Friday, 23 June 2017

The new Fighting Fantasy covers are here!

It's what fans have been waiting for for a long time, ever since it was announced that Scholastic UK would be re-launching the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. Well you need wait no longer - here are the covers for the new editions, re-imagined for a new generation of FF fans.







PART STORY, PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE!


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  1. Andreas Rocha24 June 2017 at 01:11

    Unfortunately a bit of a let down. MY apologies to the artist who did them, but the original covers had so much more to them. These make the books look like young children's books in terms of graphic style. With so much great fantasy art being produced today on a daily basis...just check out artstation.com...SNIF

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    1. William Parrish20 July 2017 at 06:16

      Agreed, these are...not what I hoped :(

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  2. Anonymous24 June 2017 at 15:09

    Sadly not a patch on the original book art, the gold top editions are still far and away the best.

    Nice to see a new generation will have easy access to the books though.

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  3. DanReiki6 July 2017 at 16:58

    Aimed at the very young? They will not appeal to the many many older players i fear.

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    1. Sean McSomething10 September 2017 at 14:25

      Scholastic Books is literally a children's publisher, known for selling books through elementary school book clubs and book fairs. They're the world's largest children's publisher - they're not really concerned with the niche market of 40yo nostalgia junkies.

      That said, these covers don't look at all modern. They look like they belong on a low-rent 80s fantasy publication. If they can't be bothered to improve the art or make it more contemporary, they shouldn't change it - the originals are far better.

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  4. The Warlock6 July 2017 at 17:37

    With the greatest of respect, DanReiki, being an older player myself, what the series needs is new younger fans, if it's to keep going for another 35 years.

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  5. Torbay Templar19 July 2017 at 17:16

    Not my cuppa tea at all.

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  6. Anonymous31 July 2017 at 11:23

    Unfortunately they look a bit Disney or Cartoon Network. You could have got Jon Blanche or Iain McCaig to do them, As you know Jon did the Sorcery ones but not the original FF series, I'd love him for the next ones, I assume he's still around. Also as a kid I was freaked out by the original covers and it made me buy them from the Puffin book club catalog that went round schools in the 80s. These new covers feel like its guessing what kids respond to. The original artwork was more intricate detailed and sophisticated and very creepy. Kids today need better illustrators. e.g modern cartoon remakes of the pink panther and the mr men are just awful, all charm gone, just mass produced computer drawn illustration with no character. Lets not do the same with the amazing world of Jackson's and Livingstone's Fighting fantasy.

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  7. eviltimeban4 September 2017 at 11:15

    Are the interior illustrations the same as the original editions? I can get past the cover art, once the drawings inside are the same.

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