The Weekly Pulse – Milestone in Riverdale!
Drama! Controversy! Comics! Dramictroversy! Dan goes over the latest and greatest comics in this week’s haul, plus the bru-ha-ha surrounding Kevin Keller‘s nuptials! If you’d like to show your support for comic that provide realistic (and super-realistic!) depictions of the gay experience, there’s a whole host of great comics to choose from!
Large headed Heroes, Ponies and a brief, belated Toy Fair 2012 Recap
by Chris Troy. I really hate typing out cliche stuff like “a dollar doesn’t buy you much these days, especially in NYC”, but considering how much it costs to ride the subway these days, it’s kind of true. HOWEVER, for a mere $1, you can pick one of the new Marvel Heroes Buildable Figurines from [...]
Empower Strangers
This week we will be taking a look at comic books and comic book related pieces of paper, stapled together, with colored inks depicting serial adventures featuring words and pictures. Ya’ can’t do better this week than the Empowered Deluxe Edition from Dark Horse! Empowered is smart, sexy, funny, and sensationally well drawn. Conceived as [...]
As Seen On VHS this Wed 2/29 @ Nitehawk
This Wednesday February 29th at 8PM get ready for another wild night filled with oddities of the VHS era, for FREE… only at Nitehawk Cinema! Make sure to R.S.V.P. on facebook! PEOPLE OF EARTH! Join VHS VAULT, WILD EYE RELEASING and HORROR BOOBS for New York’s ONLY monthly, free VHS extravaganza and screening of TERRORVISION! [...]
Avengers Movie Toys are Here
Click on the picture (or here) to see what’s currently available from Forbidden Planet NYC.
GI Joe Retaliation Toys!
By Loran I know I’m in the minority here, but I LOVED G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. It was a big dumb action movie, but it was a FUN one. It was great to see live-action versions of Joe characters on the big screen, even if some of the likenesses and character selection left something [...]
2012 Transformers Generations Waves
By Loran It’s been no secret that Transformers: Classics was one of the best ideas ever. Transformers had never had direct updates to the original characters in the modern era, just repaints and homages. Classics was a line nobody ever saw coming and was a huge hit, spawning two offshoot lines. The latter of which [...]
Our Comic Book Shelves Smell Like Comic Books
Coming next Wednesday, February 29th (helloooo Leap Year): Ralph Wiggum Comics #1!!! In the first of Bongo Comics’ soon to be legendary Simpson Comics One-Shot Wonders, Ralph Wiggum takes center stage. In his first solo outing, Ralph has a day off of school, is left home alone, and becomes a role model to a new kid [...]
The Weekly Pulse – Reality Show: The Comic
One of our own is gonna be on TV!!!- cough cough..ahem. Sorry. Comics. Well, we have a look at the newest issue of Jeff Smith‘s R.A.S.L., Ted McKeever‘s Mondo #1 and Eddy Current, and an in-depth review of Aquaman #6. Aaaand then we talk with a certain someone who’s gonna be on the tee vees! [...]
Ticket Giveaway!!
Forbidden Planet is excited to partner with Variance Films and Well Go USA to offer 3 pairs of tickets to see “Let The Bullets Fly!” Just email letthebulletsfly@fpnyc.com by February 28th for your chance to win!! 1920′s China is a lawless land. Corrupt government officials buy and sell their positions, while marauding gangs of bandits [...]
Halo Reach Red Team Mongoose Review
By Loran I’ve always loved the vehicles in Halo. They really felt like the one thing that made the game stand out and reach its current level of popularity. Also, putting the vehicles in a third person perspective instead of staying in the first person was a wise move. When you keep it in the [...]
Strip Mind
Comic books are the result of some Steve Rogers / Captain America level experimentations. The puny, pre-war weakling that was Daily Comic strips kept trying to be a media darling, but the big mean bully named Radio kept punching him in a nearby alley. THEN, Max Gaines, hoping for the literal, financial translation of his [...]
The Return of Marvel Legends
by Chris Troy Happy President’s Day FP Faithful! Was that wish an excuse to use an overplayed Marvel-based Abe Lincoln image? Yes, possibly, but hey, it’s the thought that counts right? Hopefully those of you who had the day off did something rad with it, as I slept for about 10 hours and spending most [...]
Locke & Key the Game
New to Forbidden Planet NYC, it’s Locke & Key… The Game!!! A self-contained card game in the fashion of Lunch Money, or Zombie!!!, this is already a hot item at the shop, and is a uniquely cool collectible/entertainment experience in its own right. Competition and cooperation meet in this card game that dares you to overcome [...]
Street Trash @ Nitehawk w/ Roy Frumkes 2/17 & 2/18
This Friday and Saturday’s Midnight Movie at the Nitehawk Cinema is gonna be a sticky one… and that ain’t spilt soda. Street Trash screened off of 35mm, preceded by Swirlee a short featuring James Lorinz with Roy Frumkes & Rocco Simonelli in person for a Q&A hosted by me! All thanks to the good folks [...]