINATIMG-
\^ QUESTION!, I'M SURE YOU'LL AGREE.

HOW CAN WE ASCRIBE AUTHORSHIP OF THESE

PILLARS TO PEOPLE WHO WOULD REGARD A PIT
LATRINE AS AN ENGINEERING- MARVEL? ON
OUR LIVE CAMERA WE SEE THEM,SITTING- OR ;

STAMPING, SILENT, BARELY MOVING-, SHOWING- !

i
RECOGNITION OF NEITHER OUR PRESENCE NOR rarvw
THE MOMENTOUS OCCASION. MOST ANTHROPOLO-
GISTS HAVE LON& SINCE GIVEN UP ON THESE
j

PEOPLE, UNABLE TO FINP EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING

RESEMBLING A CULTURE IN ANY PROPER SENSE, I

' »>v :
NOT EVEN A SPOKEN LANG-UA&E.

EARLY THEORIES WERE

THAT THESE PILLARS
WERE THE WORK OF
A PREVIOUS, APVANCEt?
CULTURE THAT SOMEHOW
PE&EN ERATED TO ITS i

PRESENT STATE, BUT, AS

WE KNOW, NEW PILLARS
APPEAR EVERY PLANE-
TARY YEAP. AND SO, THE
MYSTERY CONTINUES...
 WE ARE

EXPERIENCING
... SOME GO SO FAR AS TO
SUGG-EST THAT THESE PEOPLE
ARE ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF TECHNICAL
TELEKINET1CALLV SHAPING-
ANP TRANSPORTIN& METEORS
FROM OUTER SPA
DIFFICULTY

PLEASE

STAND
^
fia««s-

|ENP-1

© I960 PAUL KIRCHNEK

 THE IMMORTALS' FETE

PAR/5- THE BEGINNING/ OF/MARCH, ZOZZ. AN ELECTORAL MASQUE&ZPE

IN PROGRESS NOTN/NG SEEMS TO HAVE CHAUGBP IN THIS l/WHENSE
l<S
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 ET<$ WAIT FOR
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OHSTRATE THE EFFICIENCY OF OUR
AIR FORCES- ITS NECESSARY TO
REASSURE ANC? IMPRESS THE
PEOPLE BEFORE THE
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EST OF EACHANC?
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AIAME <QF OOP>,
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THESE THESE CHERU&S,
.UH...
THEY COMING WITH US.
Ml POOR BROTHER, THEOPUL THE
FIRST, TALKS COMPLETE NON-
^k MR. GOVERNOR? SENSE. HE BELIEVES THAT THESE.
LITTLE W/NGiETP 8SASTS, ORIGIN-
ALLY FROM OUR COLONY OF=
PIPHOLA, WERE SENT TO MW\ BY
QOP> HIMSELF. ANGELS, IN A WAY..
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 . . . . .

Detweiler . . .a small, insignificant

world, orbiting its minor sun on
a point between the nm and
oblivion, .

I Detweiler a world of
. .

farmers. Not happy,

kicking, ignorant brothers
of the soil . .

.but of bitter,
I desperate men.
Drought . . . , . which burst,
pouring forth the
Drought. 184 days of sweet, wet miracle
unblinking, merciless of life.
sunshine. Her crops
turning to ash on the
vine, Detweiler's people
no longer worry about |tl
profit from export . .
1 High noon . . .

on the 185th day.

In minutes the As one. Detweiler's
luminescent blue people moan in
sky is gutted by gratitude, giving

black, thanks to an . . .

ultimately
rolling merciful God.
clouds . . .

The ram fell

for ten days,

continuously,
covering every
parched inch oF
Detweiler's
surface.

ml fly
\M ^>
Jk.

m^
 .

When the ten-day deluge

ended, fully one-third of
|
Detweiler's people were dead |

.and the dying continued.

I The priests, in
1 protective clothing
I and masks, held mass
j
funerals over the
I common graves of
I the dead.

And still the

people died

I
By the eighth
I day, the prayers
of gratitude had
turned to screams |

'of anguish.

J
c

I And, among the living frhough most had forgotten),

some remembered thar a ship had been seen orbiting I

Detweiler. Most had been too busy burying their dead

E«

But a few remembered.

 . .

Therefore, [he only common link between these

splintered world nations were the profit-making
star travelers, who possessed the very few
existing hyperdnves;

I the spidery
I container ships.
I bearing imports I

I and exports

I the marauders, raping and the cathedral

land pillaging for ships of Mother Church,
I profit. . .
manned by the warrior
priests of St. Beryl
the leper.
 obstacle In
mankind's
stumbling
back to

hMBs*
I For, although space travel was impossibly
I expensive for most societies, planet-bound
I conflict —fought with everything from
|

I broadsword and dagger to turbine jets-

I seemed to spring up. overnight.

I Hundreds of wretched worlds,

I barely able to feed their
I populations, found themselves
|
I locked in civil wars and
insurrections.

I And, of course, as in all times

I ofwar. there was profit to be
I made; these times, as weil. proved I

to be no exception.
 .

The ultimate
success of one
Gorporajupn's .product
will., in the long run.
Aside from rhe ancient family feud fa bipod lead to the collapse of the other.
teud| between Daxand Prometheus, a 'feud dating-
bade long before [tie jihad, both corporations And- so, commercial warfare!
have accepted a simple conclusion .
Some even suggest that these
planetary conflicts have- been
created by these two cartels . .

is merely idle speculation

but this
I

I
With apologies
Ashmeade, a company world
^
to our gentle reader
of the
we now go to
Dax cartel.
\
.

The laborers, stevedores,

j
I and prostitutes who live I

I on the surface are

I With nine-tenths of its surface covered by ice, 1 unaware of plant 14.
I it turns a handsome profit selling waterto I shafts of crystal
I several desert planets in nearby systems. I where the hulls of
I organic starcraft are
nurtured . .

Beneath its only

city, however.

Ashmeade keeps
several secrets.
fj

J
WHAT HAVE'

YOU GOT?]
Starbuck, legendary
hero of the
,

Crusades, savior of virgins'

keeps . . .Antichrist.

Cody Starbuck,
privateer, mercenary , , .

presently in

Prometheus Corporation.
To the casual observer.
it would seem that
Starbuck. mercenary
that he is, could serve
Dax as well as he
does Prometheus.

the demands for

his own highly
expensive services
might dwindle.
 «
^-
Dronedroid Number Six U& a race that Number Six loses A cheer rings out from the defenders.
races the dilating not to the portal, but to as the luckless drone falls through

portal of the crystal j?!V*v a well-aimed energy blast the rapidly closing portal .
. . His
useless body has won the race.
 t <m * i %
yfe

...PU6W CRlVE to full... 1

HOLC AT ANCHOR. ..OH

yoice COWMANP...

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GALLERY
THE
MAKER:
DZINTARS
MEZULIS
BY BR
BAL

1 1 .comes from some-

where, that urge. The
hands grasp the clay like
those of a miner digging
for the mother lode.
They strain and probe,
tendons taut, as the
maker yearns to merge
wifh his material, to
mold, to shape form from
nothingness.
With a-narne like
Dzihtars Mezulis, this
thirty -orie-year-old sculp-
tor of Latvian extraction
will forever be saddled
with an exotic quality,
and more so in light of his
craft.But it's an awkward
heritage and a complicat-
ed one. Bom in England,
Mezulis with Ms family
emigrated to Toronto,
Canada, where his dad, a
iteelworker, taught him
as a child the use of tools.
No surface rendering, no
mere history really
perm.'ts an understanding
of Mezulis or what com-
pels him^ to struggle with
rhe delicacy that his clay
constructions require.
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He sees his life transformed by a

routine absorbed with clay and earthy
mass. For him it is the translation of
spirit into matter. "Truthfully, for me
it's like a struggle with light and dark-
ness." A magi, a wizard of soil, he's
damn serious: "When I'm working
with the stuff I step back in time. I'm
forever aware of temporality.

Not bullshit, not hippie jive: this

guy's been there and back. Four times
near death, trapped by collapsing
kidneys, he spent six years, from 1969
to 1975. trekking around the world in a
quest for a life while always facing
No wonder he
likely death.
cinated with making
— is fas-

"It's central to
my being.

Transmutation: "In part it's a takeoff on

Hermes, the god who guided souls to
the underworld. There s a transmutation
upwards from the stone monolith to a
twelfth -century magus: this is a symbolic
geslure toward matter becoming spirit."

Ringing In the Sheep: 'The animal is a

combination greyhound and bronto-
saurus: there's a melding: the rider
seems tough and ferocious yet he deli-
cately tinkles a tiny bell."
Digital Transmission: "It's dual play on
words, first on myself as a maker with

my digital transmissions, and second,

; the figure locuses on the con-

templative aspect o the source of my

I

expression."
 "A piece will usually take me eight to twelve weeks time, twelve hours a day.to finish! At tirst-l'm overwhelmed by the clay, by its very
smell, its earthiness. With my energy concentrated, I determine what will evolve from the clay. I don't use any support struts, or

armature. Its purely clay, of the earth."

He did psychoactive brews with In-

dians in Central America. He climbed
Himalayan peaks in order to stop at
Buddhist monasteries. The winds bat-
tered him in North African deserts
while he was living with Bedouins. In
the jungles of Guatemala. Mezulis vis-
ited ancient temples and slept in ham-
mocks while scorpions crawled about
and bats flew above silently. Through
Europe, Asia, and .Africa as weil as
both American continents. Mezulis
saw eighty countries.
"I'm a sponge for experience, in-
terested in all attitudes about being.

Through my work I understand about

being. ©

Darkness Draws Near: "He wears a bi-

son worshiper's headdress, a sixteenth-
century codpiece, a nineteenth-century
revolver; and he sits on a twentieth-
century Coke crate. He's the expression
of timeiessness, the savage whose ve-
neer of civilization is thin."

The Royal Twins View the Games:

"These figures are part of a larger struc-
ture — they're tomb guardians on the sur-
face; but underneath, eternal, primal
entities."

Harzak Centering: "With this figure its

psychic dimension is several times the
volume of physical space, so it's about
v
space and timeiessness." -%j§JBF'--
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The untruths spun in last issue's

Coming Next Month column have
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COMING NEXT MONTH
the hell ever happened to the
Gimenez interview? or the Hagen
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around the world. Kings and
queens alike wrote with great con-
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Well, we do apologize. Various
scheduling problems couldn't be
avoided. The following should give
you a good idea of what's coming
up in the June issue oiHeavy
Metal. Along with the illustrated
works of Lucrezia Borgia we
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Caza's The March Hair, in which
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Druilletand Picotto's Firaz, a with Richard Corben. With Brad Bloodstar, Chaykin's Cody
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