I just watched Heavy Metal 2000. I liked the first one more, but this one was okay.
What isn't okay is that the magazine apparently went out of business in June of this year. Apparently they went woke, and now they've gone broke.
Yet another part of history is gone thanks to these fuckers. Their crusade against hot babes knows no end.
My issue is they can't do hot women in armour or power armour either. I mean, I'm not ashamed to say the Zone Raiders from C&C 3 and the various Sisters of Battle art made me want to buy a poster...
I'm a firm believer a lot of these businesses were already running out of steam already and tried to go woke to appeal to shit like ESG to stay afloat. The fact that ESG is in trouble itself with it's backers not fully committing to it anymore means you're going to have a lot of these companies going bust this year and certainly next year.
ESG would only work so long as the social engineering of the population works in favor of the agenda. Nobody wants to buy shit inundated with what some bigwig think tanks, completely disconnected from the plebs, think consumers should consume "for the betterment of humanity". The backers can't be this dumb. It's got to be a scam to ruin the economy further while profiting a little because, as you said, "a lot of these businesses were already running out of steam"
ESG, like all other aspects of Marxism, only works (and by "works" I mean people can't escape it) when everyone is forced into it. If it's possible to opt out most people will do that.