Angel's Anime Rating Guide

Six years ago, I began a three-year subscription to Heavy Metal magazine. When my subscription was due, I promptly renewed my subscription for another three-year period and received a subscription confirmation from Wine magazine. Later, I got another renewal notice from Heavy Metal . I continued to receive subscriptions for another year. Then, around May 2010, my last issue arrived. I wasn't expecting it to be the last issue, it just turned out that way. To be honest, I should have picked up the phone or wrote a letter, but, at first, I just didn't bother. Then, even more shockingly, I allowed myself to forget about the remaining portion of my subscription. I was resigned to just not even think about  Heavy Metal  magazine for the foreseeable future. Then, more than two years later, a mysterious postcard arrived. The postcard bore the following image and made the following bizarre assertions: Dear Heavy Metal Subscriber, Your subscription is current and all of your iss...

With the demise of Tower Records, I've decided to give myself a Christmas present - a subscription to Heavy Metal Magazine. The first issue of my subscription arrived a few days ago. Now all I need is a place to store the new issues. I've got about four inches of real estate available and I'll probably use that up in fairly short order.I started collecting comic books many years ago and have an eclectic taste. I tended to avoid the major publishers and gravitated toward independent releases. After the collecting bubble burst, a lot of the independents either went out of business or some of the series that I really enjoyed were discontinued. I had a difficult time finding characters and series that would stick around long enough for me to enjoy. I researched various characters and series, but after a while my tastes shifted to anthologies. In the early 90's, I was just starting to develop an interest in anime and was transitioning from comic books to anime. Tower R...