Issue #287 • ships from May 30 2002
News-stand Price • UK £3.40 / US $5.99

Spider-Man
• The life and times of Homo Arachnida: As Spider-Man looks set to become the highest earning movie yet – having grossed over $220 million in just two weeks in the USA - we ask the producers how they engineered such enormous success, and track down the webbed wonder’s genius creator, Stan Lee

The Star Wars story
• The third instalment of our history of the saga comes bang up to date as George Lucas starts work on the special editions and the second trilogy

From Strip to Screen
• This month we look at some of the best and worst animated adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and many more

Farscape - Gigi Edgley
• She brings Chiana, the tart with a heart from the Uncharted Territories to life. Now Gigi looks ahead to Season Four– will it be the hit show’s best yet?

Farscape - Lani Tupu
• Captain Crais may be dead, but the actor who plays him is still busy voicing Pilot. Here Lani he shares a few hints on the future for Moya and her crew

The Abyss
• Cameron’s first attempt at a watery epic wasn’t quite as successful as Titanic, but we still prefer it! The Abyss is this month’s Retrospective

• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to bring two Bonds together
• Independence Day to have a sequel
• Updates on Indiana Jones 4, Star Trek: Nemesis and Terminator 3
• Plus… A look at the scheduling of all the autumn Fantasy TV series, old and new
• Exclusive! First pictures from The Matrix Reloaded, Daredevil, and the new seasons of Farscape and Stargate!

• Films
  Alan Jones, reviewer supreme, assesses…
  Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
  Spider-Man
  The Time Machine
• TV View
  Ian Spelling checks out the series finales of The X-Files and Roswell, and the violent Buffy episode Villains
• Plus…
  Our usual detailed look at all the new Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels in Bookshelf, film and TV releases both new and old emerging on DVD, and we check out the best new computer games, soundtracks and toys…

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Sony / Columbia Tristar, 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Warner Bros, Sci-Fi.

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2002. Not for reproduction

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