Awe Metal 2 Minggu (2021)

Awe Metal 2 Minggu (2021)
42 pages, A5 size, Malay, pro-printed

Another Malaysian comic artist in the underground scene.

There are few issues released before this but this my introduction with the work of this artist; Jerry and the comic. Whether the previous one has connection to this issue, not sure. Maybe not. This might be a stand-alone issue.

If my translation is right, "Awe Metal" is 'metalhead' in English while "2 Minggu" is "2 Weeks". "Awe" is a local dialect referring to a male and used by the people from East Coast especially from Kelantan state.

This issue is available in 2 versions and I opted for this one. I should have bought both version because it contains different materials/gifts I guess.

The gifts are hand-drawn postcard of the front cover, a A3 poster of the front cover, and CDr sample played by the artist himself @ Jerry, which instrumental/ambient piano songs or dungeon music if that's the right way to call it. The other version will have different gift suited with the concept of the front cover.

The issue is made pro-printed with full colored cover. I think for RM 20, we are getting more than the money spent especially with hand-drawn materials.

Now onto the content;

The first part is story about Awe Metal fall in love with a girl and his effort to make the 'next step'. All have been prepared but lastly, he found out she already married.

The second story is about Pojie black that is influenced by B****m's ambient albums and his 'journey' to become Count Grisnacht (musically of-course). He done the recording the songs at 1 night in a studio and went back home with the masterCD. Once completed the CD cover and he went back to the studio and found there is no studio. The location is actually an old graveyard. Traumatized with the event he went down with a fever for 2 weeks.

The arrangement is not like a normal comic which the stories are in small panels or boxes. These 2 stories, being drawn in 1 full page comic.

In here also featured snapshot of the upcoming Awe Metal comic. which look like normal comic (1 page with +-5 small panels) like normal comic. The story quite funny. Awe Metal, death metal fanatic but will cry if listen to love songs. Same with Pojie Black, black metal fanatics but cried when wathching the love scenes in Hindi movie. Does this refer to actual person? Afterall, we are all human with emotion ;-)

The last page is the autograph by the artist and with the name of the buyer. In this case it is my name in it.

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