BATH SALT ZOMBIES in FP!
On Saturday March 9th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. “BATH SALT ZOMBIES ” the incredibly wild new independent horror film, will be throwing a release party at FORBIDDEN PLANET! The film is brought to you by Aggronautix , featuring Local NYC punk band World War IX. Members of the band will be on hand [...]
STICK IN THE MUD OF TIME
The best comedians are often self-loathing, depressed freakazoids. Eric Powel, writer and artist on The Goon must HATE himself more than a Slayer fan who has run out of razor blades, because that cat is putting out the funniest comic book on the stands today. This week sees TWO Goon books, the new issue of [...]
THE OPPOSITE OF OPPOSITE
Time for some incredible comics! I thought last week had some good books, but it is like the amazing titles from last week were bombarded by Gamma Radiation and then given an atomic wedgie! These are some hulked out, sensational She-Titles, here! DC is bringing it’s a-Game with #17’s for Action Comics (Grant Morrison’s last [...]
Forbidden Planet NYC 2012 Christmas and New Years Hours
Two more days ’til Christmas as of this writing… Let’s go over all Holiday Season exceptions to our normal operating hours, shall we? Monday 12/ 24 Christmas Eve: 9am-8pmish* Tuesday 12/25 Christmas: CLOSED Monday 12/31/12 New Year’s Eve: 9-6pmish* Tuesday 1/1/13 New Year’s Day: 10am-10pm Additionally, new comic books WILL be available for purchase on [...]
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 [...]
Forbidden Planet NYC Holiday Gift Card Promotion 2012
TONS of you guys and gals took us up on last year’s promotion, and we’re pleased to offer it again this Holiday Season! Beginning Wednesday 11/21/12 purchase $100 of gift cards from Forbidden Planet NYC through December 31st and receive a $20 bonus gift card… ON US! And now I’ll simply quote myself from last [...]
Last Week’s Comics Have Arrived
The shipment we would have put out for sale on October 31st, were we able to open, has finally arrived and is being processed as I type this on Monday morning at 11:30am. Good news as many of you who stopped by over the weekend were looking for last weeks new comics. We thank you [...]
Forbidden Planet NYC is Open Today
Electricity and running water have kicked in again for much of lower Manhattan and we are open for the first time since last Sunday. Items of note: We will be closing at 10pm every day until Wednesday the 7th. In fact, today, in the interest of safety for all involved, we may close slightly earlier. [...]
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!
Forbidden Planet NYC is Your SAGA Headquarters
SAGA, by Brian K. Vaughan (Y the Last Man, Ex Machina) and Fiona Staples (North 40) is one of the hottest comics of 2012 and on October 10th the first six-issue story arc is being collected in one trade paperback for a paltry $9.99! That’s six comics for ten dollarinos (in the parlance of Navin [...]
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 [...]
Labor Day Will Delay Our Comics Shipment
WE’RE working on Monday the 3rd (9am to 10pm) but UPS ain’t. That means our regular new comics shipment will be slightly delayed. Forbidden Planet will receive its shipment on the day of release, Wednesday the 5th. If you’ve ever had to bear with us on such a frenetic day you’ll know we, upon receiving [...]
Forbidden Planet NYC Opening Earlier
…At least temporarily. Pulling even wackier hours than we normally do since the beginning of our move in June (6 and 7 a.m. starts have been frequent… you don’t wanna know how long the hours have been. Let’s just say ridiculous.), we’ve noticed quite a lot of you out there wanna shop early. Well, in [...]