by Matthew Rosenberg Feb 21 2013
Hello loyal readers. How was your week? Not that anyone asked but I had a good one. Well it was good until Forbidden Planet’s Tech Wizard/6th member of Modest Mouse, Tyler, threatened me. It turns out that some of the links I use on the blog weren’t up to his liking. I think he didn’t [...]
Filed In: Comic News, Comic Reviews, Comics, Daily Planet, Dark Horse, Graphic Novels, Horror, IDW, Image, Image Comics, Mini Comics, Reviews, Science Fiction, Vertigo
Tags: Concrete, Constantine, Cy Young, Dark Horse Presents, DC, Dr. Strangelove, duane swierczynski, Fables, Hellblazer, How Do I Know Who I Am If I Forget?, Kill Shakespeare, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Luis Echavarria Uribe, Madman, Mark Millar, Matt Wagner, Matthew Rosenberg, michael avon oeming, Modest Mouse, Neil Gaiman, Paul Chadwick, Prophet, Rian Hughes, Sandman, Shannon Wheeler, Simon Roy, Tales From Beyond Science, the shadow, Try Something New, Tyler, Wilfredo Torres, Year One
by Unkiedev Jul 03 2012
Wolverine #310 hits the stands this week, and with it comes some shocking revelations. Remember when Wolverine cut off Sabertooth’s head in 2007’s Wolverine #55? Well guess what…MAYBE HE DIDN’T! Hurts, doesn’t it?! Some super villains are just too cool and iconic to leave in the depths of hell to rot. Wolverine #310 plans on [...]
Filed In: Boom! Studios, DC Comics, Daily Planet, Dark Horse, IDW, Marvel, Unkiedev
Tags: Action Comics #11, Alive #1, Avengers Vs. X-Men #7, Battlepugs, Before Watchmen Ozymandias #1, Bernie Wrightson, Cyclops, Frankenstein Alive, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #1, I Told You So, Jae Lee, Len Wein, Mike Norton, Muppets #1, Popeye #3, Ret-con, Roger Langridge, Sabertooth, Shannon Wheeler, Wolverine #310, Wolverine #55
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 Jan 31 2012
This has been the easiest column to write of my long career…because I didn’t write it! OR DID I?! No, I did not, but my CLONE did! That’s right, in order to better multitask I have developed a clone-o-matic so that all of my necessary daily tasks (sweeping up the cave, writing my columns, eating, [...]
Filed In: DC Comics, Daily Planet, Dark Horse, Image Comics, Marvel, Unkiedev
Tags: Action Comics, Art Adams, Avengers X-Sanction, B.P.R.D., batman, BLUE BLADE, Brian Wood, Dark Horse Presents, Detective Comics, Fear Itself, Fear Itself The Fearless, Fractured Fables, Grant Morrison, Hellboy, Howard Chaykin, Hulk, Jill Thompson, Justice League International, mike allred, Penguin, Sergio Aragones Funnies, Shannon Wheeler, Superman, The Twelve, Venom
by Unkiedev Nov 23 2011
In 1621, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Natives of Massachusetts put aside their differences on a cold and dreary Friday in November so they could keep each other company as they waited in line to be the first people through the door at Wal•mart. They new that a Wal•mart wouldn’t be built for another three [...]
Filed In: Unkiedev
Tags: Batman: The Dark Knight #3, Black Friday, Evan Dorkin, Fantastic Four #600, MILK AND CHEESE: DAIRY PRODUCTS GONE BAD HC, Oil and Water, Pilgrims, Ron Paul #1, Shannon Wheeler, Too Much Coffee Man, Wampanoag
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 Sep 02 2010
The Weekly Planet, FPNYC’s newsletter for in-store customers, celebrated its four year anniversary last week. Since that first sweltering summer night we hand-copied and stapled a coupla hundred 8×11 sheets of copy paper on which I wrote an impassioned letter to members of our comic book subscription program back in 2006, to that sweltering summer [...]
Filed In: Good People, Jeff Ayers, Looking Back
Tags: Alice Meichi Li, Blog, Devin T. Quin, FPNYC, Jeff Ayers, Julia Wertz, Lindsay Johnson, Mark Denardo, Mat Kerwin, Matt Desiderio, Shannon Wheeler, Unkiedev, Weekly Planet
