Heavy Metal Special Editions #2

In the scorched remains of Kansas, Hard John Apple patrols a broken world, guarding his patch of earth with quiet determination. As he grapples with the mystery of an ICBM silo buried beneath the wasteland, his journey becomes a test of survival, memory, and what it means to be human in a place where heaven seems just out of reach.

In "Within You... Without You," a young woman is sent back in time through the power of transcendental meditation to witness dinosaurs in their natural world—only to become stranded when a sudden blow to the head disrupts her return. The story unfolds as she struggles to survive in a prehistoric landscape, her mind caught between two worlds.

In a quiet town shadowed by grief, a grieving scientist crafts a son from stolen parts, breathing life into a creation born of sorrow. When his maker is killed, the boy—made of fragments and fury—steps into a world he never knew, driven by a need to understand what it means to be human.

In "Mind of the Mass!", a young girl forms an unlikely bond with an old blind woman in a quiet, isolated town—until fear turns the community against her. When the townsfolk come to execute the woman, the child is thrust into a desperate choice that forces her to confront the darkness within the crowd.