A had a weird moment of deja vu when I read this story. I was certain that it was a reprint because I know I’d read it before. After extensive research, I figured out that I had read it before – when it first came out. Which means that I’m more or less up to the point where I started reading Heavy Metal on the regular.

The story itself is pretty straightforward in Prado’s ongoing effort to document how terrible people are who think that their social status gives them a right to do pretty much anything without regard to anyone else or the consequences of their actions. The panel where they knock the guy off the bench when there’s a perfectly good empty bench right there seems pretty symbolic.

Also, because I take great delight in pointing these things out – the table of contents for this issue indicates that the name of the story is “No Respert for Nothing” (sic).

(Heavy Metal issue #162, May 1996 – Page 56 No Respect for Nothing by Prado)