Metal Hurlant #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMetal Hurlant #2 (Sept–Oct 2002) is the earliest published collaboration between writer Geoff Johns and Red Star artist Christian Gossett, making it a quiet but concrete milestone in Johns's career just as he was cementing his reputation at DC. Their story 'Red Light' carried a pointed political allegory — a prisoner desperate to escape an alien detention facility coded as a stand-in for Guantanamo Bay — demonstrating that Humanoids's revival was willing to use science fiction as a vehicle for contemporary social commentary from its second issue onward. The issue also continued the serialized 'Megalex' from Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fred Beltran and introduced Igor Baranko to American readers via a new Jodorowsky collaboration, embodying the series's explicit transatlantic mandate to bridge European bande dessinée craft with American mainstream talent.
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Humanoids relaunched Métal Hurlant in July 2002 — fifteen years after the French original folded in 1987 — simultaneously in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese editions, operated as a transatlantic 'two-headed' publication steered by Humanoids publisher Fabrice Giger out of Los Angeles. The series was conceived to serve a dual purpose: spotlighting emerging international creators and functioning as a promotional showcase for Humanoids's own graphic novel line, with serialized chapters of longer works like Jodorowsky and Beltran's 'Megalex' running across multiple issues as connective tissue between standalone short stories.
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- Published September–October 2002 by Humanoids Publishing; 48 pages, full color, Mature Readers rating.
- Cover art by Kevin Arai.
- Lead story 'Red Light' (pages 3–10) is the first published collaboration between writer Geoff Johns and artist Christian Gossett (pencils & inks) with colorist Snakebite Cortez — a sci-fi prison-escape story with a Guantanamo Bay allegory.
- 'Red Light' was adapted into Season 1, Episode 3 of the live-action TV anthology series Métal Hurlant Chronicles (France, 2012), which later aired on Syfy in the US in April 2014.
- The issue contains 'The Invasion' (pages 12–23), a new short story by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Ukrainian artist Igor Baranko, representing an early American-market exposure for Baranko ahead of his work on the Exterminator 17 series.
- 'Megalex Part 2' continues the Jodorowsky/Fred Beltran serialized sci-fi epic that began in issue #1, running as the anthology's long-form backbone.
- Pierre Wazem's wordless strip 'Day Off' also continues its run from issue #1, with a second pin-up illustration by Beltran rounding out the issue.
- The 2002–2004 Humanoids run of Metal Hurlant ran for 14 issues (the final issue dated November/December 2004) and was part of a stated mission to publish simultaneously in four languages as a transatlantic creative bridge.
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↩ Reprints Megalex #1 (1999), Métal Hurlant #134, Métal Hurlant #135
Reprinted in Alexandro Jodorowsky's Screaming Planet #[nn] (2016), Metal Hurlant: Selected Works #[nn] (2020), Relax #36 (2021)
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