Archive | March, 2005

Hell House

23. March 2005

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Sirin in the Edinburgh FPI store is recommending a four-part mini series of horror comics called Hell House. Adapted by Ian Edginton with art by Simon Fraser it’s a wonderfully old-style haunted house tale, adapted with some care and love from the great Richard Matheson’s film screenplay. Matheson, as some of you may know, wrote [...]

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Church of Spider-Man

23. March 2005

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No, not a strange new religion, but news coming out from the Hollywood Reporter and other Tinsel Town showbiz sources that Thomas Haden Church has been signed up by Sam Raimi to play the villain in the third Spider-Man movie (due 2007, so we’ve got a little while to wait, but hey there’s the Fantastic [...]

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22. March 2005

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Locus Online reports that the very talented new British fantasy writer Steph Swainston has won the William L Crawford award for her powerful and unusual debut novel The Year of Our War. It’s a very well-deserved piece of recognition for a very promising new author. In fact we’ve picked both the Year of our War and [...]

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Alan Lee in Glasgow

22. March 2005

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The much-admired artist, who won an Oscar for his amazing work on the Lord of the Rings movies (and didn’t much of it look exactly like his famous paintings?), has been announced by the organisers of Worldcon as a special guest at Interaction, this year’s Worldcon in Glasgow. He will be appearing with the co-operation [...]

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More Crumb specials

21. March 2005

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On top of our special two-week, online offer on the great Robert Crumb, Kevin tells me today that the R Crumb Handbook will be available in your local FPI branch this week. It is an amazing journey through the life and art of the foremost cartoonist of the last forty years, from a 60s counter-culture [...]

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Lord of the Board Games

21. March 2005

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Okay, how nice are these? Lord of the Rings backgammon sets! The playing surface has a map of Middle Earth on it and the playing pieces consist of thirty die-cast versions of the One Ring in silver and gold. It all comes in a lovely wooden case with the Lord of the Rings logo impressed into [...]

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Who is he?

21. March 2005

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As we continue to get very excited at the imminent return of Doctor Who to our screens I noticed this story on the BBC – the Welsh Assembly’s First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, was mistaken for an extra in the new Who series. His arrival at the BBC Cardiff studios (the show is produced by BBC [...]

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New comics picks

21. March 2005

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My colleague in Glasgow, Anna, has kindly sent in an update here on the Hellboy and Shaun of the Dead comics I was raving about last week (come one, you know you were looking at them too and thinking, oh yes, I want those, be honest). Shaun of the Dead #1 is being adapted by IDW’s [...]

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One week left!

18. March 2005

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Only one week left on our very special Robert Crumb promotion!

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Newsletter

18. March 2005

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Friday night sees the latest edition of the Forbidden Planet International newsletter heading out to subscribers. It’s totally free to sign up and its chock-full of choice picks from the very latest material fresh into our warehouse. Subscribing to the newsletter is so easy as Morlok could do it – just click here to simply [...]

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Iron Sunrise

18. March 2005

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The second UK release from Edinburgh-based writer and purveyor of fine beards, Charles Stross, has just hit the shelves. Iron Sunrise, a follow-up to excellent Singularity Sky, it sees the return of Rachel Mansour, the UN black-ops specialist, assigned to investigate the forced mini-supernova which has destroyed an entire civilisation (yes, Charlie thinks big for [...]

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She’s a wonder, Wonder Woman

17. March 2005

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Yes, go on, sing the rest of it and give a little twirl, get it out of your systems (folk too young to recall the old Wonder Woman show will be utterly lost here). Rumours have been circulating in the comics press over the last few days that Buffy, Angel and Firefly creator Joss Whedon [...]

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The Original Dave Gibbons

17. March 2005

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Sandy Auden has a great chat with the great Dave Gibbons (forever legendary as one half of the creative team of the Watchmen not to mention all his other work) over on the Alien Online, discussing his solo project (writing and drawing), the Originals, which involves Mods, scooters and other influences on a younger Mr [...]

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Award-winning books

17. March 2005

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It’s been hard to miss me enthusing about this year’s bumper crop of nominations in this year’s Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards. We have all of the nominees listed on our webstore and you can check out mini-reviews of each title there. And for those of you who still like to pick up a [...]

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Darth Tater

17. March 2005

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Playskool have launched one of the more unusual – not to mention fun – items of Star Wars merchandise ahead of Revenge of the Sith: Darth Tater. What the smeg is a Darth Tater, some will wonder? Well, imagine Mr Potato Head. Now imagine Mr Potato Head had a son who was strong with the [...]

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