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Co - created by emerging creative person Osvaldo Montos of Cuba , Entropyas a title knit the entireHeavy Metaluniverse together by focusing on the demonic entity known as Kako ( called the Loc - Nar in the 1981 flick ) . Formerly the scourge ofHeavy Metal ’s iconic heroine Taarna , the series explores Kako ’s overall plan through the use of successive embodiment , known as “ Crusaders , ” whom he forcibly transforms to do his bidding under terror of destroying their entire world . “ Kako , a sentient macrocosm , is faced with the timeless interrogative sentence of how God speaks to Man , ” Priest said in an audience withScreen Rant , relating it to the concept of how the God of the Bible could only talk indirectly to human existence . “ We manifest that thought in the prelude taradiddle in Heavy Metal Magazine # 318 , wherein Kako tries talking to deadly brute and his simple whisper destroy their planet . clear , Kako has a problem . He need an ombudsman , someone to speak for him . ”
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That spokesman , Crusader XI , later on to be acknowledge as Entropy , will be tasked with hunting down the former avatar , a womanhood named Crusader X , in subject # 2 , on sale October 5 . As the write up unfolds , guided by the unfluctuating hand of Illidge and the rest of the editorial stave , Heavy Metalhas announced it is make a concert effort to rumple together the manydisparate ( and wildly fantastical ) story ofHeavy Metalinto one cohesive world through this morally ambivalent character said to be partially establish onBreaking Bad’sWalter White . Said Priest of this daunting prospect :
Ever volunteer to help your female parent move ? Yeah , it was a lot like that . My mom had this Brobdingnagian armoire , a heavy wooden physical object .
I signed on to write a floor , and Joseph says , “ Okay , you take the armoire . ”
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Priest was agile to praise Illidge ’s high energy access to theHeavy Metalmythos , likening him to the “ Energizer Bunny ” and address him a “ dynamically creative person . ” He also laud the “ phenomenally talented ” Montos for his “ edgy , reformist modern style that is both classic and fresh all at once . ” The tone ofEntropyechoes a sure style ofOld Testament Biblical illusion , albeit with sinister overtones as the monstrous Kako take control of the supporter ’ liveliness in a split second in a nightmarish apocalypse sequence . Priest say the series “ explores issues of existence and think through a in darkness Socratic method acting of trial and catastrophic erroneous belief ” throughout its trial .
The newest , and perhaps most annihilative scoundrel ofHeavy Metalis here . Entropy#1 is on cut-rate sale now , and to recover moreEntropy , break outHeavy Metal Magazine#318on sale this week for the tie - in prologue .
