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Fighting Fantasy Fest 2 There is usually some kind of text on this page. I have no idea what to put. - Oliver Rose A Warm Welcome From The Titan Monthly The Titan Monthly is a monthly magazine that brings you fighting fantasy related news and general goodness. It is made by the collaborative efforts of a large team of Pixies and Gnomes. Yep, Pixies, Gnomes as well as me, Oliver Rose and my co author, Thomas Rose. We only had 2 weeks to make this magazine, so this is but a taster for what is to come in the future. Anyway, without further wait, let's continue. This month in Fighting Fantasy… Fighting Fantasy Fest 2 With 20 weeks to go until the second Fighting Fantasy Fest, some guests have now confirmed their attendance*. Guests Of Honour Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone will be attending this event, and will be talking about ​ ​ ​ the Fighting Fantasy series, which as of this year is celebrating it's 25th anniversary. Ian will also be signing his new book Port of Peril as well as the Freeway Fighter Comic. Artists Russ Nicholson - One of the artists that helped define the world of Titan through his ​ amazing artwork, Russ illustrated eight FF gamebooks, including the famous Warlock Of ​ Firetop Mountain, which some fans believe was partly responsible for the series success. ​ He also illustrated all of the FF novels, the young FF Goldhawk series, and two of the three original AFF books. Recently he contributed extra illustrations to Tin Man Games' adaptation of The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain. Alan Langford - The illustrator of six FF gamebooks, including the famous Island of the ​ Lizard King and infamously difficult Creature of Havoc, Fighting Fantasy Fest 2 will be Alan's first convention so be sure to make it an amazing one! Tony Hough - the illustrator of four FF gamebooks, including Night Dragon and Bloodbones, ​ the mysterious “lost” book, Tony was also a guest at the first Fighting Fantasy Fest. Jim Burns - the artist behind the covers of not one, but two different editions of Freeway ​ Fighter. Jim's classic cover has also been reused as a cover variant for the Freeway Fighter Comic, which was a smashing success. Authors Marc Gascoigne - The name Marc Gascoigne is almost as familiar to fans of the FF ​ gamebooks as those of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, Marc having worked on the original Out of the Pit and Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World source books. He also wrote Battleblade Warrior (FF31), co-created (with Pete Tamlyn) the Advanced Fighting Fantasy books Dungeoneer, Blacksand!, and Allansia, and wrote the FF novels Demonstealer and Shadowmaster - all whilst working as consultant editor on the Fighting Fantasy range. Peter Darvill-Evans - author of three FF gamebooks, including Beneath Nightmare Castle and Spectral Stalkers, which are classic macabre horror novels, Peter was responsible for starting the Doctor Who New Adventures line of tie-in novels. Jamie Thomson - co-author of three FF gamebooks, including Talisman of Death and Sword of the Samurai, Jamie was the winner of many awards. Jonathan Green - author of seven FF gamebooks and YOU ARE THE HERO - A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Parts 1 and 2, which also were a smashing success. And that's not all! More guests will be confirmed in due course. * Please note, all guest attendances are subject to health or other work commitments. Freeway Fighter #2 Issue #2 of Ian Livingstone's FREEWAY FIGHTER is now available for pre-order, from Forbidden Planet or your local comic store. But no matter how you order it, you're going to need these pre-order codes, which have been “borrowed” from the fighting fantasy website. Freeway fighter in Judge Dread! In one of the latest Judge Dread Megazines, which, in its regular 'New Comics' slot, has a four-page feature on Ian ​ Livingstone's Freeway Fighter. ​ This is sure to bring even more attention to the new comic, which as a result will result in more people becoming aware of the Fighting Fantasy series of books, which cannot be a bad thing! Creators Ian Livingstone, Andi Ewington and Simon Coleby are all interviewed, so if you want to get the inside track on the most anticipated Fighting Fighting comic of all time, pop into your local newsagent or order your copy today! ​ ​ Freeway fighter #3 Covers Today we have got some sneak previews of the covers for the 3rd part of Ian Livingstones freeway fighter comic series.and they are as awesome as you would expect - particularly because two of them focus on the villain of the story, who will be very familiar to fans of the original Freeway Fighter FF ​ gamebook. Freeway fighter at forbidden planet On Saturday 20th May, you can join an amazing Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks line-up at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London, for the launch of Titan Comics’ Ian Livingstone's ​ Freeway Fighter: The Comic from 1:00-2:00pm! ​ In the comics series, an unknown virus has wiped out over 85% of the world’s human population. Former I-400 Driver Bella De La Rosa is one of the 15% – living every day as if it were her last. Now, eighteen months after the collapse of civilisation, faced with a new world order where violence and chaos rule the Freeway. She must hone her racing skills and survive any way she can! Stepping away from the usual of line up of Orcs Goblins and fantasy whatnot, Freeway Fighter is a chance for all FF fans, old and new alike to enjoy this new adventure! Freeway Fighter Reviews This marvel has received much praise from the Fighting Fantasy and Comic Book fans. ​ ​ Below I have several reviews of this product, so sit back, relax and enjoy the reviews. Review #1 - GeekSyndicate Andi Ewington’s comic book adaptation of Ian Livingstone’s 1985 Freeway Fighter gamebook is an unrelentingly kinetic and compelling tale of post-apocalyptic vehicular savagery and survival that deserves its place among the canonical works of the ‘dystopian action’ genre. Powerfully rendered by the pencils and inks of Simon Coleby and further elevated by the exquisite colours of Len O’Grady, the Freeway Fighter comic astutely blends tropes of apocalypse and ‘survival horror’ while honouring the legacy of the original Mad Max film of 1979 and its “silent movie with sound” techniques. Drugs, alcohol, sex, violence, long hair, and law-breaking: the muscle car culture of the late 1960s and 1970s mortified the Australian mainstream and was synonymous with ‘loose morals’ and criminality. To the conservative middle class especially, each souped-up Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III 351, Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8 or Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R/T was an unbridled, supercharged, nightmare juggernaut of social decline, akin to a “fuel-injected suicide machine.” When director George Miller married the already intimidating rev-head culture to punk menace and berserk motorbike gangs in his bleak dystopian vision of a not-too-distant future Australia teetering on the brink of collapse, Mad Max brought to cinema an ugly, lawless and violent ‘social apocalypse’ that polarised viewers and critics alike. Actual apocalypse (on screen, at least) soon followed, as did two film sequels: Mad Max 2, also known as The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Whereas the many iconic originalities of Thunderdome were somewhat overshadowed by the more ‘Hollywood-ised’ and ‘family friendly’ production, The Road Warrior portrays balls-to-the-wall survival in the face of uncompromisingly barbaric and sexually ambiguous warbands whose thirst for blood, death and leather is only exceeded by their thirst for gasoline. Despite being published in the same year as Thunderdome’s cinematic release, Livingstone’s Freeway Fighter gamebook – with the adventurer’s (i.e. reader’s) mission to drive “the armed Dodge Interceptor” across “the wilderness to the far-distant oil refinery at San Anglo and bring vital supplies back to the peaceful town of New Hope” – thankfully draws upon the broad narrative elaborated in The Road Warrior. Although the Mad Max films had by then established a devoted cult following, the Freeway Fighter gamebook remained a risky departure from the dependable sword-and-sorcery adventures that had propelled Fighting Fantasy to ‘publishing phenomenon’ status. Gamebooks in the series that had strayed from the familiar settings of Allansia and Orb – particularly those set in outer space like Starship Traveller and Space Assassin – were poorly received, at least by Fighting Fantasy’s sensational sales standards. However, building upon the enduring niche appeal of the Car Wars roleplaying game (published in the USA by Steve Jackson Games in 1980) and the Battlecars wargame (published by Games Workshop in 1983) and buoyed by the release of Thunderdome, Freeway Fighter was well received and respected in its own right. Three decades would pass before the Mad Max series would get its deserved re-boot in the form of 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. During that time various ‘car combat’ video games, gamebooks and wargames would come and go – ranging from the Autoduel RPG video game of 1985 to Games Workshop’s 1988 miniature-based wargame Dark Future and the late Joe Dever’s Freeway Warrior gamebook quartet of 1988-89. Even so, none of these efforts were ‘standouts’ and the genre as a whole seemed tired and, by the mid-1990s, oddly irrelevant (‘oddly’ given the rampant feasibility of a peak oil induced societal collapse). That Ewington’s superbly muscular comic book adaptation of Freeway Fighter has ducked into the dust-choked slipstream of Fury Road would surely bring a smile of relief to the grim visage of Max Rockatansky himself.
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