Archive | April, 2005

Anna’s new comics picks

17. April 2005

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Anna in the Glasgow FPI is recommending a couple of intersting new comics which she has just added to our pre-order webstore catalogue. The first is one we’ve already mentioned recently here, Joss Whedon’s Serenity adaptation coming before the movie version of the cancelled show, but Anna has a lot more detail for us and [...]

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Who’s he?

17. April 2005

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The Beeb has confirmed the rumours of the last couple of week concerning the rather hasty replacement required for Chris Eccleston’s new Doctor – David Tennant will be the next actor to take on the mantle of the country’s favourite Time Lord. The Scottish actor (who comes from West Lothian, not far from where I’m [...]

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Humanoids

17. April 2005

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You may recall that I was singing the virtues of the frankly excellent Humanoids imprint recently – translations for some of the finest of European graphic novels by America’s DC Comics. Alas, new reached the comics community this week that DC is to cease publishing the Humanoids range after the July releases this summer. The [...]

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VanderMeer

15. April 2005

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I had a nice email from Jeff Vandermeer the other day – his utterly excellent collection City of Saints and Madmen is one of my book picks in our new FPI catalogue and I have to apologise for putting in the wrong page count; the book actually weighs in at a hefty 700 pages, not [...]

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Strangehaven anniversary

13. April 2005

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Yes, hard to believe but this year marks the tenth anniversary of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Strangehaven. I was first put onto Strangehaven by a good friend and was hooked right away. Strange goings-on in what looks like a peaceful, picture-postcard, rural English village – Strangehaven manages to combine elements of the Prisoner, Hammer House of [...]

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New catalogue

13. April 2005

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Yes, folks, contain your excitement as the brand new quarterly catalogue arrives in the Forbidden Planet International stores! We have a stonking selection of new goodies for your delectation and delight. Okay, obviously I am a little bit biased, but really we do! Some of my colleagues were over at the recent toy fairs in [...]

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Niven and Pournelle honoured

12. April 2005

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SF giants and long-time collaborators Larry Niven and Doctor Jerry Pournelle have been honoured by the Heinlein Society. The panel has decided to award the pair the Robert A Heinlein Award “for outstanding published work in hard science fiction or technical writings inspiring the human exploration of space”. This third Heinlein award featured luminaries such [...]

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Albion

12. April 2005

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Hands up if you remember the Steel Claw? Robot Archie? The Spider? Unlike their American cousins, British comics only rarely featured full-on DC or Marvel-style superheroes. In fact when 2000 AD burst into the scene back in the 70s it proudly proclaimed we could forget about superheroes because it had the hyperheroes. And back in [...]

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Who’s in Edinburgh?

11. April 2005

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The Edinburgh Doctor Who Group will be presenting An Afternoon With Bernard Horsfall, star of numerous acting appearances including several Doctor Who roles (The Mind Robber, Planet of the Daleks, The War Games and the Deadly Assassin). Details of the next guest event will be revealed at the Bernard event on Sunday 17th April, from [...]

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Eisner tribute

9. April 2005

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Comics news blog The Beat reports on attending a very touching memorial service for the great Will Eisner, hosted by DC Comics in an old synagogue very close to where Eisner grew up and which drew many of the comics world’s great and good, including Karen Berger, Frank Miller, Peter David and Michael Uslan among [...]

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Trek United

8. April 2005

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My colleague Kevin passed details on to me of the Trek United campaign, which some of you may already be aware of. Niall Mullins, the Irish national Co-ordinator for Trek United sent us information, links and banners for the campaign which aims to persuade Paramount to reverse their decision not only to cancel Enterprise (which [...]

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The Authority: Kev

8. April 2005

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Garth Ennis and Glen Fabry bring us an unusual DC-Wildstorm release this month in the shape of The Authority: Kev. A former SAS man, now a secret assassin for the British government, with a streak of bad luck (well, what would you call being ambushed in your own home by an IRA hit-squad while sitting [...]

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CSI

7. April 2005

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Yes, now you get your very own chance to play at Crime Scene Investigation with the CSI Forensic Facial Reconstruction Kit. No, I’m being serious – have a look!

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Vader in a cell

7. April 2005

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A film cell that is – okay, weak joke, I know, sorry; the Dark Side must have possessed me for a moment. My colleague Lee has just told me about a new range of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith film cells which are coming into stock in our warehouse. They come framed with a [...]

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Page to screen to academia

7. April 2005

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Rare Books News reports a story from the Asbury Park Press on producer Michael Uslan. In addition to being the producer behind the Batman movies – including the exciting Batman Begins due this summer – and Constantine, Uslan, a New Jersey native, is a keen comics collector and has been since his youth. His collection [...]

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