by Jeff Ayers May 02 2013
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 [...]
by Jeff Ayers May 03 2012
HUMONGOUS weekend coming up for the good and geeky. A little movie called The Avengers hits American screens tomorrow, Free Comic Book Day is Saturday the 5th, and all weekend long gamers will be feverishly ripping open packs of Magic the Gathering packs in the hope of pulling a Terminus or a Temporal Mastery. The [...]
Filed In: Card Games, Gaming, Jeff Ayers
Tags: Avacyn Restored, Avengers, Avengers movie, Booster Boxes, Boosters, FCBD, Forbidden Planet NYC, Free Comic Book Day, Magic the Gathering, MTG, Temporal Mastery, Terminus
by Morgan Pielli Apr 30 2012
Forbidden Planet NYC will be giving away bags containing one of each Free Comic Book Day comic that we receive, as well as a coupon for purchases both in-store and online! These are on a first come, first served basis, so ARRIVE EARLY! All-Ages bags will also be provided so that comics fans young and [...]
Filed In: Archie Comics, Avatar, Bongo, Boom! Studios, DC Comics, Daily Planet, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, Indie Comics, Marvel, Morgan Pielli, Top Shelf Comics, Vertigo
Tags: 2000 AD JUDGE DREDD SPEC, 2012 Silver Books, ANIMAL PLANET WORLD MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS, ANTARCTICS ZOMBIE KID, ANTI, ARCANA PRESENTS INTRINSIC #1, ATOMIC ROBO & FRIENDS, AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON POINT ONE, BAD MEDICINE #1, BARNABY, BONGO FREE-FOR-ALL, BUFFY THE GUILD, BURT WARD BOY WONDER, CENSORED HOWARD CRUSE (NET) (MR), Coupon, DC COMICS THE NEW 52 SPECIAL Ed, DC NATION SUPERMAN FAMILY FLIP BOOK, DINOSAURS VERSUS ALIENS, FCBD, FINDING GOSSAMYR STUFF OF LEGEND, Free, Free Comic Book Day, free stuff, gift bags, goodie bags, GRAPHIC ELVIS PREVIEW, IMAGE 20, INFERNAL DEVICES CLOCKWORK ANGEL, JURASSIC STRIKEFORCE 5, LADY DEATH THE BEGINNING (NET) (MR), mega man, MOOMIN COLOR SPECIAL, MOUSE GUARD LABYRINTH & MORE, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN SPECIAL EDITION, OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE, PEANUTS ADVENTURE TIME FLIPBOOK, ROCKHEAD & ZINC ALLOY 2-FOR-NONE, SMURFS & DISNEY FAIRIES FEAT TINKER BELL, Sonic the Hedgehog, SPIDER-MAN SEASON ONE, SPONGEBOB FREESTYLE, STAR WARS SERENITY, THE HYPERNATURALS, TOP SHELF KIDS CLUB, TRANSFORMERS #80.5, VALIANT PREVIEW, VOLTRON FORCE SHELTER FROM THE STORM, WALT DISNEYS DONALD DUCK FAMILY COMICS, WITCHBLADE UNBALANCED PIECES, WORLDS OF ASPEN, YO GABBA GABBA FREE COMIC BOOK TIME
by Unkiedev Apr 24 2012
There’s a week to go before Free Comic Book Day…a full week of dreaming, scheming, screaming and camping out at the Forbidden Planet in order to get the finest free comics this side of Andromeda. Luckily for all of us, Forbidden Planet has TONS (literally) of amazing products to entertain while you wait, only this [...]
Filed In: Daily Planet, Dark Horse, Image, Indie Comics, Marvel
Tags: Alec Lewellyn, Angel And Faith #9, Aquaman #8, Berke Breathed, Big Title, COMPLETE Outland, FF #17, Frank Frazetta, Free Comic Book Day, Funny Stuff, Indestructible Universe Quarterly, IndestructibleUniverse.com, Morgan Pielli, Powers #10, The Goon #39, The Twelve #12
by Unkiedev Apr 04 2012
Suicide Squad #8, out NEXT week from DC, BETTER clear up these rumors I’ve been hearing about a certain demise within that team’s roster. Hopefully we’ll be seeing one of the chief stars of that title return from the tomb toot-sweet, as audiences stop paying for shows that fail to star their main attractions. I’d [...]
Filed In: Daily Planet
Tags: Action Comics #8, Adventure Time #2, Alan Moore, Avengers Vs. X-Men #1, Flex Mentallo, Free Comic Book Day, Full Metal Alchemist, Grant Morrison, Magic the Gathering, MoCCA Art Fest, pax east, Rob Liefeld, San Diego Comic Con, SkullKickers, Suicide Squad, Supreme #63
by Unkiedev Apr 27 2011
By Unkiedev Logic states that any article regarding Free Comic Book Day should be written in order to glorify and promote. As the day in question is the first Saturday of May, one MIGHT logically write about it NEXT week, as it’s closer to the actual date so as to inspire participation…but this fails to [...]
Filed In: Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Image, Marvel, Unkiedev
Tags: amazing spider-man, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Baltimore, blackest night, Free Comic Book Day, Inspector Gadget, Pep Comics Featuring Betty and Veronica, Super Dinosaur Origin
by Lindz Jan 05 2011
By Devin T. Quin Welcome to 2011, where a whole new calendar YEAR of fun comic book activities awaits us! We should definitely start planning out our itinerary now so that we don’t miss out on any of the disappointment, greed and debilitating poverty that is our reward for being good little comic book collecting [...]
Filed In: Comics, Contributors, DC Comics, Graphic Novels, Illustrated Books, Image, Marvel, Unkiedev
Tags: batman beyond, Contributors, DC Presents, Devin T. Quin, Free Comic Book Day, lobo, MOCCA ART FESTIVAL, The Walking Dead, Ultimate Captain America, Uncanny X-Force, Weird Worlds
by Jeff Ayers Apr 26 2010
This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, and I’m here to give you the skinny on what Forbidden Planet NYC has planned for our participation in 2010′s event. Free Comic Book Day is an annual event that now takes place on the first Saturday of May each year wherein participating comic shops all over the [...]
Filed In: Boom! Studios, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Drawn & Quarterly, Events, IDW, Image Comics, Indie Comics, Jeff Ayers, Marvel, Signings, fantagraphics
Tags: Alex Raymond, Andy Runton, Archie, Artifacts, Atomic Robo, Bird Hurdler, Bluewater, Bongo, Bryan Talbot, Chester Gould, Comic Book Guy, Crogan, David Petersen, DC Kids, Del Rey, Dennis Calero, fantagraphics, FCBD, Fractured Fables, Free Comic Book Day, GI Joe, green hornet, Heroclix, IDW, Image, Iron Man, Irredeemable, Jim Woodring, John Stanley, Kevin Smith, Lady Gaga, Larry Hama, Mark Waid, Marvel, Mouse Guard, Oni, Overstreet, Owly, Radical, Rip Kirny, S.E. Hinton, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sparkplug, Steve Mannion, Super Friends, Th3rd World Studios, The Last Airbender, The Tick, Theo Ellsworth, thor, Top Cow, War Machine, War of the Superman