Heavy Metal Magazine comic books issue 297
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Published Jan 2020 by HM Communications.$11.00
Cover by Dwayne Harris. Twas the night before Heavy Metal's Winter Special and every creature was stirring, ducking for cover and fortifying the perimeter. Heavy Metal's first holiday special in more than thirty years features some Metallic holiday stories from around the globe. In "The Spirit of Giving," managing editor Tim Seeley and artists Pato Delpeche and Martin Tunica serve up a Christmas nightmare on a planet where gift giving is mandatory or else; Justin Jordan and Chris Anderson present a 21st century vision of holidays to come in "Black Metal Messiah"; Cullen Bunn and Baldemar Rivas show us a world of Xmas past in "A Knight So True"; Andy Eschenbach and Gavin Smith bring us a sci-fi version of "Bethlehem"; Ron Marz and Bart Sears conjure up a holiday gone straight to the Trolls in "A Midnight Clear"; and pop artist Brandi Milne gives a candy coated gallery special. Also in this issue: "Sol Invictus" by Abraham Martinez, R.G. Llarena and Marco Perugini; Andrew Shaffer gallery; "Chris Never - The Ghost of Christmas Never" by Jeffrey Burandt and Jason Goungor; "Black Smoke" by Hector Lima and Dalton Cara; "Blizzard" by John Crowther and Oscar Pinto; "Urban Developments" by Adam P. Knave, D.J. Kirkbride, Nick Brokenshire and Frank Cvetkovic; "Murky World" (part 11) by Richard Corben; and a Christmas card gallery featuring Tony Moore, Dwayne Harris, John Bivens, Jason Goungor, Tom Fowler, Francesco Francavilla, Christine Larsen, Axel Medellin, John Pearson, Zach Schrey, Simeon Aston, Tim Vigil, Curtis William Readel and Richard Pace. 144 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.