by Unkiedev Jan 10 2013
The best comic of last week? MARS ATTACKS POPEYE. I don’t mean to give out spoilers, but the Martians lost. I do hope they fare better this week against KISS. Maybe with KISS gone IDW will start publishing a Jethro Tull comic book! ONE of the best comics of last week was Hellboy In Hell #2. Elegant, [...]
Filed In: Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Marvel, Silly Fanboys, Unkiedev, Weird
Tags: BPRD, Dan Slott, Dark Horse, Forlorn Funnies, hate, Hellboy in Hell, Jethro Tull, Kiss, Mars Attacks, peter bagge, Popeye, Reset, Superior Spider-Man, Superman
by Matthew Rosenberg Jan 09 2013
I feel like I have been doing this column long enough now that you all must be dying for a behind the scenes peek at how the magic happens. It all starts around 1:30 AM on Sunday night/Monday morning. That’s around 4 hours after I am supposed to have emailed this in to Tyler, our [...]
Filed In: Comic News, Comic Reviews, Comics, Daily Planet, Dark Horse, Graphic Novels, Image, Image Comics, Vertigo, fantagraphics
Tags: A History Of Violence, American Virgin, Apocalypse Nerd, Ardden Entertainment, Arthur C. Clarke, Atomic Robo, Battle Pope, becky cloonan, Beta Testing The Apocalypse, BPRD, Brian Azzarello, Brian Clevinger, Brian Wood, Channel Zero, Charles Burns, Chew, Children Of Men, Clash of the Titans, Cliff Chiang, Conan, Concrete, Couriers, Daniel Clowes, Demo, Devil Is Due In Dreary, DMZ, Dogma, EC, Eerie, End Times Of Bram and Ben, Fell, FF, hate, Howard Chaykin, iZombie, J G Ballard, James Asmus, James Harren, jeff lemire, Jonah Hex, Madman, magic, Marty McFly, Matthew Rosenberg, Matthew Wilson, mike allred, Northlanders, Other Lives, peter bagge, Preacher, Reset, Robert Kirkman, Sandman, Sweet Tooth, The Road, Thief of Thieves, Try Something New, Twilight Zone, Tyler Boss, Wonder Woman, Yeah!
by Unkiedev Jul 10 2012
San Diego Comic Con is THIS WEEK! While all of the top talents booze, schmooze and chanteuse their way through the biggest pop culture festival in America, the publishing industry that started it all will still be turning out great titles. Join us this week, here in the hallowed halls of The Forbidden Planet, for [...]
Filed In: Comics, DC Comics, Daily Planet, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, Marvel, Unkiedev, Valiant
Tags: Alan Davis, Alan Moore, Amazing Screw On Head, Avengers, Avengers Assemble #5, AvsX #4, Batman #11, Batman and Robin #11, Battle Beasts #1, Bernie Wrightson, Bloodshot #1, Buffy Season 9, Chew, Chew Secret Agent Poyo, court of owls, Creepy #9, Damien, Dark Avengers #177, Deathstroke #11, Eerie #1, Fantastic Four Annual #33, Jason Todd, Kelly Jones, Lost Girls, Mike Mignola, New Comics Wednesday, peter bagge, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, Steve Niles, Suicide Squad #11, The Red Hood, X-Men
by Unkiedev Feb 21 2012
Comic books are the result of some Steve Rogers / Captain America level experimentations. The puny, pre-war weakling that was Daily Comic strips kept trying to be a media darling, but the big mean bully named Radio kept punching him in a nearby alley. THEN, Max Gaines, hoping for the literal, financial translation of his [...]
Filed In: Daily Planet
Tags: Al Capp, Berke Breathed, Bloom County, Buddy, Charles Schultz, comic strips, Drinky Crow, Frank Cho, George Herriman, KRAZY KAT, Liberty Meadows, Li’l Abner, Maakies, Peanuts, peter bagge, s Little Nemo, Shannon Wheeler, Sock Monkey, Tony Millionaire, TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN CUTIE ISLAND, Windsor McCay
by Unkiedev Aug 17 2011
You are in luck, my friend, as there are so many AMAZING comic books out this week that you could probably buy one at random and still get somethin’ snazzy! Still, my job as a Forbidden Planet columnist is to provide you with some professional perspective to guide the dart of your paycheck towards that [...]
Filed In: Bongo, Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Image, Marvel, Unkiedev, Vertigo
Tags: Buddy, Fear Itself, Fearsome Four, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Grunge, hate, Malinky Robot Collection: Stories and other Bits, peter bagge, Secret Society of Super Villains, Sergio Aragones, Sergio Aragones Funnies, Shannon Wheeler, Sonny Liew, Too Much Coffee Man, Too Much Expresso Man, Too Much German White Chocolate With Almonds Girl, we 3, We3
by Jeff Ayers Apr 27 2010
…is out today. It’s kind of a big deal. You should pick it up. In his all-new graphic novel, one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes, creates a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating character study of the modern egotist, outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page-gag format [...]
by Jeff Ayers Jul 13 2009
Fantagraphics has just published a new collection of comics from “Hate” creator Peter Bagge: Everybody is Stupid Except for Me. Originally appearing in the pages of Reason- a 40ish year old Libertarian magazine with a circulation that hovers around the sixty thousand mark- the work reprinted here runs the gamut of observations from the Seattle-based [...]
by Jeff Ayers Oct 18 2006
by Jeff Ayers Further proving this writer’s hypothesis that damn near everyone involved in the pop arts these days wants to be associated with comics & geek culture, an onslaught of prose novelists are releasing comics in the near future, led by this week’s Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures #1 from Laurell K.Hamilton. Other recent medium-hoppers [...]
Filed In: Comic Reviews, Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Graphic Novels, IDW, Image, Jeff Ayers, Marvel, Vertigo, Weekly Planet Archive
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Alan Moore, Allan Heinberg, Anita Blacke, Archer Prewitt, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Brad Meltzer, Carrot Top, Charles Burns, Damon Lindelof, Dan Clowes, Dark Tower, Exterminators, Fables, gabriel ba, Gary Panter, Gene Ha, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Guilty Pleasures, Harlan Ellison, James Jean, Jeff Ayers, Joss Whedon, Laurell K. Hamilton, Los Bros Hernandez, Lost Girls, Marvel Encyclopedia, Melinda Gebbie, peter bagge, R. Crumb, Ron Rege, Sammy Harkham, Stephen King, The Authority, Tony Millionaire
