Old Enough to Forget

Courtesy flush for the reader ... I will often plop down a long meanderambling introduction before getting to the point ... or as close as I can generally get. I've read this one, it's pretty incoherent at times. You may want to skip the intro if you're inclined. SKIP INTRO When Heavy Metal came out in the summer of '81 it was jaw dropping. I really didn't have many of the magazines because they were a little too out there and were more expensive than the comics I normally bought. The movie though - that was another thing altogether. Besides most of the guys from SCTV seemed to be in there somewhere, and there were cartoon titties. Den would have approved ... and he did (if you know, you know). It was the music though. The first scene opens with a space shuttle with the bay doors open, and an astronaut driving a Corvette makes its way through the atmosphere - and blaring through the speakers is Riggs' "Radar Rider" and from that moment I was hooked. T...