Heavy Metal has been publishing older stories from Bilal. This story contains an extended dream sequence that includes this page, which is a clear riff on the end of Kubrick’s 2001. Bilal is so concerned that people might not recognize the riff that he actually spells out where it’s from in the caption.

(Heavy Metal Horror Special, 1997 – Page 40 Close the Shutters and Open Your Eyes by Bilal)