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.
They Found our New York Comic-Con Footage
What happened was true… One of the most bizarre and brutal films in NYCC history…This is the movie that is just as real, just as close, just as terrifying as being there…Even if one of them survives, what will be left? After you stop screaming, you’ll start talking about it. SPECIAL thanks go out to [...]
Matt and Tyler’s Friday Night Hangout
And now, Matt D and Tyler chit-chatting about our upcoming MISFITS/OSAKA POPSTAR signing and other assorted stuff from the office. For an hour. On a Friday night.
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 [...]
Secret Adventures of Houdini Alterna Comics Edition EVENT
In addition to our Ron Wimberly and Noku November events, Forbidden Planet will be hosting another day of shenanigans with Secret Adventures of Houdini artist Sean Von Gorman… this one even BIGGER than the one we threw in March 2012. Don’t remember that one? Well here’s some video of it to refresh your memory and/or acclimate [...]
Noku Apparellax Brand Event – Nov 24th
Noku Apparellax Brand Event: featuring the debut of Noku Tondra, author HCJ and artist Gammera13 of the upcoming Noku: Ground Zero comic book series, color artist ODDBALL of YouTube cartoon Noku’s Galaxy Adventures, Noku’s Random Riddles contest, free giveaways, and other Noku-centric exclusives. Coming to Forbidden Planet NYC on Nov. 24th from 5-9 PM. Click [...]
Footage from the Forbidden Planet Ollie Mongo Signing
Ollie Mongo creators Craig Singer and Arlene Klasky stopped by Forbidden Planet NYC for a FREE comic book signing on September 21st 2012. Here’s some footage from our YouTube channel!
Matt and Alec’s Bogus Video from September 18th and Me from my Desk Last Friday
Forgot to post these new Google+ Hangout videos from last week. Here’s Matt and Alec talking Sons of Anarchy, WWE, NYCC, re-creating telephone calls Alec receives from customers, Just Us League MAD toys and a whole lot more… And here’s me from my desk… “Haven’t even had time since the move to put pictures of [...]
From the Forbidden Planet NYC Stockroom- Tuesday 9/25/12
Got 28 minutes of your life to spend on Matt and I talking new arrivals, Happy #1, Space Punisher, crappy old Image Comics, movies, Star Trek the Next generation, comic cons, Mark Hamill and Corvette Summer? Like hearing me say “um?” Have I got a video for you! Sorry if it’s a little dark this [...]
Matt and Jeff Live from the Forbidden Planet NYC Basement
Some goofs on our first take. The store’s wi-fi cut out for about five minutes, thus making us late for the 4pm Hangout On Air. We missed a chance to have a prominent celebrity customer join us because of the delay in setting back up, and I still have a lot to learn about the [...]
Forbidden Planet is on Google+
We are indeed on Google+. Come share wonderful, geeky stuff with us! I’ll be Hanging out On Air at 4pm today… fingers crossed. Still working out the logistics, but the plan is to chat from the new shop’s basement as we process this week’s shipment, discuss some of tomorrow’s new releases, make a really neat-o [...]
The Weekly Pulse – Fantastic Fourth
Happy Americaday everybody! And what better way to celebrate the day that The United States became a thing that everybody was saying, than with a gigantic sale! And what better way to kick off a gigantic sale! than with a gigantic pile of comics! And as luck would have it, that’s precisely what Dan and I, your humble [...]
Footage from the Toxic Avenger VHS Release Party!
On May 24th, Forbidden Planet NYC played host to the crazy crew from Troma to celebrate the limited Big Box VHS release of the original Toxic Avenger! Llyod Kaufman, Troma founder and the man behind such classics as Nuke ‘Em High and Tromeo and Juliet, was on hand to sign posters, chat with fans, and pass out [...]
The Weekly Pulse – Topsy-Curvy!
Another week, another controversy. Once again our intrepid reviewer Dan, along with his faithful sidekick A T-Shirt Dummy, jumps into the deep end of a new DC kerfuffle. But elsewhere, in the world of things that are NOT a PR nightmare: The Massive #1, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1, and Josh Cochran’s This Is Me, Everyday! [...]
The Weekly Pulse – Apparellax View
Comics and t-shirts! T-shirts and comics! DC has a new Batgirl, Batman and Robin, Batman, and Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E., plus the collected Batman Volume 1: The Court of Owls. Also, a slew of new #1s, including Dark Horse’s Alabastar Wolves, Boom’s Higher Earth, Image’s Mind the Gap, and DC Vertiogo’s Mystery in Space! All [...]