Metal Hurlant Issue #2
Space Stares Back - Softcover Trade

Mœbius, Philippe Druillet & Jean-Pierre Dionnet

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Authors:: Mœbius (Story & art)
Philippe Druillet (Story & art)
Jean-Pierre Dionnet (Writer)
Date:: Sep 23, 2025
Edition:: Softcover Trade
Format:: 272 pages - Color, black and white
8.0 x 10.5 in
ISBN:: 9798893572599
Price:: $29.99 - Can$39.99

Metal Hurlant Issue #2
Space Stares Back - Softcover Trade

Mœbius, Philippe Druillet & Jean-Pierre Dionnet

Bold, transgressive comics, beamed to Earth quarterly with all-new stories, cutting edge reportage, and iconic archival material.

50 years after the debut of Metal Hurlant in France, the iconic and genre-defining publication is returning to English, with a bigger and bolder iteration than ever before: as a quarterly anthology published by Humanoids. Each volume of Metal Hurlant will feature 272+ pages of a one-of-a-kind, otherworldly, literary experience.

In 1974, fellow, rebellious bande dessinée creators Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Mœbius wanted to push the boundaries of the comics medium to tell mature, cerebral, and often titillating stories that embraced a punk attitude.

Metal Hurlant was their brainchild, a cutting edge comics anthology published under their newly founded publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés (Humanoids).

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In space there is no oxygen. No warmth. No life. No hope... Or is there?

In this second installment, the premiere sci-fi comics anthology from Humanoids travels the vast reaches of the cosmos to answer the question, when we stare into space, what stares back? The greatest comic creators of yesterday and today have the stars as their destination as they deliver tales of extra-terrestrial encounters, alien landscapes, isolation, exploration, paranoia, survival, and hope in the unforgiving darkness of the ever-expanding universe.

Inside, all packed into 272 pages of interstellar wonder: an interview with Star Trek franchise science advisor Dr. Erin Macdonald, an exploration into a cold war soviet device of destruction remade into an image of aspiration by NASA historian Lois Rosson, illustrations, and twenty-four undeniably out-of-this-world cosmic comics.