Until February 2012, I’d never read 2000AD weekly for anything more than a few weeks. Then I made the pledge. I would read the comic for a year, and tell you what I reckoned each and every week. That was at the end of February 2012. So now I’m into Year 2 of the 2000AD experience [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 17, 2013
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Art meets Internet. We’re all impressed. Except him over there. But he’s strange. Ignore him and on with the art…. Duncan Fegredo posts up his fabulous pencil roughs to his Nelson chapter (here), including this unused ending to his chapter…. “This was my original ending, I wasn’t as mean as @mrphoenix and @Robgog wanted me [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 16, 2013
Back when we started the Desert Island feature, we called upon the man pretty much responsible for the FPI Blog, the blogfather if you will – Kenny Penman. Today for Desert Island Comics episode 50, we thought it might be a nice touch to pay tribute to the man who has kept the blog going [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 2, 2013
Heavens, you know you’re busy when you forget your own birthday. February 25th 2005 and the FPI Blog opens its (virtual) doors with Joe Gordon at the helm. 8 years later and we’re still here. Joe’s been joined by a few of us over the years, but our intent has always been the same, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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Welcome to another look ahead. Quick reminder, the FPI Most Wanted is a simple little service, throwing the spotlight on the comics we’re looking forward to here at the FPI Blog this month and the next. But comics being comics, sometimes shipping dates just slip, so please, no shouting if we’re wrong eh?! JANUARY 2013 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 1, 2012
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Welcome to another look ahead. Quick reminder, the FPI Most Wanted is a simple little service, throwing the spotlight on the comics we’re looking forward to here at the FPI Blog this month and the next. But comics being comics, sometimes shipping dates just slip, so please, no shouting if we’re wrong eh?! DECEMBER 2012 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 21, 2012
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Hello, comic-lovers! If you’ve noticed a lack of rambling within the FPI blog, that would be my absence. As much as I detest it, real-life tends to get in the way of my comic-reading adventures and the only chance I get to check out the new releases is in the basement of the shop on [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 2, 2012
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Star Trek/Doctor Who Assimilation2 Issue #6 Scott Tipton, David Tipton, Gordon Purcell, JK Woodward IDW Reviews for Issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 *WARNING: spoilers ahead* My reviews of this comic have been slightly schizophrenic and that’s partly because I’m unused to issue reading and analysing stories in bits- and it is a different kind of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 1, 2012
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Right, first of the month once more, which means it’s time for the FPI Most Wanted, so why not surprise your family and friends and get them something brilliant to read this festive season. One proviso though…. this is all to the best of our knowledge! Things may change nearer publication date etc etc…. NOVEMBER [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 5, 2012
Continuing today with the second and concluding part of Matt Badham’s chat (with a few questions thrown in from Joe Gordon), with the multi-talented novelist and comics scribe Dan Abnett; you can read part one here, if you missed it. Dan Abnett is a prolific writer of genre fiction often working in shared universe [...]
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
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