Smith’s Pekar Project keeps on trucking along.
Besides Deadpool, I think my other comic obsession would have to be all things Harvey Pekar. The fact that Smith Magazine has been doing a serialized Harvey Pekar web comic project for the past couple of weeks has been a wonderful thing to look forward to, but the Cleveland native came here to New York [...]
AMC’s Prisoner Reboot set for Nov. 15.
So, AMC has finally announced the premiere of their reboot of the classic Science Fiction series. This update has Number 6 (Jim Caviezel) retired to The Village where Ian McKellan’s Number 2 controls everything with a smile on his face and a giant bubble. The miniseries will be a three parter starting November 15th, and [...]
Meet Cartoonist Hans Rickheit at FP NYC Thursday, 10/1/09 6pm
Forbidden Planet NYC (840 Broadway @13th St.) will be hosting cartoonist Hans Rickheit this coming Thursday evening. Hans is the incredible talent behind Fantagraphics’ new graphic novel The Squirrel Machine. AN ANACHRONISTIC PARABLE FOR THE CONVULSIVE ELITE What is the squirrel machine? Is it a rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one’s guarded harvest? [...]
ART: Francis Manapul’s The Flash.
I’m a huge Flash fan, and the fact that after leaving Adventure Comics Geoff Johns and his insanely talented counterpart, Francis Manapul will be moving onto a Flash ongoing has me doing a little dance in my $9 buttfugly chair right now. Alex Segura, the man behind DC’s The Source blog gives us a preview [...]
Check out Rorschach as Freddy Krueger in the first trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street.
When I was a kid, my Dad frequently contributed to my movie fixation at a very young age. I watched extremely violent films that were spectacularly unsuitable for a kid between the ages of 6-8. This movie was one of them. Predator was another one, which I still think is the best movie the Governator [...]
Another convention? This one is in Brooklyn.
A month after the Big Apple Con, spotlighting Wizard Entertainment we’re going to have another comics related convention, this time celebrating the comic creators of Brooklyn! Sweet. Via press release, King Con will feature such creators as Brian Wood, Dean Haspiel, Molly Crabapple, and Al Jaffe. There is a ton more. The convention is being [...]
Books of Interest Releasing 9/30/09
Umbrella Academy vol 02: Dallas TP- A fractured team gets thrust into new adventure involving a plot to kill JFK. An FP bestseller, The Umbrella Academy maintains the vibrant cool of volume one with Dallas well. Written by Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance and a former guest of FP and an overall [...]
Eisner-Winners Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson @ Animal Planet
The Daily Treat, a blog for Animal Planet, one of the Discovery Channel’s other networks (sheesh, that was a handful) has a keen interview up with Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese, Dork) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother, The Invisibles) covering their new miniseries from Dark Horse, “Beasts of Burden.” Evan: The series is about a [...]
RECAP: Smallville premiere.
Friday evening saw the premiere of season 9 of Smallville, and the ratings were not that great to be honest. Like Dollhouse, only 2.8 million people tuned in to watch the show. I DVR’d it. So warning, Spoilers below. We open on Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) trying to track down Lois Lane (Erica Durance) who [...]
The Weekend in Review: Ignatz, Shuster Awards, and Iron Man 2.
There was a ton going on this weekend, in Baltimore, in cyberspace, and here in New York. Here are some highlights. The New York Anime Festival showed record attendance. Up 16% from last year, which is great to hear. The Ignatz Awards were announced. Congratulations to Jordan Crane, Nate Powell, and for the Kramers Argot, [...]
REVIEWS: ‘Superman Secret Origin’, ‘Planetary’, ‘Captain America Reborn’
Time to catch up on a couple of reviews, this is a mix of a couple of books that came out this week, and last week. Pick of the week: Fantastic Four # 571 by Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham. I’ve never been a Fantastic Four man, but this issue captured my imagination. From what [...]
Complex interviews Joss Whedon.
Friend (and neighbor) Tim Leong interviews Joss Whedon for Complex Magazine this week. In the lengthy interviews, Leong talks to Whedon about his Astonishing X-Men artist John Cassaday’s turn behind the Director’s Chair this season on Joss’s show, Dollhouse. The multi-platform writer also shares ideas on Buffy Season 9, his movie Cabin in the Woods [...]
Rob Liefeld freaks out over Deadpool movie.
Yeah, I just used “freak out” in a headline, but you had to be there. On Twitter, when he flipped out over the Deadpool movie meetings. Walking into Deadpool movie meeting!!! Yowza! Great Deadpool movie meeting! Lauren Schuler Donner and her team are headed in the right direction! Deadpool movie- YES! Ryan Reynolds is on [...]
Don’t Hate, Just Read #1: This Week in Comics.
Wednesday means new comics, anyone reading this blog knows that. So, with that in mind I’d like to point you in the direction of a couple of books I’m looking forward to. From DC Comics today, we have the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank interpretation of Superman’s modern origin in Superman: Secret Origin #1. Think of it [...]
What to Watch.
This week is chock full of season premieres. Here are a listing of some of the genre-friendly things I’ll be setting my DVR to. This is the first time I’ll admit on the Internet that I’m a fan of Ghost Hunters. The show on Syfy follows a bunch of New Hampshire plumbers who use scientific [...]