Oh boy, Serpieri again. This two-page spread is full of all kinds of little changes that alter the story and make it palatable to the censors. You see, years ago, Heavy Metal was stopped at the Canadian border for “scenes of sexual violence” which was a very graphic rape scene. Since then, they have gone out of their way to edit out anything that could be considered sexual violence.

In the first panel, they made some significant effort to ink over the whip that the guy has in his hand. In fact, that whip gets inked out of the rest of the page. And where it was difficult to ink over (third and fifth panels) an extra dialog balloon was added to cover the action (and where the whip impacted on her ass). 

Which brings us to the two black panels. As you might guess, these are too graphic to display at all, but the dialog balloons are kept intact so that the reader can get some sense out of the weird sequence that results. 

On the second page, we can see an extraneous balloon in the third panel – conveniently placed to cover up the rather graphic penetration that Serpieri had drawn. And the last panel is very obviously clipped for exactly the same reason. Who would have thought that graphic beating and non-consensual sex from a man who turns into a monster would be a bad thing?

(Heavy Metal Software Special Issue, 1993 – Page 46&47 Carnivore by Serpieri)