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Started by Michael Knight, 03 August, 2017, 04:08:25 PM

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SIP

Managed to pick up issues 1, 2 and 3 of freeway fighter from World Apart in Liverpool on Monday......glorious stuff. Great story, gorgeous Coleby artwork and major kudos to Jim on letters. Man, to have had the chance to have worked on something Fighting Fantasy related, even more so of this calibre......consider me eternally jealous.

Michael Knight

Really cant recommend the Freeway Fighter comics highly enough!

Colin YNWA

Quote from: SIP on 08 August, 2017, 09:28:09 PM
Managed to pick up issues 1, 2 and 3 of freeway fighter from World Apart in Liverpool on Monday......

Good to hear Worlds Apart is still there, my comicshop back in the late 80s when it opened. I'm back in Liverpool with the family for a few days next week. I should check it out again (normally sneak a visit when I get back to Liverpool). Is it still on Lime Street?

Anyway I got issue 1 from that there eBay and it was bloody good fun, so I've gone back and ordered the rest. Nice one.

SIP

Quote from: Colin YNWA on 13 August, 2017, 09:45:28 PM
Quote from: SIP on 08 August, 2017, 09:28:09 PM
Managed to pick up issues 1, 2 and 3 of freeway fighter from World Apart in Liverpool on Monday......

Good to hear Worlds Apart is still there, my comicshop back in the late 80s when it opened. I'm back in Liverpool with the family for a few days next week. I should check it out again (normally sneak a visit when I get back to Liverpool). Is it still on Lime Street?

Anyway I got issue 1 from that there eBay and it was bloody good fun, so I've gone back and ordered the rest. Nice one.

Yup, it's on Lime Street, and has extended into the basement now (where all the graphic novels are located). I started going to World's Apart in 1992 when it was a tiny little shop just off Bold Street. I believe Forbidden Planet international own it now and it's not quite the same.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: SIP on 13 August, 2017, 10:14:53 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 13 August, 2017, 09:45:28 PM
Quote from: SIP on 08 August, 2017, 09:28:09 PM
Managed to pick up issues 1, 2 and 3 of freeway fighter from World Apart in Liverpool on Monday......

Good to hear Worlds Apart is still there, my comicshop back in the late 80s when it opened. I'm back in Liverpool with the family for a few days next week. I should check it out again (normally sneak a visit when I get back to Liverpool). Is it still on Lime Street?

Anyway I got issue 1 from that there eBay and it was bloody good fun, so I've gone back and ordered the rest. Nice one.

Yup, it's on Lime Street, and has extended into the basement now (where all the graphic novels are located). I started going to World's Apart in 1992 when it was a tiny little shop just off Bold Street. I believe Forbidden Planet international own it now and it's not quite the same.

Yeah used to be up the stairs in a small shopping arcade the name of which utterly escapes me and was owned by two very nice Goths ... and yep their names escape me too. Became my LCS when Chapter One closed back in the day. Shame to hear its now just an extension of the Forbidden Planet network.

SIP

Chapter One on London Road? My first ever comic shop, picked up my Eagle comics Judge Dredd's there, and my 1985 Dredd annual, and my first ever graphic novel, the Dredd titan book "city of the damned". Happiest times.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: SIP on 13 August, 2017, 10:50:47 PM
Chapter One on London Road? My first ever comic shop, picked up my Eagle comics Judge Dredd's there, and my 1985 Dredd annual, and my first ever graphic novel, the Dredd titan book "city of the damned". Happiest times.

Yep that's the one. It had the porn section stringed off with a sign on cardboard as I recall saying something along the line of 'Hey kids don't look at the porn.' I remember being so scared of the 'comic book guy' behind the counter that I didn't!

JLC

Now there's an audio drama coming out.

www.fightingfantasyaudiodramas.com

Eric Plumrose

Quote from: SIP on 06 August, 2017, 05:44:23 PM
Anyway, just for fun!

I already had the first six books without it but, as a young Noxian, that green ribbon atop the cover drove me nuts when it was first introduced.
Not sure if pervert or cheesecake expert.

Eric Plumrose

Quote from: JOE SOAP on 06 August, 2017, 11:28:29 PM
During my FF days I got one of the Quest Packs for Christmas of '84.

1984? Yikes. By chance I picked up the Quest Pack in WHSmith while on holiday in Torquay. The only place I ever saw it.
Not sure if pervert or cheesecake expert.

TordelBack

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Quote from: Eric Plumrose on 16 August, 2017, 12:33:25 AM
I already had the first six books without it but, as a young Noxian, that green ribbon atop the cover drove me nuts when it was first introduced.

Oh how I hated that green ribbon!  Looking at the beauty of the original covers of Warlock, Forest of Doom, City of Thieves and Lizard King (less so Citadel of Chaos, or 'Tchah-Oss' as I pronounced it then), the banner hurts my eyes.  When did it come in, was it (the rather excellent) Scorpion Swamp? 

Scorpion Swamp sticks in my memory, because as soon as I saw it, I knew that The Other Steve Jackson had stolen my first gamebook before I could even finish it: 'Paths of Peril' was my own swamp-based (well, bog-based) adventure that bizarrely used the same free-exploration mechanic as Scorpion Swamp would.  I had a thick notebook with each page holding a numbered paragraph, and if I had ever filled more than 60 of them it could have been a triumph...

Anyway, inspired to greater charity shop efforts by this thread, last week I picked up Creature of Chaos and Phantoms of Fear, neither of which I have played before, so if work ever eases off I'm all set.

Eric Plumrose

Quote from: TordelBack on 16 August, 2017, 12:59:37 AM
When did it come in, was it (the rather excellent) Scorpion Swamp?

I recall being miffed a chum at school had an unribboned copy of ISLAND OF THE LIZARD KING so, yes. SCORPION SWAMP it probably was (a cursory search online of their respective covers seems to confirms this).
Not sure if pervert or cheesecake expert.

JOE SOAP


AlexF

We're reasonably close to persuading the powers that be at Usborne to have a crack at the 'choose your own adventure' thing. Would you be inclined to buy this sort of thing for your little 'uns (if you have any), or is it original FF or nothing as far as you're concerned?

Speaking personally, I loved the FF books mostly for the art and the setting, and was slightly less taken with the actual mechanic of playing through the book. For some reason I loved the heck out of the first Asterix book, though - perhaps because it wasn't as difficult!

Satanist

I now have Port of Peril but not had a go yet. Seen the rest in Smiths and was horrified to see the internal art has been changed to the new bland stuff.

Bluergh!
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?