The artist has very clearly been to goth/industrial clubs and watched people on the dancefloor.

(Heavy Metal #291 2018 – Page 9 Dark Dancefloor by Lima and Abel)

The images in this gallery all have an incredible kinetic energy to them. The interview with the artist even mentions that the artist gets into these weird fugue states when he paints.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 132 Gallery on Prior)

This is a story about how everyone in the world just floated away except this one character. This page in particular is great because of the fixed viewpoint and the action in the foreground. Fantastic sequential storytelling.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 124 Lead Feet by Wortley and Lujan)

Heavy Metal branded coffee? Why not?

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 120 Dark Matter Coffee ad)

This is a great story about a person who turns having a crime scene in her living room into a decades-long business. Some of the captions overlap the art a bit too much in my opinion, but it’s a solid story.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 103 Murder House by Harvey)

The characters that got engulfed in the black cloud in the previous episode show up here. The way they’re rendered here is great – just solid black with some highlights.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 93 The Color of Air by Bilal)

There’s an aspect of Kirchner’s Dope Rider in these images. That’s what I see, anyway.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 87 Artist Spotlight on Bailey)

This story is about the hypocrisy of a cop in the lust part of hell actually enjoying sex. It’s not really that surprising a message, though – cops are hypocrites? No, really.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 81 Dotty’s Inferno: The Ex by Fingerman)

It’s a quick story, but the high concept is that the woman has taken some pills that someone gave her and now she sees these little green guys surrounding people who are about to die.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 73 Near Death Experience by Bivens)

The story is by Irvine Welsh – yes, that Irvine Welsh. It’s actually pretty solid.

(Heavy Metal #290 2018 – Page 49 Edbook by Welsh and McDaid)