TRY SOMETHING NEW Chapter 13: To Destroy An Entire Planet!
I am in Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con as I write this. ECCC is the beginning of the 9 months the comics industry affectionately refers to as “Con Season.” 9 month seasons. Not so bright. Comics Industry- ok at making comics, less ok at everything else. Anyway, I flew in on the Forbidden Planet [...]
Chris’ list o’ things to throw money at in 2013
I suppose a 2013 preview list should not be written 14 days into year, but I did a lot of traveling over the holidays, and acquired several video games of worth. If anything, SEGA should be held responsible for pushing “Anarchy Reigns” back to this week. Anywho, 2012 was a shockingly awesome year for collectibles, [...]
Somewhere Around The Number Ten Best Comics That Nobody Told You About
Part 1: I love Chris Ware. Bit redundant to say so this holiday season with everyone and their sister buying Building Stories, but with so much comic awesomeness that happened in 2012; between Charles Burn’s second installment to his X’ed Out trilogy, The Hive, and Brian K. Vaughn’s Saga…SAGA… It’s too easy for amazing comics [...]
TRY SOMETHING NEW Chapter 2: A Long Time Ago
So here we are at my second column of TRY SOMETHING NEW! already. Wasn’t too pleased with how the the first one came out, 20/20 hindsight and all, but we press on. New comics wait for no man or woman and so this column where I berate you for not buying enough new comics waits [...]
New Comics December 19th 2012
Two days before humanity faces the Rapture or enters The Supercontext or, most likely, just plain wakes up to another Friday morning (EST, Greenwich Mean Time +2:00 if you’re in Botswana… your results may vary) we face another New Comic Wednesday!!! Here’s the full list of what Forbidden Planet NYC will be offering. Highlights include [...]
Secret Adventures of Houdini Release Spectacular – Nov 21!
Come one, come all! At Forbidden Planet NYC on November 21st, illustrator and escape artist Sean Von Gorman will lock himself inside a man-sized steel cage until we sell every copy of his new release from Alterna Comics, The Secret Adventures of Houdini: Book One! Yes, that would be the very same Sean Von Gorman who handcuffed [...]
ADVENTURE!
There’s just too much comics news to keep up with. I’m still trying to unravel threads from the NYCC, and the next thing I learn is I missed out on news from the SDCC! Did you know that Oni Comics is going to collect Scott C.’s AMAZING webcomic Double Fine Action Comics, starting in April [...]
NYCC 2012 Recap/Denial of how much $$ was spent over the course of 4 days
NYCC was a thing that has happened! To about 116,000 people if the numbers are correct. That is a lot of people! Like 9,000 short of SDCC a lot! But very few of them write for FPNYC. Which explains why you’re all stuck listening to my story. Despite the construction going on….everywhere in and around the [...]
Hollywood Comicide
COMICS AND MOVIES The line between comic book continuity and Hollywood has never been thinner, and both fan communities are adding fuel to the fire! The success of The Avengers movie has cemented another five solid years of comic book films, and that is only on Marvel’s slate. DC is SURE to throw their hat [...]
THIS SATURDAY: Pete’s Mini Zine Fest 2012!
Saturday, July 21st at 2pm at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn It’s time for the fourth Pete’s Mini Zine Fest, the fest-in-a-bar. Our celebration of the duplicated arts promises a good time and a relaxing atmosphere, and is a great opportunity to really get to know our wonderful, talented tablers. Nurse a beer; read some [...]
Morgan Pielli’s Pile of Minis: I’ll Take You to the Moon & Araby
After a long hiatus, Morgan Pielli’s Pile of Mini’s returns. And just in time to have my heart broken by this weeks batch of comics! Yes, the theme for the week is love lost, and so let’s pull up a pint of Neapolitan and dig right in. I’ll Take You to the Moon & Leave [...]
Friday, July 13th at 7pm: The Dark Skull 418 In-Store Signing!
Meet the author of the world’s most dangerous comic book novel: The Dark Skull 418 only at Forbidden Planet NYC Friday, July 13th at 7pm For more details, check out the Facebook Event page! The Dark Skull 418: The World’s Most Danger☢us Comic Book Novel! “Show me a Hero, and I’ll show you a @#*% tragedy.” [...]
Everything We Miss
“Everything We Miss,” a short vignette by Luke Pearson is finally available from some fine folks from across the pond, Nobrow Press, for our grubby American hands to paw over. Nobrow, an independent comics publisher based out of England that has been producing some of the finest comics this young reader has read in his 20 [...]
Merch Point
The Avengers movie is AWESOME, you have to go see it right now! Well, it was alright. Actually, I kinda’ didn’t like it. I know that’s strange, I mean, the director has done such impressive work, and it had that REALLY hot girl in it…what was her name? Dang it, it’s on the tip of my tongue. [...]
The Weekly Pulse – Power Girl Corrupts
With the Avengers movie set to premiere in a mere two days, it’s mighty hard to concentrate on anything else! But concentrate we must, as there’s all manner of exciting things in the store this week! Minimates of Iron Man, Cap, etc, new #1s from DC’s second wave of New 52, plus some cool indie [...]