TODAY IS THE BEST DAY.
Not only is it May and it’s 45 degrees outside and raining in New York (shivers of excitement in anticipation of cozy/anxious Twin Peaks watching later), the weather has met in complete conjunction with how it will be on the day that this new book releases at the Brooklyn Book Fest in September…shivers of anticipation [...]
TRY SOMETHING NEW Chapter 24: There’ll Be No Escape For The Princess This Time!
There’s a lot of good comics this week. I know you want to buy the same old ones you always buy because they feel safe and comfortable. I get that. I’m not gonna tell you to not buy the stuff you like. I’m not a jerk. But I do need you to do me a [...]
ZZZAX ON, ZZZAX OFF!
Some of the top selling comics of late have been Cartoons. Regular Show, Adventure Time, My Little Pony and Bravest Warriors, the Adventure-Time-esque space adventure are all doing a great deal of business in surprising ways. WHO is buying these books? Just Kids? Adults? Everybody? The last answer is the most accurate, as any top [...]
New toys, outdated references.
REAL TALK (note how real that is with the use of capitalization, caps-lock AND italics): Forbidden Planet NYC tends to get a lot of stuff in on a weekly basis. Some of this stuff isn’t even Batman-related. And some of it sells out before I take notice. Or I don’t notice it at all, as [...]
This week in new toy releases!
Going to start this article off with a quick round of the comparison game. The subject? Doing it right in terms of female statues. As you all can see there’s 2 images of statues on the left. One is the Bishoujo Female Commander Shepard (Mass Effect 3) by Kotobukiya. On her right is the Ame [...]
TRY SOMETHING NEW Chapter 23: We’re Doomed!
Tyler wants me to turn in my new column so he can go home. I have to write it first but he doesn’t know that yet. I don’t really know what to write about though because I mostly wanted to write about myself but Forbidden Planet is less excited about that. So after much arguing [...]
YOU put the I in “COMIC.”
The comic book hits of tomorrow are written and drawn by the genius’ of today! I hope each and every one of you out there is creating your own amazing stories to thrill and entertain. Forbidden Planet has an excellent small press section, and there is no reason you books cannot be amongst them. Until [...]
Robert Crumb Having a Book Moment at Last Gasp
Our friends at Last Gasp have a nifty YouTube channel these days, and last week posted an interesting interview Jon Longhi conducted with Robert Crumb. Good stuff. So’s the rest in this series, with more to come. View their other videos and/or subscribe here.
Hawkeye Volume 1 Review: A Guy, a girl and a pizza dog
Hawkeye : My Life as a Weapon Written by: Matt Fraction Art by: David Aja, Javier Pulido, Alan Davis Collects Hawkeye (2012) 1-5, Young Avengers Presents 6 Published by: Marvel Comics, retail price $16.99 A great creative team can get me to read any book on the stand, despite what characters are involved. Case in [...]
Regular Show Signing!
This Wednesday the 15th at Forbidden Planet, Allison Strejlau will be in store at 6:30 signing copies of Regular Show #1! Allison is the regular monthly artist on this new comic series based off the immensely popular TV show. And if that wasn’t enough, Allison, lovely person that she is, will even be doing sketches! [...]
CHAPTER 22: This Is Madness!
Sometimes weird stuff happens in your life. Like, for example, you decide you want to write comics for a living and then someone hires you to do that. That is a really weird and wonderful and stressful and anxiety producing thing. Also, weirdly, that exact thing happened to me. I got hired to write a [...]
One Reason Among Many to Buy Twelve Reasons to Die
Forbidden Planet NYC columnist/wage slave Matthew Rosenberg has a comic he wrote releasing Wednesday the 8th- Twelve Reasons to Die #1. Be sure to bug him to autograph your copy for you when ya see him on the store floor. Twelve Reasons To Die is a brutal tale of gangsters, betrayal, and one vengeful soul [...]
Injustice for most
Happy Cinco De Mayo FPNYC Faithful! I’m am currently sitting inside typing this up on a gorgeous day, so do me a solid and swing by the shop and by something during your tequila-fueled rampages! Let my guilt decided how your dollars are spent dammit!So obviously I am back from c2e2, which was a fun [...]
Saturday May 4th is Free Comic Book Day
It’s almost time when the time is here, The time that’s only once a year. We can hardly wait, ’cause it’s so near. -Traditional Woodland Critter Tune This Saturday, May 4th, is Free Comic Book Day, and here’s the deal on what Forbidden Planet NYC has planned for this year’s festivities. First off, if you’re [...]
GREAT PACIFIC at FP
Wednesday May 1st at Forbidden Planet, JOE HARRIS; writer of GREAT PACIFIC, will be in store signing copies of the first volume in this new Image comics epic. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL (is it ever…), we’re also offering 40% off the trade all day on May 1st. AND! And…and everyone who buys the trade that [...]