Metal Hurlant, the French SF/Fantasy magazine that inspired the US Heavy Metal, is coming back as a quarterly magazine, The Wrap reports. Humanoids will soon launch a Kickstarter to bring Metal Hurlant to the US as a quarterly anthology (…) Read the full article here.
Me, I love the idea in general, but based on what my fellow collectors have said, so far the recent issues (MH has been revived for ~two years now I believe) devoted to new stuff have been pretty underwhelming in quality. Just not up to the original standard of work, it sounds like, although to be fair, that’s a sky-high bar to aim for! :S
To be clear, I understand that the relaunch has also alternated ‘new stuff’ issues with others which reprint the best of classic MH, and you certainly can’t go wrong with those! <3
Hmm! So… guess we’ll see how it goes upping the publication schedule.
