Forbidden Planet - 40 years of signings celebrated

Forbidden Planet have just released a slim (but glossy) 16 page (US sized) magazine highlighting 40 years of signings at their various stores.

Fans of British comics will be delighted to see a brand new Brian Bolland cover and photos of numerous comic creators including Rian Hughes, Mike McMahon, John Wagner, Ron Smith, Dave Gibbins, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Pete Milligan, Mark Millar, Dan Abnett, Cam Kennedy, Lee Sullivan and Simon Bisley.

Here's a few selected images...good luck securing a copy (the main Forbidden Planet store on Shaftesbury Avenue in London had run out of copies the other day).

My spare copy is for sale here

Ravette (5) - Streets of rage

After the sedate adventures of a spinning blue hedgehog we now turn our attention to a slightly different proposition

with a cover adapted from issue 7 of Sonic the Comic [STC], yes, it's Streets of rage - bad city fighters.

Streets of Rage initially ran from issue 7-12 of STC and it's those 6 issues that are reprinted here. To be honest I'm not sure what this story is doing in the pages of Sonic.
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Rage
The story (in which Axel, Blaze, and Max quit the highly corrupt police force to do more good as vigilantes, taking down Max's ex-partner, the crime lord and martial artist Hawk) is based on the video game Streets of Rage 2.


Really this is so much more violent than anything that ever featured that blue hedgehog, well worth picking up. On the other hand, this is quite hard to find, laughably, Bookfinder.com have 4 copies listed all at just under $1000 (each, obviously). Happy hunting!




Scripted by Mark Millar MBE, illustrated by Peter Richardson, lettering by Tom Frame

Ravette (4) - Sonic the hedgehog

Sonic volume 2, subtitled "Spin Attack"

is based on the cover for issue 1

4 stories in this volume are as follows:

1). Attack on the death egg (reprinted from issue 6)

2). The origin of Sonic (reprinted from issue 8)

3). Back to reality (reprinted from issue 9)

4). Megatox (reprinted from issue 10)

Creators involved in this issue include:  Mark Millar, Woodrow Phoenix, Ed Hillyer, Tom Frame and  Jose Casanovas