4 GALLERY: CHRISTOS ACHILLEOS 8 GALLERY: CORNELIUS COLE 12 GALLERY: BEFORE DEN
BY RICHARD CORBEN
16 CAPTAIN STERNN BY BERNI WRIGHTSON
25 SOFT LANDING BY DAN O'BANNON AND THOMAS WARKENTIN
29 DEN BY RICHARD CORBEN
49 SO BEAUTIFUL, SO DANGEROUS BY AGNUS MCKIE
EDITORIAL NOTE
By the time you read this, the HEAVY METAL animated movie will have made its return
to theatres. After fifteen years, this classic is louder and nastier than ever!
The length of its run will be decided by old and new fans, so check it out on
the big screen! The theatrical release will not include any new footage, but the
home video, which will be released June 4,1996 will feature a never-before-seen
five minute sequence entitled Neverwhere Land by master animator Cornelius Cole.
Although it will not shown in the originally intended sequence, the clip will
be shown at the end of the video, in its entirety, with a Pink Floyd score.
This issue One Step Beyond will take you even further back to the roots of the
movie. We'll revisit the original Soft Landing, Captain Sternn, and So Beautiful,
So Dangerous. We'll also feature the art of Chris Achilleos, who paired the original
Taarna, Richard Corben's classic The Arabian Nights, and of course, the art of
the great Corny Cole.
Special thanks to Corny and his daughter Dominque, Dominique, who helped restore
the missing Neverwhere Land to the film.
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Photographed by Christos Achilleos
Soft Landing
So Beautiful, So Dangerous
Cornelius Cole
Captain Sternn
About Heavy Metal
Don Donahue (1942 - October 27, 2010) was a comic book publisher, operating under the name Apex Novelties, one of the instigators of the underground comix movement in the 1960s.
In San Francisco in 1968, Donahue traded his hi-fi tape player to poet Charles Plymell to publish the first issue of Robert Crumb's Zap Comix on his printing press. Donahue later purchased the equipment and founded Apex Novelties, which published numerous influential comics from that movement, including work by S. Clay Wilson, Kim Deitch, Shary Flenniken, Justin Green, Bill Griffiths, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman. He was known for publishing material by radicals, including the Symbionese Liberation Army (best known for kidnapping Patty Hearst).
The partner of cartoonist Dori Seda, he inherited the rights to her work following her death at the age of 37, and published Dori Stories, a compilation of her comics.
Donahue died of cancer on October 27, 2010.
