If you’ve seen Avatar, you’ll have no doubt that it was influenced by the visually rich European space-opera science fiction comics that Heavy Metal magazine introduced American audiences to in 1977.

And now things have come full circle as David Fincher’s latest attempt to revive the Heavy Metal film franchise with a 3-D animated epic now has himself (Fight Club), James Cameron (Avatar) and Zack Snyder (300) attached to direct segments. The previous incarnation also had Kevin Eastman (co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and current publisher of Heavy Metal) set to direct a portion, so we might still see that as well.

Which means our recent archival re-discovery of a lost stash of Heavy Metal magazines from 1977-1982 (first 6 years of publication) is perfect timing! Come check ‘em out. At only $5 apiece, you won’t be sorry.

Contains work by the likes of Moebius! Richard Corben! Arthur Suydam! Enki Bilal! Matt Howarth! Vaughn Bode! Gahan Wilson! And more!

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Nathan Cabrera. Delivers the goods again & again!

If you missed it, please get yours by ordering a toy & print from here: 3D Retro.

Antoinette the Sympathy Girl returns in a Sexy, Brooding, Gothy Goth Colorway. Dressed in Black on Black with some more Black just because. She is stunning. This is an NTF Oh so limited release of the Long Sold Out 2002 Sympathy for the Records Industry logo figurine. This Release is Extremely Limited and now created exclusively for 3D Retro. This figure is based on Pablos art and sculpted by Nathan Cabrera.

On release date, Meltdown Comics welcomes their great friends, The Suicide Girls. The SG will be in attendance to spice up the night and help us commemorate this editions release. Missy and her Angels will be Signing Books, Posters and Other bits. Come and enjoy a great day into night filled with beautiful sights and limited figures. And hey collector, while you are at it. Take home one of the limited Sympathy for the Record Industry vinyl figures. Her presence in your collection can only make the rest of 2010 much better for your dusty toy shelves!

When?: Saturday, Feb. 20th 5PM

Where?: Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd. LA, CA 90046

What?: Toy Release, Suicide Girls, 3D Retro, Meltdown Comics, Necessaries Toy Foundation, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Nathan Cabrera, Southern Philly Experience Food Truck, Good Times!

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Antoinette the Sympathy Girl returns in a Sexy, Brooding, Gothy Goth Colorway. Dressed in Black on Black with some more Black just because. She is stunning. This is an NTF Oh so limited release of the Long Sold Out 2002 Sympathy for the Records Industry logo figurine. This Release is Extremely Limited and now created exclusively for 3D Retro. This figure is based on Pablos art and sculpted by Nathan Cabrera.

On release date, Meltdown Comics welcomes their great friends, The Suicide Girls. The SG will be in attendance to spice up the night and help us commemorate this editions release. Missy and her Angels will be Signing Books, Posters and Other bits. Come and enjoy a great day into night filled with beautiful sights and limited figures. And hey collector, while you are at it. Take home one of the limited Sympathy for the Record Industry vinyl figures. Her presence in your collection can only make the rest of 2010 much better for your dusty toy shelves!

When?: Saturday, Feb. 20th 5PM

Where?: Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd. LA, CA 90046

What?: Toy Release, Suicide Girls, 3D Retro, Meltdown Comics, Necessaries Toy Foundation, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Nathan Cabrera, Southern Philly Experience Food Truck, Good Times!

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NOW IN STOCK: The McSweeny’s “S.F. Panorama” celebration-of-newspapers issue!

Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It’ll have news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine and a weekend guide, and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design (and posters and games and on-location Antarctic travelogues) as we can get in there. Expect journalism from Andrew Sean Greer, fiction from George Saunders and Roddy Doyle, dispatches from Afghanistan, and much, much more.

FEATURING:
-One 15″ x 22″ full-color newspaper (100+ pages, including a 16-page oversize comics section)
-One magazine (100+ pages)
-One Books section (90+ pages)
-And two giant double-sided posters

You don’t want to miss this one!

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