Once more into the breach, dear friends... ... I'll get on that at some point. In the meantime, here's another futile attempt to kick some life back into the...
... Review of Fighting Fantasy 37 – Portal of Evil By Guillermo Paredes Peter Darvill-Evans wrote only three gamebooks, all of which were part of the...
Hi all, Even though I've been banned from the official Fighting Fantasy forums and Dave won't let anyone mention my site (much less link to it) on that forum,...
A well-written review Guillermo, although I'm not in full agreement with you. ... I've always considered it a sort of sequel to BNC, but I suppose there's no...
dr_sentence wrote on Mar 10: " Jak Shadow has to be a pseudonym, right? Which is interesting in its own right. Although this isn't always the case, you don't...
... Or maybe seeing as the series title is F.E.A.R, Jak Shadow is just someone's attempt at a "cool" name, perhaps the author is trying to invite you into...
... Am I the only one to think that 'Jack Shadow' sounds a bit like "Jackson, Steve"? I doubt it's the FF SJ, but it might be the US one, working for a ...
... just ... to ... like "Jackson, ... working for a ... gamebook circles? ... Judging by the wat the name 'Jack' is spelled, there's no doubt that Dave is...
Jon Shannow? Is Gemmell writing for them, then? 8-) ... Sounds a bit like a gun-toting, bible-bashing, post-apocalyptic high plains drifter to me... Yahoo!...
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Mar 10, 2005 10:26 pm
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I note that the link to Wizard Books also shows the cover (provisional?) for Eye of the Dragon. Published in April, apparently....
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Jon Howard wrote on Mar 10: " Or maybe seeing as the series title is F.E.A.R, Jak Shadow is just " someone's attempt at a "cool" name, perhaps the author is...
Here is what the blurb says: Triton, an evil alien genius, is trying to take over the world! He must be stopped! YOU are an agent of the crime agency...
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Here is what the blurb says: Triton, an evil alien genius, is trying to take over the world! He must be stopped! YOU are an agent of the crime agency F.E.A.R.,...
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... Or very bad 1980s WWF wrestler. Leather jacket & many defeats. Perhaps wins against Bob Bradley....
... Or until Dave Holt reveals in the FF forum that F.E.A.R. stands for 'Fighting Evil, Always Ready', and that 'Jak Shadow' is a gestalt entity composed of...
... errr might be... 8-) and then again... D'oh! ya got me, total fraud - sorry! 8-) Whilst were on the subject of new series, has anyone seen or played the ...
... Don't you wish they'd release a new gamebook series not by those two? At this rate we're going to end up with 100 gamebook series all written/illustrated...
Jak Shadow wrote on Mar 11: " I'm not Jak Shadow either. In that case, you can't tell us why you don't use a pseudonym, can't you? ... Best wishes Paul Mason...
... I think it's good that new gamebooks are being released regardless of who writes them. Besides, I've always liked Sutherland's writing, and LW wasn't the...
... Nah, I can't agree. Not that Chalk's departure was a good thing, necessarily, but Dever's writing and gamebook construction style continued to mature long ...
... Did Chalk do the original maps for the LW books he illustrated? If so, I'll have to disagree with you. Of all the RPG/gamebook map styles I've seen over...
... Then what do you make of the news that Dave Holt is officially writing one. An overly continuity-laden one, by the sound of things (do we *really* need an...