SJWs fucking hate manga with a passion and are pissy as fuck that they have't 100% hijacked it the same way they now control nearly all of the major US anime dub studios (like Funimation).
Also Eurocomics leading publisher Humanoids basically hired Grant Morrison, who's tenure on Heavy Metal was a disaster (due to them only wanting his name and basically not giving him any actual power over the content of Heavy Metal). Though given that one of Morrison's first acts was to hire Mark Waid as chief gatekeeper at the company and Waid hiring his ex (Devin Grayson) to keep her silent while he was being sued and a bunch of SJW anti-comicsgators to do new books, who could blame them. Because unless you are from the UK (and have been published/currently being published by Rebellion/2000AD), no one gives a shit about you working in Euro comic industry unless you are an old fart who used to be a big name and who's classic work they want to reprint in the US as part of a vanity imprint of "important" works.
As for Kelly Sue DeConnick; I wonder if her "leaving" has anything do to with Andy Khouri being fired, since it's been alleged that DeConnick only got the Aquaman gig BECAUSE of Khouri as far as him getting her the job in exchange for getting Matt to work for DC (a deal that produced only one project, a Jimmy Olsen mini, that none the less saved Khouri from getting fired when he destroyed the Vertigo brand).
The Power Rangers comics sucks, as they are nothing but S1 MMPR/Tommy wank, to the point that they made an evil OC future version of Tommy as the main villain that EVERYTHING revolves around.
Grant Morrison for the most part sucks. I know he has tons of fans and people fawn all over him but he used heavy metal to give big industry names an outlet for their pet projects no one else would touch.
It was a stark deviation from HM of the 80's where the readership was an adult audience and they promoted a lot of adult books. Under Morrison it definitely became more PC and far less risque.
You'll see more T&A in Comicsgate books than modern heavy metal. At one point [I think with Tim Seeley] they tried printing a parody version of the magazine.
How does a magazine that traditionally prints way outside the rules of comics and has relatively low readership make a parody of itself?
Grant Morrison ruined classic Heavy Metal. Gone are the days of actual "dangerous content" and truly "metal" comics and in with SJW pet projects from people who used to like the hard-core stuff HM printed back in the day but are way too scared to do it themselves.
Heavy Metal under Morrison became a trooned out version of itself, scared to take risks on new talent and unwilling to print anything other than basic bitch short comics far from the days of psychedelic and adult content that made them famous.
I quit reading the magazine. The $12 bucks they were asking became too much for what amounts to a watered down Shirley temple for what used to be straight 18 year scotch.
I have collected almost every issue of HM ever printed so I'd like to think I know what I'm talking about.
They have always done multiple covers mostly because Heavy Metal readers weren't your average comic reader and tended to order their books through mail-in order forms and not from stores.
Hiring retards like Waid, Cates, and various faggots killed the spirit of the mag. Damned shame.
Cates especially. FFFUUUUUCCCCK Donny Cates.
