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.
As another user already pointing out referring to Razorfist, that's why it's less "go woke, get broke", and more "go broke, get woke, ultimately croak".
Going woke is their attempt to save money/business. The reality is that it's not demographics and pandering that's the issue. The sad reality that not too many are looking at is that these industries simply aren't viable anymore, certainly not in the way they used to be.
I wish we could go back to the business models of the 90s and early 2000s, but most of these industries have stagnated and those models weren't working. Even the models from the 2010 for publications wasn't sustainable, it was just haemorrhaging less.
These publications and companies are not going to be viable forever. Nor should they be. They've lived too long, and it's time for new content. And I don't mean modernised content, I mean original works that have actual good ideas. These need to be promoted rather than relying on some handfuls of established IPs that are held by a handful of corporations that care nothing for the content and only for the profit.
Markets need to be viable for these companies to survive, otherwise they will keep trying these tactics to get any amount of money possible.