Dylan Dog Dead Of Night
Italy’s best-selling comic and one of my personal favorites, Dylan Dog, has been adapted for the big screen once again! I mentioned this to a customer I was pushing Dark Horse’s DD collection on and it hadn’t occurred to me to use the computer to find out what’s been up with production. Now that I’m a [...]
Short Packed: Square Enix Explosion
By Chris Troy I remembering pointing out some time last year (post New York Comic Con) that Square-Enix’s Play Art division is schedule to explode in terms of non- Final Fantasy related content. That’s finally come to be, as FPNYC has been hit with a ton of new Square Enix product not related to the [...]
Junk Food Dinner
Met an awesome dude named Mark last week who works on a podcast called Junk Food Dinner. Junk Food Dinner is a weekly podcast devoted to cult films, hosted by three self proclaimed nerds. Each episode is filled with “Nerd News” covering the type of current events Daily Planet readers would appreciate, an overview of [...]
Transformers 2010 Hailstorm Review
By Loran New characters, new characters, new characters! Once again Hasbro adds a new character to the Decepticon ranks. Instead of going with a 100% new character, this time Hasbro has gone with sort of an homage to something very unexpected-a reference to a comic-only character from Generation 2! While a later incarnation of the [...]
Transformers 2010 Oil Pan Review
By Loran Even in the repaints, the 2010 line has given us some pretty clever homages. I’ve noticed these quite a bit since 2008. Hasbro’s been taking a lot of regular-sized figures and making them Micro-size with the power to surprise! No, they don’t downscale them, they just repaint them to resemble Micromasters! It’s a [...]
Axe Cop Fan Film
Sweet Jeebus! Here’s a spectacular fan film based on the singularly amazing comic AXE COP. Kick Axe! Axe Cop: The Movie – Part 1 from Peter Muehlenberg on Vimeo.
Found Footage Festival Vol 5
Vidiots unite this weekend, Friday January 28 and Saturday January 29, for the Found Footage Festival at Anthology Film Archives. The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters across the country. Not only will our eyes [...]
LOOKEE! for 1/28/11
Outrageous astronomical SF film goofs from Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy blogger for Discover magazine. Donate or renew your Comic Book Legal Defense Fund membership at the Protector or Champion level and receive a limited edition, hand-numbered “Tree of Liberty” print by Paul Pope. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Challenger tragedy. I was in [...]
QR Codes at Forbidden Planet NYC
The above image is a QR code. What the hell is that? Well: A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL [...]
Best News I’ve Heard All Week- JMS Adapting Classic Ellison Story for the Big Screen
J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Amazing Spider-Man, Thor) is apparently shopping his adaptation of Unca Harlan’s “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Tictockman as a feature film. “Since this has apparently leaked onto several film-oriented websites, I should probably confirm the information and preclude distortion: I have optioned, and adapted into screenplay form, Harlan Ellison’s “Repent Harlequin, [...]
New Manga Releases Jan 2011: Yay Books!
By Mat K. The long drought is over. And hopefully the beginning of February will prove as fruitful in manga releases as the end of January, but we have quite a few bits of awesome in this week regardless. After the last 3 weeks of single digit releases, this time we’ve got a couple dozen [...]
Indepentent Comic Publishers With Amazing Stuff
By Unkiedev Oh good grief, here we go again. One thing I LIKE about independent comic book publishers is they have to have better ideas to stay afloat. If the small presses can’t tell stories the big three (or four) haven’t touched then they may as well pack it up and go home. IDW has [...]
Review: Figma Makinami Mari Illustrious
By Christopher Troy Wait, another Mari review?! Didn’t we just do one of these like 6 months ago? Yes and no! That was Revoltech Mari. Well the first one at least. This is the Max Factory Figma Maria., she is completely different! Also, FUNimation has Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance currently in theaters, so [...]
Review: Transformers 2010 Terradive
By Loran While the Hunt for the Decepticons/Reveal the Shield/Generations lineups have given us amazing updates of classic (and movie) characters, their new characters have been the best part. With Breacher, we got an all-new character inspired by a Micromaster with a new name. Terradive here is a bit different. While he may use a [...]
Review: Pursuit of Cobra Sandstorm,ER, Zartan?!?
By Loran While there haven’t been many new characters or trooper types in the Pursuit of Cobra line, what new ones we have gotten have been quite welcome. This guy here is Sandstorm, the new desert specialist! Sandstorm was originally the name of Dusty’s pet coyote from the 1991, which was… never seen again after [...]