La Black Library a ouvert les hostilités hier, concernant le 25ème anniversaire de Warhammer 40K, en postant sur son blog un gros article que voici en citation :

Citation:

In the grim Darkness of the 1980’s... On the 25th of February our beloved Warhammer 40,000 celebrates its 25th birthday, which leaves us thinking, where has the time gone? As we begin our preparations for this momentous occasion, we thought we’d go all the way back to the beginning and see just how far we’ve come. In 1987, ‘Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader’, contained the first pieces of background about the war torn galaxy of the 41st Millennium and was responsible for introducing the world to Space Marines. Six years later, Ian Watson wrote Space Marine, cementing the reputation of the Adeptus Astartes as the towering, death-dealing, armour clad warriors of the Imperium that we know today. It seems that gene-bred, super-human warriors are everywhere in sci-fi now. Space Marine is an old novel and not exactly up to date with the current view on the Warhammer 40,000 universe, but if you want an insight into what got the ball rolling, check it out here. The first ever Black Library novel released was Dan Abnett’s First and Only, way back in 1999. In fact, the name of the book was a bit of a joke, as we weren’t sure that it would be popular enough to warrant a second one! Thankfully that wasn’t the case and since then, we’ve released two hundred and seventeen Warhammer 40,000 titles, featuring every race in the game (and more besides) and spanning ten thousand years of war. We thought it would be cool to find out how many words that would be, so we set to work, and after scouring every book, we can confidently say that this makes up a total of seventeen billion, three hundred and sixty thousand, one hundred and three words (give or take a fairly huge amount)! We mentioned earlier that we were planning something special to mark the birthday. By order of the Inquisition, we can’t tell you much about it at the moment, but we have managed to sneak this preview past the guards. Let us know what you think it might be on our Facebook page. Join us here on the 25th when we will announce what’s coming out and make sure you bring cake!

Source n the grim Darkness of the 1980’s...

La Black Library en profite pour mettre en avant sont tout premier titre publié en 1993 :

==> Space Marine de Ian Watson

Believe us when we tell you that Space Marine is quite unlike any other Warhammer 40,000 novel you’ve ever read.
First published in 1993 – though completed some years earlier – at a time when the background to the Warhammer 40,000 universe was still in a state of flux and not yet fully coalesced, the book follows three young Imperial Fist recruits from their formative years in the underhive gangs of Necromunda through to fighting as part of the First Company within the bowels (literally!) of a Tyranid bioship.
Not only will you find squats in this novel –Tzeentch-worshiping squats at that – but also Space Marines controlling Titans, Space Marines with lasguns, the Pain Glove and more than a small amount of toilet humour. Oh, and a Zoat. How could we forget the Zoat?
Although the temptation was great to rewrite significant portions of this book to make it conform to current background, as a curiosity piece, an historical snapshot of the Warhammer 40,000 universe circa the early 1990s, this book is invaluable. It also serves as a shining example of what can happen when a respected genre author at the height of his powers is let loose on an established shared universe.
March 2010 • ISBN 9781844169016

Disponible en anglais en "Print on demand" par ICI Space Marine

J'espère qu'ils vont nous sortir de nouvelles figurines ... pourquoi pas des Titans en plastique !!

25 ans déjà ? J'espère qu'ils vont nous sortir des trucs intéressants. En français. Un codex anniversaire ?

La réédition du premier codex ça serai intéressant !

C'est clair, ça fait du beau oldies ^^
Mais il sera en édition limitée je suppose...

J'espère qu'ils vont le fêter en béauté en nous vendant des nouveaux livres, nouvelles figurines.

Oui j'espère des beaux livre dont un très beau artbook avec l'évolution des dessins depuis 25 ans et un jolie historique!!

Gav Thorpe a présenté sur sa page FB,un artiste,Tony Hough,pour les 25 ans de Warhammer 40K:



Pour voir en taille réelle: http://tonyhough.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/warhammer-40k-anniversary-celebration-html?=1

C'est une oeuvre qui date de l'époque ou c'est actuel ?

Vu le style graphique,ces Eldars font oldschool,donc c'est d'époque je présume.

T'as surement raison, mais l'artiste aurait pu s'amuser à le faire à la manière de l'époque. Une sorte d'hommage en quelque sorte...
Quoiqu'il en soit, j'adore ces Eldars. leurs armes sont trés organiques. Un peu comme les flingues de Tyrannides.
Si on compare ce genre d'illustration avec ce qui se fait aujourd'hui, on se rend compte comme l'univers de W40000 a évoluer.

C'est bien une vielle illustration d'époque, remis en couleur pour l'occasion.

C'est très bien trouvé niveau couleur.

Elle était ( est encore d'ailleurs) en Noir et blanc Dans Rogue Trader.