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MAIDEN’S ART ATTACK
Iron Maiden’s classic Piece Of Mind album gets the graphic novel treatment in an epic new 40th anniversary book
WORDS: DAVE EVERLEY
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COURTESY OF Z2 COMICS
EPIC SONGS, CINEMATIC
lyrics, an iconic mascot –if any band was born to get the comic book treatment, it’s Iron Maiden. To mark the 40th anniversary of 1983’s
Piece Of Mind,
Maiden have teamed up with comics company Z2 to release
Iron Maiden:
Piece Of Mind,
a 120-page illustrated book based on that classic record.
“It’s more than just a graphic novel, it’s a work of art,” Bruce tells Hammer of the Piece Of Mind book. “It’s a thing of beauty.”
It’s not the first time the worlds of Iron Maiden and comic books have come together. In 2018, the band put out Legacy Of The Beast, a tie-in with the game of the same name. But Iron Maiden: Piece Of Mind –which is available in various formats, including a ridiculously lavish deluxe edition that finds the book housed in a lockable box –takes a different approach, using each of the album’s nine songs as a jumping-off point for separate and very different stories.