Heavy Metal v05 02 May 1981
Heavy Metal v05 02 May 1981
Heavy Metal v05 02 May 1981
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John Boormans "EXCALIBUR" Nigel Terry • Helen Mirren
Nicholas ClayCherie Lunghi-Paul Geoffrey and Nicol Williamson
Executive Producers Edgar E Gross and Robert A. Eisenstein
Directed and Produced b y John Boorman
Screenplay b y Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman
Adapted from Malory's Le Morte dArthur b y Rospo Pallenberg
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OCXBYSTBieDl An ORiOil PICTURES Re
Thru WARNER BROS. I
CONTENTS
Immortality,
by William S. Burroughs, 4
Pillars of P- 11507.
by Paul Kirchner, 30
Cody Starbuck,
by Howard Chaykin, 48
Gallery, featuring
the art of Dzintars Mezulis, 60
Valentina, by Crepax, 75
Rock Opera,
by Rod Kierkegaard, Jr., 92
Editorial, 6
Front cover,
Enter Adam, by Enrich
Editor: J ulie S i m mo n s
iling Editor: Brad Balfour
William S. Burroughs
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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
" " "
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
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, man I never knew, and my sobering is guar-
cherished by a few but smothered by the anteed to continue for several years as my
silence. We would prefer the former stay in prison continues. But this is not my
course, even if it does risk (as has hap- story. This is to further credit Harlan Ellison
pened in other magazines) popularization and his commentary. Perhaps my hindsight
to the point of being pabulum. A fanzine may shore up worthy credibility to Ellison's
this isn't: all it's predicated on refutes perception, but a message is essentially
that. As an aesthetic replete with its own needed to be given to all you would-be kil-
values, bande dessinee performs a neat lers: you are already guilty, and Ellison has
sleight of hand with various McLuhan- given you prudent advice, so do something
esque dicta about the postliterate culture about it.
and the message-izing of the medium. Your life may depend on it, so don't lower
The brain tricks played here are of a cer- yourself as I did.
immediacy of image and the
tain kind: the Dan L. Rea
deep mental action of print. Be ignited by Hagerstown. Maryland
it, or don't take it seriously at all, but it's
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;
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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
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THE CARNAGE AROUND US CALLED
TO MIND ANOTHER SCENE OF
NIGHTMARE TRAGEDY FROM MY
OWN YOUTH, AND TOLD YOUR
I
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SUDDENLY SOMETHING
TOWERED BEHIND HIM—
arc
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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
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AS THAT DREADFUL DAY PASSED,
TOWARD RAVEN DUSK, CROUCHED,
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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SATHA IS STRONGER
AND SWIFTER THAN TEN
TIGERS. HE'S ALMOST
AS LONG AS THE TALLEST
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WITHYOU— OR
WITHOUT YOU.
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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!
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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
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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
,
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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
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EXPERIENCING
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SUGG-EST THAT THESE PEOPLE
ARE ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF TECHNICAL
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COLLECTOR'S ITEMS Ellison plus "Gnomes" and "Giants " (S3. 00)
(S3.00)
'10/JANUAHV 1978: Mor Druillel's
'ichard update Ulysses. "( including #42/SEPTEMBER 1980: "The Ale
Den" continues. (S3. 00) eludes while Bilal's 'Progress!" [
and Moebius (S3. 00) Ribera's "What Is Realrty Papa?" Plus "The Cutter t
Fog " "Rock Opera." and Moebius' ($3.00)
#31/OCTOBER 1979: Ha
H P Lovecraft. with Moe #46/JANUARY 1
#32/NOVEMBER 1979:1
"Rowlf." Bode's Zooks'
Rock Opsi
MEtXt
Sept 197B
Ocl 1978
#WMARCH 19S ; "Tex lutt n», John F dley's epic Nov 1978
vnat Dec 1978
lassador ol the Shadow And Dr Jan 1979
relation ol Flaube
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Dept. HM5-81 Fob 1979
Mar 1979
rt t: s Bloo.
635 Madison Avenue
sa.aoj
New York, N.Y. 10022
#49/APRIL 1981 Art a rl m zrs."Corb nV'Blood-
slar.Gimenezs Gddi -So BEAUTIFUL VINYL BINDERS: Sept 1979
Ocl 1979
Di"n"t think we coulc doitl one hoi didya?($ 00) white with black lettering and Nov 1979
art,with metal separators to hold
and protect your magazines. Each
holds twelve issues of Heavy
Metal. ($5.50) Or buy one
binder with the twetve 1978
issues, 1979 issues, or 1980
issues. ($26.00 each)
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. . . . .
I Detweiler a world of
. .
.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 . . .
black, thanks to an . . .
ultimately
rolling merciful God.
clouds . . .
ml fly
\M ^>
Jk.
m^
.
I The priests, in
1 protective clothing
I and masks, held mass
j
funerals over the
I common graves of
I the dead.
I
By the eighth
I day, the prayers
of gratitude had
turned to screams |
'of anguish.
J
c
E«
I the spidery
I container ships.
I bearing imports I
I and exports
hMBs*
I For, although space travel was impossibly
I expensive for most societies, planet-bound
I conflict —fought with everything from
|
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 . .
I
With apologies
Ashmeade, a company world
^
to our gentle reader
of the
we now go to
Dax cartel.
\
.
Ashmeade keeps
several secrets.
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WHAT HAVE'
YOU GOT?]
Starbuck, legendary
hero of the
,
Cody Starbuck,
privateer, mercenary , , .
presently in
Prometheus Corporation.
To the casual observer.
it would seem that
Starbuck. mercenary
that he is, could serve
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